Springwood NSW and our daily life
We’ve been showing you all around Sydney and the other areas of New South Wales but realized you don’t know about where we live yet. We’re settled in and love our house, backyard and the birds and animals that come visit. Yesterday we decided to bring the camera around with us.
Go to our fotki.com/williams album to see all of the pics, but here’s a little background about what you’ll see.
David and I headed out to the library to do some work and email for the morning so you’ll see pics of our house, car and front garden. Our house was owned by a gardener so the flowers are so unique and gorgeous. We’ve heard that there is always something blooming here and that some trees we have in the front and back yards will be blooming soon. The trees without leaves are great for us now to see our little possums running around. They go from the tree in the frontyard, hop on the roof and run around and then leap to the tree by the deck in the backyard and sit.
After the library we walked around downtown Springwood and took a few pics of the the turnabout, the church and just a few shops. We didn’t get down to all of the stores or the post office, train station or the cool hippie shop, but so there is a lot more to see than what we’ve taken pics of.
David and I then headed to pick up Cullen from his new school… St. Columba’s. We got a couple of nice shots from the parking lot but someday we’ll take more of the interior courtyard and the rest of campus (400 acres). He is enjoying his school and has met a lot of friends and is taking a few new classes like Japanese. Most of the classes are similar to what he’s taking in the USA.
Next we went to our Winmalee Shopping Center to get some seasoned sausage from the Mountain Meat butchery for our homemade pizzas. The center here reminds me of the shops in Europe. They have carts in the parking lot that you bring in for all of the stores. Inside, there is a donut shop, 3 coffee/bakery shops, a butcher, a wine store, the post office, Coles which is a grocery store, and Chemist (pharmacy) and a fresh fruit/veggie market. There are more shops, but this gives you an idea. There’s also a Target Country that has a limited version. There is a big Target similar to the ones in the USA in the main big shopping mall.
When we got home we were all hanging out and relaxing. From the front room I saw the kookaburras in the tree. Right after that, Cullen saw a parrot in the back tree so we all headed to the backyard and saw bird after bird after bird. Red parrots and then more kookaburras, some with blue wings and some with white on them. They were pretty calm and very pretty.
We put some videos on fotki of the birds and our backyard. We’re lucky that our backyard goes back very far and has levels of grass, plants, bushes, herbs and orange trees. We have to get the oranges before the rest of the animal neighborhood gets them though.
(our backyard)
At the end of the day, we made homemade pizzas with BBQ sauce (they put that on everything here and it’s actually pretty good) . David had to drive to a friend’s house at midnight to be part of a skype meeting at 8am Monday so that was a bummer. Still no internet at our house!
Hope you’re all doing well and are happy and healthy. Miss you!
TaDa
Go to our fotki.com/williams album to see all of the pics, but here’s a little background about what you’ll see.
David and I headed out to the library to do some work and email for the morning so you’ll see pics of our house, car and front garden. Our house was owned by a gardener so the flowers are so unique and gorgeous. We’ve heard that there is always something blooming here and that some trees we have in the front and back yards will be blooming soon. The trees without leaves are great for us now to see our little possums running around. They go from the tree in the frontyard, hop on the roof and run around and then leap to the tree by the deck in the backyard and sit.
After the library we walked around downtown Springwood and took a few pics of the the turnabout, the church and just a few shops. We didn’t get down to all of the stores or the post office, train station or the cool hippie shop, but so there is a lot more to see than what we’ve taken pics of.
David and I then headed to pick up Cullen from his new school… St. Columba’s. We got a couple of nice shots from the parking lot but someday we’ll take more of the interior courtyard and the rest of campus (400 acres). He is enjoying his school and has met a lot of friends and is taking a few new classes like Japanese. Most of the classes are similar to what he’s taking in the USA.
Next we went to our Winmalee Shopping Center to get some seasoned sausage from the Mountain Meat butchery for our homemade pizzas. The center here reminds me of the shops in Europe. They have carts in the parking lot that you bring in for all of the stores. Inside, there is a donut shop, 3 coffee/bakery shops, a butcher, a wine store, the post office, Coles which is a grocery store, and Chemist (pharmacy) and a fresh fruit/veggie market. There are more shops, but this gives you an idea. There’s also a Target Country that has a limited version. There is a big Target similar to the ones in the USA in the main big shopping mall.
When we got home we were all hanging out and relaxing. From the front room I saw the kookaburras in the tree. Right after that, Cullen saw a parrot in the back tree so we all headed to the backyard and saw bird after bird after bird. Red parrots and then more kookaburras, some with blue wings and some with white on them. They were pretty calm and very pretty.
We put some videos on fotki of the birds and our backyard. We’re lucky that our backyard goes back very far and has levels of grass, plants, bushes, herbs and orange trees. We have to get the oranges before the rest of the animal neighborhood gets them though.
(our backyard)At the end of the day, we made homemade pizzas with BBQ sauce (they put that on everything here and it’s actually pretty good) . David had to drive to a friend’s house at midnight to be part of a skype meeting at 8am Monday so that was a bummer. Still no internet at our house!
Hope you’re all doing well and are happy and healthy. Miss you!
TaDa
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