Update - Life and Curve Balls

Hi!

Thank you to those who have been following my journey through photos so far.

I apologise for the lack of posts and updates for the last month and a bit. Things have been rather hectic on every front and to be honest with you I haven't been keeping up with taking my daily photos.

I do have a backlog of photos from June, however in the last two weeks my daily photos have taken a dive and life has gotten in the way.

I hope to be able to post my photos that I do have as soon as possible.  But moving forward, especially at the moment, I'm not going to put pressure on a time or on having to take photo everyday.  

I started this blog as a place to post my photos as I attempted to do the 365 photo challenge. I have enjoyed the challenge and also struggled with finding out just how boring day-to-day life can be. 

I'm honestly amazed that I even made it this far and hope you will continue to follow as I get back into it and start up again.

Things might taken a more fluid approach while I get everything sorted. 

- Katles

Day 167 - Back Again

My Temporary Home - Melbourne, Australia

As I'm almost coming to being a month behind in posting my photos, it's somewhat fitting that the first one I post is why it all started.

Welcome to my temporary home for what was supposed to be a one week work trip to Melbourne.  One week turned into three!! With a quick three days home in between.

Room # 72. Good to see you again....

Day 166 - I Scream For IceCream!

Ollie Ollie Ice Cream - Royal Oak, Auckland

After a massive day of running around feeding ducks and playing on the playground with Miss A, we decided to stop off in Royal Oak on our way home to get some ICE CREAM!!!

I really did NOT need a whole sundae to myself.... There was waaaaaay to much of everything on it! But it was entirely too YUMMY for me to stop myself eating the whole thing anyway. 

(And also eating the leftovers of Miss A's!)

And once again, I'm a week behind in posting my daily photos... I'll catch up! Promise :)

Day 165 - Napkins and Things

Napkins and Things - Home

Nothing too exciting, except I do love my napkin holder!  Playing around with my new lens.  I'm really loving it at the moment.  Absolutely love the details I can get close up.

Day 164 - (un)Lucky Friday 13th

Whiskers - Home

My day didn't start out the best.  Even thinking about what happened today still makes me feel a bit shaken up. It does have a somewhat happy ending (more like a lucky ending...)

I was waiting for my bus across the road from our house and I could hear Cas with his normal meowing exploring the treeline in the area next to our place.  He often plays/explores there throughout the day.

The next thing I remember, was suddenly seeing Cas running towards me from across the road. Que screeching tires, screaming, a tumbling cat and my heart lodging itself in my throat. Cas managed to pick himself up and being freaked out (and possibly hurt!) decided the safest place to be was back home, so off he ran back across the road... Que more screeching tires, further screaming, a tumbling cat (a second time) and my mind in complete freak out mode.

As you can imagine I raced across the road to try and find my poor (most likely injured) terrified cat.  Neither of the two cars that hit my cat got out to check on him or me!

As I was running and trying to find him, I called M in a panic and I think the first thing I said to him was "Cas just got hit by a car!!"

Whilst I'm searching for him, M was trying to find out what had happened while also heading to his car to come home.  I finally found Cas underneath our other car, it took awhile for him to come out and I was petrified that he was really badly hurt.  When he finally came out to me, I gave him a pat down to check if he was injured but there were no obvious signs of injury.  He seemed fine and so he followed me inside the house where I re-checked him and then gave him some of his wet food and tried to calm myself down.

M was still on the phone with me, also trying to calm me down and to make sure that Cas was definitely OK.

Cas was fine, which was amazing and incredibly lucky.  I stayed home with him for about an hour, making sure there were no changes in his otherwise normal condition.  By the time my friend came to pick me up, Cas was very much back to his normal self, jumping all over the benches/couches/cars and meowing at the top of his lungs.  

I went back home at lunch to check on him, but he was out exploring again.  When M got home a couple of hours later, Cas was still his normal self and everything was back to normal.

If I had thought that he was injured, in any way, I would have taken him directly to the Vet.  As many people pointed out to me throughout that day, I should have taken him there anyway as a precaution.  However knowing my cat as I do, I feel he was completely fine.  I was far more shaken up than he was.

While this was an unlucky day for me (I never want to have to experience that again!), it was definitely a very lucky day for Mr Casanova.  Hopefully he has learnt that roads are NOT safe for kitty cats!

P.S. I got a new lens!! Excite. 

Day 163 - Pizza Plate

The Aucklander - Garrisons

We went out to dinner at the Garrisons Pub in Sylvia Park with a couple of friends.  They make some divine Salt & Pepper Squid and their Pizzas are pretty amazing as well.

This was a photo of the Aucklander Pizza. Chicken, brie, avocado, cashew nuts and mozzarella with a cranberry swirl.  It was so yummy!

I might have to try their other pizzas now too! 

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Day 162 - Early Darkness

Red Sky at Night, A Shepards Delight - Glen Innes, Auckland

While it isn't a full red sky, I do love when the sun is setting and it lights up the clouds.  It's almost like they are on fire! 

I took this not long after 5pm on my way home from work. The one thing about winter that I'm not overly fond of is how early it is when it starts to get dark! I'm sorely missing my afternoons in the sun!