June 2nd, Carole and Rob came for a visit and we
had an enjoyable dinner followed by a night of Tiles.
June 6th, For my 72nd Birthday, Val
took me to The Wangi RSL Club for dinner (we had birthday vouchers for the
Bistro) and then to The Workers Club for a flutter. We had an enjoyable night
but not a winning one.
June 8th, Greg, Dianne, Jess and Annie arrived
tonight, with their boat in tow, to spend the long weekend with us. They were
in Cabin 6, which had a large parking area, so were able to park the car and
boat without unhooking. The Cabin was nice and we picked up the key in the
afternoon and used our sheets to make up their beds, ready for their arrival.
June 9th, We launched the boat and all went for a
run around Pulbah Island, the weather was great and I needed to have Greg
locate the holes in the area where I have been fishing (My “fish finder”
stopped working some time ago). We fished a few spots around the island but
didn’t catch anything. The girls were getting a bit restless so we dropped them
off with Val and went back out. Dianne caught the only keeper for the day, a
48cm Flathead. Val had prepared Dinner while keeping the Girls amused (feeding
1 1/2 loaves of bread to the local birdlife). I filleted the flathead and put
it in our freezer, as Dianne didn’t want to take it home. It was another very
cold night so we moved dinner up to the Cabin, which was much warmer and had a
very enjoyable meal. The only thing to put a damper on the night was, as Val
was carrying in the dinner things from our car, she stubbed her big toe on the
rock wall when passing in front of Greg’s car. When she looked at her foot,
after climbing the steps and putting her load down on the sink in the Cabin,
there was a pool of blood in her scuff and on the floor. Greg sprang into
action, cleaning up Val’s injury and finally stemmed the flow of blood when we
got a couple of band-aids in place.
June 10th, The weather had taken a change for the
worse, being overcast and showery, but Greg, Dianne and myself took the boat
out to try our luck. We were able to shelter under the boat canopy when we
encountered rain. We encountered a school of Taylor, in the afternoon, which
gave us some fun for a while, but Dianne’s had the catch of the day again. She
caught a Gunnard, It was the most colourful fish I had ever seen. It had a set
of fins that were like large butterfly wings, so after a couple of photos, on
Greg’s I-phone, it was returned to the water. We all went to the workers Club
for dinner and raffles. Val won a $50 Voucher, which she put towards dinner.
Then I won a voucher in the members bi-monthly $1000 Draw, our night was going
well for us. Greg and Dianne came back from the Poker Machine area and said
“Don’t waste your money, the machines aren’t paying” but when they left we took
our $20 to the Pokies and went home with $250.
June 11th, We had heavy rain all night and when I
got up in the morning, our annexe roof had had collected “tons” of water. The
ends of the roll-out awning had pulled out from the clamps and the 2 roof
support bars had been bent by the weight of the water, to the point where one
had fallen to the ground. It took all my effort to push the roof upwards to get
the water to run off. It was still raining so we went up to the Cabin to see
the family off. The rain eased to showers in the afternoon and that gave me
time to re-clamp the awning roof and refit the support bars. I made use of the
bent end of the support bars by straightening them a bit , then turning the
bent end over to now have a high arched support for the annexe roof.
June 17th, Steven and Ed came up this morning, to
spend the day with us. They gave Val and myself our joint Birthday Present
(from Steven, Greg and all the family) of a 24” flatscreen TV with built in DVD
player and 10 DVD’s. This was exactly what we had asked for, as we have wanted
a TV to put out in the Annexe. We went to the RSL Club for lunch, to celebrate
our joint Birthdays and won 2 trays of steak in their afternoon raffles. We
enjoyed the day and the weather was good to us, overcast with a bit of wind.
June 20th, My right hip had been sore for 3 or 4
weeks now and was not getting any better, so I went to see the local GP at
Wangi. I had no idea what caused the problem and it only gave me pain when I
put pressure on it, walking. After a physical examination he sent me straight
into Toronto for X-rays and a blood test. After the X-rays were printed the
operator asked me if I had any metal in my leg! I said “No, not to my knowledge”.
When she showed me the X-rays, It reminded me that 50 years ago I had been shot
in the right upper leg with a .22 rifle, accidently, while at a property at St
George in Outback Queensland. Although it was exciting to see the shrapnel on
the X-ray, it was not the cause of my problem.
June 22nd, I went back to the Dr’s to get my
results and the X-rays/report showed only a little arthritis in my hip joint
and the blood test results were good. Our next approach was to make sure that I
hadn’t bruised or pulled a muscle, so just to keep taking Nurofen, 3 times a
day and rest. He wanted to rule this possibility out before sending me for more
invasive testing (bone scan).
June 24th, I’ve had total bed rest for 2 days
now, Val has been waiting on me 24/7 and my hip has improved out of sight, I’m
back to hobbling around again. Carole and Rob came for lunch and a game of
tiles. Rob hasn’t been well for a long time but today he was looking very
unwell, and has to go for a scan next week.
June 28th, I’ve had another 3 days in bed and
have been slowly improving. Our TV reception has been not good so I tried to
rotate our winegard aerial to try to
improve the reception, only to find that it was locked tight, it wouldn’t wind
up or down nor rotate. So I read the instructions that came with the Caravan 4
½ years ago and it said that you should lubricate the mechanism every 6 months!
OOPs. I borrowed a ladder and with the use of WD40 and silicone lube freed up
the aerial and our TV reception is good.
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