This weekend in Australia was a long weekend with the Monday off. We opted to take our holiday and not go into work. Apparently it is the queen's birthday! Happy birthday queen! I suppose we would send our cards to the governor general and he/she would pass our best wishes onto the queen. Haha... She is 84 this year and her real birthday is on April 21, 1926. Not sure why there is a public holiday in June for this occasion but Aussies like to squeeze a holiday at any excuse!
It has been nice to have the three days of rest; Saturday we drove up to Cairns to get some errands done and to watch the new Robin Hood movie! Not a bad show. The city seemed to wipe us out, that and the windy windy curvaceous Gillies range taking us down off and then back up the to Tablelands as we dropped altitude to reach the coastal city.
Sunday was a big day. We chainsawed, cleaned, and burned. Monday we finished felling the last tree in obstruction and rested for the remainder of the day.
Terry was nervous at first about the fire and the felling, but soon we had more trouble keeping the fire going and getting a 'backpacker' to cut your trees is thousands of dollars cheaper than calling in the pros: Overall it was a successful weekend. I hope you all had a good one too.
Peter&Sarah
The new view!
Looking back at the house (Sunday afternoon)
Niece's Art stacks up! Nice going Grace!
Nice to read/see an update! How long did it take you to take out all that shrub? Seems like you're doing your own spring cleaning too!
ReplyDeleteWow! Cutting trees, burning, hacking, cutting.....you are in your element. Did the niece make the funky chairs? P.S. Received a nice cylinder in the mail with beautiful Aussie posters. Thanks...they will be awesome when we study Australia next year.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear that you got the posters! I think that is the last fan mail you will get from us this school year. Hope the kids had fun with the few pieces of mail we did send. Those posters were to cheap not to get, we found them at an information center in Yungaburra for, get this-$1 each, I know!
ReplyDeleteOh Dan it took over a full days work, cutting trees in the rainforest is tricky b/c there are vines all over the place and they can pull a tree an entire different way then you want. On some of them i cut them right free and they just stood straight up, it wasn't until I had the whole lot freed that they would come down. Some I even put a rope up high and pulled with Terries help in the Land Cruiser to make sure they didn't go down into the pond beneath.
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