Dinner at Enzo's 16th and 17th Feb 2019

Once again Fraser drove me to Inglewood - this time we went on Saturday morning, and Justin followed us up in his work car

I brought the new curtain rod and wooden rings with me

Unfortunately the rod was a little too short for our bedroom, and the rings were too small for Terry's Victorian curtain rod.  In fact they were the same size as the wooden curtain rings in our room.

It had been my plan to swap the old  metal curtain rod  in our room with the new one, and use the new rings also.  The existing rings from our room would have been used on Terry's Victorian rod.

However - as I said the old and new rings are the same size, so I need some further larger wooden curtain rings, and these are proving elusive.  However, that said, we now do have block out curtains in the upstairs green room - so that's got to be a good thing

I also brought up Mum's silver /bone cutlery as it is the same as mine - so now we would have enough for 16?

Garden was looking dry, but there is now water in the tanks -  yay!!  And the below tap is connected up to the tanks

Justin and I went to Enzo's for dinner (Fraser elected to stay at at home).  We had thought that it was just going to be us (given that Denise and Steve couldn't make it)

But there were 8 of us - Enzo and Ros (of course), myself and Justin, Brian and his wife, and Pauline and Jerry from the caravan park/motel

We sat outside on the extended veranda - the weather was perfect (and no mosquitoes) the drinks were flowing, the food was great, and so was the company.

A very enjoyable night!

The guitars also came out, and Enzo played a few tunes, as did Justin afterwards

Turned out to be quite a late night, so we had a slow start in the morning

That said, Justin did a few little repair jobs ie nailed back down a strip of wood in the hallway keeping the tiles in place.

Fraser kept an eye on him

And he also sanded down the metal curtain rod in our room (had been painted a mustard yellow colour, and whenever we moved the curtains (particularly at the start) small paint flecks would rain down

He also tried to re hook up the automatic water timer for the vegie garden, however the tap size had changed, and it didn't fit anymore

Justin left for Warrnambool soon afterwards.

Fraser and I went up to Terry's after lunch for some more yabbying (after calling of course) and to also discuss the food for the upcoming Music Night in March.  We're planning on a Middle Eastern Spread of finger food ie dolmades, felafels, dips etc

This time I took up some string for the yabbies (as opposed to thread).  It wasn't quite as good, as it's not as responsive to the yabbies tugging it as sewing thread which is lighter

That said, we did catch lots, and this time threw back in the little ones.  We were quite pleased by the "big ones" that we were catching

Once back home in Melbourne I showed up our booty to George our neighbour, as he is very interested in catching some

I froze this lot, and then unfroze another lot for a picnic in th e park that we had with them the following weekend

They must have been the 1st two bags that I'd caught with Xavier/Helen.  Some of them were tiny, hardly any meat.  We ended up with enough meat for 4 crackers!  Bit disappointing, and a lot of work coaxing the miniscule amounts of meat out of the tiny tails, and the poop tubes out of the meat.  next time we go yabbying we'll definitely throw back the little ones - just too much bother!