Life is gaining some sanity

It’s Saturday morning and rather than mowing the lawn I thought that I better update the blog. Well we have finally arrived. We are renting a lovely house in Winchester Oregon that overlooks the Umpqua river. It has a deck that allows us to just sit out the back and take in the views. Last week I watched an Osprey take a large steelhead salmon just down at the little swimming hole. The house has a fair bit of lawn so I had to go and get a ride on mower. And before you call me a wimp it still took 4 hours to do the whole lot. We are at the end of a 4 mile dead end road and I have learnt to dodge the deer and the turkeys on my way to work. Deer make Roo’s look intelligent when it comes to getting out of the way. Speaking of work I’ve been at it now two weeks. It’s a bit of a shock to the system to have to put in 40 hours after all this time off. All our stuff arrived safely from Australia. Most of it still smells like bug bombs but at least it all arrived intact. Linnet I think has had enough of washing everything. We’ve had to go and buy all new electrical stuff. We now need an engineering degree to work out all the manuals. Nothing is simple anymore. Even the washing machine came with a 20 minute DVD. I here that Freo are doing well but I can’t get AFL on the 174 channels that we have. A part from people I am missing a few little things like being able to get good bacon. The beach. Being able to say my name without spelling it. Flat. Variety in food. Margaret River wines.
Anyway that’s it for now. I will try and update a little more frequently now that things are kind of normalizing. I’ll also try and get around to writing a new spiel but until then I’ve included yet another old one below.