Back in Winkie!
Weird looking cloud at Wee Waa!
We finished up at Wee Waa on 4th July and thoroughly enjoyed our time there. We met some lovely people and were made to feel very welcome in such a short amount of time. Robbie returned from Canada and said that she thought it was her best holiday ever! For us, the job was a chance to do something different as well as enabling someone else to enjoy a break from their normal routine. I think we succeeded on both counts! If anyone is interested, the shop in Wee Waa is for sale and it's a great business :))
We came home a little quicker than originally planned as Callie had an appointment with a specialist in Adelaide to see about the whole gluten issue. We arrived back on 9th July after staying in Bourke for 2 nights. We spent the morning at the Mt Gundabooka National Park and while Bun made it to the top, I sat for a while and waited for him. I only made it part way up (I'm claiming that the headcold and cough made it harder). There was a party happening somewhere close to the caravan park on the Saturday night that had music going until at least 9am Sunday morning! So things were really going off in Bourke haha.
Photos on the mountain courtesy of Bun :)
We stayed in Cobar on Sunday night so that Bun could get the motorbike serviced at the Suzuki dealership on Monday morning and then we headed through Broken Hill and stayed beside the bridge at the Anabranch on the road to Wentworth. With no power to run a heater, it was a very cold evening so we were in bed by 8.30pm. Bun woke early and thought it would be a lot warmer in the truck so we were on the road by 4.45am!! We stopped just this side of Lake Culluleraine to have some breakfast. It was still dark and we could see our breath in the van! It was 4.6deg in the van.
We spent one day at home, doing the washing, before heading to Adelaide. We had a couple of nights at Callie and Steven's before a couple of nights with Josh and Kara. Storm looks like she's praying towards Mecca!
Callie is still job-hunting but has applied to TafeSA to study a Diploma of Advertising or a Diploma of Marketing. Hopefully she can get a place in one of those courses.
Bun has finished machine pruning the vines on both blocks and now we are doing the tidying up, walking up and down rows. The weather has been pretty bloody cold and he reckons I look like an eskimo, rugged up in the mornings hahaha
We are keeping busy while we wait for bubs to arrive, only 10 days or so until the due date!!
Ben is flying into Adelaide at the end of next week for the weekend so hopefully he will get to meet his niece. We will spend a long weekend down there and will enjoy seeing all the kids together. It doesn't happen very often these days.
Bun spoke to one of the bosses at Tandou Farm last week so we will be heading back there for the cotton planting season. It will be for about 6 weeks starting around mid-September.
I have a long weekend planned in Melbourne early in November, attending a stitching day with Naomi from Waikerie. I'll catch up with Marg Johnson as well.
We will probably be back in Winkie for a few weeks between working at Tandou and Christmas so hopefully we can pick up some casual work then. The plan at the moment is to head west after the New Year but as we know, plans are subject to change :)
That's it for now, the next post will be when I can show off baby photos!!!!!
