October report

Goodbye October! Halloween is over and it's already halfway into the first day of November.  

 

Who believes in Halloween? Did you decorate the house with Halloween?  How many craved pumpkins did you displayed this year?  DId your local kids dress up and went door knocking for any tricks or treats?  I am not really a Halloween believer myself but my kids love to be involved by dressing up and etc.  Last night they went door knocking for treats around a couple of blocks until bedtime.  Only four local kids came door knocking in my street but while I was out to visit the corner shop before sunset, I spotted four adults all dressed up in Halloween gear.  It looks like they were heading towards the local club for celebrations. Last Saturday night (27/10) my 14 yo went to a Halloween Party with afew friends from her school at a house with full supervision of responsible adults, of course.  She would of liked to slept over at her friend's house but she had a bowling tournament to do on Sunday.

 

Hasn't it been a busy month? For me it might of been that busy.  Besides the normal commitments of being a mum, the taxi service and whatever other multiply tasks of being a parent, I had a busy month with outside commitments.  

 

The best highlights of my month would of been: Bowled my 200 game, a relative came into town for only two nights and I was introduced to French scrapbooking via AZZA. I attended two workshops to learn new techniques (ie interlocking photos and photo framing creation) from using the basic stencils.  SInce the workshops I have managed to complete afew pages in these techniques.  I had afew rubber necks looking on what I have done at other scrap meets. I have booked in to do another class this month with AZZA. The challenge is to create this A5 size album of 12 pages in three hours. It's going to be a surprise present to a friend who have I known for afew years now.

 

Only have another month of spring then summer will be here.  Actually summer temps already started since spring started in September.  There is times we had four seasons in one week.....from hot to cold, wind or rain.  Are we becoming like Melbourne now?  I heard over the years that capital city has four seasons all the time.

 

Consider storm season has started, we had severe warnings but most storms had hit in the west. By the time the cell moves to the SE coast, the tense of the cell dies down to more a local thunderstorm or just rain. We had a storm and rain by passing us here yesterday at around lunchtime.  I was on the way to bowling when the first dose of heavy rain appear! I thought my washing would of been wet while I was out.  So it was a surprise when I got back home to see the ground was dry as a bone.  On the way home the second storm didn't come here either but looked good to see the dark clouds in the distance for more heavy rain to hit elsewhere. But the kids told me it rained at school. On facebook last night (after I chucked my 14yo off my laptop) I did see that a severe warning was issued after the storm passed Logan area. But I didn't watch the night TV to find out if the storm hit severely or not.  I think the news report would of been more about the US hurricane hit this week.  Poor old US I feel for as I heard their perfect storm has hit in some states of the country. Is it common for a hurricane to hit just before winter?? Couldn't been a good halloween for them (the ones who celebrate the tradition).

 

If you love horses you wil love to hear this then. Next Tuesday it will be Melbourne Cup Day. As most Aussies know, it's a public holiday for Melbourne residents to celebrate a big horse race meet.  Thousands of people will dress up for the occassion and visit the race track to wine and dine. Other cities of Australia will have other people do the same at their local track or clubs for a fancy lunch.  They will watch the main race of the cup on TV which generally happens around 3pm (DST). I don't worry about this sort of thing as I am not really big on dressing up more formally or have the money to spend. To come and think of it, I never visited a race track for any race meets in Brisbane. I have a couple of friends who live near Eagle Farm and Doomben tracks but I am not sure if they have been to any of them or not.  Guess it's one of those questions I don't ask. Odd times I have driven past these tracks but never stopped and walked in.

 

For international readers, I have further information about the Melbourne Cup. Here's the website link for your enjoyment to read and learn more this annual horse race event annually in Melbourne.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup

 

While I was growing up my Mum used to follow horse racing throughout the country and placed small bets at a local TAB.  Odd times (when I was over 18) I might place a friendly bet but I haven't done it for the past couple of years.  Maybe because I never picked the winner!

 

Better go as I have afew other things to do at home today.  Have a good month!