January 10, 2013

  • Thursday 10th January

     

     

     

    Tim & I were both up early as we had a meeting to get to midmorning.

    It was really stormy so boating to it was out of the question.

    I got busy in the kitchen before anyone else arrived so I could cook in peace without others under my feet.

    I managed to get a very large dish of mince and tomato & vegetable casserole underway for dinner and then made blueberry and white chocolate muffins.

    Shoshannah arrived out in the middle of it and decided to make sushi to take with her tomorrow for her lunch so we were falling over each other!

     

    Here are her three youngest babies.

    You find them in all sorts of funny places.

    Tim's shirt pocket was a good hidey hole this morning!

     

     

    I finally got a call from Mandy around 9:30am  - they don't have great reception where they are so it had been difficult to make contact.

    We arranged to meet at Waterfall Bay at 11am.

    Tim, Ross & I piled into the Terrano soon after 10am.

    Andrea came for the ride and planned to walk back through the bush track.

    We had only been at Waterfall for a few minutes when I got a call saying Mandy was on her way but Noel wasn't coming.

    So we made a snap decision to take the meeting to his place.

    Left Andrea to socialise with Phoebe and hit the road.

    I drove and the three guys chatted.

    Met up with Mandy and Seb hopped in with her and we headed to Elaine Bay.

    Spent the 3-4 in a business meeting.

    With a company that has only been up and running for 6 months we have been feeling our way and it was time to sit and talk through lots of operational and accounting issues.

    We devoured muffins and sushi and hot drinks to keep up our strength winky

    It all went well - was a really good time of discussion and planning goals for the future.

    The storm hit with major vengeance soon after we arrived.

    It was pouring down and the wind gusts were really strong.

    There were intervals of calm between which made you feel like it was over and then it would hit again.

    Around mid arvo we had talked all we could talk so decided to zip down to the wharf and show Ross over 'Tardis'.

    He hadn't 'meet' the barge before and needed some concrete imagery to 'see' when back in his townie office happy

    I was sitting in the Terrano on the wharf waiting for the men when another storm gust hit.

    The rain came down and the winds were so strong and buffeted the vehicle so hard I was getting a bit frightened that it was going to take me and the Terrano for a sail into the sea!

    Then Seb ran back and hopped in absolutely soaking wet.

    When Tim got back we fueled up and then headed for home.

    The rain was easing as we got closer but the fog was very thick around Okuri.

    We dropped Seb at the top of his drive as he was happy to walk home.

    We were chuckling because he had come out in his shorts & t-shirt, slippers and downie.

    Quite the fashion plate laughing

    Got back to the house to find only Shoshannah here.

    Bri & Abby had taken Mahalia & Azzan over to Waterfall to watch a movie.

    Andrea had walked back from Waterfall Bay and then in the arvo had walked back there with Inbar & Aviv, so she was resting with her book.

    Everyone eventually turned up.

    Bri & Abby made buns and the others helped cut up salad veges.

    Nick barbequed patties and we ate self made hamburgers for dinner.

    14 for dinner again.

    Tiramisu for dessert was delicious.

    I sat and watched an episode of 'Castle' before dinner cuz I was too brain weary to do anything else.

    Then I chatted with Andrea for a while.

    Everyone went off to bed so Tim and I talked with Inbar & Aviv for a while.

    They were trying to decide whether to leave tomorrow or not.

    I think we have convinced them to stay a bit longer winky

    Ross & Andrea are taking my laptop out to the fixit shop tomorrow so I am just doing some last minute saving of stuff so I can manage without it for the next week.

    I will be using the kids computer while it is away.

    But it will be worth it cuz when I get it back the logic board will be fixed and I will be able to use the usb ports again and therefore use my printer!!

    Yippee!

    You don't realise how much you use it until you haven't got access to it.