Outage

We are having a planned power outage here and it is a good thing the car was out of the garage when the power went out.  It was out on an errand not that we had thought of it.  I went for a beach walk and was not going to collect any rubbish however a shopping bag had washed up so if the bag fits then cleanup.  I had to get the tethering going on my phone via mobile hotspot to get this blog post happening and I could not find where the password was. Debbie found it in 2 seconds. I spent ages looking. We may wait for the power to come back, as loading the car thru the front door of the house will be tricky. The beach had a lot of jellies washed up and the ugliest fish I have seen yet.

Don't step on those spikes

Packing x 2

Part of the Williamstown strategy is not just being closer to family but also closer to the airport. I read that Avalon is suffering from covid shutdowns after it was going well but the emphasis is on Tulla again.  So now we don't have to travel as far from Williamstown and there is no booking for the expensive car park or paying for local hotels.  So we are packing for two parts. There is still the Williamstown setup happening with a car load for that as well as two large suitcases for QLD.  I have recorded my weight this morning, as next Friday I wont have a weigher. This has been on going for 7 months so I guess I can keep going a bit longer.

PS There are only three lemons left from this giveaway batch so maybe there were four or five customers.

Post Cards

The weather here is day on day off at the moment and today is SunOff  yet yesterday was SunOn.  I have not been to the correspondence well of late. I have been working back in time thru it and today I have extracted two postcards, written by two Pauls, both in 1990 and both having been kicking around Europe for months at a time.  One was coming back from Greece and the other was heading there but on independant trips.  I can remember reading these 33 yar ago and wondering if I would ever get the chance to travel Europe like they were. I only had to wait another 20 yar, til 2010, to give it a try.

Posted in Australia by another returning traveller

Post marked in Greece but without a stamp

Garden Update No 475

It's a much better day today so the garden cleanup has extended to a house cleanup as we have been in recovery mode and coming up, we will be away for two weeks. It's green bin day tomorrow so I got the mower out as well as the edger but before I started I set my watch to record as a walking activity. Now I thought this would test out the google maps GPS accuracy but it just showed a circle where the house is as the resolution does not allow for pacing up and down your lawn. I expected as much. It did show 4,000 steps were taken during the 90 minutes of lawn action though. We moved a few pots around as the patio table has gone to Williamstown. I also got out the poison sprayer and wandered all over sluicing anything that was green and not supposed to be there. Finally I have only had one lemon customer so far this round.

Garden Update No 399

The regular gardener has taken some time off here so I have spent an hour or so mainly on a cleanup detail although I have been following the drooping lower and lower sag of the the lemon tree.  We have not had any lemons placed out the front all Winter.  Do lemon trees ever stop sprouting fruit?  There was another problem as well, in that the abundance of fruit has attracted the pesky possums again as there are half eaten lemons nicely positioned near the fence.  We have not seen this behaviour this year.  The cleanup also adds to my steps tally for the day being another 1200 steps in that hour.  The lemon tray has been placed in its most favourable position out front, so we will see how many customers there are.  The final surprise, or maybe I have forgotten, is that there is one late orchid spike, still not opened, near the courtyard door. These pots have been moved a few times and the orchid man says if you move them it will be a year before the plant gets used to the new location.  

lemon plenty

Spike Eight

Lemons going free

Beach Cone

 My watch buzzes me every now and again suggesting I get off my arse and do something.  There is a button there that says not now but if you do go walk around the table it says good job. Today I set up the proper settings for a walk. I went across to the beach for a rubbish pickup. This is done at a meandering pace but does not seem to phase the watch recorder.  It reported a good workout of 5,000 steps in 55 minutes with 355 calories burned over 3.1 km.  As for the clean up the standout item was a lookalike ice cream cone complete with straw. This is some type of heavy duty fishing line float. The usual other culprits were present, butts, straws, tops, rope and plastic wrappers.

Construction Update

 I went for a ride to shake out the cobwebs.  I have been keeping an eye on two buildings over the last year or so as I have been pedalling passed. The new train shed is complete for the Q Train however the outfitting of it eg laying the tracks both inside and switching points just outside seems to be where it is at.  Drysdale is just your average country town but there must be a lot of readers around here, as the new library looks huge and located in the exact centre of town.  The girder structure has reached its maximum height and five streets converge here like a wheel and this thing will be the circular hub.

On Track to be On Track

Book Colliseum

Sandy Ride