Cardboard Delivery

We  just received 145 cardboard boxes.  These boxes have taken up the entire hallway and they are still in their compact flat pack mode.  Where to begin?  There were 5 large art folder type boxes already preused so I stripped the walls and fitted everything into those five boxes.  Most of the wall hangings are already in storage.  That's enough for one day.

cardboard alley

Stamp Scanner

I have finished scanning the contents of my Australian Stamp Album.  I now have 1150 stamp images which took me about three weeks to scan, requiring around 3 hours per day.  I used a 600 dpi setting which produces a good result as seen below. Other settings like 1200 dpi were possible but I would have been at it for another 3 weeks.  As it is, there are still many stamps to go, I just don't have them yet.  In 1977 I had a catalog which shows there were 433 Australian stamps that had been issued up until that time.  Last week I received the latest 2017 catalog which says Australia has now issued 3459 stamps and that does not include the territories which is approximately an additional 1500 stamps. So if you collect one mint and one used copy of each stamp, I will need space for around 10,000 stamps.

First ever stamp issued by the AAT in 1957

Paladin of Souls

The Hugos started out as SciFi only but in 1992 it was changed to include fantasy.  Lois McMaster Bujold is firmly in the fantasy camp and must know her stuff as she has won the award four times.  This book is a sequel and I seem to get caught out by this a lot. As you are reading thru there are references to a previous story.  The heroine here has the power to separate demons from their possessed hosts. 

Not sure why Dy Cabon is on the cover - he didn't do much!

A man and his Sheds

Fought off the urge to sleep by driving to Darraweit Guim.  It has been a couple of yar since I last checked it out.  The number of sheds has increased as has the number of cattle on this 200 hectare hobby farm.  I counted at least 20 vehicles including 4 or 5 types of trail and motorbikes as well as 5 or 6 machinery type vehicles including tractors, diggers, haulers and mowers. Not too mention at least 10 cars and trucks.  It looks good 4 years after fire burnt all the paddocks and fences.

Summer's high priority truck

One of the sheds

Steak on the hoof

Woolley Party

There are a few woolly heads to go with the Woolley party.  We gave the old house a sendoff but there were no happy birthday  countdowns.  I did not make it past 1:00 am but there were a few rabble-rousers that were disturbing the neighbourhood.

Park St clash of wheels

This place has had more names and owners than pram wheels that have parked here. Every time I go there, it has a different name. If you are pregnant and want to compare styles of pram then come here for coffee around 10:00 am.  Or any other time of the day.  I have got sore ankles from all biting.  Nevertheless the breakfast was good and the bread very crunchy.  The coffee mugs aren't mugs though.

Super bike lanes

Park St

Collendina Report No 7956

It clouded over today but the temperature was around 30 so we went back over to the exact same spot as yesterday. One advantage of the higher elevation is better phone coverage, although why make calls over at the beach.  We spied the normal ship traffic and a few extra people on the beach but overall a quiet day.  We have been using the Video-Ezy machines which have recently replaced the Hoyts variety.  I was getting freebies from Hoyts!  Anyway it was $2 Tuesday at Video-Ezy so I ordered the BluRay Blade Runner but no matter how we tried it did not play. So I drove back at 8:00pm and swapped it for the non Bluray but I had to pay the $2 again.

beach critter

flying car