What do you do on Sunday morning? That's right, you go to church! My church is called "Bunnings". I had to go there to buy some AlimiNIUM L-profiles to make emergency repairs to the cocky girl's cage because during the night she had discovered that the painted wood of the roof tastes good. A few more nights like that and I would have to replace that beam. So now she can nibble on the AlumiNIUM. Good luck!
When we came home again, Karin and Gavin had arrived to work on the garden. The garden is a bit of a mess because weeds have sprung up everywhere due to the massive amounts of rain recently. Gavin needed safety goggles while using the
whipper snipper. That calls for a photo of course.
Nicole fleeing away from the noise ;-)
My emergency repair had completed by then. The cocky-boy actually hasn't touched the bars but just to be safe he got AlumiNIUM profiles as well coz he also loves a good chew.
In the afternoon we went to a gem stone fair. There were a lot of people.
There were a lot of gem stones.
There were a lot of people checking out the gemstones.
There were also a few fossils here and there. This one was fantastic. Some sea creature. According to the seller (I guess he knows...) in this animal's age it was the top of the food chain. Yup, it was.
The gemstone fair was very nice. More stones and more people than I expected. Nicole scored a few very nice stones.
After this we drove to Henley beach where we walked up the jetty.
After having seen only rain for the past two months, lots of people (and their dogs) came out of their hiding places again.
This jetty has stairs that take you down so you could get in a boat or something. It's also a nice place for making photo's.
The colours were very nice.
Nicole looking at what I was doing.
I was making more photo's!
And more...
And more...
Never before had I seen an empty end of the jetty. Usually there are always a few people fishing at least. There were quite a few people out and about but just not here.
At the gemstone fair there were a few places that were selling one dollar surprise bags with stones in them. Nicole bought one and it had some nice stones in it! I think it's a fantastic idea to sell these one dollar bags. This photo shows the contents of the bag. The wrappers in the top left corner contain a few desert roses.
At Bunnings I also bought myself (collateral buyage) a Dremel.
It's a precision power-tool that can be used for engraving, sanding, grinding and polishing and probably a bit of cutting too.
I like.
The mother dove, who is currently sitting on a new set of eggs, having breakfast with one of her other kids. But the kids are now able to find food themselves and mom absolutely doesn't care about them anymore and actually starting pecking at it when she thought it was stealing too much of her food. It's funny how things go in nature.
On the way to Office Works this morning we saw a P plate truck driver.
At Office Works we bought new ink cartridges and a new chair for Nicole. Her old one may be bad for her back so we're going to try this one. It's a rather luxurious leather model (that behaved very unfriendly when putting it together.).
After this we went to a branch of my bank in Norwood that was open on Saturday morning where I took care of some business. We also went to the supermarket there and we saw this little band playing.
Then we dumped our shopping at home and went past Jaycar and Bunnings.
On the way home we drove behind this car with a 'XOXOX' plate. That's a lot of hugs and kisses, the girl who was driving it must've been extremely friendly.
My Jaycar and Bunnings loot for today: Black stuff to paint certain fountain parts with. Some screws. A set of imperial taps to fix the holes in Nicole's chair that were tapped crappy, a little fountain pump, another container for parts and a magazine full of car ads to keep up to speed with current prices.
