a harmonica the size of an encyclopedia

A couple of months ago I received one of the best gifts of my entire life from my friends Phil and Blair at work. It is a Hohner DOUBLE BASS CHROMATIC HARMONICA. It’s enormous. It has an upper and lower section joined with a hinge. I am slowly learning to make some sounds on it which do not remind the listener of the distress call of a large goose.

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Lucinda

The camera’s been out of action for a while, so I haven’t been able to show you Lucinda’s developments. She’s taking a few steps now, and lets the odd word slip (such as “Dog-Dog”, and “Yum”). I wish I could show you her unique one-leg-outboard high speed crawling style.

Here are a few recent snapshots:

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Lucinda

The camera’s been out of action for a while, so I haven’t been able to show you Lucinda’s developments. She’s taking a few steps now, and lets the odd word slip (such as “Dog-Dog”, and “Yum”). I wish I could show you her unique one-leg-outboard high speed crawling style.

Here are a few recent snapshots:

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Perfect Holiday

We had a perfect holiday going to Adelaide, the Eyre Peninsula, the Barossa and the Riverland. Bliss. Ethan and Lucinda were fabulous (not one “ARE WE THERE YET??”) We stayed in a wonderful shack on he Eyre Peninsula for 6 days, and I also got a chance to see inside Baxter Detention Facility where I visited a guy there. That was an eye opener.

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Ethan’s 4th birthday Party

Ethan decorated the front of the house and cut out a big 4 and a big E for the front door.

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Party on! Ethan’s party guests were Jake, Chloe and Perry.

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there was a rocket cake …

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with real fire coming from the engines.

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Actually, the cake kind of caught fire.