Sunday, 30 April 2023

A WEEK OF NO PRESSING ENGAGEMENTS

WE'VE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME at janet and bevan's unit at Trinity Beach, the sea is a 10 minute stroll away and the selection of restaurants is just big enough to have everything we need, we've enjoyed early morning ocean swims,  margaritas before lunch every day,  more swims in our own pool and a mixed bag of weather conditions to constant rain for days to the last couple of days which have been warm and beautiful.  It's all been good, wet or not.  So relaxing to have no commitments or decisions for a week, just the job of choosing where to eat each day :0)

Unfortunately now we're holed up in the Cairns Holiday Inn courtesy of Jetstar, who cancelled our flight half an hour before boarding today. so we'll be arriving home tomorrow night instead of tonight.  annoying but what can you do? :0(

a night at gails before leaving, coffee with jenny and freddie after a swim with the waders at torquay

 
at the airport

first days of rain and umbrellas


the gorgeous treelined beach at trinity - palms and indian almond trees line the foreshore. the almond trees are wide umbrella shaped canopies with large sprays of leaves and unusual fringed flowers. there's a walkway under the trees all along the beach, very attractive and shady

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we had a few days of high rolling seas







Our pool at the unit











ANZAC DAY at Trinity Beach



Progress pics sent by Trent




a visit to the shoreline at portarlington












Thursday, 20 April 2023

TWO WEEKS OF BUILDERS IN THE HOUSE

SINCE APRIL 5 . . .

MORNING SWIMS 
are really doing me good, my swim style is getting stronger, i can swim further and now i'm practising breathing on every 5th stroke instead of every 3rd.  The water and weather is cooling down but after a few strokes it's still wonderful.  


the dogs love it too





SUNNY sent this pic of etta discovering her love 
of dinosaurs at the museum

APRIL 7
Photos of the bathroom in its present state.  trent will be coming soon to start redoing it from the ground up - thank god!!!




I'VE BEEN BUSY in the studio, moving things, assembling shelving and painting the walls and floor, just a bit more floor to go.  it feels like a really nice workspace now





APRIL 9 - Easter weekend, lovely time with sunny, luke and etta staying for the weekend. Easter egg hunt, hot cross buns, cake baking, time at the beach, Portarlington and Point Lonsdale.  Etta is talking so much, picking up on everything, very busy - tongs are a favorite thing at the moment and pouring miniature cups of tea for everyone including the fish in the pond :0)


unpopular breakfast suggestion :0)



seconds later . . .



easter egg hunt




Cake baking
 - sheepie is 
involved in
the mixing
too















at
portarlington








current knitting
- a winter top
for Etta








APRIL 12 

TRENT ARRIVES!!! 
whoo hoo!

by the end of 
the day the old bathroom had 
all but 
disappeared

😀


looking through to the spare room - the floorboards look good
















APRIL 13. 
looking back to here from the 20th when i'm writing this, swimming in the mornings has really given a balance to my days of renovation disruption,  it's inevitable when so much is displaced to unfamiliar locations around the house.  but trent and all the tradies who've been here are good to have in the house.
















 
it's great that the
Indented Head Yacht
Club is allowing us to
be social members. We
have use of their
bathrooms and kitchen.
Hot showers - yesterday
just a dream :0)



On this particular day Karen (aged over 70) decided to swim to the pole but was a bit uncertain. It was heartwarming to watch the other salties surround her on the swim and encourage her on.  pretty much what the group is all about - total support for each other and love of the water and sunrises. 










APRIL 15

Progress on the bathroom, framework going up, trent and brad on the job






trent's cute daughters pepper and 
frankie visited during the holidays



APRIL 16  i had a restful couple of nights away from the building site, dinner with all the buddies at the Elephant Castle (lots of strange people there, Darren Lyons was holding court) then two nights at gail's, a morning swim with the Waders and a lazy day of tv and knitting, just what i needed


we swam to the buoy



LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL SWANS around at the moment, at Queenscliff, Indented Head and Portarlington







some days melbourne looks close enough to swim to



I ARRIVED HOME from Gail's to find the bath in place,  excitement!!  trent's working like a trojan, saturdays too.  today he isn't coming for the first time, it's divine to stay in bed, catch up on the blog and just have time to myself,  holiday starts on saturday, i wonder what will be done when i get home :0)