Saturday 7th June

Just a teeny bit more rain we had overnight, which made the weeds easy to pull out this afternoon. Didn't get much done before I realized it was time to go out to dinner with Ginnie. Was nice to have some time to chat together, and we both agreed it was a nice meal at the Ivanhoe Hotel. Went nice and early, so it wasn't too noisy or crowded.
I enjoyed last night's meeting at ANOS (Native Orchid Society). Have missed a few months, due to forgetfulness, or inability to go. Here are some not so good photos taken on my phone camera - will remember next time not to try closeups with it. Of course there were the real professional cameras out to record the beautiful specimens for the next newsletter. I won another plant in the raffle too.

Wednesday 4th June

Happy Birthday John. Hope you have time to celebrate. Erk.......that means we are both getting closer to the big 0's next year.
Again not much news for the week. However the good news is that we finished the first of our Tuesday tennis finals in great style yesterday, with a big win. So it's straight into the Grand Final in two weeks time. We also had a good win last Thursday, though we are only half way through the season. This week was not looking promising, with one of our girls injured, but yesterday I managed to tee someone up to play for her. I would hate to have to forfeit.
Some other good news is that we had a cheque in the mail from the travel insurers, reimbursing us for our extra airfares we incurred last year for returning a week early for Betty's funeral. No, they weren't slow in paying up either - it was less than a month since I got around to submitting our claim. They had told us we had 12 months to claim, once we'd told them we were going to, so of course with everything else happening, it was put to one side.
No more weekend work happening at the moment, which I am pleased about - might have more time to get into the garden, though Scrabble on Facebook seems to be taking up the slack at the moment! Good news with the rain up north. Wonder if any of it will drift down here?

Tuesday 27th May

Phew....finally finished the newsletter for another 2 months. Of course, just after I'd emailed it to the printer I had a phonecall from someone to see if I could put something else in it. Too late. Decided to pick it up on the way to work tomorrow, rather than make a special trip out in the rain tonight.
What a shame the preliminary final for our tennis today has had to be postponed till next week, because of the rain. We were doing okay too, although a late start with having to mop up one court. Was good tennis too. My first set took over an hour, with us winning the tie-break 8-6, so not much in it really. The other girls played almost 2 sets during that time too.
My weekend work has halted for the time being, thank goodness. Will be nice to have some time to get out in the garden again, weather permitting.
How'z this new haircut??
What a disgrace is the Camden community. Shame on them.
Good news on the Euc. erythrocorys - it has some new shoots. What a pity Betty threw hers out.
The Ginkgo tree is still a glorious gold with a carpet underneath.

Wednesday 21st May

Another nice bit of rain over the last few days. Just over an inch in fact. I should be out there planting in every spare minute, but the cold and damp is not so conducive at the moment.
Some more good wins at tennis, both last Tuesday, Thursday, and yesterday. This puts us into the finals for Tuesday next week.
Our Ginkgo tree outside the kitchen door is looking just beautiful at the moment, as you can see.
Must say I am finding all this weekend work a bit of a struggle at the moment. Don't seem to have much time to relax, what with the newsletter hanging over me this week, and tennis 2 days, and work Wednesdays, and Thurs night. Roll on June, when hopefully no more weekend work. Fitting my moves in on Scrabble (with Ann in Brisbane, and Joanne in NY) is fun too!
Went out to dinner with Ginnie, Kerry, Alan and Michelle Saturday night. Happy Birthday to Michelle for yesterday.
Ginnie, Michelle and I are hoping to see The Painted Veil sometime soon, and I would also like to see Unsecret.

Thursday 8/5

A whole week without posting.
I must admit I have been distracted by lots of work and our plant sale on Sunday among other things.
Last week I had plenty of work on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday afternoon.
Thursday night was our Yarra Yarra monthly plant meeting, at which I supplied the laptop to run the powerpoint presentation by our speaker. This entailed a bit of preparation on the Wednesday morning before work, checking out that it all worked, since it is a new digital projector the group has bought. Glad I did, as I had to ring the ASUS help desk to find out how to get it on the screen. Spent all day at our plant sale Sunday, which did extremely well as usual. Then Tuesday night our Committee Meeting was held here.........a bit protracted, with lots of discussion on the problems with our Victorian group, planning for this year's Flower Show to come, the success of our recent plant sale, etc etc.
Tennis was successful last Tuesday, and again this week, but last Thursday's tennis was a washout. Lovely to get some rain though. Today's game was a win too.
Work this week on Wednesday, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Hope you have fun playing with Milimba my virtual cat.