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Easter Sunday and we awoke to a most glorious morning, plenty of bright sunshine after a cool overnight temp of around 17.  There was hardly a cloud in the sky and it was still with no breeze.

I was on my bike quite early this morning and completed a 13k bike ride around where we live.

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I arrived back home to catch Trish about to trim the two lilypilly trees we have growing in our small front garden.  We just about filled the Green Waste bin and we still have one of the two trees to complete.  But that was enough exercise for one morning.

I took fifteen minutes and mowed the front lawn to pick up the excess leaves and twigs from the pruning.  It looks OK.  With the weather returning to normal, the grass is growing like crazy and the lawn grubs are back.  I gave the lawn a spray a few days ago and I will give it the mandatory second serve of Grub Killer just prior to heading to Melbourne in a week or so.

The pool is now a little on the brisk side so my morning swim after the ride, pruning and mowing wasn't as long as it could have been.

Our scheduled 'drinks' session for Friday was brought forward to Thursday as one of the couples (Ian and Kerrie) had an engagement for Friday evening.  As usual it was lots of fun and plenty of laughs.

We have made some enquiries about putting solar energy onto the house.  We can get a 1.88KW system for around $3000.  I have had several quotes so far and this seems to be the best deal available at the moment.  Ian and Kerrie may also be in the market for a similar system so we will check out if we can get a better deal for 2 systems.

Good Friday was super quiet.  It was quiet because we kept out of Caloundra.  Over Easter the population of this place explodes as families head north from Brisbane to the beach for Easter.  With no AFL scheduled, we watched a couple of NRL matches on TV.  I suspect the AFL is missing out on not scheduling any games on Good Friday.  The NRL match in Sydney had a record 52000 attendance!

With the first round of the AFL returning to our screens on Saturday I planted myself in front of the Telly and enjoyed it all.

Computer Club was a little frustrating on Saturday morning.  A member who I believed knew her way around the computer wanted a little help in doing a factory back-up of her new laptop.  Nowadays you often need to create your own set of backup DVD disks in lieu of no copy of Windows being supplied in the purchase.

I gave up in frustration as the backup just wouldn't work.  Eventually I handed the problem to the Computer Tech.  It turned out the lady had brought CD's instead of DVD's!

Another member wanted to update his Tom Tom Via GPS to the latest maps.  He said he had done this and that and was ready to update.  As it turned out he hadn't done the right thing!  I began a 'new' process and suggested he finish it off at home.  He rang me to say the maps had updated perfectly when he got home.

Despite the glorious start to the day we have been promised a wet afternoon and the possibility of up to 4" of rain!  The footy on TV will be a great idea.  The wet weather isn't a good forecast for the holiday makers in town.