After weeks of cold or wet weekends, this past weekend finally relented and dished out wonderful sunny days. After indulging in a very delicious Indian dinner on Friday night at the “local” in Vermont South (“Ammachi’s Table”, previously known as Rich Mahal), we spent Saturday first walking the little fellow, then pottering outside the house, cleaning up all and sundry.
Tress did truckloads of weeding, whereas I cleaned the Weber Q, gave the deck a scrub when I learned how grimy it was under the Q, and then gave the windows a clean. Unfortunately, I didn’t hose down the scrubs so yesterday, with another sunny arvo after we returned from lunch and St Alf’s, I connected the high pressure cleaner and hosed down the deck, giving it a second round of cleaning. As the pressure cleaner took some connecting (a connector had a broken washer/”o” ring and so the hoses were leaking), I thought I’d use it to also hose down the outdoor furniture and some other stuff.
On Sat night, we did a barbie on the GA. We had picked up some good looking ribeye the night before and the reversed sear on the GA was very good. We had some very well charred broccolini along with the steaks and they went down really well.
On Sunday at St Alf’s we did our last round of rostered communion duty for the year, and there were some budgetting announcements. It looks like more funds were needed for building upkeeps and ministry continuation. We have a couple of weeks to mull it over before responding so here’s to waiting on Him for some guidance.
It has been over 4 months since we were at Canberra; Abby and her folks were in Melbourne in August so it has only been 2 months since we last saw her and them, but it feels great to be able to see them again next weekend. There are loads more cleaning and maintenance work around the house, but that will all have to wait.
Ante 