Birthday, carpet, roof

We had a lovely family lunch last Sunday for R's 65th birthday.

RB had been eating a blue lolly, we called her "Miss blue tongue".


We went for a walk after lunch, Holly loved going in the water, but Banjo was not interested.



Monday was a Public Holiday, we emptied most of the furniture out of the bedrooms in preparation for the new carpet which was laid on Thursday.


R started painting the roof, he was going to spray it but the spray gun would not co-operate so he is rolling it, he has finished one side.


I picked some gerberas from the garden, put them in a vase and thought I might as well photograph them, I posted the photo on Treklens and got some favourable comments.

Sunday visitors

S brought C, L & LJ to visit us today, they stayed for lunch. The twins were very good and so beautiful they are a real handful. C is so well behaved and very patient.

Screen

R has built a screen along the side of the rear patio area and has painted it and the posts, beams and eaves under the patio roof.

Magpies

R has been befriending some magpies and gives them a little tidbit to make them come to the back of the house but only if they sing for him first!

This young magpie is quite bold and comes right in near the back of the house.



The older magpies also come in, this one seems particularly big and wanders around the yard at times. The magpie does have two legs it just has one tucked up in this shot.

Sunday

A different view of one of our resident lizards.


One of our new plants Grevillea Flamingo has some flowers on it already.


Richard has been pressure washing the roof for several hours.


Richard is going to paint the roof charcoal, should be an improvement on the dirty white, the original colour of the tiles is red.

Wild Horse Mt Lookout

Today we went for a drive to Wild Horse Mt Lookout. The carpark is 700 metres from the lookout, there is an extremely steep path up to the lookout.


The views are 360 degrees overlooking the Glasshouse Mountains, Bribie Island out to Moreton Island, down to Redcliffe and up to Caloundra.