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( Apr. 17th, 2011 02:11 am)
I'm staying with Jack Dann and Janeen Webb at their farm in Foster, south of Melbourne. I got in yesterday at the city apartment around 10:30 am (after waiting 45 minutes for my luggage), took a shower, and went with Jack to buy a dongle for my netbook and a simcard for the phone I was lent last August. Had lunch and drove to Foster, where Janeen and Bertie (the English Beagle)greeted me. Unpacked, went to dinner. On the way back we spotted a fox, a wombat, and a koala--the only thing I really saw was the wombat--the other two moved too quickly.

Today Janeen showed me her in-progress rose garden-the whole property is spacious and beautiful. Rolling hills, ponds, cows.
J & J are building an extension to the house and they've already built a sunroom. It's going to be even more amazing to see the view from Janeen's office on the second floor (in-progress). I hope I get back here again within the next couple of years when it's done.

Lazy day today as I finished going through my two day's worth of emails. Breakfast in Fish Creek, a town nearby. Then back to the farm.
Bertie is laying on my foot as I type this. He's got a thick chest for a beagle. Janeen says its because he's not fixed and because he's been climbing the hills since he was a puppy. She says he runs so fast that he once cornered a fox.
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