<p>After the hectic chaos of the last few weeks between the car and everything, today we skipped gym went to Piano, made it home before 5 had left overs for tea so i didn't have to cook and took a walk down the end of the street, bush walking in our own backyard - our area is pretty much surrounded by bush - we were searching for cycad's and pandanus trees to photo<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0691.jpg"><img title="Img_0691" height="666" alt="Img_0691" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0691.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>graph for Acacia's latest homework project - a scrapbook about the buildings in our school which are all names after plants - we found a stack of eucalypts but she has finished that page with photographs from school, but we also found a stack of really tiny gum nuts that the girls had an awesome time collecting. Then we found a small creek <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0709.jpg"><img title="Img_0709" height="666" alt="Img_0709" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0709.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> which at this time of the year in the mid of the dry is not much more than a slimy green mess but the girls had a great time throwing rocks into it and watching them splash, reminded me lots of skimming stones across the water at the beach in emsworth years ago. It was lots of fun despite the fact that eesha was paranoid about all the holes in the ground<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0672.jpg"><img title="Img_0672" height="666" alt="Img_0672" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0672.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> . Not sure if they were snake holes of frog holes or Lizard ones or all of the above. These are my favourite photos, Acacia throwing rocks, Ayesha with her collection of gum nuts now covering my bench, the prickly leaves&nbsp; cycad i think and the pods on the plant a cycad . These plants have been burnt in the last 3 months i think.<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0679.jpg"><img title="Img_0679" height="666" alt="Img_0679" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0679.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>&nbsp; and my favourite one from Friday<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0593.jpg"><img title="Img_0593" height="375" alt="Img_0593" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0593.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> </p>

<p>and i'll cry if i want too. . .</p>

<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/02/img_0438.jpg"><img title="Img_0438" height="666" alt="Img_0438" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/02/img_0438.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> this taking too long and i am too lazy to resize. She had a great party but was very tired.</p>