Sleeping with a spider

Had some trouble sleeping the other night so about 2.30am, I got up and went to kitchen to make myself hot/warm milo to see if they would help.

Coming into the bedroom,my eyes were drawn to the ceiling. Yuk, there was a spider on the ceiling just above the bottom of our bed.  It looked to be about a fiftycent piece so not a tiny thing. I went to get the spray usually I would have grabbed a shoe and smacked it up but I couldnt reach it.

A quick spray then I realised that the spider could drop onto the bed if I continued down that path. Time to wake Warren, thinking that he could possibly reach it if he stood on the bed. Half asleep he was wandering around and grabbed his shirt that hadnt as yet made it to the dirty clothes bin and flicked at it.

Lucy was a bit frightened, she had been asleep but came to the doorway when she heard us talking so I took her outside. Besides I didnt want to around when the spidertook off as who knows where it would go.

Warren thought that it scurried into the walk in wardrobe and was merrily spraying bug spray into the entry way.  We didnt see the spider again and assume that he went to his maker.

Stats say that we swallow up to ten spiders through out our lives, think that one would have been a bit chewy.

The pressures of owning a pet.

I didnt sleep that well last night, to the extent I saw midnight, 1am, 2.30am and a visit by a spider 3.30am and then I think I did get some sleep. Warren had been snoring and snuffling alongside of me until the spider visit but more on that later.

At three oclock we are both reading our tablets in bed (not the spider though), hence we slept in somewhat this morning and were slow to get going. As we had an arrangement for a coffee at 10.30, Lucy didnt get her walk.

Came home after coffee and a bit of shopping, needed a fluro light for the ensuite  the kitchen one refused to light on the weekend and Warren swapped them as the kitchen light was more important to have than our bathroom. Now the silly shopping season is over and we were out it was a good opportunity to get a new one.

By the time this was done, it was lunch, then it was too hot to go walking.

This evening after dinner and before it got completely dark, I put her harness on and off we went for a short walk.

I usually let her determine where our walks take us but I decided to walk down our street and then around past the shops and up through the alleyway.  She was quite happy to head down the road and half way along she looked to cross the road. As we needed to be on that side, I went along with that and we wandered around the corner then a few metres along the path, she sat. I have taught her to sit at the kerb and wait. She wanted to go across the road. I pulled her lead a little, she looked at me and I could see her phyically pushing down on the road as in she wasnt going anywhere. "Come on Lucy, we are going this way" as I pulled her lead a little more. She looked straight at me and then looked across the road and back to me again.

"Lucy" I could hear my voice being a little louder and clear "We are going this way! " still she sat. "LUCY! We are going this way!" She knew she had lost the battle and got up and continued to walk along with me but still looking across the road.

Then I realised the absurdity of it arguing with a dog who cannot answer back although she did let me know what she wanted. We have never gone that way but possibly some of her minders have andtherefore she thinks or wants to go that way.

REAL cows milk

Last weem we paid a visit to Maleny Dairies. One of my favourite places to take visitors or just togo and buy their great produce.

While we waited for the tour to start, Lindsay decided to set the chess pieces to rights.

After a short video it was off to milk the cow.

Lindsay surprised us by milking the cow into her hand and then drinking it. Nothing wrong with jt at all except that it is at body temperature.

Two of the calves at seven weeks old who were looking for a feed from the kids and anyone else. The pigs and chooks were also fed and we had a quick walk through a new exhibit which was a weatherboard hut that has been relocated. Two Italian men were captured in war time and they were allowed to stay insteadof prison or a war camp as long as they worked on the farm. This they agreed too and it was left how they lived.

Next on the milking sheds.

After a through hand washing there were tastings. Plain milk, nice and cold, then chocolate, strawberry and coffee milk. Plian unsweetened yoghurt  then apricot and strawberry flavour last was the custard. I dont like custard and I never make it but one exception is Maleny custard, dont know what they do but their custard is truly delightful. Sometimes I can buy iy at our local shops.

We came away with milk yoghurt cheeses and custard, I had thought to put the esky in the back of the car so no problems to get it home.

As we mainly used UHT milk, Lindsay was thrilled that we had real cows milk to drink. The four litres that I bought didnt last long.

King tide

A cooler day today and we went to tge beach to see the kangaroos and for the first time ever we didnt see any. Warren used to work in the area and see them every day regardles of the time of day so we could only assume it was being of the high water level. We could see that the sea had been iver the road in some places but although it was high still, the tide was going out.

Kids had a play in the playground while Warren got some chips then we went for a walk on the jetty which is a movable one.

I didnt go right to the end.
After getting splashed occassionally by the waves we headed back and Warren showed the kuds how to make propellers from bark and sticks.

What to do on a hot day?

Very hot today so we didnt go out anywhere, the plan was to go to Costco shopping but they dont open until 10am so I did a quick shop locally then it was home to try to keep cool.

After lunch Warren and Lindsay made a board game consisting of to do cards and dice around a board.

This was the end result. We had one game and then some modications were made, to colour more squares. The squares are to pick up a card and do what it says. Then we had another game, just like to point out that I won both times.

Water Dragons

Walking Lucy the other morning, a water dragon was on the path. Lucy isnt scared of them, more that she is curious about what they are.

This one saw Lucy and it headed to the water andI thought that would be the last we would see of him but no as instead of going into the water, he went up a tree branch.

I didnt realise they could climb.

We also saw water fowl.

Bowling Championships

Today was the day, four Williams's against three Davis's.
The dye was set.
We were even given two lanes along side of each so it was like a league comp.

The youngest members bowling first and they both used the bumpers, our youngest at seven used the ramp a few times.

All was going well but sad to say, we were not the victors on the day. We did an average and first game was W 92.5 D 123 second game we did improve slightly to W 94 but were still beaten.

Maybe if I had worked the average accordly to age, that may have worked in our flavour?

A good couple of hours was had in an air conditioned venue as it was a very hot one today