The Weekend Report

On the last Saturday in April I hitched the trailer on the little Toyota Corolla and headed off to Warragul, to my number four son's place accompanied by my wife of 52 years, Peta Sue.
The Facia board at the front corner of the house was rotted out and the Starlings or Indian Miners had dragged in loads of grass for nesting.
One of the big problems in Australia is flora and fauna that have been brought here by people who should have known better. The list is huge but to name a few of the fauna, there are the Rabbits, foxes, cane toads, starling and Indian, Miners, (and cats!), BIG MISTAKE! The camels, horses, cows , sheep and dogs, I would exclude from my diatribe.
Paul, (number 4 son) was loathe to remove the guttering, and somehow (how I don't know) work behind it. My great wisdom acquired over many years mostly through many mistakes, prevailed, the guttering was removed, the old facia cut out and the new inserted; the guttering was replaced with much muttering,(guttering and muttering, that's good), the facia painted blue and behold, we have the result.


Flushed with our success, we decided to press on and replace the fibre glass on the pergola, (right edge of photo). This was achieved with the expenditure of much more energy and muttering that we expected, but the result was pretty good if I do say so myself.
That evening Paul rang a Restaurant in Drouin (Warragul and Drouin are sort of twin towns) This Restaurant was called something like The Durante, they said we could not come until 7:30.
My first three choices for a main meal were met with a nice smile from the waitress as she said, I'm sorry, we've just run out of that, so I settled for some sort of curried chicken which sounded something like Rumbatum. It was really very nice, but came back to haunt me in the small hours of the morning.
I notice Paul's bill was over $200 for the four of us and left me wondering as I always do on an eating out occasion, "how many groceries could I buy for that much money"? (Probably because I grew up in a previous generation)!


Sunday morning, and it was raining steadily, I am not sure whether I was sad or glad,for a few reasons, 1. We always need rain in Australia, 2. There were some steps to be replaced, 3.My body was protesting vehemently at all but the simplest movements.
So, we packed up the trailer with some wood that Paul no longer needed and headed for home intending to drop in at the Berwick Vineyard (Church) on the way home. The trailer was swaying at anything more that 80 K/Hour, It was wet, so I just stopped on the freeway and continued back to our happy home in Rowville








It's now Monday, and it's the first of May.
I got out of bed at 5am, went and cleaned for 2 hours for Ron Hedge and went on from there to clean for 1 1/2 hours at Hudson timber. By this time I was having trouble with my tail, for it was dragging on the ground. It's not easy Vacuuming and mopping with your tail under your left arm!
They say that you know that you are getting old if......
The one I like most is, You know that you are getting old if you don't care where your wife goes as long as you don't have to go with her!