Things You Learn Unexpectedly

 The palm trees in the garden of our condo complex are roughly 22ft tall. Aiden and I discovered this fact through today's botany lesson's project (that was all math actually!)

...because cool contrast and color

The Movement Control Order we've been under for two weeks already actually includes a soft curfew of 8pm. We discovered this yesterday coming home from an impromptu beach supper... shortly after 8pm we were waiting for the bus home when some police stopped by and informed us so. While they were conferring with each other what to do, the bus showed up

so we were just ushered on and reminded to stay home!

Sparrows in the kitchen is not a cute, fun thing to delight in. There is a pair of sparrows that have grown bold - after years of taking shortcuts through our laundry area, they now stop by our kitchen hunting crumbs...and leaving unwelcome presents. As it is already a fulltime job to keep the kitchen passably clean for food prep, we don't really want the added need to clear up sparrow poo! 

Tension bars can wildly vary in price. A project in underway to hang a curtain of recycled straws in the doorway between kitchen and laundry area to deter the sparrows so we need a tension bar to fit the doorway. The one found online was so cheap (about $1.50) the shipping cost almost double the bar itself, so to the store we went. Where we could find cheap bars - of all the wrong length. The one we could find of the right length was aluminum and nearly $7!

Straws are not of a uniform length and are annoyingly just under 9 inches. Cutting straws to make the curtain discovered this. Despite sitting in a bag looking pleasantly uniform, when you measure and curt them into inch segments, some get 8 pieces plus a smidgen shorter 9th piece and some get 8 pieces and an unusable too short 9th piece.

Living with artists garners some interesting images and perspectives:

...because what do you see in the embers?

...because dramatic lighting...

...because could be a cool drawing. We didn't see the ball till we looked at the photo after.

Carrying a bike is super awkward. Mom went shopping at Tesco. Came out, loaded up her bike - and discovered 2 very flat tires. She had to basically carry it to the bike store down the road as the tires were so flat that just pushing it along loaded with shopping  would shred the tire between the rims and the road. Of course, the store was closed when she got there! But with Dad over the phone she arranged things with the store for a fix in the morning and bussed home. Her back was not happy with the nearly 1km bike carry walk so Grace met her off the bus and carried the shopping home for her.

Living with Jasmin you can never be sure where a smile will surprise you next. I discovered this happy bunch of eggs this morning.