Thursday, July 12, 2018

Sunday, 8 July 2018

Mon, 2 Jul - Early morning seminary. The rest of the day was spent on errands and cleaning up the flat. No decluttering today.

Tue, 3 Jul - Early morning seminary.  Elder Haley baked choc chip cookies for the Wednesday Primary movie night. The Coffs elders were in Grafton for the day, so we took them to the Village Green for lunch.  Then we gave them a list of members to visit and sent them on their way.  They had some good visits and the members were pleased to have them here for the day - now to get some investigators for them.  We went out and visited one of our old neighbors in Junction Hill, Peter & Lois Robinson.  We had a good chat for a few hours.  They are taking a 3-4 month tour of northern and western Australia early next year, after they get their new caravan (mobile home in Yankee talk).  We got their email address so we can follow up with them over the years.

Wed, 4 Jul - Happy 4th July.  Early morning seminary.  Elder Haley met with the meetinghouse rep and discussed some things about building maintenance.  Then he set up the tv and dvd for the movie night.  Sister Haley worked on one of her (many) RS projects - how to make a dress out of a pillowcase, more of the "fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without".  I am not sure that she can make a shirt for me out of a pillow case, and I do not want to find out.  Sister Haley will go to Family History while Elder Haley goes to the movies with Primary (on the second floor of the meeting house).

Thu, 5 Jul - Happy birthday to my brother, Jim. We worked in the family history centre (FHC) in the morning.  Then sister Haley went decluttering at one of the sister's homes in the afternoon. Then we made a visit to another family and ended the day by delivering a "way to go" message from the Seminary director to our seminary student - who did quite well on the mid-term seminary test.

Fri, 6 Jul - Sister Haley went over to one of the sister's homes and help bake/ice cakes for a birthday party.  Mike (not Elder Haley) decided to get in his daily exercise by walking to the Hank's Kitchen in Junction Hill - about 4.6 miles round trip (not quite a marathon or even a half-marathon). Of course, to provide incentive for all this exertion, he had to buy an horseshoe pastry (puff pastry with white icing flavoured with passion fruit); thus negating any calories burned in the walk 😁😅😎 We played taxi in the afternoon and then had Scott over for dinner (beef stroganoff)

Sat, 7 Jul - A day for cleaning the flat and doing errands of various sorts. We did meet with the seminary teacher for a few hours and did some planning for the rest of the year.  We packed our suitcase for the trip to Sydney tomorrow. Our friend, Tom Anderson died last Sunday and the funeral is this coming Monday, 9 Jul.

Sun, 8 Jul - A normal Sunday with meetings starting at 0730 and sacrament meeting starting at 10 am.  Elder Haley is normally spending the 2nd and 3rd hour of normal Church meetings in Primary with the 3 to 11 year olds. Elder Haley is getting used to sitting on the small, primary chairs.  At the end of the 3 hour block, we headed for Sydney.  The drive was without incident and we arrived at Katie & Brent Jeffree's home around 830pm.  It was good to see and be with them.

Sunset in Grafton

Our flat's living room and dining area

Our flat's dining area and living room

The kitchen

The den and computer room. And also Elder Haley's dressing room because Sister Haley takes up all the clothes space in the bedroom.

The utility/laundry room

The bathroom with shower only - no bathtub which would never be used anyway

The bedroom.

The walking path from Grafton to Junction Hill

Some of the country landscape on the way to Junction Hill

Love the country life here in Grafton

One of the waterways on the way to Junction Hill

A lazy day in cattle country on the way to Junction Hill.  It was a nice, cool day and the cattle were enjoying being lazy today



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