Thank you for all your responses to last week's Dispatch. We were thrilled that you were thinking of us & especially our new car, Sammy. We started our week with a good trip to the Sunday Market, where Jeff, the dog treat man, had a box of dried bones for us, just as we were running out. Yvonne gave the boys slices of apple with their cabbage (for variety she said) and Lewis, the clever one, promptly snaffled them all before Morse even knew they were there.
There was a huge event on at Victoria Park - Daylesford MotoFest & town was packed with interesting cars. We had three immaculate vintage Chevrolets parked in Duke Street, so didn't have to go far to feel part of it all, although it was hard to get past these very wide cars on our little strip of roadway!
In the afternoon, I watched the Pies AFLW look awful against North Melbourne, who are unbeatable in Tasmania & played really well. The previous day the Blues AFLW team had regained their form with a fine win, so one of us was happy. The final T20 between Australia & Sri Lanka was an exciting match, with the Sri Lankans finally winning a match with one ball to spare. There was a good crowd & a wonderful atmosphere & we were sorry not to have been there.
Not everyone was rivetted to the footy & cricket!
At Monday School, we discussed Autumn plantings & decided to go for beetroot, Dwarf Purple Queen beans, Bush peas, French Breakfast radishes & silver beet. As well, Wes is planning on introducing some more prostrate rosemary into the back garden & we might try garlic bulbs (but have never been successful in the past).
Wes spent most of the rest of the day cleaning both cars & removing everything from the Mazda 6 in preparation for Thursday's handover. He found an ancient First Aid kit, a 20-year-old Melways (not much good these days) and a CD holder (equally useless). Pearl benefitted from all this cleaning & looked beautiful when he was finished.
Meanwhile Telstra delivered my smart clock, which replaces a 30-year-old one in the upstairs bathroom & I learnt how to make it play ABC Classic on demand. It has a clear face showing the time, temperature & day of the week - always handy bits of information. This was another gift from Telstra because I am a Gold customer - despite buying 2 x Pixel buds & a phone charger booster recently, I still had enough points to get this. I'll get one for Wes's bathroom when I accumulate some more points.
On Tuesday, I had a very early Zoom with Leanne, so didn't go on the walk with my boys. Wes tells me that I missed a very funny moment, when he asked Lewis to find the car for him & Lewis pointed out that our car was in the main carpark, (which was 2kms away), not the small one that Wes was indicating. Poor Lewis!
We did heaps of gardening & planted beetroot & silver beet seedlings as well as some prostrate rosemary. Our Roma tomatoes are finally ripening & will go beautifully with the fresh basil we have.
Thanks to Facebook - this goes on at our house every afternoon!
Dot, Judi & I met for Mah Jong on Wednesday morning and Wes took the opportunity to wash the floors. We are really missing our wonderful cleaner, Sandra Frost, who lost the tip & nail of her little finger in a log-splitter & has been out of action for a few weeks. She is recovering well with a skin graft, but in the meantime all her customers are trying to cope without her.
On Thursday, while I was Zooming with Kathy, Lovely & Lib, Wes drove the Mazda 6 to Ballarat to exchange it for Sammy (1UV 2PE). We are thrilled to bits with it, and it has many of the safety features of Pearl, without the sophistication. We think it will be a wonderful Labrador & local car for us all over many years.
Wes collecting our gift-wrapped Sammy - we also scored a bottle of shiraz, a box of chocolates & a retractable USB cord for charging our mobiles in the car
We were delighted when the hammock cover for the back seats of Sammy arrived at the Post Office on Friday. It was easy to install & the boys, although reluctant at first to jump in, settled down very comfortably once we started driving. We took them to Hepburn Springs & back & they happily leapt out of the car on their return home.
Our air-conditioner started playing up again & dripping water onto the floor, so we rang local friend, Gary Rodoni, and he will be here tomorrow to see if he can fix it or if we need a new unit. It looks as though it is a hose problem, either inside or out, and I was very relieved when Wes decided we'd let the experts sort it out.
Our Sydney friends, Jane & David Knox, have become grandparents with the safe arrival this week of Emily & Alan's daughter, Dolly Jean. We are so thrilled for them all & hope that Jane & David can get to London soon to meet her.
Yesterday I visited the monthly Daylesford Rotary Farmers' Market, which was doing good business with plants, produce, a busker, a sausage sizzle, chooks, grog, olive oil & home-made goodies, both edible & not. I picked up a couple of plants for Wes, emu oil hand cream for me & honeyed cashews for both of us.
We've got a busy day coming up - after the Sunday Market, we are taking the boys to Guildford to try out Hilltop Kennels for three days, as we have tree-loppers arriving tomorrow & their job will be easier without Lewis & Morse. After we drop them off, we are driving to Strathmore to visit Leanne, where she is very keen for a chat & there a few household chores we can help her with. We hope to get back here in time to watch the AFLW Pies & Blues both play later in the afternoon.
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