Grand Final Day

Well it is AFL Grand Final Day (a big day in the Hutley household). David has prime TV viewing position staked out very early and watches all day. Even though the game doesn't start until 2:30pm there is heaps of pre game viewing. It is the last hoorah before he heads into mourning that the season is over and there will be no footy until next. Fortunately there is some cricket happening over the summer or he would go completely bonkers. Last year we were in Singapore when the Grand Final was on (and yes there were some words said about me booking our trip when the grand final was on). Which also means that it is nearly Patrick's birthday. We have no idea what to get him. We asked him to make a list of 10 things he would like for his birthday. Unfortunately it consisted of things that were all very expensive or that he knew we wouldn't get him, so we are back to the drawing board.


As you have probably read on our blog we have been praying recently for several people we know who are battling illness (Rainald Feldmeier - 2 tumours and benign malaria in his liver, Jeremias (4) prolapsed bowel, David's brother in law Michael who has a viral infection).


We thankfully have been pretty healthy - David pinched something in his neck several months ago which is slowly improving and Patrick has a bad case of sunburn (he refused to put on sunscreen when he went mowing with David this week because it smelled funny - hopefully he has learned a lesson).


I worked everyday this week except Monday, most of them weren't my shifts but filling in for people who were away sick. Which is good for me and my pay packet but not so good for them. Not sure what the go at work at the moment is there seems to be quite a few people resigning and the big bosses were in 3 days in a row this week.


The mowing business is going well, particularly now that there has been some rain and it is warming up. Places that they were only mowing once a month are now needing to be done once a fortnight.


We are looking at moving to Maryborough over the Christmas holidays. Property is a lot cheaper there, there is a number of churches with families attending and youth groups running, it is closer to Gympie, there is opportunity to begin mowing there, there is a good Christian School with a focus on the subjects that the boys are wanting to do, there is plenty of casual work for me (both at school and Coles/Bilo). So we are praying for direction from the Lord as to whether we should go and when exactly.

These are some lightning shots that I took the other night. We didn't get any rain but the lightning was pretty spectacular. I have twice as many shots of the black night sky as ones that actually show the lightning. But these were the best 3.

Hope you all have a great week!!!