Monday, November 12, 2012

We left Killawarra today, the property that we've been staying on for the last 4 weeks.
We thoroughly enjoyed our time there and the farming family are just lovely people.
Mike and Mim, the older couple, have the most gorgeous garden and Bun put his electric snips to good use in such a fantastic setting.  I emailed some photos of the house and garden to Kate and now she wants to go house-sit there!
Andrew and Jaime, along with their 3 daughters, make up the younger generation and we spent quite a bit of time with them. They actually said to stay as long as we liked! Bun got to do a few jobs around the place with Andrew and I really enjoyed the babysitting! We would happily go back to see them all again :)

Today we went through Cecil Plains and stopped for lunch. We had a quick look at the free camp site beside the Condamine River but decided to head to Milmerran. We turned off before Milmerran to look at a campsite by the Yarramalong Weir. We are set up there tonight and will head into town tomorrow to grocery shop, boring but necessary.

We plan to stay in the general area for the next few days as the contractors have too many vehicles for the number of drivers needed to move to the next property.  This way we'll head back towards Moonie if they need an extra driver. We're not really sure yet whether we'll be needed or even where they'll be headed.  However we will head off on our own after that.

We plan to be in Canberra by 30th November as Callie and Steven are flying over to catch up with Ben before he heads overseas next month.  We will get to see them all then and also hopefully catch up with Martin and family too.

Callie had great news tonight that she has a job to start in January back in Berri.  She will be working for a signwriting business, learning everything about the business and really adding to her skills.  She will move back in at Winkie so the house will be looked after :)  Steven has started at the mines so he is getting used to being away for 2 weeks and back for 1 week.  Callie will probably move back as soon as she can break the lease in Mildura. She is really excited about the job and I think she will enjoy being able to use the boat occasionally too.

Only bad news is that Callie took Boof to the vet today and it sounds like he has developed arthritis in his back legs.  Callie has diet food for him and some natural treatment stuff for the arthritis so we'll see how he goes with that for a while.

I've spent a bit of time stitching and feel like I've achieved a bit.  I've almost completed a quilt for Kerry's grandson so hopefully I'll get that posted off this week.

Bun has been relaxing and reading in between chores/jobs and told Josh that 'I've been doing not very much and I've found that I'm quite good at it too!'

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