Quiet Time......Finally!

Our life has certainly slowed down after a very hectic October, and we're loving it!  Easy afternoons lazing in the pool have been the order of the day.......... until.... the pool heater stopped working!  You may laugh at this, after all we live in the tropics,  but our overnight temperatures drop dramatically and cool the pool to an un-swimmable (is that a word) temperature.  Hopefully it will be fixed before Christmas!

So what have we been up to.  

We've had a couple of trips to Cairns for shopping AND we did manage to fit in a trip to the cinema to watch Bohemian Rhapsody.  We loved it!  If you are a QUEEN fan you will also love it.  I know that plenty of critics have given it a low score but believe me when I say you will come away a "happy chappy" singing "We are the Champions" or "Another one bites the dust" and you know what, I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard that Freddy Mercury had died.  I was just so sad.  What a great loss to the world he was.

Anyway...moving on....  What else has happened in our lives.  

We made our annual trip to the Cooktown Races with our group of friends.  It's always great to catch 

up with each others "annual" news!  Isn't it great to have friends that you don't see regularly and still pick up where you last left off....

No wins at this table!

Gosh we take terrible selfies!

We have been heads down butts up around the property.  When we are away for any length of time everything falls behind.  Philip had a mountain of garden trimmings that had to be put through the mulcher, the garden was desperate for water, lawns needed mowing, cattle (and dogs) need attention and so much bookwork to catch up on, but finally we are on top of it all.  

Sadly we said goodbye to Fisher and Paykel (our freezer steers).  Paykel went to Mareeba Saleyards where he fetched a very good price and Fisher is in our freezer for twelve months of delicious eating. 

I know it sounds hard and cruel but as my father-in-law used to say....."there is no such thing as a sacred cow"

Goodbye Fisher....