What are you doing wth your Saturday

[downeyas]

'besides, voting, shopping, running kids(or yourself) around for sports, housework etc

I am cooking, finally saved up enough for my upright freezer and am filling it lol. It's just me that  have to cook for so can get plenty of meals in there.

Have made 3 x pizza's, 5 containers of savoury mince, 5 containers of the most delcious chicken, 3 containers of rissoles ready to thaw and cook and when I have finished my coffee will go out to the kitchen and grate 1kg cheese and fill my last 6 containers up with mac cheese - whew lol

C'mon, tell all - Sandra 🙂

[katymatey*]

Happy Birthday Kope, and congrats on your anniversary Esseco.

[lloydslights]

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@esseco46 wrote:

I spend every Saturday volunteering at the Victorian Maritime Centre in Crib Point, Victoria.

It is dedicated to all Australian sea men and women who served in the RAN and the Merchant Navy, past and present.

Have a look at www.maritimecentre.com.au

There is a dedicated team of volunteers who are restoring, cataloguing, painting, and generally having fun - two of our exhibits are the former RAN HMAS Otama (Oberon Class Submarine) and the former Port Philip Bay Pilot Ship the MV Wyuna.

I really love my fellow colleagues, they are reat group of people of like minded interests.

Come visit some time.

Di

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Just an aside,  I attended a small cocktail party on the Otama when it was docked at HMAS Platypus.  My children's father served on all of the O Class subs.  I think he was on the Oxley when we met which was in re-fit at Cockatoo Island in 1972.

Happy Anniversary to you both.  

DEB

[vicr3000]

Esse

Good stuff. I think it was the Otama we did familiarisation training on at Geelong.

Sailed out of Crib point a number of ties on Patrol Boats, the Navy were always very good to us.

[pct001wine]

Closest I got to an O-boat was a cocktail party in the "wardroom" lol - literally sardines in a can - passed the fingerfood and beers overhead.  Mrs Wine got a bit messy and lost one of her high heels, probably was a wardroom trophy for a while (yes, that's all she lost apart from a bit of dignity)

[vicr3000]

You reckon that's squishy, try getting multiple canoes or zodiac inflatables down the foreward hatch.
and 3 - 6 blokes with full kit per boat.

Damn nigh impossible LOL

[chameleon54]

I emptied everything out of the firewood shed to check for white ants. Cleaned the shed floor and chopped around a ton of firewood ready for winter. I like to fill it up at this time of year as the wood outside is dry and it has plenty of time to cure.

Now I,m lying on the couch watching TV as my back is hurting.

Tommorows plan is to be up at 5.30 am to attend a car parts swap meet ( to find some ebay stock ) and then off to the city ( we live in a country area ) where my 12 year old daughter is trialing for a major premier league netball team. Its an important milestone occasion for her and should make for a very interesting day. She needs to attend three 2 hour trials over the next week, along with regular netball and basketball games and normal team practice sessions so a very busy week coming up. She has been very dedicated and working very hard in the build-up with regular gym workouts, extensive practice and carefull diet for 12 months now, so fingers crossed.

[crystal**flake]

My daughter and I went out window shopping and had lunch..........had a lovely day.

[downeyas]

Didn't have time to look at my navel stawks lol.

Cooking now all done and I was greedy, ate some of the chicken (taste testing lol) and had a bowl of mac cheese (tea) . Thought I may as well do the mango's while I was at it, ate some have frozen the rest.

Gotta do some more cheese sauce tomorrow to use up the pasta (cooked too much lol)

Tomorrow I will plant some chilli seeds, water the pumpkins, which are growing really fast (for seeds) pack orders, pre pack seeds etc etc - today was a pleasure for me, being out of this room and doing something that was my trade - once upon a time lol.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend - Sandra 🙂

[softail-joanie]

I was trying to sleep before being woke by several jabbering women.Figured I may as well get this laptop from my locker and chat with the Austrailians. If you can't beat em, join em.

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I'm stuck in the water here, if I had any gas in my car, I'd drive to the Grove city Y for time in the souna, maybe a swim and shower. Oh geesh, they got a mop out, these folks don't know what they are doing, ya gotta dustmop first, before mopping, figure 8s peoples..

My only plan for the day is maybe go sit in the car, open a can of speggtiios and eat it cold with a plastic spoon. I gotta find a way to pull in some cash without offically working.

[iapetus_rocks]

Maybe you could start walking South to Panama and then get a job on a boat heading West.

If you managed it right, you could start a whole new Movement of people fleeing the USA as refugees from a system of govt which is bent on killing you;  slowly, but deliberately.

Manus island is idyllic in the winter, so I'm told.