Kingaroy lookout

 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.

Could see all around

Nice picnic tables and plenty of space.

60 metres up the concrete path, Lucy was in her element, she enjoyed running up and down.

a massive thistle, some were a metre high with pretty purple flowers.

Last stop for this adventure lab was the giant peanut as Kingaroy is peanut country as well as the home of Joe Blenogy Peterson, a famous pollie from years ago but still remembered for his down to earth policies and straight talking.

Proston

 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 lookout just out of town, great views.

Toilet block with fountain outside of it.

Parkrun had thirteen "runners" I did one and a bit laps, 3.20kms

Hivesville

 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.

Caravan impovements

 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. 

 

Grand final day

 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.

The middle of the MCG. Melbourne Cricket Ground

This was the second outfit.

Up close and personal.

Very big footy

She was suspended quite high.

Finally the game started and it was a good game with several lead changes. No fights and on injuries except one. Freo's captain was chasing after the ball and suddenly his achillies snapped and he went to the ground, no one else near him. Of course he was out for the rest of the game. 

Brisbane were 17 points behind with six minutes to go, people were thinking that Freo were going to walk away with it when suddenly the game turned on its head and Brisbane kicked four goals in those last few minutes.

Three peat had come to Brisbane, tshirts have been printed with the three cups on the front.

A week later, the coach has announced his retirement. Hes 65 and been there ten years and the only coach at that level who did not play AFL himself.

It will be a blow to the club as the players and fans loved him but I think hes doing the right thing going out on a high.

A full on sports day

 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.

S pr.ing cleaning.

 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.

The six middle squares I sewed together and there were four bigger ones, I unpicked the bigger ones and used the wool to continue the pattern. I think the intent was to make a jacket for myself but I run out of puff.

I have two more middles to use. I am amazed at some of the crochet projects that I had started and put down. Two down and at least two more to go.