Saturday 30th May
Another beautiful day forecasted, sunny with blue skies and up in the low 20’s.
Checked out about the repair of the leg today and it seems we do have to be here until next Wednesday as no one has one in stock. So we will day travel to Inverell and Glen Innes from here.
Went to the AELEC venue to purchase our tickets for the evenings show. Had a look around the area and at all the stalls where you could buy all the latest cowboy gear. Great hats, saddles, boots, shirts, everything and anything you could want to look like the real thing. Especially liked the big belt buckles and of course the Stetsons, which just about everyone was wearing and of course the piece de resistance a pair of spurs that you, could click around the place in. Of course that was the competitors, not the plebs like us. With our tickets in hand and our hands stamped with a guitar so we could back in we drove around to another caravan repairer hoping they might be have the part we need in stock. No luck, so we have to decide on Monday morning and call them if we want them to order the part. Not feeling the best and it blowing a gale outside so we returned home for lunch and a catch up around the place. Had our dinner, (me cooking outside again in 10 degs) we set off for the arena. Not far to go and very lucky to catch someone just pulling out so we got a handy place to park close by.
Another beautiful day forecasted, sunny with blue skies and up in the low 20’s.
Checked out about the repair of the leg today and it seems we do have to be here until next Wednesday as no one has one in stock. So we will day travel to Inverell and Glen Innes from here.
Went to the AELEC venue to purchase our tickets for the evenings show. Had a look around the area and at all the stalls where you could buy all the latest cowboy gear. Great hats, saddles, boots, shirts, everything and anything you could want to look like the real thing. Especially liked the big belt buckles and of course the Stetsons, which just about everyone was wearing and of course the piece de resistance a pair of spurs that you, could click around the place in. Of course that was the competitors, not the plebs like us. With our tickets in hand and our hands stamped with a guitar so we could back in we drove around to another caravan repairer hoping they might be have the part we need in stock. No luck, so we have to decide on Monday morning and call them if we want them to order the part. Not feeling the best and it blowing a gale outside so we returned home for lunch and a catch up around the place. Had our dinner, (me cooking outside again in 10 degs) we set off for the arena. Not far to go and very lucky to catch someone just pulling out so we got a handy place to park close by.
What a great evening’s entertainment, brumby catching, horses doing all sorts of tricks and of course the riding of the bucking horse. It was a great competition and great fun with some terrific horsemanship on display. It was very cold sitting there even though it was inside so as soon as it was all over we made for home and the heater. Car temp recorded 7 deg as we left. Too cold for us so we might just leave on Monday and head for the warmer weather up north and have the caravan repaired in Queensland. Will post some photos another day.
Earlier in the day we visited Pat Chaffey, Resident Artist at her studio.We had been been recommended to go there by our neighbours who were impressed with her work. How right they were, all beautifully framed watercolours and pastels. We got talking and we asked her if she was still painting. She told us how she was just getting over having broken both her ankles in a car accident that killed her husband and a passenger in the other car whose driver walked away uninjured. Her pet dog also broke its back. It was the huge dog that barked at us as we walked down her path to the front door. She said she was carted off to hospital, her husband was taken to the morgue and the dog to the vets. She could laugh about it now as she can't change the past. She asked about what we were doing and said that we should live every minute of our lives to the fullest as you never know what life is going to serve up. We really enjoyed meeting her and would have liked to have bought one of her works, however it didn't seem to be of a concern to her and she wished us well as we went on our way.
Earlier in the day we visited Pat Chaffey, Resident Artist at her studio.We had been been recommended to go there by our neighbours who were impressed with her work. How right they were, all beautifully framed watercolours and pastels. We got talking and we asked her if she was still painting. She told us how she was just getting over having broken both her ankles in a car accident that killed her husband and a passenger in the other car whose driver walked away uninjured. Her pet dog also broke its back. It was the huge dog that barked at us as we walked down her path to the front door. She said she was carted off to hospital, her husband was taken to the morgue and the dog to the vets. She could laugh about it now as she can't change the past. She asked about what we were doing and said that we should live every minute of our lives to the fullest as you never know what life is going to serve up. We really enjoyed meeting her and would have liked to have bought one of her works, however it didn't seem to be of a concern to her and she wished us well as we went on our way.
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