Covid Blog 33

Today was a wet start to the day.... we have had a really wet start to the year . We have had more rain in the first 4 months than we had in the whole of 2019.... and the first couple of days in May have been raining and cold.

Anyway after a later start due to the rain and the fact that it prevented me from the normal early morning ride on Saturday morning, it was good to make my way to the Mont Albert shops for a coffee and to get bread from my favourite bakery Breadstreet. David Winter runs a great local bakery with very good bread. He also supports a lot of the locals with delivering food to those who are housebound with the Covid virus... a truly magnificent contribution to the local area!

After coffee and purchases of bread it was home to have breakfast...

The weather cleared a bit so I decided to try my hand at painting down the side of the house and to finish off the garage door. Chris organised taping up the beading on the garage door so I could paint with an assurance that spills did not matter.....

In this world of painting it seems that for the fiddily bits you are either a “taper or a scraper” ... that is to say you either tape the windows or carefully paint along edges then scrape off the bits where there are over painting...

Having done the garage door it was good to get on with the area around the back door where there is a Perspex veranda. All very fiddling really and the job took most of the afternoon.

In the midst of this it really started to rain and although I was  under cover I needed to be careful not to paint areas which were exposed to the weather 

After finishing the painting and cleaning up I decided to have a look at the renovation job on Chris and Jenita’s house. It looks great and the home heating now works which means there is every likelihood they will be moving back to their home in the coming week or so.

From a virus perspective it seems that the focus now is on discussion about how we emerge from the current lockdown and how we deal with social distancing when the guidelines are relaxed. Some of The Australian States are relaxing movements and abilities to meet with others for picnics and convening on beaches and parks. The state of Victoria where I live is taking a very conservative approach with a delay on relaxing the rules for the time being... I think this is a good thing as the so called second wave of infection really is a concern 

Anyway we need good strong leadership in these times and it seems that we have this with our state leader in Daniel Andrews. His popularity in this time of trouble is at an all time high 

The day was productive but the weather was very wet....

All good for the water storages after the drought of the past couple of years 

Now for the photos 

Snow at Mt Buller....

Painting the beading on the garage door... you can see I am a taper for this... I am a scraper for windows....

The veranda is done!!!