the week that was.........

well i dont know where the last week has gone but i guess when you have something on everyday and or night, you dont have much time to think. work has been busy enough with diseases and insects keeping us out in the paddock and a nice drop of rain will get everyone excited about planting. the jury is still out on whether planting now is a good thing or bad thing, but we'll soon see how they look as they get out of the ground.

last weekend chloe and i attended the annual darling downs cotton growers association awards dinner, its always a good night to catch up with people and hand out some awards that recognise different peoples achievments.

then on saturday i had my cousins wedding, another night out, this time with all the skerman relations. twas fun and a lovley day, by late this night i was relying on the coffee to keep me awake.

on sunday we went out to mum and dad's for breakfast, which was really more like brunch, to celebrate fathers day. i gave dad a top gear dvd, probably a lame present but we all love cars and top gear so it was good to watch a couple of episodes before chloe and i.......

......drove to brisbane to watch andrew (and the others in the team i guess) play the 'last' home game of the season. well regular season anyway, i believe they can still get a home preliminary final if all goes well, but we'll be in nz if they do so it was the last game we'll see live for the season. i've never been to as many live games as this year, for obvious reasons. but having andrew playing was a great excuse to get to as many as we could and i think we only missed 3 or so home games. i am sick of the roadworks and traffic getting to brisbane but, there no avoiding it.

which brings me to another topical issue around the parts at the moment, the traffic and road conditions from dalby to toowoomba. we had the unfortuate experience of driving past/taking a detour around the crash near oakey on our way home from the football late on saturday night, and on my way home from toowoomba yesterday after taking a ute down for a service, again i had to take a detour as the road was blocked yet again because of another accident. my stomach churned and i felt sick as i knew one day this would happen and i would know someone in an accident who may be hurt or even killed. and low and behold, i get back to dalby and learn trevor and lyn, whom i have worked for in the past and are good friends of ours were in the accident.

people need to start using some common sense when driving on this road, everyone is impatient and try to overtake at any opportunity, darting in and out from behind trucks to see if another car is coming. you need to allow nearly an hour and a half to get to t'bar during the day and thats just what has to be done.

it makes me nervous. everytime myself or chloe has to drive that way i cringe and pray that we'll make it there safely.

keep it real.
daniel.