We drove to Condamine yesterday. It is apparently the home or start of the cow bell called the Condamine bell.
There was an airport halfway back to Miles with anther xache there.
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First caching event for geocaching Queensland, held at the showgrounds in Kingaroy.
We had gone to parkrun in Proston, 60kms away but made it back for the offical opening and cutting of the ribbon by the mayor.
Our first day in Kingaroy for the Cache fest was spent doing adventure labs. One took us to the airport, that was a walk around then another invovled driving to a lookout.
a massive thistle, some were a metre high with pretty purple flowers.
Another small township in the country. We stayed here three years ago for a parkrun. When our event was at Kingaroy for the weekend, we needed a parkrun reasonably close.
Choices were Wondai, done in June, Nanago done in March or Proston. Kingaroy, although bigger does not have a parkrun.
Even though Proston was further out, 57kms or an hour was the chosen one, its also the smallest so got to be a help for them.
A small township outside of Kingaroy. It does have a pub, a couple of shops, a memorial park for fallen soldiers and a nice looking toilet block.
We have had the opportunity to drive through this small hamlet five times in the last ten days. Two were going to and from Proston for a parkrun and the others times were doing loops around the area to find caches.
In the park was a bee sculture.
Warren has been working on the outside of the van. It was pretty tired looking so he took off the red stripe and painted it white. Certainly made a difference. He was going to paint the red stripe back but it may just get left.
I wanted a clock and a radio but apparently there was no room to put it. I did get the clock last time we were out.
Then he bought foam to make a bigger bed for Lucy, the caravan sofa wasnt very big.
Brisbane lions against Fremantle from Western Australia. First time that Freo had been to a grand final since entering the comp 32 years ago.
Brisbane has won the last two grand finals and were hoping for a three-peat. Not sure if that is an actual word but footy fans have coined it.
Our son is a member of the Lions and had to go into a ballet to see if they could get tickets to the game. They had booked flights several weeks before. As usual he was lucky enough to get tickets. Grand final is always played at the MCG Melbourne. The comp started as the Victorian Football league and has morphed into AFL, Australian.
The singing budgie, Kylie Minoghue was the entertainment before the game.
With Warren on crutches last week, he decided that he should volunteer this week but our roster was full so he went to the one closest to home. I told him that if he was pkay to run, I could fill in for him. Jyst an aside, he is a iming to do 50 parkruns in the year. No, he said he had offered so he would do it regardless. Two days later, their second bar code scanner pulled out so he and I ended up doing the scanning together.
Our day started at 5.35am when the alarmwent off, we were required tove there at 6.30am, it was a 20 minute drive for a 7am start. A ll fimished by 8am, home for breakfast and we watched some darts,four Aussies but none got thru to second round.
10.30am, we headed into Brisbane for the Davis Cup, Australia against Poland in tennis. Saw two games, won the first by our top player, lost second game in three sets.
Home by 5.15, ready to see the AFL prem finals, Lions against Warrens team. Of course he thought his team would win by three goals, I thought it would go the other way by three goals.
Wow, what an exciting match, it seesawed to anf fro with the Lions on top by 22 points, then there was a come back and it was neck and neck, only one kick in it with Lions and one of my favourite players kicking a goal with about 30 seconds to go.
Next week is the grand final, a Western Australia team against a Qld team,unheard of but how it goes.
Tomorrow afternoon is more Davis Cup on TV. The powers that be decided to take the trains offline the one that goes past the tennis centre so we had to drive in and walk a couple of kms, up a hill and down the other side.
A few weeks ago, we started the housework. Well, we got a bit carried away and ended up doing a fairly deep clean and tidy of the living areas. It took about three hours with both of us working.
Good to see things were back in their correct place and floors and walls dusted and washed.
Funny how getting stuck into those areas gave me the incentive to continue so next was my sewing room.
I have a set of drawers in there that is attached to the wall. So far I have gobe yhrough four drawers and found things that I had forgotten about. Between us, we delivered four bags to the opp shop, two bags out to rubbish that I had kept just in case I could use them.
I did find a series of crochet squares that I had made in crochet class. I stitched them up and then crochetted around making two lap blankets for the hospital.
Well, Spring has arrived and with warm weather. During winter, I wear moccasin type slippers to keep my feet warm. I figured they needed a wash before putting them aside for Spring and summer.
I have a pair of slip on sneakers and another pair of fabric shoes that I bought when working in China.
The China ones I located in the back of the wardrobe a few weeks ago. I decided that I should wear them now that I found them. They have to be over ten tears old.
The soles came off! I havent put them in the bin yet, wondering if I can glue them back on. One is off completely, the other is about half off. I will ponder on it.
After many months of roadworks on our main road out of our area, the road is open!
First they were ripping ut up to lay in bigger water pipes, then they are making it into two lanes.
Of course many of the pathways have also been either shut down or blicked so our walks with Lucy have been curtailed.
Spring and summer are nearing and so I have been asked to make hats again. Last season I apparently made over 300 hundred hats, I wasnt counting but it seemed some one was and almost all of them have been given away. Time to build the stocks again.
I have become faster or possibly just more effien
ent with my time.
The hats can be worn either way. Sometimes, they have one colourway but I usually match them up in different fabric. Uniforms for kuds meet this week and I will have fifty hats to deliver. I spent an afternoon cutting out and another one sewing the sides together, once thats done, one hat takes about 20 minutes from start to finish.
A new parkrun has started in Gladstone. Warren needed a 3 for a challenge so we travelled up to obtain that.
As its a five hour trip towing the caravan, we did it in two stages. Thursday afternoon to Maryborough, staying in the showgrounds and then we stayed in Gladstone shiwgrounds as well then did the reverse on the way back.
Not such an early start, needed to leave at 5.55am and we arrived at 6.30am. Parkrun was around sports grounds and there was a wide bike path that was used as well.
Lucy and I walked out to the furtherest point on the bike path, then made our way back and through the shopping centre, checked out where we could have coffee.
Runners were coming on the path before we made it to the shopping area and to Lucy's del8ght, her boss came past and stopped to give her a pat. Luckily there was a bend a few metres up so once she couldnt see him any more she was content to continue walking with me.
Seeing wattle flowers c9ming out is a good indication of spring on its way. We travelled to Brightwater on Saturday to walk/run around a lake.
