Tanka is a short form of poetry from Japan, it is made up of five unrhymed lines with thirty-one syllables arranged 5,7,5,7,7. Here is my Tanka about camping.
Pocket knife slicing
Through thin sticks and branches small
Fire with big flames
Lighted with a flint, red sparks
Sleeping in tents sound asleep.
Pick the home grown capsicum
Through the months my capsicums have been turning red and I have been able to eat them along with my family. I have loved growing my own capsicums. I wonder what else I will grow.
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
Genesis 1:29
Yum!
This morning we went to Waikiki Beach to celebrate Australia day. We had breakfast with our church family there and then we had a dip in the Indian Ocean. I was diving to catch sand whiting but I didn’t succeed. Dad, Mr Prosser and Mr Sawyer swam out to the pontoon. Dad saw a big, brown seal and a huge stingray. Ashlee, Eboni and I threw lots of sandballs at Mr Sawyer. It is currently 38.1 degrees so we are staying indoors for the rest of the day. Later on tonight Dad is going to take me fishing and I hope we will catch some big ones. Happy Australia Day!
Today Mum, Elise, Jesse and I went to Nanna and Grandad’s house. Elise and I brought our maths books, the camera, the computer and our piano books. First of all we did our maths work and then we did our typing skills on the computer. Soon after Nanna taught us piano. And then came the time for the Chief Spinning Bull to come out to play. You have got to be carefull when you go to Nanna and Grandad’s house because there is a Big Chief Spinning Bull who could take you by surprise and tackle you down to China Town. The Big Chief Spinning Bull is actually…Grandad. The game goes like this, Grandad is the bull and he spins around on a pillow then Elise and I try to tackle Grandad down without him tackling us first.
On the weekend we went to Nan and Pa’s house and while we were there, Pa cooked us a yummy barbecue. After tea we walked to the beach.
Wow Pa those sausages look delicious!
2,4,6,8, bog in don't wait.
It was a really hot night so the beach was refreshing. Elise and I played in the water with the ball and ran down the sand dunes and splashed in ocean. I loved it .
Last night's lightning over Secret Harbour - Picture: Graham Kelaher via perthnow
Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt?… Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’? Job 38:25,35
In the early hours of the morning I woke up to the sound of a really loud crack of thunder. Mum and I couldn’t sleep so we set up two chairs and watched God’s sky show. We stayed there from 3.00 to 4.00 in the morning watching lightning shoot through the sky and listening to thunder roar. I was amazed. Elise and Jesse slept through the whole storm. I don’t know how they did it!
Elise and Jesse in the morning
Bright eyed Jesse in the morning!
Clouds in the morning
