Hot weather

Check this out!

Pixie has moved her basket from between the chairs on the left and dragged it in front of the fan - pretty cool.

Give the dog a bath.

Hot day and with a vet appointment coming up next week decided to bath Holly.

GO SLOW pet food bowls

First feed from the new bowls.

Home theatre room

Finally making some progress to clean up the downstairs rumpus room and turn it into a home theatre area. At one point there was so much stuff stored in there about all you could do was open the door.



Lounge is from a family friend, it belonged to her deceased mother.

Costco – Ringwood

First trip and not all that impressed, driving back home in the rain wondering if the sixty bucks signup was worth it?.



The cavernous trolley contains $206 worth of stuff, never mind we’ll give it a go but at this stage unlikely to... sign up for another 12 months. Some examples – pet food and batteries no savings, same for toilet paper and paper towel, confused range of power tools and garden equipment – I’ll stick with the ALDI.

Christmas decorations

Office Outlook calendar reminder nagging me today that it’s one week overdue...ok...ok.

New antenna

Off to Dick Smith to get a TV antenna for my sister. Normally $149 on sale for $99 so another timely purchase.

Costco - Ringwood

Now that they are more local to us decided to sign up for membership - did that today.
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Welcome to the club!
Thank you for signing up for Costco. Your membership is valid for 12
months from the date of Ringwood opening and can be used at any Costco
in Australia and worldwide.
...
We have received confirmation of your membership payment. To collect
your cards, please print out this email and take it to the temporary
membership office, along with photo ID showing your current
residential address. We do not mail out membership cards.
Costco Ringwood : 29 Bond Street Ringwood VIC 3134
PH: 03 8873 6700.
If you have questions about your membership, please email us at:
ringwood@costco.com.au.
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Maybe Monday next week for the first visit...

Do you want Foxtel broadband?

 

Farrier for Dusty

Girls arriving back from QLD

Wheelers Hill expected top of 35 and currently 27.7 My weather station reports balcony 27.7 and front porch 27.2 and chook shed 25.4 Girls arriving back from QLD this afternoon ETA 2.30-3.00 so I’ll turn on the AC for them when I get back from the horses about 1.00.

Australia

Movie night last night in the downstairs home theatre room, watching one of my birthday presents - Australia - and about 3/4 in suddenly realised it was nearley 1.00am so I will be off soon down there to finish the movie.

Another birthday

Sixty six today and from this afternoon onwards home alone till next week. Looks like I’ll have to share my cake with the pets – they won’t mind.

Gardenworld Nursery

Spent the afternoon there with some of the family, browsing around and also had lunch in the restaurant - pooped out now.



That's my older daughter.

Just checking in…

Holly…our Golden Retriever.



 

Evening sunset

Meadowbrook sunset - this is the view we often enjoy.



 

Elvis update

Elvis - who now lives in Pakenham Upper (lovely property) has a lady friend !!!



Elvis is in the foreground, check them out...she is 19 years old and like a duplicate.

Double bed purchase

Spent the last few days searching for a double bed for one of the spare bedrooms. Criteria is straight forward - simple double bed base in white and...cheap! Started off at Fantastic Furniture where they had exactly what we wanted for $149 but no stock, only the display one for $99. Drove around town and ended up back where we started and bought the display one for $99. Store guy (same as last time) was really helpful and I gave him a hand to bubble wrapped the important bits.

While I was backed up into the loading bay quite an audience had gathered waiting for their turn, the last and largest item to go in was the bed head and as I walked up to the boot they all started shaking their heads but it slipped into the boot and disappeared and I gently closed the boot lid – back seat was left at home.

Centrelink Android app

This is a screenshot of the Express Plus Seniors app that I installed on my Galaxy Note. The app is very functional and you can preform most of the common tasks and even view online letters in a PDF style format – pretty good.

Samsung Galaxy desktop software

Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000: my older kid has a new iPhone 5s so she gave me her Galaxy Note – thanks!



Installed the Samsung Kies desktop software this morning and connected the phone to setup everything. Kies recognised that the Nokia Suite was installed and offered to import from a backup which I had – cool. Not used to using a finger to control a mobile device, fortunately the Note comes with a stylus.



 

Chester and Milo

Chester is out – his two story hutch is located in the foyer area right next to the front door where he can keep an eye on things and is always in the loop. Included are some hutch construction photos.

Mowing grass in August

Just finished mowing the grass, one incentive is dog poop...much easier to locate and remove. Why am I mowing grass during this winter, never had to do that before???

It's a dogs life - NOT

Holly our Golden Retriever

Pixie to the vet

For some regular maintenance stuff. She was her usual self...growling and barking at everyone and everything until this guy entered with a HUGH black German Sheppard weighing in at close to 50 kilos. From then on she was – very quiet.

Telstra T-hub 1

My recently "acquired" T-hub 1 synced to Office Outlook 2007...and to Hotmail via the Outlook-Hotmail connector and to Telstra MyConnect – crikey!



 

Palms Restaurant for dinner.

Beef rendang with coconut rice...yum.

Retired for 3 years!

Been retired for 3 years (July 2010 - July 2013)

It’s a wonderful lifestyle, do what you want…when you want – all good.

Laminar flow water jet

That looks pretty good – minimal disturbance.

Milo relaxing