Drove up with Justin on Friday night
Dinner party leftovers for dinner - fancier than normal leftovers
Saturday, and a leisurely lie in - I made us a modest breakfast in bed, as we were having Peter and Margaret from Winnipeg come and visit and stay for lunch
Pulled out a few weeds before they came
Gave them a tour of the house - while Justin went to the IGA and got more bread and some smallgoods
Had pate, red dip, a variety of cheeses, ham, salami, salad etc - one of our typical grazing lunches
We ate in the dining room, as it was a bit too windy outside
Was very pleasant
Margaret gave me a very specialised Canadian cookbook because it was about Manitoban cuisine
After they left back out to the garden for me - have to get rid of the more noticeable weeds - need everything looking as good as possible for our upcoming garden party
Stayed out til after 6pm, and was getting a bit cold
So a bath was in order - Justin brought me in a G&T and some cheese and crackers - very nice
Watched a Jennifer Lawrence movie on Netflix - was quite amusing
Another lazy Sunday morning - Justin said we should have a sign made up - no callers before 11.30am
However there was one - we sort of pretended not to be there - as we were still in our pajamas. But then my mobile phone rang....
It was Clancy our neighbour from Melbourne, I'd forgotten that he said he might drop in on Sunday, on his way to Mildura ...
Anyway, we opened up for him, and showed him around - as he hadn't been up for ages
Had a cup of coffee and a piece of my banana cake - and then I got dressed into my overalls and back outside to the weeding
Am a little concerned that there may be another leak (or the pipe wasn't fixed properly) on the side of the house
It's permanently damp and moss/algae is forming - and the ground is dry and hard elsewhere
But bloody weeds are growing in the ground - which are now hard to pull out - not happy!
Started on the turf too - at least these weeds are easy to pull out. Shane said that he'd take care of it - but its less than 2 weeks to go, and I don't want brown spots, I'd prefer to hand weeds them out. Although I have already filled the bin with weeds
Justin also came out and raked up the debris on the paths
Found a dead crow almost hidden by the weeds in the turf
Well I certainly made a difference with just a few hours - had to leave the weed piles there - as there is no room in the bin
- Finished up around 1.15pm, as I needed to go and have a shower and get dressed for the Merry Wives of Windsor Show which was on at the Town Hall at 2pm, and the doors opening at 1.30pm
We took seats in the second row, Justin didn't want the first row - Rachel and Terry came and sat with us I also saw Anne L, Irene & Neil from Bendigo, Thomas and Simone from Langham Estate, and Jim from Black Wallaby
There were 2 intermissions - during one of which Terry told me that he didn't think the logistics of my run sheet for the Garden party worked - ie needed to open the gates earlier and have more time to serve food
I think it will work - so we tacitly agreed to differ....
Went up onto the veranda as we heard voices, it was Thomas, Simone and Louise from the Hub. Thomas will be bringing a show to the Town Hall as well as St Augustine's next year for the Keys of Gold festival - sounds great!
Unfortunately we were a little late to the 3rd act - they'd already started
Well it was a fun show - and pretty much a full house - so hopefully Jamie will be pleased
It finished close to 5pm, we had to rush off and finish up inside our place
Rachel wanted to drop off some further props for the show ie maypoles, some more silverware, a music stand etc. I helped her with them, while Justin finished off the dishes
I guess we left around 5.30 and got back to Melbourne
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