Monday 30 September was our chance to at last see whether Desi was surrounded by countryside and views as wonderful as they looked on photos we had seen. We certainly were not disappointed. The 360 degree view from their hilltop position included many majestic gum trees which Mum seemed to need to endlessly photograph in different light from sunrise to sunset. Returning from an errand with Ross, I found that Desi and Mum had been out 'for a spin' courtesy of Hooley.
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| Getting ready |
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| Picture road signs (for Hooley?)! |
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| I had a ride to the gate and back |
After lunch it seemed only right to try to help Ross with some lantana clearance down near the gully. Ross made the job look easy using just his bare hands on the serrated foliage, while I struggled to make much of an impact. Ross was close to having cleared all of their 10 acres of this menace, and was tending many young trees; he had accidentally ringbarked his favourite young blue quandong just the day before with the whipper snapper (that's strimmer in English)...
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| Boys in red attack lantana |
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| One of many steep inclines on Ross and Desi's land, this one back up from the gully |
Desi heard that her aunt Valma had died on Sunday night. It seemed sensible for us to get a lift back up to Toowoomba with them for the funeral, which we expected would take place in a couple of days.
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