Sunday 3rd May

It’s been a mixed weekend as usual. Adrian has been asked not to return to the Prison job, his attitude towards the prisoners wasn’t all that good, not in a demeaning way, but just his usual shouting and overbearing manner. So that leaves David and I at a bit of a loss, I’ve got 2 weeks left with the students, and exams for them next week, the work crews are all busy, but hopefully David can sort them out early in the morning and continue on at the Prison. It’s a nuisance, but not to be unexpected.

David had my little truck on Friday afternoon, and went home with the keys, and was out of phone area, so I walked home. I must be getting better, it only took me 45 minutes to get to Kukum from the Gardens. Managed to get hold of him this morning, and he bought the truck back this afternoon. Full of apologies, and I think Tiffany gave him an earful as well. I gave him a loaf of fresh baked bread for his troubles, so he felt a bit better.

The power was off all day yesterday from 8.30am till 9pm, I walked into Chinatown and bought a new tip for my surfcaster rod, it got damaged in transit I think, but all ready for Savo now. It left me with all the washing to get done this morning, but without a vehicle, there’s not really anywhere within walking distance I felt like going to. The day started off brilliant sunny, then turned to rain for a while this afternoon. It’s now back to hot and humid at 9pm, I’ve got all the ceiling fans in each room on trying to get some air movement.

Spent most of Saturday inside, it rained, and without any power to get the fans on, it was humid and sticky and I was hoping David would find the keys and bring them back. It was good though, read through the Nikon manual, I’ve got a lot more controls to play with on the camera, and more settings than I’ll probably ever use, but then again.

Rose got me thinking about doing postcards for here, there aren’t a lot available, and most of the ones that are available, are all about 10 – 15 year old pictures, from before the troubles. And not very good pictures at that. The Nikon has a few settings for picture quality and colour, that relate to using Adobe for colour balance and definition, which is great for publications, ArcSoft and Irfan View are good, but Adobe has the wider number of people in publishing using it. I’ve reset the Nikon to High Def for everything, thank the Lord for Pix-resizer, actually, thank someone else for telling me about it a few years ago. Great for resizing any size picture down to a manageable size for web pages and email without losing any quality.
Now that the weather is changing, my little garden is starting to actually grow now, it looked really sad for the last couple of months. I think the constant rain wasn’t all that good for the plants, now we get 4 or 5 days a week without rain, it’s all starting to grow better. I’ve tried again with more beans, and coriander, some cayenne chillies, and capsicums. I’ve still got a lot of seeds to use, a few at a time to try and get the right time for them. My cucumbers have taken till now to set fruit, there’re a lot of small cucumbers formed, hopefully they will all grow.

Pic is of my fresh bread from yesterday