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Happy Mothers Day everyone!
Posted by: | CommentsFirst and most importantly, Happy Mothers Day to all those Mothers out there today! I know that Matt is excited to give his Mum her present this morning.
The “Minister for Finance, Misery and Social Activities” has already placed her order for breakfast in bed (but NOT before 8:30am) consisting of bacon, mushrooms, sausages, grilled tomato, hash browns, egg and toast.
Gotta get this done before the kids wake up or they will want to help and I will have a mess from one end of the kitchen to the other; none of them are ‘clean cooks’ and follow in their Mothers footsteps of making any meal a 2 dishwasher load clean-up. Still with a bit of luck I will be able to get this out of the way without any “assistance” 
On the other side, I am now only just over 2 weeks (18 days) away from getting my Ford Ranger, and Matt and I are both excited. We’re already planning our first couple of trips away – bring it ON!!!
A busy day…
Posted by: | CommentsWell, as noted yesterday, I took Matt fishing at the mouth of the Barron River this morning.
We left pretty much on time at 7:30am and got there a bit before 8:00am and although the fish weren’t biting, we did have a good time (mental note, never again buy Instant Bait unless in the boat and have berley as well). Matt had a good time playing with a stick drawing in the sand while the sand spike held his rod – I doubt that we had any bites beyond 1 or 2, still it was a good morning despite me ruing not having the boat to do a drift over the sand banks…
Not to worry however as I’ve got this coming Saturday night penciled in for an ‘overnighter’ and there will be crab pots and lots of bait available. Check the picture of Matt with his new fishing rod below as the car park all decked out in North Queensland certified fishing attire:
After getting home, we cleaned out the fish tank, did some washing and then mowed the back yard; man it is getting dry here – bring on the wet season; I don’t think that I’ve ever inhaled so much dust when cutting the grass 
To top it off, I found that the mower (which is close to 20 years old) will finally need t be replaced, it has a leak in the fuel tank; going to go with Matt to look at new 2 stroke ones over the next two weeks. If nothing else I need to have a two stroke mower to use any old boat fuel up
Cleaning the fish tank took a while to complete, completely drained the tank and filtered the stones and gave the coral feature a good blast with the hose to clean it up and then re-filled and cleaned the filter again before returning the fish to their home. The tank looks much better for the effort and I’m sure that the fish appreciate it!
Dinner was barbecued sausages for the kids and two pieces of rump steak for Jacinda and myself with fried onions an mushrooms; washed down with a bottle of red wine – damn fine if I do say so myself!
Now, where did that weekend go?
