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| like Mother like Son |
Was a sunny but cool day (felt a lot more like Autumn than Summer). Went to the butcher for Mark - to get him some of the famous Inglewood pork, and they arrived around 1pm with mightly Moby in tow.
Had one of Justin's favourite type of lunches outside under the tree. Cold meats, cheeses, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, nice bread - an antipasto spread.
Maile and David dropped by as we were finishing up, and stayed for a coffee.
Afterwards Karen and I walked across to the Inglewood oval to watch the Inglewood vs Kingower cricket match. It was a fundraiser for the McGrath Foundation - with raffle tickets, face painting, yabby races etc.
I was lucky enough to get the last yabby for $20, and I hoped it was a winner....
Justin and Mark arrived a bit later, and we watched the cricket
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| cricket is just about to start |
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| grass looks nice and green |
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| they don't look too interested in the cricket |
During the breaks they had the yabby racing heats. A white circle painted on the concrete, a large bucket of numbered yabbies, and they were tipped into the middle of the circle. The first 4 across the line went into the finals
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| Yabby race |
There were 4 heats, and my one #37 was in the last heat. I was feeling lucky, after all I'd won the meat raffle, the Anzac Day before last.
Sadly valiant #37 was more a fighter than a sprinter, and remained locked in claws with another non sprinter in the middle of the circle. Looked pretty tough though!
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| My #37 vs loser yabby |
I was having a chat with the.yabby wrangler asking for a few hints as to where he might have caught them. He was pretty canny, not giving too much away, however did offer to bring me the yabbies for a feed tomorrow. Maybe I was lucky after all, And we all know how much I've been wanting to catch and eat some yabbies since getting this house.
Mighty Kingower won the cricket - and were to be awarded the Gilmore Cup
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| Gilomore Cup |
Anyway, after #37's non showing Karen and I had to scoot off to the supermarket to buy some supplies for dinner, as we had decided to eat in tonight - and it was getting onto 5.30 - with the supermarket shutting at 6pm.
Bought a chicken, and some further vegies, after all you can't go wrong with a roast chicken.
Prepared the dinner, and then up to the veranda for some pre dinner bubbles
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| pre dinner drinks |
Moby also had a pre dinner treat - a small bone which Karen had got for him. He was happily crunching away on it, splintering it into pieces. At one stage started to go through the door way back inside, and Justin growled at him, not to take his bone in. And Moby just like a stroppy teenager, turned on his heel, and just dumped the bone on the door sill outside, and then proceeded inside. Was quite funny. Sort of a "take that"scenario.
Dinner in the dining room - delicious, and then a concert upstairs
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| Concert #1 |
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| duet |
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| trio |
Not a very late night, but still a slowish Sunday morning. And once again quite cool, needed a jacket for our al fresco breakfast.
Also picked more bindi eyes - over 100 this morning - and quite a few yesterday afternoon also. Most of them are small, so they haven't seeded yet. But good thing i'm keeping on top of them.
Terry called up to say hello, and see if we still wanted to display the old Coffey bassinet, which he had done up. Yes, we did, so he dropped by a little later with it, and a bottle of plum sauce that he'd made from plums from our bounteous plum tree by the well
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| old Coffey bassinet |
Karen and I went for a walk after this - took Moby and set off for the filtration lakes that we'd walked to once before. Moby enjoyed a paddle in an irrigation pond - looked quite stagnant - but luckily no apparent mosquitoes
Was a bit cool, but we warmed up once we started walking. Saw a bit of wildlife - a wallaby bounded by - and Karen managed to keep Moby from pursuing it into the bush.
Also saw a large echidna
Somehow missed the lakes and ended up at the Goldmine
Back for a late lunch, as it was getting onto 1.30pm bu/y the time we got back, and also starting to drizzle a bit. (in our absence, Mark had cutr back the plum tree, picked some plums, and other tidying up, and Justin was scrubbing the bathroom floor with a citrus solvent, slow but effective)
Thought we'd have an antipasto lunch again. So I started getting the food out of the fridge, and noticed a foreign icecream container in there.
Imagine my delight upon opening it and finding a tub full of cooked and cleaned yabbies. Yes, my new yabbie friend had delivered them while Karen and I were out walking
What a treat!
So, we ate in the dining room, yabbies with mayonnaise and soft rye bread - delicious, plus the ham, salami etc.
By this stage the rain had settled in, so we were inside for the rest of the day.
Actually, we also picked almost 1kg of almonds - hoorah! The ones that those voracious cockies hadn't eaten/destroyed yet
Was a bit cool, but we warmed up once we started walking. Saw a bit of wildlife - a wallaby bounded by - and Karen managed to keep Moby from pursuing it into the bush.
Also saw a large echidna
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| large echidna |
Back for a late lunch, as it was getting onto 1.30pm bu/y the time we got back, and also starting to drizzle a bit. (in our absence, Mark had cutr back the plum tree, picked some plums, and other tidying up, and Justin was scrubbing the bathroom floor with a citrus solvent, slow but effective)
Thought we'd have an antipasto lunch again. So I started getting the food out of the fridge, and noticed a foreign icecream container in there.
Imagine my delight upon opening it and finding a tub full of cooked and cleaned yabbies. Yes, my new yabbie friend had delivered them while Karen and I were out walking
What a treat!
So, we ate in the dining room, yabbies with mayonnaise and soft rye bread - delicious, plus the ham, salami etc.
By this stage the rain had settled in, so we were inside for the rest of the day.
Actually, we also picked almost 1kg of almonds - hoorah! The ones that those voracious cockies hadn't eaten/destroyed yet
