Gary Eats Kangaroo

He says it doesn't taste like chicken--more like beef. He hasn't just been working. They've been to the symphony and on some nature outings. This is from an email.

On Saturday we stopped in a gum forest park and encountered a flock of crimson rosellas and galahs. Steve had bird seed in the trunk, so we fed them out of the palms of our hands until one of the galahs took a bite out of my thumb and at about the same moment the same thing happened to him. No blood though. The high point was visiting the HealesVille Sanctuary (which no doubt has a web site). It is a wildlife sanctuary where we saw most of the unique animals of Australia: platypus, echidna, koala, kangaroo, wallaby, wombat, kookaburra, flying fox, water rat (which isn't really a rat), quoll, and more. With the flying fox, you actually go inside their big pen and watch them hang from the wire mesh ceiling 15 or 20 feet up. They have a strong pungent smell. It was quite a display of the variety of God's creatures.

Here's the link to Healesville Sanctuary, in case you want it.

Rachel put out "Do you need a Babysitter?" flyers around the Center today, in hopes to drum up a little business to keep herself solvent until her first paycheck in September. She also talked me into going to a new store this afternoon called Home Educator's Resource. It is a large store aimed at homeschooling families featuring lots of used curricula and books. Rachel is just so anxious to get started teaching that she had to buy something. She did pretty good with used book prices, picking up two books of teacher ideas/tips, one book on her ACSI certification reading list, and an EZ-grader (whatever that is) all for less than $20.

The Subaru went off to have a mirror added and the brakes checked. Rachel will soon write a check for that, and then she will have even more reason to look for babysitting jobs.