Art or Fart?

After living in this area for 17 years, today, I visited the Hervey Bay Art Gallery for the very first time.

Probably the last time.

But never say never.

BGWLBH and I met the other four girls outside the gallery at 10.20am.

There were three galleries.

One of them was set aside for a single artist, whose art inspired me to leave that particular gallery as quickly as possible...

I did not read the description or explanation upon entry, so I have no idea what the art was supposed to represent.

I just know that between us, BGWLBH and I have decided that we are too hard on ourselves when critiquing our own art!

Some more of the art that I did not understand ...

There was nothing there that I would want to purchase and hang in my own home.

I did purchase a few things from the Gallery Shop. 

Some 'Wool felt-coated soap' - the felt acts as an exfoliant (apparently). 

I also bought two pins ...

I seem to have a real 'thing' for sea creatures these days.

By the time we'd looked at everything, we still had an hour to kill until lunch, so the other girls went Op Shopping, while we visited 'House' and browsed the clothes, Bali furniture, art, home decor and jewellery.

There was a lovely little doggy behind the counter, named Jazz, that loved pats and cuddles.

We arrived 30 minutes early at the Bayswater for lunch so we put on some Keno, found ourselves a big glass bottle of filtered water and glasses and also found our reserved table.

There were a LOT of people in the restaurant. One end filled with elderly people for a birthday party. One outside section filled with people and their dogs. One section outside just filled with regular people. Our section had about five tables full of people.

It was very loud and the queue to order lunch was very long but our meals were brought to the table within 15 minutes of ordering!

The food was delicious. I enjoyed a chicken roulade served with potato au gratin, spinach and crunchy prosciutto.

I must say we were all relieved to get away from the noise because it was difficult to have a conversation and have everyone at the table hear it.

It was pleasant, but I felt that everyone was a little out of sorts. Low energy vibes.

There was no rain until late this afternoon around 5.30pm but there wasn't much in it. Apparently it rained here at home while we were gone.

We've watched the football this evening. Adoring Husband has a perfect round in the tipping so far this week. Nobody else in the comp has a perfect round.

Now it's time to fall asleep to the sound of the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

Nite all.

Rained Again!

There are three important birthdays between 23rd March and 6th April.

For the first two birthdays, I sent money to contribute to fun at the comedy festival in Melbourne, but I still had a couple of small gifts to send in the mail, which I decided to send with the final birthday gifts - because they all live in the same house.

The final birthday is this Sunday and I only sent the very large parcel today.

It won’t arrive til next week now - way after the actual birthday - but what fun they’ll all have opening it!

There are even gifts for the non birthday member of the household.

Anyway, it took me over an hour to wrap everything individually, pack it all tightly in my selected box, wrap the box securely, address it and then wind clear packing tape to completely cover the wrapped box - because that’s what I do!

It is pure hell to receive one of my parcels, but definitely worth the effort of opening it haha.

It cost $35 to send in the mail 😳

Adoring Husband and I watched the movie “Shall We Dance” starring Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, JLo and Stanley Tucci. I always enjoy that movie.

After that, I watched “Twilight”.

We had a short, sharp storm this afternoon that dropped about 10mm of rain upon us.

We had two football games to watch tonight.

Adoring Husband’s AFL team Collingwood defeated my AFL team, Carlton.

Adoring Husband’s NRL team, Cronulla, lost to Canberra Raiders.

Now it’s time to sleep because I have a girlie date tomorrow which includes a visit to the HB Art Gallery and a luncheon with my art girls.

Nite all.

Raining Again!

Can you believe that we are four months into 2025 already??!?

I am, as of this day, 21 days from turning 65 years of age.

Good Lord!

How did that happen?

I am flabbergasted!

It also means that I have been maintaining this blog for 14 years. That's commitment!

We've had 65mm of rain today. 

I still squeezed two Harley plays in.

A Zoom meeting with The Gypsy lasted for 2.5 hours and ended at 10.30am.

I made myself GF waffles with DF ice cream, banana, raspberries, blueberries and maple syrup for breakfast.

Adoring Husband and I watched the movie "Angel Has Fallen".

Somehow, amid all that, I got confused and thought it was Saturday afternoon, so I was settling in to watch the football!

Until I remembered that it's Wednesday!

I made curried mince & vegetable pastries for dinner, serving them with garden salad and tzatziki. Quite delicious.

We played trivia.

The rain has stopped and I'm ready to sleep.

Nite all.  

Quite Productive Really

I was awake for almost two hours in the middle of the night when the rain fell heavily and loudly on our roof.

So it was difficult to get up for meditation this morning, but I managed to be presentable when Heart of Gold arrived to pick me up. She had texted me earlier because the weather was looking ominous and offered to drive me to meditation. Obviously, I accepted her offer.

It was a good class with only six of us in attendance.

At the end of meditation, the weather was still looking ominous so The Gypsy and I planned a Zoom meeting so that she could get home before the weather set in.

This meant no long chat under the barbecue shelter, which is our usual MO.

Heart of Gold dropped me home and BGWLBH and I decided to drive into town to get the things that we couldn’t purchase yesterday.

The weather became gloomy with drizzling rain as we got closer to The Bay.

BGWLBH had quite a few unusual items on her list, like darning needles and fishing line, so it was like a treasure hunt trying to find everything on her list. We were successful.

We arrived home before 2.30pm and I made a prawn roll for late lunch, watched a quiz show, took Harley out to play, batched up the chicken broth, made up 9 Harley meals and prepared salmon patties for dinner.

BGWLBH made a delicious garden salad to go with the patties while Adoring Husband tidied the kitchen behind us.

We played trivia for 45 mins.

I’m in bed ready for some sleep.

Nite all.

The Wet is Coming

There is MUCH rain forecast for the next two weeks, so BGWLBH and I decided to head into town and stock up on a few things, just in case we can’t get into town due to flooding.

There were three places on the road that were still partially covered in water and in many places water was lapping both sides of the road. It won’t take much to flood again.

I was able get everything on my list except gluten free breadcrumbs.

I topped up my lotto tickets.

I bought the better quality bacon and told the butcher what I thought of the new addition to his selection (tough as old boot leather). He agreed that it was “chewy” but told me he loved it that way. I warned him to continue stocking my favourite!

I bought a bag of raw chicken feet for Harley, as well as 4 new balls, a rope toy and a quacking duck that has already lost its ‘quacker’, its tail and all of its stuffing!

I did a small grocery shop at Woollies and was served by a young girl who did everything in slow motion. I struggle with slow, but I remained upbeat and friendly. Ugh.

I bought some cooked prawns and some fresh bread rolls.

As soon as I got home, I unpacked the groceries, peeled and chopped the potatoes and sweet potatoes and put them in water in the pot.

I got the slow cooker out and filled it with all the ingredients of chicken bone broth.

I took Harley out to play.

I cooked duck breast with spicy orange sauce, mash and steamed green beans and carrot sticks for dinner.

We played trivia for an hour.

MAFS to finish off.

Tomorrow is meditation day so it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Hermit Sunday

I slept soundly all night from around 11.30pm until 9am!

It was quite shocking to see that time on my phone. Harley hadn't even woken me up!

I was moved to get out of bed when I received a text from BGWLBH asking if I had any ironing. I IMMEDIATELY took my 5 items to her.

Despite a good night's sleep, I was not in a good frame of mind and Adoring Husband, almost immediately, pissed me off.

He didn't do anything significant, but my patience ran thin and I just wasn't in the mood.

After Harley play, I didn't even make any breakfast, I came back to my bedroom where I intended to stay for the day.

Originally, I was going to complete my IChing course, but I got distracted by TV, Facebook, YouTube, journaling and emails.

The football started at 3pm and AH reminded me at 4pm that it was Harley play time.

After play time, I sat for 20 minutes until BGWLBH asked if she could help with dinner, so I gave her a task and joined her in the kitchen to get started.

Roast pumpkin and spinach salad, coleslaw and barramundi steaks with lemon.

Oh and I made some banana bread which we all enjoyed after dinner while it was still warm with lots of oozy butter!

The first final night of MAFS was tonight.

I'm sitting up in bed watching a replay of Australian Taskmaster.

I need to sleep soon. I don't want to sleep in again.

Nite all.  

Very Weathery!

This is just about to hit us …

We had 120mm last night. Who knows what’s in this!

It’s rumbling loudly.

Nothin on today except Harley play, a movie and three games of footy.

Fend for yourself dinner was actually lunch for me - I crumbed 20 prawn cutlets and made a honey/soy dipping sauce. I was able to eat 19 of them!

Delicious!

So no dinner for me. A frosty fruit ice block at 6.30pm.

It’s now 8.10pm and I’m sitting up in bed watching the Cronulla vs Bulldogs game.

It is JUST starting to rain and the thunder is getting louder.

I will sign off and wait for Adoring Husband to join me.

Nite all.