It is absolutely freezing!  I am wrapped in blankets on the couch waiting for it to get warmer... and it probably doesn’t help that I have frozen fruit in my breakfast muesli which is cooling me from the inside out. 

David and I have only done a couple of climbs recently as my roster has been very busy and I have been very very tired.  We did have a lovely climb up Beerwah in the semi wet and got some nice photos.

 

It was good fun although I do prefer climbing when it is dry.

We also saw a beautiful Beerwah sunset

This photo is looking East back towards Coonowrin (left) and Tibrogargan just right of the shadow of Beerwah.

We also went flying with Lily, in the 172RG and she wasn’t terrified all of the time ... she didn’t like full power but seemed to like Dave’s practice forced landing!  

Here’s a nice shadow of the aeroplane, coming in to land

We also got Dave a new car!  Very exciting, and we pick it up in a week or two after finance is approved 

Doesn’t he look smart?  He had just completed a job interview to be an engineering instructor, which went really well and we are really hoping he gets.  It would be initially a casual position but potentially with a full time position available in the future.  Either way, a government job that would be much more reliable than his current company!  It’s not the BEST time to be buying a new car, with so much uncertainty, but he needs a vehicle to be able to get to work, and his old Camry is so dodgy now, I’m worried for him every time he drives it.  Not only does it have 350,000km on it, but it also steers left dramatically, the steering vibrates through the steering wheel, and two out of four wheels wobble alarmingly as you drive... so we didn’t have much of an option other than to replace it!

Anyway that’s about it for now - I’ll try to make the next post sooner!

It’s hard to explain why I haven’t blogged lately.  It’s not like I don’t have down time, I do, but it’s more like I don’t really think about it any more.  And when I do, no words really come to me. 

Just a random cute picture of my child

And now to recap on June...  it was an insanely busy month from a work point of view, and my only weekend off was the very last weekend of the month, so by then I felt like I was beginning to forget what D looked like!  This last weekend was D’s birthday, and I managed to get 3 days off to spend with him - unfortunately on the very first day I got a head cold so we had a quiet few days.  Even so, it was so nice just to be together.  

We have got a few climbs in but not as many as I was hoping - that weekend off we had planned to climb every day but being sick, I didn’t have the energy.

Us on Beerwah for a VERY cold sunset

Said sunset

There has been lots of uncertainty with D’s job over the past few weeks.  Even now, the company is technically closing down but D is keeping it ticking over enough to keep him and one other guy employed. It is very stressful for him though, and we were hopeful last week when he got a job interview - but that was then cancelled a couple of days before.

We were hoping that D’s daughter would be able to visit us during the July school holidays but unfortunately this didn’t happen (again) so we are travelling down to Hobart next weekend for a couple of days.  That will hopefully go as well as it did last time... maybe better!  D will go for four days and I will join him halfway through for two days, as my roster is once again pretty packed.

Today, we are going on a 3 hour river cruise.  Yes, me, on a boat.  D’s idea, obviously, as there is a US aircraft carrier in Brisbane this weekend and the cruise is specially laid on to see it.  Should be fun, if I don’t fall in the water and get eaten by bull sharks.  Then, tonight we are going to a leaving party for one of my ATR friends who is moving to New Zealand.

And that is all the blogging you get... I leave you with a final cute photo of my child