Sun's Out for Gameday

Hooray for the sunshine and warmth !! We've got a break from the rain at least for a week. It's pretty soggy in the forest park but it will slowly dry. I took Cricket for a run yesterday. He is certainly a good little runner and good company. He just trots along and I worked on him a little to run beside me rather than pull me. He was great. We came home and grabbed Macey for the usual daily walk. It's now routine to jump in the creek for a short swim - Macey loves it. 

Spent the past few days getting organised again after the 2 weeks of work. The dogs are glad for the company again too.

I made a loaf of bread for a lady at Deb's work last week. Bread is so sweet and terrible here that most Aussies buy a bread maker and bake their own or, suffer the bread here miserably. I made her a loaf and she has since bought a bread maker. Check out these little choc she bought me to say thank you. Yum. Malted milk, passionfruit, strawberry and honey bee. 

I've been learning to season our meats for dinner. It's amazing what some garlic powder, herbs and spices can do for your meat. So much better than plain ol' gravy or sauce and healthier too. The bbq is great to have - the neighbours will be envious of the smell of our bbq.

Wanted to make pasta this week but ran out of eggs. I took Deb shopping on Sunday - she saw how challenging (frustrating?) it can be. I go to three different places to get all the stuff. Anyway, Safeway had no eggs - not one bloody egg ! So we ran out at home. And I need eggs for pasta. I might ride my bike to the shops and get some. We don't have any nearby small shops except for one which is quite special really. It's only that or off to the supermarket.







And it was game day again - a midweek afternoon game. How very civilised. I thought it would be a quiet game but no, no, no, it was full capacity 38,700. We played the New York Mets and got beat again 2-0. Last night Nats flogged them 7-4 with several home runs !! I am really jinxing the Nats as I've not seen them win in any of the 3 games I've seen. We had super tickets thanks to Bob (my man of mystery) bargaining with people selling their tickets on Craiglist which his like Gumtree classifieds. We were in the shade and even had padded seats. We were most happy on this day of sunshine and warmth. And we were so excited to get ourselves on the bigscreen. They were filming people dancing and carrying on and, there we were, doing the bamba, Peter Allen Rio dance rolling our wrists and arms...whatever, we got on the big screen and got a good cheer from the crowd. Pity we couldn't catch a photo of it. I also caught a pre-game photo with one of the racing presidents - Howard Taft - these guys are so funny. Watching them race mid game is just so funny and exciting. Anyway, Nats lost the game, we had a great day out and got ourselves famous on the big screen. What more could two Aussie ball fans want !! The other crowd pic shows a bunch of fluro high -viz vests - not sure who they were but they stood out in that big sea of Nats red !!