Now that the demo is done, I can actually spend a few days in low gear. Yay! Mandy's homeward bound to represent at Emily & Victor's wedding (sorry I'm missing it guys!) and I'm flying up to Brisbane to visit my cousin and their new baby.
One of those odd occurrances happened at the airport though. No, nothing to do with rubber gloves. I bumped into someone who works at Sierra in the same office as me! She was on my Sydney->Brisbane flight, on their way up to Cairns. If I hadn't switched my seats beforehand at check-in, I would have been sitting right across from them! Very bizarre. I ended up getting a bottle of wine out of the deal too - she 'had' to move to the exit row because someone there didn't want the responsibility. So they gave her the exit row AND a bottle of wine for her trouble. What a fantastic deal that was. However, she had no more room in her carry-on for her next leg up to Cairns, so I was the lucky recipient.
Jason, Vanessa, and baby Felicity are on a lazy plot of land only a half hour from Brisbane by train, but it feels like a world away. So peaceful. Jason is very big into organic gardening and I got to see all the yummy things that he has on the grow. Lettuce, silverbeet, carrots, squash, pumpkin, strawberries, lemons, bananas, snow peas, etc. I must say it is pretty fantastic to have garden-fresh salad every night with dinner.
They're also into energy conservation (as is much of Australia), so they have massive rainwater tanks as their water supply. He's also very good with grey-water reuse on the garden. Very little water goes down the drain, and the food scraps go to the compost. At the moment they're living in a big shed, very much a work in progress. Sometime over the next couple days, I'll be helping him lift up some joists for the loft area they are building.
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