This morning I was hanging around at the front gate to see if anything interesting was happening with the roadworks (I’ll be writing more about that soon) that are happening just near our place. Anyway, along came this grader who started to rip off the top layer of grass on the side of the road. Unknown to him (and me) there was water flowing where he was grading. The grader sank into the soft dirt and when the operator realised he tried to reverse out of it.
Spinning the wheels just made the matter worse, Read More »
September 17, 2007 – 2:01 pm
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Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park
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Tagged adelaide park, bogged, earth-mover, grader, mud, roadworks, stuck
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I had started converting the “A Study in Scarlet” last year from plain text files to a stylized XHTML file, but it was only in the last few days that I decided to speed up the process and finish the job. And the result is a complete story by arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet.
This story is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series, and it documents Dr. Watson’s first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. The story includes a mix of the LDS (Latter Day Saints), a man bent on revenge and of course, Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson.
Enjoy reading it at briterwebdesign.com/blog/misc/A_Study_In_Scarlet.html. I must warn you that the page is 254KB in size, although that’s not going to worry anyone, is it?
For our picnic location this week we chose the Homestead at Rydges, mostly because we wanted to see how the recent 3 inches (approximately) of rain had affected the wetlands. So, as soon as the car had stopped we raced across to the water-tower to see the wetlands. I was a bit disappointed because there hadn’t been enough rain to cover all the wetlands. It was a big improvement over the previous situation, however. See below for photos of the wetlands and water-tower.
Once lunch was finished, we drove the car out and parked beside the road, because whenever we go to the Homestead the walk to Rydges must be done too. On the way I saw two orange seedpods, which I thought would make a fantastic Contrasting Sharply™ photo. However, a photo that I had taken the day before of a dandelion trumped them. Below you can see the orange seedpods.
[tags]Rydges, Homestead, water, wetlands, seedpods, tower[/tags]
September 9, 2007 – 11:08 am
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Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Photography, Yeppoon
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Tagged Homestead, Rydges, seedpods, tower, water, wetlands
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Yesterday when Dad went to the tip in Yeppoon he brought back this old boat that he bought for $25. It was unloaded beside the shed where it lay until this afternoon. In the morning we had used a piece of cork to temporarily plug the round hole at the back of the boat, which is used to empty the boat of water. Anyway, Dad had said that after lunch we’d all try to carry it down to the dam. I didn’t think this would work (Have you ever tried to lift a boat made from fibreglass and wood?) so I looked around for something with wheels that I could slip under the boat.
My eyes immediately fell on the go-kart which was lying around. Once I’d brought the go-kart to the boat, I tipped the boat on its side so I could slide the kart in underneath it. Eventually it settled down fairly well but it was still leaning to one side and I needed someone to hold that side and stop it from tilting. Fortunately my sister came along at that moment and saw what I was doing, so I told her to come and help hold the boat. I then started pulling the go-kart with the boat on top of it down to the dam.
On the way down I picked up my other sisters, and with one on either side and one pushing from behind, we managed to run the boat almost down to the dam’s edge. Then dad appeared and helped us to push it into the water, which went fairly well except the go-kart was almost pushed in too. We then spent the next hour or so playing around on the boat in the dam. One fun thing to do was to attach a few ropes to the hook at the front of the boat and let it drift (with someone in it) to the other side, then run with the rope. The boat could pick up a fairly good speed this way.
Once we’d finished playing in it, we had to drag it up onto the bank so the water could drain out. Overall, I think 25 bucks is a good investment for days of fun!
[tags]old, boat, tip, dam, fun, $25[/tags]
September 2, 2007 – 12:58 pm
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Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography
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Tagged , adelaide park, boat, dam, fun, old, tip, water, woodbury, Yeppoon
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