innisfail

Dear Family and Friends

I'm a bit lazy with my blogs. Another week gone by and another week closer to Christmas.

We led the service on Sunday and all went well with good feedback. Our theme was the incarnation of Christ.

Peter and Erica asked us to join them on Monday and go to Innisfail with them. Friends of theirs, Joe and Dawn, purchased an Apple Mac computer and they were having trouble getting it hooked up to bigpond. Peter and Erica tried and tried to set it up but they also failed. Joe and Dawn are going to get someone professional in to fix the problem as the same thing happeneed to Erica and Peter as was happening to Joe and Dawn. They would get to a certain point and could get it to go no further. Half a dozen phone calls were made to bigpond but still it couldn't be fixed.

Regardless of computer problems we all had a lovely day together. We had our lunch at a local Brothers Club before setting off later in the afternoon to come home. Storm clouds filled the horizon but we didn't hit rain till we were almost home. Robin said that they had had well over a hundred mls in just over an hour here at Ravenshoe so it was pretty heavy. We are surprisingly dry here considering what Sth QLD, NSW and VIC are getting.

Thursday we drove to Innot Springs where you can sit or lay in the creek where the warm comes up from the river bed. It is just off the road but next time we will take our bathers, towel and a shovel. Robin tells us you pick a spot (it can be quite hot in places) then dig a hole and sit down in it and let the water wash over you. We continued on down the road to Mt Garnet and had a little wander around there before coming home.

Robin has had quite a nasty accident. Robin decided to put new blades on the mower. He accidently dropped the blade whilst trying to screw the new blade on and has cut through his nails and down to the nail bed on two of his fingers. A third nail is bruised and sore but not actually cut through like the others. They thought they might have to take his nails off but the doctor decided to leave them and see if they will repair themselves. As you can imagine they are quite sore though Robin weathers through it without saying too much about the pain. Unfortunately that means that the maintanence on the plane is put on the backburner for a few days. You can't work with your fingers all bandaged up.

Then on Friday Pauline was taking a neighbour down to Cairns to see an eye specialist so she asked if I would like to go along for the ride. So naturally I said yes. We had a really lovely day. The day was hot and relatively steamy but nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. After Heather (Pauline's neighbour) saw the specialist we then had lunch and went to do a little Christmas shopping. Again no rain untill we were between Athertan and Ravenshoe where we drove through a very heavy shower to clear weather for the rest of the trip home.

We went to one garage sale in Ravenshoe this morning and Ken picked up a car fridge for $12 which cost the owner $140 so he is pleased with his purchase.

You may remember me telling you about the possums and the Kookaburras coming in to be fed each evening, here are just some of the photoes we have taken.

That's it for today. Hope every one is well.

with love Ken and Lyn

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