Day 2 Wednesday

 

Up at 4.30am off to work , got home at 9.25am.  Still raining with heavy showers throughout the day.  We don't get mail delivery in Mapleton we have to go to the post office to collect our mail.  Tony received a very heavy trophy in the mail.  He is the AUSTRALIAN Prolite  Tri-series Champion .

Updated my blog, played a game for a while.  Cleaned the house, planned my menus for the remainder of the week.  4pm picked Tess up from bus depot in Nambour.  Left home at 5.5opm to take Tess to ballet lessons in Caloundra it’s a 40minute drive.  She has a two hour lesson so I stay in Caloundra  I dropped off some library books, grabbed a few groceries from Woolies and sat in the car and read a book.  Arrived home at 9.15pm.  Finished my book then watched some TV, bed about 1.30am.

A Week In My Life

I decided to take part in Ali Edwards  A week in life.  I started last Tuesday.  Here’s a few images from Tuesday.

 

Got up at 4.20 am, Left for work at 5.10am, arrived to work at 5.20am.  Busy day at the bakery  usual jobs such as making salad rolls, sorting out orders and slicing the loaves of bread.  Worked with Katie and Lana today.  Had a chat to the butchers from next door while I was having a break. 

Got home from work at 9.30am, greeted by Fred he was happy to see me. Drove Tess to Montville she had work at 11am. Caught up on some washing (I don't  have a clothes line so what doesn't go into the dryer has to go on the clothes horse on the verandah .

Had a heap of book work to catch up on so did that for the rest of the day, entered sales dockets and prepared some statements and paid some bills.  Picked Tess up at 3.45pm waited for the school bus in Mapleton and picked Lucy up

In the news  an 5.0 earthquake hit Kalgoorlie.  An inmate was charged for the murder of Carl Williams.  The weather today was overcast for most of the day with some sunny periods.  Temps 15 - 26

Op Shop & Garage Sale Finds

Had a really busy week and haven't been doing anything interesting.  I thought I would share some treasures that I've found the last couple of months.  I've only been to two garage sales since Christmas.

 

The seller had a stack of silverware I wished I had grabbed some more they were so cheap.

This looks pretty ugly at the moment but with a coat of paint I think it will look fine.

 

I've seen these being made all over the net and this is what I intend to do with them but not using these bowls.

 

You get the idea lol.

I've also been buying lots of lamps most were $5.00 I haven't taken a photo of these as I have put them away until I have time to paint them.  I did get my hands on this one.

This lamp came from a muti million dollar house.  The furniture they had for sale was superb but  at $800 and upward was a touch out of my budget for the day. I also got  another large free standing lamp but I haven't got a photo of that one but it definitely needs a  coat of paint.  Back to the bookwork

Bye for now.

These Kids Can Dance.

What a weekend.  We travelled to Bundaberg early Saturday morning and after a tour through various cane fields, dirt roads and into someone's farm we arrived at about 11.30.   I learnt two things that morning, don't go to sleep unless you are confident the driver knows where HE is going and 2. never totally rely on a GPS, they aren't always correct.  We were starving when we arrived so we found Sizzlers for a nice lunch then dropped Tess off for two hours of rehearsals.

It was so hot and humid in Bundy you wouldn't have believed it was Autumn.  After checking into our motel we drove around for a while  and headed for the beach.  Not to swim I didn't even think to pack swimmers but in hope there was a nice sea breeze.

 

 

After we picked Tess up we went back to our motel which thankfully had air conditioning and had a bit of a rest before dinner.  Tess went out with some friends to watch the girls from SCPAC dance.

We were up early the next day as we had to be to the  Moncrieffe Theatre  by 8am for an 8.30 start.  We were to spend the next 12 hours here, lucky for us, unlike Caloundra Civic Centre the seats were really comfortable.

 

In the morning sessions SCPAC had two teams entered in every section.  The girls and boys were amazing they won first place  in everything, then second or third.  This was the first eisteddfod we had attended since Tess started at Scpac and we were blown away.  The quality of their routines, the beautiful costumes and the talent were spectacular.  It was the most enjoyable eisteddfod that I have attended

When we had a lunch break Tony, Lucy and I went for a walk down the main street.  Bundy is an old town and still has some gorgeous old buildings not to mention the wide tree lined streets.

These photo’s were taken only over two blocks.

The Post Office.

The School of Arts building.

 

 

 

After lunch we had  a long long wait to see Tess perform again as she was in the very last section which didn't start until about 7pm.  Once again Scpac got first in all but one section that they entered.    Finally the last section Cabaret and Novelty section  Tess was in both the teams entered,  they performed The Gun from Chicago which I have never liked and still don't and Thriller.  This year Thriller got first and The Gun got second. I think it was the other way around last year lol.

I didn't take these photo’s a friend of Tess’ did.  Here are some of the kids dressed in their Thriller costumes.

 

 

SCPAC also took out the Best studio award.  The next eisteddfod is in about 4 weeks and I am really looking forward to seeing it.

Before I finish I thought I would add a few “Tessisms”  she always comes out with some hilarious things.  The first thing she said as we were driving around Bundaberg and happened to drive past the Bundaberg Rum Distillery (which I'm sure I helped their profit margins when I was younger lol) was “ I didn't know they made Bundaberg Rum in Bundaberg”

But the funniest was when the GPs was taking us on a tour of the cane fields, she was texting someone and piped up “ Mum how do you spell GPS”  Tony and I looked at each other and burst into laughter, then the penny dropped for her, it’s a good thing she can laugh at herself.

Bye for now

Jackie

Busy Times

After a very relaxing five days off over Easter we are back into the swing of things.  We have our first dance eisteddfod this weekend in Bundaberg,  I'm extremely thankful that Tess isn't doing any solo’s this year.  All of her group dances are held on Sunday starting at 8.30 going well into the evening .  I am really looking forward to it as this is the first eisteddfod  Tess has performed in at her new dance school.

I've had a cold this week so the first few days were a right off Tess had to work every day except Thursday. Yesterday Tess had to get a spray  tan I really don't think she needed it but all the girls had to get one. We needed to get sequins, makeup and a few other bits and pieces .  Naughty us still had two costumes to organise, we had picked one costume but weren't happy with it.  We found a dress at Salvo’s for $6.50 and this is what we did with it.

This costume is for Thriller and she is a corpse so we had to grunge up the dress.  We thought we had finished it but it needs to look dirtier.

 I got the black paint out and added more then we added black tulle ,  it looks much better now.

Tess is really enjoying work or I should say she is really enjoying the money she’s making.  She works here.

 

 

We called in for a coffee this afternoon and she made Lucy an iced chocolate. I must say the mocha she made me was delicious.

 

Just want to share a few random photo’s from the last few weeks.

Lucy has been out to our friends dog kennels again over the holidays.  She now has a few miniature ponies to help look after too.

I'm starting to feel old we have known Christy since she was 5 years old, she turned 18 in December and just got her P’s.  She loves her new car.

 

Bye for now

Jackie

Happy Easter

Just popped in to say Hi.  I will be back after the 4th as we are currently on dial up speed at the moment and it’s frustrating me no end so I haven't been on the computer much the last couple of days.  I hope everyone has a happy Easter, I have five days off which will be really nice.  Tony and Lucy are going camping at Kenilworth Homestead while Tess and I are staying home.  Tess has dancing rehearsals on Saturday and has to work on Monday.  I hope to get heaps of crafting done over the break.  To those that are travelling drive safely

Bye for now

Jackie

I'm Still Here

I really haven't been doing anything exciting in the last few weeks.  Just running here and there to various appointments , dropping the girls off at various places.

Can you believe it’s still raining, not as heavy but showering.  The sun made a brief appearance a couple of days ago before the clouds set in again.  I love rainy weather but I really do need some sunshine.  Our chiropractor’s office is across the road from the beach, we often walk over there to have a look at the surf.  This day was cold and windy.  The water looked so dirty and brown I guess that is to be expected after weeks of rain.

 

 

Tony and I are struggling with sharing his shed lol.  He was supposed to go away to Goondiwindi a few weekends ago but due to the weather the race was cancelled.  I had planned to paint all weekend, he decided to work on his buggy all weekend .  On the Friday night he went to Brisbane to watch the Brisbane Broncos play so I thought I might as well start painting some stuff.  This is what greeted me when I put the roller door up.  How can anyone work in this space lol.

I notice that two cushions I have to recover and one of my drop sheets are piled up on top of his motor lol.  He also keeps moving things and it takes me a while to get started.  I did finish painting the book cases.  They look so much better now

Sorry about the dodgy picture. 

I was so disappointed with the garage sales on Saturday.  I haven't been since before Christmas so Lucy and I went to four on the weekend .  All I ended up with was a pretty cake stand and a vase.  I'm after white crockery and do you think I could find any.  Not a thing, I also tried three op shops on Friday and again nothing.  I'm patient they will turn up eventually.  Tess surprised me last week, she has always been adamant that she’s not wearing any clothes from an op shop, well she found four really nice shirts and a jumper all for the price of $10 lol.

Got this cookbook the other day and it has some lovely recipes in it.  I'm trying one for dinner tonight, Beef, date and spinach tagine, looks really yummy.

Better finish up I've got a bit of stuff on my to do list today and I have only done two out of the five things that must be done today

Bye for now

Jackie