Here is a special birthday post for Adara Schnarr.
Have a wonderful day and new year!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Our House In The Middle of Dudley Street
Hello Readers,
We have received many questions about our house. Where do you sleep? What does it look like? Is it attatched to another house? Do you have beds? Is there a sidewalk? Because of this persistant questioning, we have decided to write about our home sweet home in Australia.
Our is situated in the middle of Dudley Street, an uphill road that leads to the train station. Our house is the bottom of the three church buildings. In order it goes, the Manse (our house) the Church, then Baringa (the Church society building). Baringa is the Aboriginal word for "light", hence having a lot of spiritual meaning. In this building is the office where the minister usually works. We have done some filing and computer work in there. Next to this room is the bookroom which is filled with Swedenborg's writings and other New Church publications. In the back of Baringa is the kitchen and society room. This is where we had the Friday Social a few weeks ago. If a minister was here, we would have been living in Baringa.
The Church building is very lovely. It is small, but could probably hold about sixty people. There is lots of nice artwork on the walls and a beautiful stained glass window above the chancel. There are usually about fifteen people each sunday, but there can be more. Behind the church, is a beautiful garden that Grandpa Norman Heldon has put his love into. It if filled with beautiful flowers and there are wood burned plaques with correspondences on them that explain the flowers. He has also placed statues around the garden that add a uniqueness to it. We have done a lot of weeding in this garden. At the bottom of the property is the tennis court which is rented out to the public and is used daily, even as we write to you.
The manse is the next building over and this is where we live. It is quite spacious for two people and we feel very spoiled. This two story building has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room dining room and nice big kitchen. On our arrival we moved two single beds into one of the bedrooms and this is where we sleep. It is great to have our own space and at least as of now, it is not too messy.
As we have said before, the people of the Hurstville Society have been extremely welcoming to us. On Monday night, we were invited one house down to the Lockhart's for a lovely dinner and visit, and last night we went our for Thai with the Murray Heldons.
Thanks to everyone for their emails and comments. We feel very loved to hear about your lives and it helps us not miss you so much.
Hope all is well,
Carling and Sarah
We have received many questions about our house. Where do you sleep? What does it look like? Is it attatched to another house? Do you have beds? Is there a sidewalk? Because of this persistant questioning, we have decided to write about our home sweet home in Australia.
Our is situated in the middle of Dudley Street, an uphill road that leads to the train station. Our house is the bottom of the three church buildings. In order it goes, the Manse (our house) the Church, then Baringa (the Church society building). Baringa is the Aboriginal word for "light", hence having a lot of spiritual meaning. In this building is the office where the minister usually works. We have done some filing and computer work in there. Next to this room is the bookroom which is filled with Swedenborg's writings and other New Church publications. In the back of Baringa is the kitchen and society room. This is where we had the Friday Social a few weeks ago. If a minister was here, we would have been living in Baringa.
The Church building is very lovely. It is small, but could probably hold about sixty people. There is lots of nice artwork on the walls and a beautiful stained glass window above the chancel. There are usually about fifteen people each sunday, but there can be more. Behind the church, is a beautiful garden that Grandpa Norman Heldon has put his love into. It if filled with beautiful flowers and there are wood burned plaques with correspondences on them that explain the flowers. He has also placed statues around the garden that add a uniqueness to it. We have done a lot of weeding in this garden. At the bottom of the property is the tennis court which is rented out to the public and is used daily, even as we write to you.
The manse is the next building over and this is where we live. It is quite spacious for two people and we feel very spoiled. This two story building has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room dining room and nice big kitchen. On our arrival we moved two single beds into one of the bedrooms and this is where we sleep. It is great to have our own space and at least as of now, it is not too messy.
As we have said before, the people of the Hurstville Society have been extremely welcoming to us. On Monday night, we were invited one house down to the Lockhart's for a lovely dinner and visit, and last night we went our for Thai with the Murray Heldons.
Thanks to everyone for their emails and comments. We feel very loved to hear about your lives and it helps us not miss you so much.
Hope all is well,
Carling and Sarah
Monday, September 17, 2007
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