Five Year Pass

 It has been 5 yar since the prostate removal and the main indicator is the PSA count which has been undetectable since it was taken out.  The doc says the local medicos can now keep tabs on the count and maybe do another test in 5 more years time, even then if it starts to rise it most likely will not mean any trouble. I asked if I get a health medal, a wall plaque or at least a certificate of merit, no, just a good luck, a be on your way and I never need to see you again.  I got back in time to see the NBN truck outside laying fibre optic cable down our street.  So if we want to get light speed into our house we will have to pay for the connection, Pure Bookkeeping will that is.

Star Revisited

 I got some extra gear out like water shoes, gloves and the long picking tool.  The water was at high tide level at 9:30am this morning so I timed the swim for that.  The grass growth this year is huge.  I still found a path thru all of this stuff to get my way across to the pole line. It is around here that we spotted the star yesterday and was able to find it again after a bit of casting around. I went back and got the shoes and the glove and scooped it into a bag. It is quite spiky thru the glove.  I showed it to one guy who said he had seen them closer to PortArlington.  I took this one way up the top and into the bushes where it was not getting back into the water.  That's one down and a few million to go.

Northern Pacific SeaStar

 Just walking thru the shallows before and spotted a starfish we had never seen before.  It has purple tips which is the giveaway sign for a persistant predator pest that was first seen in the bay in 1986 and now there are millions, as they are voracious eaters and reproducers. I think I will go back tomorrow and throw it in the bushes.  Also on the way back there was a guy busily erecting a flagpole, taping off an area of the beach, raking all the grass out of it and generally making himself at home and excluding everyone else. Turns out it is a Sea Scout Cubs' end of year party and there is buried treasure inside the tape. Be prepared.  We also trialled the new umbrella arresting system UAS.  The UAS was only half deployed as it seemed like it was only half a breeze but we tried it anyway.

Summer

pest

rope attached sand bags

sea scouts  not unfurled

Video Kids

 The official videographer came up to me after I let him thru the gate and he goes "I can see you are the groom's brother"  that became a theme at the house when he was doing some filming. I did not want to carry around my video camera  at the wedding since the official guy was doing his job. I did have the phone video going a few times so we will see if there is any doubling up.

Mr & Mrs Roberts

A lot of planning has come to its result with Mr & Mrs Roberts.  A good thing there was lots of indoor space.  Small kids at weddings make things more interesteing.  Those kids did a good job though considering how late they were up. I think Asher, Evie and Estelle will be old enough to remember this occasion.  We were the last car to leave as we gathered up the presents and left over thank yous.  After Laura and Rick left with Evie and Charlie (extra early due to a cancelled flight)  we called into the Clancy's just down the road where they cooked up the bacon and eggs day starter.  We needed it to as it was time to deliver the booty.  And for the last word on the gateopener, we found a second one in the letterbox as we were leaving! 

rustic

 

foggy deck

Aquila shuffle shoe

waiting for the show

Queen of the kids

Clean Up Pack Up

 I have forgotten what getting kiddies ready by a deadline is.  We had a good sleep with the new configuration based on putting kiddies in different rooms.  We are using Bluey again as a good distraction while we get ready for the next venue.  Anything not required can stay here until next time. The bins will stay out on the street until emptied as there is poo in there. Not sure when we will back at Willie and definitely not for the Christmas do as we got covid from that last year. Debbie has prepared zuchini bake, sausage rolls, a speech, clothing and kiddies to name a few. On to the party now.

Bluey queues them up

 Evie and Charlie flew in yesterday as they do, taking it in their stride as jet setting kiddies.  The sleeping was interesting last night and I think we will try something different tonight but it is the most people we have had sleeping here so far.  This morning we took the train into the city.   This is becoming a regular thing training it from Williamstown.  We were heading to the Myer windows but got sidetracked a few times like when the train tunnel foreman gave us model trains to take home. In the meantime the Bluey queuey was only getting longer. It took about 30 minutes to get to the formal head of the queue in front of Myers.  This is organised way beyond what we took our kids to 35 yar ago. There must have been 10 security marshals on patrol.  There were six windows with the Blue Heelers doing Christmas at the beach, Christmas in the pool, Christmas cooking and Christmas dinner.  We were around 90 minutes to do the whole circuit but as left it was between 2 and 3 hrs.  We stopped for babycino and cake and then the train back to arrive around 1:00pm and Evie is determined not to sleep.