Tuesday 3rd July 2012

Winter has arrived and we have had some very chilly nights and days.

Tuesday 26th June 2012 we had another downpour of rain which did not clear until the afternoon so I cancelled my golf in disgust.  I am a fair weather player and will play in the rain only if I am caught out on the course.  The rain was quite heavy and only six girls finished the day which is a good indicator of the conditions.  I got a good lot of photos processed through the scanner which helped with that project.

Wednesday 27th June 2012 Peter went to golf and I had another day at home processing photos and sorting the house, washing etc.

Thursday 28th June 2012 I went to Erina with Anne, Rae, Joel and Emily for some shopping, coffee, Little Kickers and lunch.  While out at Erina I bought some more storage units for my walk in wardrobe which is shaping up well.  I have now added my hats (finding another box of golf hats that I had forgotten about) so they are now sorted into storage boxes.  I have also bought storage pouches for my handbags which are fantastic.  I have them on hooks and they hold quite a few bags with minimum wasted space. I have also got storage pouches for costume jewellery which keeps them all in some organised state. In the afternoon I went to the Ladies Golf Presentation day to take photos of the daily winners.  Peter had spent the day at the club sorting out the area for a new storage shed so it was about 5.00pm before we got home.

Friday 29th June 2012 I went over to the club to help Peter with measurements for the club shed, then came home and did some photos on the computer before we went out to lunch at Des & Yvonne's new home at the Pineneedles Lifestyle Village where they have just bought a new unit.  The gardens there are just fabulous and well looked after.  It is a big complex with good amenities and their unit is spacious for two people with a nice sun lounge and back garden area.  We had a lovely lunch and a walk around the complex.  That evening we went to the Golf Club for Raffle night as Peter was on raffle duty and had dinner there with our golf friends.

Saturday 30th June 2012 I was into the rose gardens at the front getting a start on pruning and weeding.
It was a nice sunny day so it was good to be outside enjoying the sunshine.  I managed to fill two bins which was a good effort for the day. I did some more photos in the afternoon.

Sunday 1st July 2012 we went over to see Rod & Joel before going to golf.  Anne & Emily were out visiting so we missed out on seeing them.  Our golf playing partners were Clyde & Lyn Cruickshanks who were great company.  We had a fun day with Clyde the star player getting two birdies on the day.  My golf was not too wonderful but I did get a couple of good three pointers which made my day.  We stayed for dinner at the club after golf with some of our golf friends which finished off a good day.

Monday 2nd July 2012 we were at F-Troop early on a very cold morning.  It did not rain which was a bonus and we had a busy day getting our projects done.  We had 13 workers which helped.  We worked through until 1 o'clock which was a big morning.  At 3.30 we went to Duncan & Rosie Dyer's place to go out with them to the movies and dinner at Ettalong.  I had been told that the movie "The Way" was a good show and it was on at the Ettalong Movie theatre (The Paridiso) which we had never been to.  We had meant to go the previous Monday except that Peter had a Board Meeting he had to attend so the event was postponed until today.  The theatre was quite an experience as it is a quaint little place with six theatres & finding out way to theatre six almost required a road map.  We all enjoyed the show so it was worth the effort to get there. After the movie we had dinner at a little restaurant next door to the theatre that does special deals and we managed to get a pasta & wine special for $20 ph which was a really good deal.   It was a good experience and I am looking forward to doing it again some time in the future.

Tuesday 3rd July 2012 I would normally be playing golf.  The golf event was 3BBB Par Team event which had the finals playing after we leave for holidays.  I could not get a late timeslot (after 9 o'clock) so I opted to do some more rose pruning as it was bin emptying night and I wanted to get as much into the bins as I could so I can do some more tomorrow.  I had ordered a new gadget (on line) which had arrived yesterday while I was at F-Troop.  I needed to go to the post office to pick it up so I walked into Gosford while Peter was getting a new battery for the lexus car. I  have bough a gadget that converts old vinyl records and tapes to USB storage which means I can convert all of our old stores of music which we have in a box somewhere around the house. We had to go to Erina to see Medibank as a couple of the claims that I put through earlier in the week were not processed properly and Peter needed a new watch battery.  Medibank have got to follow up the problem as they did not have an answer to the computer glitch.  While getting Peter's watch battery I also chose a new watch for my upcoming birthday.  I had managed to lose my old watch last time I went to Sydney must have dropped off my arm sometime during the day. I was upset at being so careless as I really liked my old watch that I had bought years ago when we were holidaying in Dublin - Ireland.  We had lunch at Erina & then I came home to finish off the pruning   The days are closing in quickly and it is just too cold to stay outside in the late afternoon.  


Tomorrow the green bins will be empty so I can get serious about the rest of the pruning and weeding.  The master plan being that I get all the gardens up to scratch now so that I have to do a clean up, feed and mulch just before we leave for holidays which will keep it all tidy while we are away. Rain is forecast for the afternoon so I will need to be quick.