Backdating.. cause I'm a slacker!!
Monday. Definitely not enough hours in the day. Had the tree people out. The pistachio is slowly splitting at the base and one part of it is leaning on the fence to Kit's place. The dude was like, this has to go sooner rather than later. Took more time off work when David got home to help him sort out the fence. We cut away more vines and weeds, and he was able to get the panel pulled back up and held in place with string until we could get some screws. Cooked (not) Dinner Winner (Coles don't sell Dinner Winner) for dinner. Was quite nice, although I could probably do something pretty similar myself.
In the evening passed half way in my UK 2010 photo labelling. Still on track to have everything done by the end of the year. Next year I want to label my Eurasia 2012 photos. Twenty three and a half thousand photos. At five hundred photos per week that'll take forty eight weeks to do!! Craziness. But the idea is to have all the work on in complete by the time it's ten years since we went in 2022.
Tuesday. Had the ACT Government tree inspector out (I put a form in on the weekend). He also took one look at the tree and said it had to go sooner rather than later. Got verbal approval to remove it straight away. So talked to the tree peeps and they rearranged some customers so they could come out the next day. Later, David and I went round to the neighbour's side to pull away more vines and weeds, and he was able to strap up the fence to pull it back into position to be screwed. Poor neighbours, we keep hassling them! But did I mention I have the bestest brother ever? :) Cooked beef cheeks for dinner. Not as dark this time for some reason. David really liked this version.
Wednesday. Tree guys came first thing. Such a shame to see such a beautiful tree taken down, but the thing was in danger of falling down so had to go :( Kit was sad as well, although I think she'd have been sadder if it had fallen on her garage!
They came back later in the afternoon to grind out the stump.
Had our pizza night a night early, then played Kismet with Kit and Pete. I got not one but *two* kismets - the first with 1s, the second with 6s. I ended up winning.
Thursday morning. Emirates refunded our Europe flights (although not the extra we paid for seat allocations hmmm). Still, can't complain too much, we're lucky to have gotten anything back at all. Packed up to go out to the club. Lit the fire and collected more firewood before the predicted rain.
Hey look! I saw a 747 in flight!
This is what we came out for so early - to seal this sawdust board MDF
They'd put this cabinetry in but hadn't sealed it, so a single drop of water would make the whole thing swell up. Which is really great right next to the kitchen sink.
I sanded and sanded it, but it didn't get smooth, just all fluffy.
Had drinks and leftover roast pork by the fire. Listened to a podcast on the possible CIA origins of Winds of Change (part 1 of 8).
Friday morning. Got stuck into the first coat of primer. Things were going well until the fumes made Stu sick :( So stopped after an hour and a half and washed out the brush. In the afternoon did some tidying and organising of the "tool shed" in the van. Also did some work on the tapestry. Stu had some pretty chilled out music going so it was a nice pleasant afternoon just chillin. I also sanded the cabinetry again. This time got things somewhat smoother. Cooked curried sausages for dinner. I don't think I'd really want to cook much from scratch out there in future. I mean I can, but there's no range hood, so steam from cooking just goes everywhere. Think we'll just stick to leftovers, or bbq. Listened to another episode of Winds of Change and had an early night.
Saturday. Stoopid fricken insomnia. Lit the fire again, had a bit of a sleepin. Did another coat of primer while Stu was at the committee meeting. I think another sanding and another coat of primer (just on the horizontal surfaces that had been damaged) and it'll be as smooth as I can get it.
We were meant to meet up with EffanC after for lunch, but we went to the wrong hotel, 20km away. This is what happens when you use the PHONE, people, instead of MESSAGING!!! If I'd seen it in writing would have been less likely to get it so wrong. #grunt ! Anyway, Stu and I had a nice enough lunch at the Lake George Hotel.
This time they got the pork belly right - with crackling!
Finished watching the end of Herbie the Love Bug in the evening.
Sunday was housework all fricken morning. After lunch went and visited Annie, but we were running a bit early, so Stu drove me around to look at the flooded Ginninderra Creek.
So seeing Annie and Immy, and later Noah and Stu, was nice. Haven't seen them in forever. Did our shopping at Casey Supabarn, I think for the first time since 2017 when they ripped us off. This time they wouldn't do any bagging, which is a massive pain when you're trying to wrangle a large trolley load full of shopping at either end. At least I had Stu's help this time, it would not have worked *at all* if I'd been by myself. I swear if they try and do that sort of crap again I would send one bag and what I wanted to go in it through, go to the other end and load it, before coming back to pass the next bagful of stuff through. Got home and cooked for hours. Roast chicken and veggies, chicken to make up some honey mustard chicken during the week, and mince for tacos. Dinner and BBT. I went to go clean up after dinner and Stu put YouTube videos of various BBT stuff. While I'm fricken working and everyone is just sitting around watching videos without me. Might have had a meltdown. There is no way I could be a mother, I'd lose my $#!+ every fricken day.
So contrary what the date on this entry says, I didn't blog that night, in fact like three weeks behind in blogging by that point. *sigh*
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