While the rest of the family were enjoying the wet slippery conditions at Honeysuckle Creek in the Jim Sawkins Classic, I did an out and back walk along the fire trail. The morning thunderstorm cleared and brought a softness to the forest. The orienteering began with a mass start and both Ella and Katy made a few mistakes early on. Katy recovered rejoining her friends while Ella lost the pack. She did find Grandpa near the middle of the course. Running the same course, they then had a hare and tortoise race with Ella only pipping Grandpa in the finish chute!
Although you wouldn't really know it's summer (with all this rain and ocold weather) the Orienteering Summer Series has begun. Wednesday nights involve a mad rush to try to get to there! Katy has volunteered, together with a fews friend to be the offical welcome crew so she is required to be there at 4.45. Meanwhile Ella has taken on a more serious approach with her runs with impressive results so far!
The rain does have benefits - the vegie patch is taking off! Indi just loves watching the bees - she literally could do this for hours!! And thanks to the bees there are lots of fruits budding too - plums, nectarines, raspberries and blueberries! This also prompted the nets to come out protected the new fruit form the birds and possums.
It has taken 6 attempts to start the beanie. Most of these have been related to adjusting the amount of stitches to the weight of wool I am using which is bigger than the one on the pattern. Then when I finally got the number of stitches right, I mucked up my first row of cabling so badly I had to start again!
It certainly does require a bit of concentration. It's looking fairly good and I'm about halfway through.
