Justin and I drove up on Thursday night (Mum, Helen & kids were still there from last week). Mum had stayed up, while Helen had gone to bed. We arrived around 10pm, I went to bed and read, Justin stayed up for a little while.
Good Friday, and we managed to have a sleep in again. I think Helen must be keeping the kids upstairs and quiet until she hears that we are up...
Anyway, the weather all Easter was lovely and mild, just right for more yabby hunting. Helen and the kids and I went on multiple occasions to various dams, even as far afield as Tarnagulla where we yabbied and fished for redfin (as per Terry's suggestion). No luck anywhere. The closest we came to anything was at the Inglewood reservoir where a large yabby hung onto my fishing line bait, however it let go once I had got it out of the water.
Michaela got excited at one stage, as she thought she'd caught something, but it was just a stick - which she wanted me to take a photo of
Another unfortunately short lived activity was playing with Justin's brand new drone. He took it out on Friday morning, and flew it around the garden, much to Xavier's delight.
It went higher than the Hoop Pine, and then just disappeared over the horizon. Well, not literally, but as good as. Justin flew it beyond the Hoop pine and over towards the olive trees, and then it was too high/too far from contact, and just continued on towards the CFA. At first we thought it was funny, and then it wasn't. Justin rushed off in the car with Xavier in tow, Anyway, they had no luck. Below is the first and last photo taken with it.
Helen and the kids and I went off later on to search, but we had no luck either. It was quite small, and could have landed on a roof, in a tree, someone's back yard etc. The CFA volunteers were out and about collecting money for the Good Friday appeal, and they kept a look out also.
I put up a few notices re "lost drone" but Steve from Inglewood Emporium said people were laughing at it, thought it was a bit of a joke. Oh well, at least it wasn't too expensive.
And of course we had a number of games of scrabble with Mum
Despite not catching our dinner, I made a rather nice fish coulibiac - with a sour cream dill sauce
Also had some nice lunches under the tree - between yabby hunting expeditions
Justin played a bit of music - with some help? from the kids
The kids took Denise's dog for a walk - much to their delight
And Justin commenced work on the scullery cupboard doors - buying some wood and routing the edges
I pottered around in the garden, found a few more bindis and tidied up a bit.
Terry had invited us around to dinner on Saturday night, along with Arlene, David and Alvin. He made a superb meal as always. A lovely antipasto platter, followed by prawns and avocado with a lime mayonnaise sauce, pesto rolled chicken with scalloped potatoes, and matchstick carrots and zucchini. Dessert was creme caramel with a strawberry couli. Delicious, and so beautifully presented. I feel very slapdash by comparison with my food. And of course the guitars/mandolins came out after dinner. Terry had fixed up Justin's Dad's old ukulele banjo again - so that it can now hold a tune. So he was rather pleased.
Helen and Mum left on the Sunday,as Helen wanted to get everything organised for school - after the kids of course found lots of Easter eggs. So Justin and I had a quiet movie night at home, saw the Upside of Anger and I started to see the original Italian Job - but fell asleep, so went to bed. Juatin stayed up to watch it all, an old favourite. (we had seen the Holiday with Mum and Helen on Friday night, it was ok, but pretty light on)
Easter Monday and of course the tradition was to go to the Rheola Show - 147th !
Dare I say, it was the same old same old, lovely of course. Tractors, wood chops, sheepdog trials, steam engines, vintage cars etc. Saw some of the usual suspects there, and then went home for lunch. Justin took the below photos - as you can see he loves the tractors and only one of the sheep
And here are some of my photos
I had a chuckle about the sausage testimonials
And here was one of the sausages - pretty tasty too
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