kayaking

Finally we got to try out our new kayaks. Last week it rained and was very windy and the place we had selected to go has limited the usage of the lake.

Non powered vessels from Sunday to Wednesday and motorised Thursday Friday and Saturday.It doe mean that people need to be aware and plan but at least there is no speed boat zooming past when one is enjoying the peace and quiet.

It was a very warm day, we took Lucy and I had a sudden though, wondering if dogs were allowed. I didnt see a sign as we drove in so all good.

Opps later on we did see a sign with dogs and cats with a cross through them so Lucy will have to stay home next time.We put her on a long lead and one of us was with her the whole time. Actually the area where we were, we had to ourselves.  I drive past this lake each time I go to work but had not ventured in before.

The "boats" ready to launch.

They are quite easy to paddle, I didn't spend a long time out as it was the first time in about four years. Sunscreen and long sleeves were the flavour of the day, I also wore long light pants but didnt realise that my ankles were exposed to the sun, didn't get sunburnt but need to think of that for next time.

Warren didn't set out to be colour co-ordinated but he couldn't have matched better if he had tried!

The Enchanted Wood

Aidan and I visited this tree a few days ago and although I took a photo, with my phone,  with him in front of it, it didn't turn out the best so I took Warren back to it last week and used my camera.

It is certainly a massive tree as I was standing on the road side to get as much as possible of it in the screen.

There is a fence around iy with an entrance on the other side so that people can actually go and walk around it. I would say that the base would be several metres around.

I meet some new people a couple of days later and I was talking about seeing this particular tree and apparently the people who lived in the area fought long and hard to keep the tree. Many of them had been cut down to make way for housing and luckily this one was saved. It is a fig tree and would be at least a hundred years old, it is not too far from home.

To Jack the Bed

I was making our bed the other day and Warren said to me when I walked out, "I thought you said you were going to make the bed."

I told him that I had made it. He looked in and then told me that I was the fastest at "jacking a bed" that he had ever seen.

"What are you talking about?" Apparently when he went to school, just pulling up a bed and straightening the pillows was the quick way and the masters used to call it "jacking the bed." They were supposed to strip the bed and make it again from scratch every morning. What a waste of time and energy. Although for 15 to 18 year old boys it probably a good exercise to use up some of their energy.

I told Warren that with fitted sheets and doonas, no way was I going to spend that much time so I will continue to "Jack the bed".

He did go on to say that the bed looked neater when I did it to when he did it. I said that I had had more practise and maybe he needs to practise some more.

Twelve hour day

That was yesterday, boy was I tired when I got home as we had done about eight kilometres of walking as well.

It was a geo day and we set out to do ten different ones.

So first was a Multi (more than one point) then we did a Traditional as it was close by, then a Puzzle one that we had worked on a few days ago. Then we went to a large park and did a Chirp chirp, an earth cache, a letter box and a tree climb.

Lunch at the park and then on to a CITO (cache in Trash out) where we spent  about an hour pulling weeds and looking for koalas and tawny frog mouth owls (one of each was found as well as a bush turkey). Meet some other like minded people. There was another letter box in the bush that we did. The first two letter boxes that I had found where actual letter boxes so the two on Saturday were disappointing as one was on the ground, the other was a small tube hanging in a tree.

We did a WhereIgo in Old Petrie village, followed and found all the spots and answered the questions but had to wait for a wedding to finish as our final destination was almost at the same spot. Up to Mt Cootha for a very old visual cache, boy was it getting bus up there because of the fireworks happening after dark, we got there just before they closed the road. Our last cache was a web cam in the city, we had to locate it and then using techo by phones get caught on the camera.

Our last port of call for the day was at a park to meet a fellow cacher from USA who was going to be there for thirty minutes. We were a little early so had dinner at a Thai noodle place, excellent meal and so quick. Got to chat with others and check out some swag and trackables, I picked up one that wants to end up in Wagga Wagga. Finally home at 9 pm, what a day but it was good to have that under our belts.

The Beauty of DVDs

We have a massive amount of DVDs that we had bought over the years, mainly while we were in China. This afternoon after a long day for me yesterday and Warren had a morning of riding through the pine forests, we just wanted to vege out in front of the TV and watch a good movie.

Ahh, but which one, I trolled through three large packs before finding something that A we hadn't seen and B would probably suit both of us, C if we went to sleep it wouldn't matter.

We selected a Steve Martin movie and settled down to watch. It was pretty boring and stupid.

The best thing about a DVD is even though we bought it, we dont have to watch it. We took a vote, stopped it and now its in the bin, the second for the week although the first one that hit the bin, we did at least watch the whole movie.

Best Friends

We paid Best Friends a visit yesterday with Lucy in tow. She loves travelling the car although last week when we picked up the kayaks she started to get a bit uncomfortable, pacing as much as she could on the back seat, it was a fair way to drive and the longest she has been in the car. She slept all the way home.

We have been using her lead clipped into the seat belt for awhile but thought we had better go back to using her harness for travelling.

Warren went to put it on her and it wouldn't fit! Luckily it does have adjustable straps.

Lucy scratches a lot in the mornings, she wears a flea collar, has regular baths and her bedding washed too, we don't know why she scratches, hence the trip to Best Friends.

They took us to the vet next door and we saw one of the nurses there, who checked her over and suggested some conditioner for her for dry skin.

Lucy loved going into the store and of course everyone made a fuss of her, she likes it when people speak to her. Seems funny being able to take a dog into a store.

Lucy and I checked out the toys but nothing really appealed and so we just got the stuff and some dried pig trotters.

Tired out after greeting all those new people, she had to take a nap!

This is her harness for the car. 

Two Days

and five minutes was all it took. We often sit out the back with a coffee but as we dont wear watches anymore, we never know the time which is fine unless we need to be somewhere.

Sunday we were having a coffee and the talk about having a clock out there came up again as I was going to the movies and I needed to know the time.

Right  I thought, after the movies I would go and buy a clock for outside!

Bought said clock a whole fifteen dollars wow why havent we done it before?

Left clock outside so it didnt get forgotten. Tuesday morning, coffee time again and the discussion was where would we put the clock. Warren thought that he would have to move the candle holder as otherwise it would be too low.  tried it and it was okay so he got out the drill (for the bricks) and it went up straight away.

After years of talking about it finally it didnt take that long to get it up.

oops Ididnt turn the photo before adding it.