kerbside collection

Had the usual hoo ha Saturday of work. People really ought to be more happy to have the day off when I have to work. I think it's because they are all so annoyed that everyone else had the brilliant idea of hanging out in the shopping mall for the day. Moving on... the upside is that while I was trying to slack off, and doing so pretty successfully, other people were having a fabulous morning. My mum got to sleep in, dad was a bit more ambitious and went for a bike ride with Jeff at 6am. They covered about 35km today, going all the way to petrie and back. Bravo, I know nothing would inspire me that much to get my butt out of bed on a Saturday morning, not when sleep ins are an option.

Dad and Jeff finished the roofing of our patio out the back and mum swept and wiped in an attempt to get the thick red dust off some of the surfaces around the place from the dust storm. A second one came this afternoon but it was on a much smaller scale and just made the sky look a little hazy and polluted. Nothing LA couldn't handle. Made for a pretty sunset and the rising of the full moon.

Anyways Dee made an executive decision for us to finish work at "five." I got home by 4.10pm. You know how it is. Kerbside collection is this Monday so I decided to trawl the streets for scraps. For those of you who are unaware, Brisbane, and I'm sure many other cities around the globe, has a bi-annual junk collection. Basically you put all your crap on the footpath and the council collects it. Usually people start putting out their junk about a week in advance and many others cruise around with trailers attached looking for freebies. One mans junk... Nothing so exciting as a find in my quick perusal but I'm still eyeing off all the piles as I drive around. On our kerbside is a toilet, laundry tubs, a whole pile of roofing, our ugly ornate mailbox, plastic stools and anything else mum could manage to sneak on. Our back yard looks almost normal now and less like a trailer park.

Speaking of backyards, our veggie patch has gone MAD! It was fully awesome to come back after 8 weeks and see tomato bushes all huge, corn stalks, beans growing up the wall, herbs tall, Chinese veggies going to seed. Amazing life. Most of my daffodils have come up and a few tulips as well. The heat of our spring has withered them a bit but hopefully they'll still flower with some TLC and heavy duty fertilizer! Needless to say Fluffy is loving the 33 degrees.