Tuesday and the coming of the soil

As organised, the soil to fill in the trench (left when the electricity line to the bore pump was replaced) was delivered this morning - 20 minutes early. That number of minutes might not seem big enough to make a difference, but given the delivery was due at 6:30, for it to come at 6:10 was a bit of a shock. M was awake and heard the truck arrive but it took Pearl just a little longer to realise there was a vehicle in the drive and then in the yard to dump the load.

Not long after, Pe arrived with the Kanga to spread the dirt and level the area. It was impressive to watch and Pe didn't flinch as I set to work taking photographs of the activity. M is right, Latimers is looking fantastic at the moment - a lovely green which is a testament to the recent rains ... but there's the rub, after Pe had finished with the trench, he would have taken the left over dirt (and there is some!) up the back to the other pile. He made it up there ... but he realised that the ground was not dried out enough to allow him to drive the Kanga up there again without tearing up the lawn! Not to worry though - he can come back another day when it's dried out to finish the job. MInd you, while he was here, he was kind enough to fill some other holes around the place though - but not the dip out the front where Tinka used to have nana naps, and which Maggie has just found!

After helping with dirt shovelling, and having done her laundry, M set upon the kitchen cupboards in a cleaning/sorting frenzy. It was strange because Mouse was doing a similar thing ... and then I couldn't help wondering if this is something the whole family does ... over in Turkey was Me busy cleaning the kitchen cupboards as well? But M's effort did look impressive - even if she's only done the bottom of the two cupboards closest the fridge!

Cupboard cleaning

M was still busy with the domestics when I took myself off to meet Jo at HarbourTown. She has the kids home at the moment (school holidays!) and I think they are starting to grate on her nerves. So Jo sent them off to a movie - Monsters University - while we had lunch ($8.90 each) at Fasta Pasta. It wasn't bad either ... and I would have loved to have a coffee with her, but by that time I was starting to worry about getting to my doctor's appointment on time. I needed have worried - thanks to Jo's instruction and the GPS, I made it into Southport proper in good time. And it wasn't hard to find a park (they have them under the building where he's situated) - which was a nice change from having driven around HarbourTown ... I would still have been circling, I think, had it not been for my chancing upon a woman who was driving out of her carpark as it turned into that "aisle". Luckily no-one else saw, because I would have hated to fight anyone for that spot!

Despite the Mouse cabbage rolls in the fridge (M had a serve of them for lunch), M and I went out to The Big House tonight - for dinner and for a game of CSP. I should have known that it wouldn't be my night for gambling when my first hand was two pair and the dealer didn't open ... I think that happened last week as well ... but them's the vagaries of CSP!

Job done!

Watching Roulette in the upstairs gaming room was good though; and for the 60 spins we saw, I was pleased to have chosen the right number (or within a couple of spots) four times. That, of course, is not good enough for me to want to outlay money. 60 spins, three numbers per spin = 180 chips, and if I was right 4 times with a return of 35 chips for each right number, I would have taken away 140 chips - only 40 chips down. Hmmm.

Tinka eschewed her second home last night and slept in with M again, along with Maggie and Pearl. I wonder if it has anything to do with the heater in there?