Life goes on...

Things here have not changed much, other than the mornings are getting a bit chilly as we get further into fall. We are very settled in the new house at this point.

I did plan a great dinner to do on the bbq last night, forgetting that this weekend, we ran out of propane. Revamped and did it inside. Will get fuel today.

We are gearing up for the arrival of 2 more staff in 2 weeks.

Other than that, pretty "normal"...

I finally did it!

I have had this wild bird seed block out since we moved (3 weeks ago today) trying to attract these birds.

Success this morning. I had 3 pair eating...they are so beautiful... bright green, blue, yellow and red. If you double click on the picture to enlarge it, you will get a better view. I did not want to get too close and startle them.

The hat, the water rack and the mouse story

We went out in the garage this morning to wait for the guy"s ride to work.

I saw that there was mouse poo on the grocery bag (it came out of the rental car that left us yesterday) that appears in the picture under my hat.

I picked up the hat to see a mouse still there. He jumped at me, landed in my hat that was up-side-down in my hand... I screamed, dropped the hat, (it landed just as i was holding it) and the mouse continued to run laps in my favorite hat.

Ya I screamed. I'm not afraid of mice, but at 5am, I'm not in the mood for them.

Will take some more aggressive measures to cut down on the mouse population today.

Just havin' way too much fun here. ok, so maybe not!

Another sunset

We attended a cookout just outside of town on Saturday night.

The sunset was very nice. I had to share.

It's my bicycle

He doesn't seem to care!

I explained it to him as I nicely put him out in the lawn.

A new car?

The brakes have been having issues for the past 4 or 5 days so yesterday I took it up and had it checked. They told me that there was nothing wrong w/them. ok fine... frank called and asked them to just bring us a different car. They just delivered this. Bird shit all over it, ants crawling on all of the door gaskets (inside) and tree sap and debris all over it.

I promptly backed it out of the garage and onto the drive, where it will stay. I will NOT drive it.

I have been the ONLY one to keep our rental car clean and washed. So today they take my clean one and leave this. When was the last time that you had a rental car that looked like this?

ya, i'm pissed off! only advantage to this is that now I'm not going to worry about running my errands today. I have nothing on my list as of 10 minutes ago! It can all wait until this is dealt with.

Address mess-The Resolution

What a week...
When I got the e-mail from the county council telling me that nothing could be done unless the owner got involved, I shot an email to the owner and he immediately wrote to the council.
We have an official address and on the right street...

we are now: 2A St. Andrews Chase., Dalby, QLD.

something so simple should not be so exhausting.

It's Sunday, Frank is working, nothing else terribly new...
Another engineer arriving today from Saskatoon.
Another in 3 weeks and one more the week after that.
So busy...