A Day In Our Lives 7 Oct

I've come to the conclusion that we lead a fairly boring life lol.

On Fridays we get a bit of a sleep in as Lucy doesn't have to leave for the bus at 7am.  Every Friday Lucy spends most of the day at a local daycare centre, she doesn't have to be there until 8.30.  We needed to take a photo of her so she can write a bit about herself and pin it up on the wall at Daycare so the parents know who she is.

We left the house at 8am first stop was into the local store for Lucy to buy some morning tea, Mapleton only has one store now as the general store closed on the weekend.  Great shot of the antenna.

Dropped Lucy off at daycare

Tess and I decided we would go and have some breakfast before she started work.  We tried a new coffee shop called Jaxon’s, we are pleased to say that it is very nice.  It was nice to just sit and read the paper.

Tess was very good she had poached eggs I was a bit naughty.

I needed to get fuel as I was nearly on empty, silly me forgot it was Friday and should have filled up Wednesday or Thursday.

We then had to drive to Montville to take Tess to work

Went to collect the mail only exciting piece of mail that I got was a letter and a photo from my 99 year old grandmother, which is always lovely to get

I really wasn't in the mood to do much the house was clean and I had only got the computer back the day before and definitely didn't want to start doing bookwork so I decided to go back into town and visit a friend and as it looked like rain pick Lucy up and take her back to school when she finished at daycare.

You could see the rain on the coast.  I dropped Lucy off at school and headed back home.

I love the drive home, it’s very relaxing not alot of traffic (roadworks at the moment is giving me a bit of grief) you can feel the tension drain away by the time you get up the range.  It’s always made me feel that way.

 

Mapleton sits on top of this range, known as the Blackall range. When I got home I caught up on some blogs and found an interesting one that talked about making your own ricotta, we eat a lot of this and I would like to try making some, it sounded really easy.

I went for a walk around the yard, Milly came with me Fred was too lazy. The Iris was in flower

 

Our block backs onto a farm and this tree is massive, the photo doesn't really show how big it is

The dark brown bit at the bottom of the photo is a termites nest that the kookaburras nest in every year.

The farmer had slashed his block and it was rich picking for the ducks. Milly was giving me this sad look “let me out I wont run away or chase the ducks” but I know better than that and she wouldn't be able to help herself so in the yard she had to stay.

Then Milly wanted to play ball, now this posed a problem as we don't have any balls because she has chewed them all up into tiny pieces, she's not fussy a lemon will do once she gets it off the tree.

The dogs get so excited when Tony gets home, not that Fred looks real excited but trust me he is.

Tess home from work and is having a rest and catching up with a friend on the phone before she has to go to work at 6pm.  Lucy gets home from school and is having her usual healthy afternoon tea.

Tony found a softball and thought it might last Milly a bit longer, yes her feet are off the ground.  These photo’s were taken over the next half hour.

 

I had good intentions to keep taking photos but by the time I took Tess to work, cooked dinner and did the night time stuff I never got back to it.  I went to pick Tess up at 9ish then we went to Maccas to get a coffee, came home and watch an episode of Inspector Morse that I had recorded.

Bye for now

Jackie

A Day In our Lives- Monday 26th September

 

I haven't done a post in a while and am having computer issues (working off Lucy’s laptop) so thought I would do a day in our lives.  I thought it was going to be a quiet day as it was school holidays.  I really  needed to get up early, unfortunately I hit snooze several times too many when the alarm went off at 6am.  This was the time I got up, not a good start to the day.

It’s a beautiful sunny morning, Milly  loves to sit out in the morning sun.

 

After breakfast a bit of cleaning and washing (always lots of washing ) was in order.

Dont think Lucy’s going to be any help today.

Its really hard to clean with Milly around she has to attack everything.

Burning  my favorite candle.  Looks a bit worse for wear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the housework a nice shower was in order.  I love my Reclaim products.

Time for a cuppa and finish the menu planning.

Four Lists one for IGA, Woolies, Butchers and the fruit shop

Milly’s really sad because she knows she’s not coming with us and is going to get locked in the shed (she escapes all the time).  Don't worry Fred you will get some soon the promise of biscuits if Milly goes into the shed.  Fred always makes sure he gets some to

Off to Nambour to meet Lucy’s friend Rhiannon and her grandmothers at Michelles for a coffee, Rhiannon is staying at our house tonight.

They are finally fixing the road into Mapleton so for the next few months we are going to come across a lot of roadworks and yes the car windows are putrid.  A job for Lucy on the weekend.

I do my grocery shopping here and here

Got my drugs I always need these by this stage of shopping my head felt ready to explode

Then we drove out to Bli Bli to get our fruit and veg.

I know bad photos but it’s small and always busy I was feeling like a real dork so no inside photos only bad  outdoors.

 

Called into our post office,we don't get a mail service so all of Mapleton have to call in to the PO to collect their mail

Home again Home again jiggity, jiggity, jig Fred was on the footpath eating a bone that the dog food lady had given him and Tony was as always on the phone

I dare anyone to take his bone away, look at the look on his face lol

Worse thing about shopping is putting everything away. Got to love a full fridge

Time to start thinking about dinner, marinated some chicken then went outside to have a game with Milly

Tess has to be at work by 6pm,  thankfully Tony runs her down to Nambour while I get dinner

I looked into the pantry and decided I could not live with it for one more second so I started cleaning it out, not a good move at that time of the day.  I had made a start on this and it didn't take too long to get it looking good and to be able to fit things in better.  This photo is obviously during.

Despite the salads appearance it was delicious.  Balsamic Chicken and white bean salad from www.taste.com.au    After dinner the usual night time duties, washing up, making Tony’s lunch then I had to drive down and pick up Tess from work.  Got home and collapsed in front of the TV and watched an Inspector Morse show I had taped and went to bed about 12.30am. Until next time

Bye for now

Jackie

Uluru- Up Up and Away

One of my favourite things to do is to fly around Uluru and Kata Tjuta, it’s not that expensive to do.  You can go on a brief 15mins to an hour flight, we did the half hour flight.  This is the second time that I have done this and next time would really like to do the hour which includes flying over Kings Canyon, Mt Connor and Lake Amadeus. You are unable to fly over the top of Uluru and Kata Tjuta and have to fly a certain distance away from them  but that really doesn't matter.

Ready to go Tony got the front seat as usual.

Connellan Airport

Ayers Rock Resort.  Everything from camping grounds to 5 star Motels.

 

You can see the  climb where the cars are parked,

You can see the surface is full of small craters not smooth at all.

This was one of the highlights from our trip.

Bye for now

Jackie