Another perfect day here in Sandstone Point Queensland. May till September when it's cold down south....up here the days are absolutely sensational and the evenings only cool enough to use heat about two of these months. Temperatures hardly vary more than two or three degrees during the day. Lows overnight down to 15 C...days 23C to 26C (60 night, 80daytime).
Perry, Rick Thornton (Canadian) and I, play bowls as a team each Wednesday. Had a great day yesterday....lost our first game, but won the next and the money !!!! Perry and Rick take turns at being "skip"as it is good experience for them. I am a novice and won't be allowed to "skip" for another nine months. It is my job to "set up the head"....sounds odd, but it means I must do my best to place my bowls in advantageous placesaround the "jack". Usually a back bowl and two others as close to the "jack" as possible. Many an opposing team has been able to score a swag of points simply because they haven't had a well placed back bowl.
I surfed the net for the best air fare price for Pam, James and Rachel to visit during the school vacation in July. Around $850 return for the three of them. Pretty good really considering we are over 2000klm's apart. Petrol prices are extremely high and aviation fuel has risen dramatically also. We are paying over $1.40 for a litre ...roughly $5.60 a gallon. We couldn't have imagined prices like this in our wildest dreams ten years ago. I think the American conversion runs around $5 a gallon. The Brits pay even more...close to $7 a gallon!
My girlfriend from grade school...Val...called to update me about her recently diagnosed breast cancer. We have free of charge mammograms here every two years and on Val's last mammo an irregularity that has been monitored over the past ten years showed a slight change. Long story short...she had a lumpectomy performed three weeks ago and altho the full pathology tests are still not complete....she is scheduled to begin radiation therapy in six weeks time. Her oncologist is very relaxed about everything and whatever is going on is at a very very slow pace...stage 1 and already excised...probably completely. Radiation therapy consists of once daily each week day for one week, second week is a four day a week treatment....till seven weeks is completed. She and Reg have to drive to the Nambour Hospital which is north of us...about a thirty minute run...an hour at the treatment centre and thirty minutes back. They are arranging the times so that they won't be in rush hour traffic. Very considerate.
We all feel very positive about the care she is and will be receiving.
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