Holidays Done!

Hi Readers

Well here we are, Sunday night and it's the end of a two week break that has gone by in a flash.

As you know by now, we have had our house on the market for the past two weeks. Already it is becoming a bit of a pain making sure that it is constantly spotless, just in case some prospective buyers are brought through at very short notice.

But...it is quite nice having it spotless all the same. I just have to do my part in making sure that I don't leave stuff lying around...

Like today!!

I had to duck out today to our other house this morning to meet a bloke about removing a big palm tree removed.
Of course, I missed him as he said he was there earlier and then left before I got there. It just seems I can never arrange to meet him in person, I'm beginning to wonder if he really exists!!

I've digressed. Back to the story!

Anyway, as I got home I saw this big blue ute outside our house, and a couple standing in the driveway talking to Jen, my wife.
I didn't recognise them at all so I presumed they were relatives of Jen's, as they seemed to be getting on famously.

Far from it.

It turns out that they were from Melbourne and were visiting one of their children who lives near Bendigo. They had seen our house online and had been keeping an eye on it, and as they were in Bendigo they decided to do a drive by.
One of our neighbours saw them looking from the court, and suggested that they knock on the door to see if we were home as we would most likely invite them in.
Which is what they did, and what Jen did.

I drove in just as they were about to leave and they were just lovely. More importantly, they liked what they saw and will be ringing our agent tomorrow.

Fingers crossed with that one!!

Cooking Urge!!

For some reason today I got the idea in my mind to make some sushi. Why? I've got no idea, but when I get my mind locked onto something it gets hard to change it!!

So, off to the supermarket to get some gear for it and off I went.
I had to make one that was gluten free for Jen, so that was my first one (ie the one with all the mistakes!!)
This one was fairly large to say the least, and I knew it would fill Jen up, so I made a mental note to go easy on the filling for the next ones which were for me.

It did look more like a massive green sausage rather than a sushi roll, but she loved it.

Even mine turned out perfectly, mainly because I decided against using wasabi this time, as on my last go at making sushi I put too much in and it just about killed every taste bud I own!!

Looking good so far...

They actually turned out okay!!!

And this tuned up at my sister's house as she was moving recently. This was an annual 16.5km race that was held in Ballarat when we lived there.

If you look closely at the bloke running with a pram, that's me and our eldest boy Sam, who was 3 at the time. He's now 27, so I doubt I could push him far these days! I did the same race with each of the boys and made the paper each time. This time spent running with the boys was priceless. I loved it, so did they, and it also gave my wife just a little more respite at home. (Probably needed respite from me!!)

And to finish the day, I got called out to my school as an alarm had been triggered. As it was such a nice day, I rode my bike out to check things were alright, as they were.

However, I was alerted that one of our pigs was out of its paddock and was roaming the school, which it was contentedly doing.

So, here I am, zooming around the school on a motorbike rounding up a squealing pig that did not want to go back to its paddock. Eventually I cornered it, and it pushed its nose under the fence, squeezed through and was back where it belonged. Then it just stared me down, as if to say "As soon as you're gone I'm going back out there"!!

There is no way we can really 'pig proof' the fences, as they always find a way out, but always find their way back later in the day.

Well, it's back to school tomorrow and an 11 week school term that will hold extra significance for me as I'll be taking next year off to do other things. I just need to make sure that I finish it well and do all that I can to ensure that my last term as Co-Principal is done well.

Until my next post Readers...

Cheers!!