Lets Go St George

Lets Go..Following Jesus, was the theme for a 3 day kids Club, that Redcliffe Uniting Church ran in St George. Looking at the time after Easter, Lets go down the road with Jesus, Lets to upstairs with Jesus, and Lets go fishing with Jesus.
We had singing, games, movie bits, groups, crafts, food, fellowship, and lots of love.
It was a great week, lots of kids having a great time, and young leaders, learning the ropes.
Praise God, for all the things he does, big and small.

Mixtape Zine

I'm to be publised, Yeah, a crochet pattern, for these slippers. In Mixtape Zine, out May 6.

Last Day

Yesterday was Kurtis's last day at kindy, here he is being a Magi (wise man). His lines, "lets follow the star and find him" and "I've got frankinsense". He sang the loudest, and had a great time.

I on the other hand, was barely keeping it together, and cried and cried and cried. I am generally sentimental at my childrens shows (and anything else), but yesterday marked the end of 5 years at this Kindy.

This is Mrs Bucan, She had been a great friend, and the most beautiful teacher for all my children. She knew that i would be a mess, and presented me with this mortar board and a graduation certificate, trying to soften the blow, I guess. I've been Vice President this year, and will stay on the committe, for a while yet, there is to be changes in the Kindy, due to social preasure, and i want to be part of the moving foreward, making sure that future families get the best for their children, and that kindy remains community owned, and dosen't get sucked into corporate childcare.

Today is also the day, that the Jeep went, I loved this car, but being a truckie 6 cylinder, used way to much petrol. I have hardly left the Peninsular in the 12 months I've had it. It also needed work done on the steering, and Handy decided it was to expensive to keep. I'm getting somthing 4 cylinder.

Plumbing the New Tank

......................Beau helping her Dad, install the new tank....................

We have water restrictions, due to unprecedented drought conditions. Water restrictions mean that we have 4 minute showers, and the kids only get fully bathed, altogether every other day, (they don't mind).

Water restrictions also mean, you can only bucket water for one hour 3 times a week; no fun in that.

So we bit the bullet and got a 10 000L tank, cost $1 700, and we will get $1 300 back in rebates, in a few months time.

I wanted the tank so that i can grow vegies, and fully enjoy the watering, which i think is one of the best parts of gardening, and secondly so that the children have water to play in, they haven't had this luxury for several years, as we have has no sprinklers or childrens wading pools.

We installed the tank ourselves, which was reasonably stressfull, as H.A. (read Hubby) is no tradesman but loves handy man work, and needs me to help, but often fails to tell me how.

All this handy work is further comprised, by the SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF PLUMBERS. , Yes plumbers have their own language, they are the only people who know that a fitting that is called 32mm is physically 40mm and a fitting that is called 25mm is physically 32mm. This is why plumbing is such a specialised trade, you have to know these tricky things, and because we don't, it took 3 trips to the hardware shop, wow.

So the tank is installed and we have even had rain, Yeah.