Fast Surgery

 I have been getting blow by blow SMS messages from the Alfred Hospital. Successfully checked in. Transferred to Operations.  Surgery has commenced. Sugery completed.  That was less than 30 mins after it started.  However during the 2 hr wait beforehand, I had time for a short 12km ride.  I have also been doing a few more scans of photos to keep occupied.   The Sun has come out again and the Williamstown beach was half covered in school kids doing games and training.  I can remember going to Maroondah dam once a year for an outing.

We put up a painting salvaged from Nana Beryl's which has a connection to Geelong. This artist, Jan Mitchell, was the art teacher for Nana Beryl's sister Valda and she also painted all the Geelong bollards that are around the place, as well as some at Avalon and Tullamarine airports. There is no indication of the scene's location, maybe the Barwon River as she lived in Geelong.

Painting in the Rain

 Our patio area is getting a spruce up now that the yawning awning is in place for the shade.  We have had Kerrie here previously for the huge scaffold required job he did two yar ago.  Not a lot of notice this time around. He had a look last night and arrived this morning to get into it. The rain came on as well this morning but the patio is well protected from the Westerlies and there was a lot of undercover work to be going on with.  Should be all done in a day or two. The roof is going to need a clean.