Sunday, June 28, 2009

Weekend snapshot

This weekend was terrible weather with wind and rain most of the time. We managed to get a few walks in for the dogs and had to shelter under trees in between showers. So here's a few things we got up to:

I picked some late flowering roses from the garden which brightened up the table........


The girls all got together and did some shopping.
We went to the Bunbury Eisteddfod Gala Night to be entertained by many talented singers and musicians. This got the girls inspired to dig out the flute and recorder, which they played all morning.


We had to empty all the cabinets and cupboards in the lounge/dining room as we are getting new carpet this week. Peter had to remove all the skirting which also took paint off the walls so he had quite a bit of patchup work to do. I found a little box which contained the icing off the girls christening cakes, some of it is nearly 19 years old! Peter's Mum had made it.....


Sarah made some yummy wedges for lunch....


By Sunday afternoon we had all had enough of the weather so Janelle and Sarah resorted to childhood activities and blew some bubbles. They then went over to the shops and bought skipping ropes!


This shot was taken when the sun shone for about 5 minutes.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Thriller

Today (well it was actually Thursday the 25th in th US) the world lost a talented and sometimes contraversial man. Michael Jackson known as the "King of Pop" died suddenly from a cardiac arrest. I still have my original "Thriller" tape from when I was a teenager. It was played so many times. The album still remains the biggest selling album of all time and I also bought the re-release 25th anniversary one last year.




There are many of his songs that I like but I guess "Billie Jean" and "Man in the mirror" are my 2 standouts. I also loved watching him dance on the film clips. Thanks for the music !

Monday, June 22, 2009

Janelles first nine holes

Today Janelle came and played her first nine holes of golf. It was a very cold morning but we decided to go today as rain is again forecast all week. She actually beat me on the first hole!


She even managed to drive over the water at hole number 2.........

Some of her putts were very good.

She only lost one ball all day that went into the water, but had some trouble sometimes hitting from where her ball landed!

By the 8th hole she was very weary and was glad the clubhouse was in sight. She says she enjoyed herself despite saying she could have run a marathon in the time it took us and she was tired of all the "gardening" (raking all the bunkers she had been in!)

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Semester break

Today we headed up to Perth to bring Janelle home for her semester break of 4 weeks. We had already bought home some stuff a few weeks ago. We boxed up her printer, quilt, bedside table, cushions and other bits to go into storage and her beanbag is staying in another room. Emma's parents bought home her bike. Even with all that "stuff" sorted out the car was still fully loaded for the trip home.

The room looked quite spacious with everything out......

The trip home was wet and windy. I captured some of natures beauty........

Janelle now has to spend a day unpacking and sorting things out. At least it will be mundane work after 3 weeks of intense study and exams.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Winner and back to work

Last week I got a phone call from the people from Health Smart magazine to say I had won a runners up prize in a photo competition. The theme of the competition was "What makes you happy" so I entered this photo of the girls taken on Janelle's 19th birthday.





My little prize was a digital photo frame and the photo will be published in an upcoming issue of the magazine.

Peter went back to work today after his 3 months off. Although it sounds like a long time it went by very quickly - here's what we achieved:

-Repainted the passageway to get rid of the two toned walls

-Repainted Nicole's old room and shifted Sarah into it (had a huge cleanout of Sarah's accumulated childhood junk)

-Made Sarah's old little bedroom into a study/craft room, repainted it and put vinyl on the floor. We fitted out the room with office furniture from Fullers.

-Had new carpets laid in Janelle and Sarahs's rooms.

-Arranged for a new skylight to go in the kitchen (which certainly makes a huge difference) and a new manhole in cupboard as the other one wasn't very accessible because of the airconditioning unit.

-We also had the whole house insulated (thanks to Mr Rudds generosity)

-Extended the existing vegie garden and also build a new one removing some of the back lawn.

-Removed the swimming pool

-Repaved the whole patio and old pool area (this project took longer than expected)

-Refitted our wardrobe with shelving, painted our room and changed all the linen and bedding

-Chose new carpet for the loungeroom and our bedroom

-Totally rearranged the spare bedroom and cleared out years of junk from the filing cabinet

-Peter cleaned out the shed

-Trimmed all the trees around in the yard and cleaned out all the gutters

-Got the winters supply of firewood

-Played heaps of golf

-Did quite a few trips to Perth picking up and dropping off Janelle and Dad

-Had a lovely mini break to Karri Valley

-Enjoyed the beach walking the dogs in the lovely warm unseasonal weather

We did achieve a lot but as always there is still plenty to do. So now I will go and and have my afternoon cuppa by myself as Bella continues to sulk without her best friend at home.

Today I start my part time roster at Woolies, I am no longer a casual and will work Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. So I wont have to wait around for a phone call each day.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Par Day!

Today I finally got my elusive par! It was on hole number 1 - a great drive, nice shot with my 5 wood, a not so good shot with my 7 iron , but it landed on the edge of the green then a fantastic 12 meter putt into the hole. We couldn't believe it went in.


Peter got the divet of the day with this big chunk of grass...........

After all that excitement I was able to add my golf charm to my Pandora bracelet. I got the charm for Mothers Day and it was my incentive to get a par.

Luckily it happened on Peters last day of his long service leave or I would have been waiting for a long time.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

More golf

Peter is going back to work next week so we have been playing a bit of golf this week and also enjoying some winter sun before forecast rain later this week.

This was at Sactuary yesterday at hole number 2. You have to drive over the water and between us we lost 3 balls in the water (Peter 2 and me 1).

Today we went out to Capel again to use the other voucher Janelle had bought us. Before you start you have to take one of these buckets of sand with you to fill in your divets around the course.

There seemed to be more kangaroos this time lazing in the lovely sun. Just had to get this shot of a mum feeding her joey, so cute.

This fellow was quite content to watch and nibble the grass.

When we arrived home there was a magpie drinking from my bird bath. This is the first time I have seen a magpie use it , the smaller birds are in it often.

Friday, June 5, 2009

New look wardrobe

Our wardrobe just wasn't very functional so we visited the man at Wardrobe World who was very helpful in designing a shelving system.


After we totally emptied all the clothes and accumulated junk it was time for a fresh coat of paint. We actually painted the whole bedroom this colour called "Nearly White" to get rid of the pink.

The shelveing is all premade from measurements we provided and Peter fitted them.

Quite a few clothes and junk went into a pile for the Good Sammys. We are very happy with the end result and the wardrobe seems much more spacious.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Almost done

We are getting close to finishing the time consuming task of paving the patio. Peter hired a brick cutter so he could do all the half bricks.

He then spread yellow sand over all the paving and we have spent many hours sweeping the sand into all the gaps.


We are now having a break from it and waiting a while for the sand to settle and then spread some more over then keep sweeping.

We have piles of the old pavers which we hope to sell soon.

Janelle came home for the weekend to escape the city. Her exams start next week. She made 2 batches of mini muffins - Anzac and Jaffa to take back to nibble on while studying. The yummy recipes were from Nicole's new muffin bible book.

We took her back to Perth today. She had a doctors appointment to see if she needed any booster shots from previous immunisations, which she did - rubella. While we were waiting we wandered down to the Matilda Bay Cafe and enjoyed the view and a cuppa by the water. It was such a lovely day even though it was the first day of winter.

These geese were wandering around the golf course while we played this week. So very cute.