The Sopranos And A Nasty Surprise

It has been a few days since I last posted.  During that time the weather has been quite warm, the pool is now around 27 degrees in the afternoon.  Morning swims see it around 24 and just beautiful. Today is 34 in our little backyard.

I tried putting the gazebo up to see how it fitted.  It looks pretty good but we weren't sure we would leave it up for days.  However with today being around 34 degrees in the back corner, some regular ongoing shade may be an advantage.

I took it down because of the threat of a storm .. which never eventuated!

So it will be set up as required  Click on all photos for a larger view.

Friends Ian and Kerrie have friends up from NSW for the week.  Our lunch on Thursday was to a new spot and the group was up to 8 in total.  Too much to eat and drink yet again but heaps of fun.

With them having visitors and John and Margaret not available Friday drinks were put on hold.

Computer Club was as per usual on Saturday and a friend gave me the first 4 series of The Sopranos on DVD.  So the weekend was busy 'ripping' the files so I can play them on my Media Player.  I have ripped 3 series of them so far, I have another series to go.  Each series is 13 by 1 hour episodes. That is a total of 42 shows.  The Sopranos scores 9.2 on IMDB!

Trish got into some spring cleaning yesterday cleaning some of our vertical blinds.  She would carefully take them all down, put them into the bath to soak, give them a light scrub and then dry them off a little and rehang them.

While they were soaking she cleaned the architrave around the doors and windows.  She had quite a fright when the cloth went through the wood .... white ants.  We had planned to have an examination for white ants  a month or two ago but one thing led to another and it never happened. 

The pest removal guy came around today, inspected the damaged area and sprayed it.  The damage is only in its early stages and there won't be much of a problem.

The duct tape is to keep the poison in! They will be back again in 10 days to do the inspection.

However the damaged timber will need to be replaced.  It appears the concrete back patio slab is built above the shielded line of the house allowing the insects access.  Therefore holes will need to be drilled into and through the concrete and long term chemicals used to soak the ground under the slab and provide a protection barrier from future possible intrusions.

More expense we just didn't expect.  But it could have been much worse.  I give plenty of movies etc to Brian over the road and to his son David.  David is a builder so Brian said he would get him to replace the timber for me.  The whole slliding door will need to be removed.

We are watching a TV Series called The Shadow Line.  It is a great detective story.