Thursday, June 12, 2008 - Remote Living
It is a much brighter day here today (Saturday). I heard it was snowing in NSW yesterday. I know it was chilly. Just a few minutes ago, dh rang me from the new house to say he couldn't get gas/LPG for the car. There is only place to get it. The nozzle freezes up. Sometimes it won't shut off and they can't use it at all. Sometimes they pour hot water on it. So I think it is getting fixed. So that is the upshot of our recent cold spell. It is to be frosty then warmer with rain again at the end of the week.
So today he used the last of the gas then will switch across to petrol/gas.
Earlier this week I was asked to complete a community survey. One of the questions was why do you stay in this area. Seems a funny question in some ways, because I don't think people in more populated areas or areas closer to Melbourne would be asked this question. Why should we be asked it and not others?
Anyway, I couldn't answer it straight off the top of my head. I didn't complete the survey anyway, because there is no way with questions about how long have you lived here that I could do an anonymous survey, plus my age, etc. etc.
Yesterday my children were able to join in in two church activities. One was a Uniting Church one that my children have been involved in for many years in three different locations. The other was a youth group. They took the kids treasure hunting in the night, in a very country setting, that I couldn't begin to describe, and it was freezing. But that is what I love about it. It involved probably 60 miles of travel possibly. Where do they get the energy from? They couldn't get that experience anywhere else. (Well maybe if Myrtleford or somewhere like that does this.) It is like spotlighting for game or something. Something we haven't done for a long time. Anyone who has spotlighted in the mountains in winter knows what I am talking about, so the kids really would have been warm most of the time in the car. |
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