Footy's back!

 Yay, although we have been watching some of the women's matches, not all of them are on TV though.

Last night, yep, Wednesdaý, not a night usually associated with AFL, had the furst fame of the first round and it was a replay if the grand final. Melbourne (Demons) against The Bulldogs. I thought the bulldogs would win, Melbourne had won the grand final last year.

Today with Warrens help I set up a tipping comp, only us and grandson in Melbourne in it, he likes to pick the winners and by how much.

Second match was on tonight, very exciting game. I do not have any points yet as I picked both losing teams.

We will get another game tomorrow night, three games on Saturday and Sunday. Lits of time to crochet during the ads and break times.

Warwick memorial

 Before leaving Warwick, I wanted to go for a walk, yes there were caches along the path which was only 180 metres from our motel.

We left at 6am, I hadnt slept all night and made our way over to the parkrun site.

It was really big, can just see Warren left at the base. A massive structure. Of course after all the rain the footpath had water over it in several places, we kept going walking on the grass as oyr feet were already wet. Couldnt walk the whole way but did about half, changed our shoes, luggage in the car and back on the road before 7am.

Warwick

 While we were waiting out the storm, Warren made a booking at a motel in Warwick. We had hoped to get to Gundawindi on the Qld border but that was another 200k from Warwick and we knew that night was going to cone in earlier because of the weather. Of course with it getting dark brings out the jumping mice (kangaroos) and we definitely didnt want to run into one of those.

The motel was on the main road through town and we drove in, very quiet and the office was shut. Strange as they knew we were coming as we had a booking. Warren rang the number and got given a room number and a code. 

Put the code into the box alongside of the door, keys were inside. Basic room with a microwave and a small uht milk in the fridge. Never saw anyone at all, there were other cars so we assumed there were other guests. 

Cunninghams Gap.

 On our way west to go south, couldnt go direct south due to flooding but we usually go west then south anyway to avoid  the semis. Of course being a Sunday afternoon we did encounter some of them on their way to Brisbane to unload first thing Monday morning. 

Cunninghams Gap is much better than it used to be, better and wider road and better cars. Its still going over The Great Dividing Range though so its high and windy.

It got very dark around three o'clock and we knew that a storm was coming across. Some great waterfalls that are not usually there.

The white on the rocks is actually water flowing over.

We were up in the clouds about twenty minutes after we pulled over into a stop as it was hard to see the road, luckily we had had a car in front and could see his tail lights, we had to keep driving for awhile until the rest stop came up. We were there for fifteen minutes and continued on to Warwick.  

Still raining.

 Scenes from where I walk Lucy.

A log has jammed up against the railings.

Causing the water to flow out to the side.

Flattening all the tufts of grass on the other side. We were supposed to get super storms today and schools were cancelled, they didnt eventuate but we did have showers this afternoons.

Knitted squares

 Last time I was at the opp shop, I saw a bundle of knitted squares, not my thing so I passed over them to pick up a couple of other packs of wool. 

Then I went back as I was concerned that they would end up in landfill. They cost me $3 and there were 43 squares about 4 inches square.

I decided to put a border on them, one to make them bigger and two the joining stitches would be better hidden.  Each one ended up over 5 inches and I did six by seven, using all but one. The challenge was tk complete it this month. I did and also finished the c2c one that I was working on as well.

My temperature blanket

 I have seen several of these over the years in various ways. Mostly done as one row for each day and each temperature having its own colour. That means 365 rows and about fifteen colours. I didnt want anything like that so I came up with my own plan. 

I have five different colours for the temps. 10 to 14 is light blue 15 to 19 is a darker blue, 20 to 24 is green, 25 to 29 is yellow 30 plus is red. Grey is for the surround colour and a solid grey for the start if the months with no dates.

Each square is 3.5 inches wide and it will be two months wide so seventy inches. It will make two blankets, one from January to  June and the other from July to December.

First month.

I have numbers for the blanks to read 2022. First day was green as it was cool but I didnt like that colour so will redo that one. Feb is almost done.