Weekend Reflection: Orange grove.

The reflections of the leaves makes it look like going to have your orange juice in an orange grove.

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ABC Wed Letter J for jeep

 My friend Jim has a box for us short people to jump into the jeep.

When ever I see a jeep, I take photos intending to go with this story of my sister Margaret. Each time I have taken them, I forget where I have saved them, When I want to post the  story, I can't find it.

My sister Margaret, (immediately younger than me by 2 and half years) was very very smart. When she was  about 4, she went to a Land Rover, and read "I and Rover." We laughed at her, instead of praising her, perhaps there were some sibling jealousy on my part. But Margaret has the last laugh. She was really very smart. She got a PhD from Lincoln University in New Zealand.

Margaret has been teaching at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Sarawak. On Sarawak Governor's birthday in 2010, on this occasion the Governor gave honours to prominent people in the society. Margaret was awarded with a Pingat Bintang Kenyalang, an officer of the Order of the Star of Hornbill Sarawak by the Governor of Sarawak for services to education and community development on the occasion of his Excellency’s birthday. 

Our parents have passed on, otherwise, I am sure they would be very proud of her. We siblings rejoice with her achievement.

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Yellow mellow/ruby red: a nice cool shed/fale in the Pacific

a little shed known as a fale in the Pasific islands, and a red cover for the rubbish bin.

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Stay mellow with yellow!

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Photohunt: Footprints

Kauri dieback: how you can help

http://www.arc.govt.nz/environment/bios
ecurity/kauri-dieback/

This webpage is the home for information on kauri dieback for the whole of New Zealand. It has information on what kauri dieback is, the symptoms of the disease and how you can help stop it spreading. You can also find our fact sheet, technical documents and links to the organisations involved in the management of the disease.
What is Phytophthora taxon Agathis?

Commonly known as PTA, Phytophthora taxon Agathis is a microscopic fungus-like plant pathogen (a disease causing agent) that only affects kauri. Recent research has identified PTA as a distinct and previously undescribed species of Phytophthora.
What does it do to kauri trees?

Symptoms include yellowing of foliage, loss of leaves, canopy thinning and dead branches. Affected trees can also develop lesions that bleed resin, extending to the major roots and sometimes girdling the trunk as a ‘collar rot'. PTA can kill trees and seedlings of all ages.

Kauri are among the world’s mightiest trees, growing to more than 50 metres tall, with trunk girths of up to 16 metres and living for more than 2000 years. Kauri forests once covered 1.2 million hectares from the Far North of Northlanhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd to Te Kauri, near Kawhia and were common when the first people arrived around 1000 years ago.

Kauri dieback: a disease that kill the trees.

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I left my footprints on the shoe scrubber and the sprayer, not many people bothered.

Grandma and Jane

This is a lovely photo of Mum with niece Jane Kallang Akup. She is a special baby to me because when I stayed with her mum, Sister Elizabeth was at the clinic when Jane was coming. Unfortunately just before Jane was born, Mum drove me home. I had wanted to stay and see her being born. I often teased Jane that it was likened to running the marathon and then deprived of the prize.

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ABC Wed: I for icing on the cake

Without  the icing, cakes will just be cakes, plain cakes.

I have two stories, one was from long ago. Mum had twins, a boy and a girl. For their birthday, mum made two cakes, and she used a thin layer of water icing before she put on the royal icing. Because we were in the tropics, the icing sweated.

Mum's idea was to dry them in the sun.

Can't remember which of us older kids was told to keep an eye, that wasn't important.

Next thing, when Mum went to check. The kid on dutty was no where to be found.  Dog had bitten a big hole at the side of Boy Twin's cake.

Mum was angry with Dog, and the child who was on duty.

We told her, just use one cake for both. But mum won't hear of it.

On the birthday, she produced two beautiful cakes. She quietly told the Older Child when she was cutting to serve the cake to make sure not to cut the section where she had "cemented" with a big lump of royal icing. Mum is really smart.

I have another story.

My friends had twin dogs, we were having a pot luck dinner. She bought an apple cake and left on the table. Her Twin Dogs had eaten the to part of it.

They bought another, and don't know why, the baker had spread icing on it. ( Not usually done.)
Friends joked," Are you sure you didn't ice the dog eaten cake?"

I told them my mum's dog eaten cake. LOL







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