As it was, Justin was able to get away early, and beat me home - I had put in a long day at the Royal Melbourne Show - where they even asked me to make some scones. Did so with a little trepidation, after all, it's the CWA, and we're famous for our scones. My first batch was ok, but by the time I'd done a few batches, they were getting pretty good. Made 274 all up - yep we have to keep a tally.
Anyway, quickly packed, and we were off around 5.30pm.
As anticipated, the traffic was slow along the Monash, but improved once we got onto the Tullamarine Freeway.
Called up Helen (as she was there with her kids already - school holidays) to see what time GGs closed - 8.30pm, and our ETA according to Googlemaps was 7.55pm
And yep, Googlemaps was right.
Dropped Justin off and he ordered us some burgers for dinner
Friday morning, and we had a little sleep in. I then had a skype call at 10am with the Production company for the television program (seemed to go well).
Then into the garden to admire it some more
Justin also moved a rogue plum tree from the vegie garden
Met up with Rachel at 1pm at the Kingower Church, and then onto Maile's for her monthly Old Ladie's Movie afternoon. Helen came too, although liked to think herself too young for admission (she wasn't)
The movie this time was the Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. Was delightful, whimsical, and also had lovely scenery
And of course we accompanied the viewing with prosecco and cheese & biscuits
It was Rachel and Helen's first time there (for the film), and they were well impressed
Finished up after 4, back to the house, and just sandwiches for dinner. I don't think the kids were that impressed, but we weren't very hungry.
Saturday, and it was the AFL Grand Final - Richmond vs GWS (Greater Western Sydney). And it was the most beautiful sunny blue sky day - just perfect
I weeded in the morning
Here's a before shot (unfortunately forgot to take the after shot...
And Helen helped too
Justin did some trimming/pruning of the fruit trees, and also accidentally punctured the mains water with the mattock - whilst trying to get rid of some deep rooted weeds. Luckily Troy was able to come over a few hours later and fix it up.
Helen particularly wanted pies and sausage rolls for our Finals lunch - so we had them outside under the tree
A bit more weeding after lunch, and then upstairs around 2.30 to watch the 1st quarter of the Grand Final.
Was low scoring, and at the end of the 1st quarter was anyone's game. I figured I'd come back for the last quarter, and went back outside for more weeding
Well, from the 2nd quarter onwards, the Tigers dominated, and it ended up being very one sided.
Thought we'd go and try our luck at yabbying in the local dam. Just walked there, and used meat on a string - no luck unfortunately
The kids also showed us their "cubby" - which they had been playing in with their local friends
Once we got back Justin took a rather good photo of the toy monkey
And once again, a light dinner because we had a largish lunch
Sunday, and I had invited the gang over for Devonshire tea at 11 - given my "bragging" over having made scones at the Royal Melbourne Show
Was cloudy and cool today, perfect scone weather, so we had them in the dining room
Terry teased me and said that they looked a bit rough, so I was especially careful with my last batch - as per below, and they were beautiful!
We obviously didn't need lunch!
And here's a photo of the kitchen after the scone making
Justin played a bit of footy with the kids (on a couple of different days)
And Xavier also did a bot of scooting around (Justin took these action shots)
Justin and I also went for a little drive around Kingower - the below vineyard (not sure whose it is was full of capeweed yellow flowers - looked pretty
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