Christmas @ Dundee

We have finally made it through the week before Christmas, works slow and boring and this makes time drag out. We are all packed up and I picked up the prawns and we are off to Dundee. There is quite a bit of water around but the road is OK out there. There is a bit of rain around and it looks we there might not be a sunset to savour tonight. I have mowed the outdoor setting area down at the cliff so I don’t get bitten by something this time. Luckily the clouds clear and we enjoy a typical Dundee sunset.
Christmas day arrives for another year. We speak to the family and kids and everyone is fine. Breakfast is a little delayed after we get a downpour and the loudest crack of Thunder ever heard.

Lunch is Prawns & Oysters and then we have Pizza’s for tea. It is to rough to fish or view sunset so we continue on with our Jigsaw puzzle I picked up at Vinnies. It is the Sydney 2000 Olympics which has all the Olympics up to 2000. The Pizzas are cooked on a stone in the BBQ. So a quiet evening drinking eating and watching DVD’s. There is a fair bit of lightning around and we lose power a couple of times before the TV dies.

Birthdays

Well it is a quite birthday week with not much to report, I changed the slave cylinder in the Tojo and that was the last option left I the sticky clutch pedal and seems to have done the trick. A little heater hose leak was also repaired. Now just the seat belt to go, can’t find one at the wreckers so it’s Ebay at $150 this might wait until after Christmas. We will not talk about the cricket after the Poms gave us a thrashing in Adelaide. But there is always hope in Perth. Tina and I really haven’t been doing much just a bit of Christmas shopping and holiday planning, the rest of the time just sitting around really. Jan has headed off to Adelaide now as well. I passed my first subject in my Diploma, but I got to say I was very nervous before the exam it has been a long time since I had to do a serious test.
It is the week before Christmas and all our shopping is done and sent off to Adelaide. I don’t have a lot on at work and I'm only looking after a couple of projects at the moment so I'm a little worried that I need a new job after Christmas with my contract set to expire early next year. So I have a bit of thinking to do as what to do next, do I try to pick up a contract in Darwin, Adelaide or North Queensland not sure but Christmas is a bad time of the year to be looking and I have little patience with these job finding events.

Tina & Andy buy a Rain Forest

Well its Birthday month Jason, Carol & Tina, and Christmas too. The week has past and finally the news we have purchased our own little piece of paradise in East Feluga. Nearly 2 acres ½ covered with rain forest on a hill overlooking the Tully Valley. It is 10 minutes from mission beach & 5 minute from Tully. The first piece of land we have ever owned and the first land we have owned together.
Brian has headed off to Roma to help Warren fix his boat trailer and they are flooded in. It is dam hot here and not much rain unlike the rest of the country.