Weekend report

Jamie and Ian were up and out early to Jamie's AFL game at Pennant Hills. His team is doing pretty well and they recorded another excellent win. You can read the match reports from this and other games here. Jamie is in the Under 18s.

Meanwhile Ishbel and I did the shopping and Robbie caught up on his beauty sleep. Ishbel and I met up with Bec and her boys in the shopping centre and managed to cadge a cuppa and a doughnut off Bec.

Jamie and Ian came home just in time for me and the boys to race off down to the shed for 12:30pm to join the other Valley Heights RFS members who were going to do a sausage sizzle at the Springwood School Fete and Fireworks. After setting up, some of us 'volunteered' to cut onions - 40kg of them. I was alright, my contact lenses protect me from the onion juice/fumes but it was sad to see grown men cry! Eventually we loaded all 40kg of onions (and more) on to 1000 sausages and accomanying buns/bread. Guess what I did in my sleep all night? And Ian had the hide to complain my hands smelled of onions still the next morning. I hadn't been able to get my lot to bring any vegieburgers along so I had two onion sandwiches, Come the revolution . . .

Robbie managed to dip out early and went off with his friend Leigh but Jamie and I stayed to the bitter end, taking money, cramming onions and sausages into rolls - it was relentless for several hours. My only break was a half hour cuddle and tour of the stalls with Xavier, Karen and Dan. Being his favourite Auntie Heidi, I bought Xavier a little blue maracca (after I'd borrowed $2 from Dan) which he loved the taste of!

Got home after 10:30pm.

Up early for training at 8am on Sunday morning. More cutting trails for our proposed hazard reduction (HR) - lots of back breaking work, scratching down to mother earth. Plotting our progress back at the shed we found we'd only done 120 or so metres - much less than the last few times we've done it - but the terrain was pretty hard going for us rake-hoeing types and when I looked despondent Hugh took pains to show me we'd actually done very well. This is the third training session where I've done trail cutting - if they put the HR on when I can't do it there'll be blood spilt!

(Will post photos later - have no computer at home again. Brand new computer we bought LAST SATURDAY already at the menders. Not happy!)