Australian Labor Day

Today's Labor Day here in Aussie-land: a Federal holiday. For that reason, nearly all of the shops are closed, so there's no point running ''buying things'' types of errands.

The Lady and I took The Kid to a local park -- first time in a long time I've done this. Then we spent a few hours at a plant nursery, pondering all the different plants and trees and shrubs we'll -- some day, eventually -- plant.

Then did some puttering over on the Middle Block -- the lot where our house will be built. Filled in a bandicoot hole (i.e. one that was dug by a bandicoot), so no one would step in it and twist an ankle. Filled in a hole where there used to be a fence post. Dug up a few different instances of non-native plants (invasive species! bad!). I'd hoped to also mow the lawn, but by now it was getting near dark, so I'll have to do it another time.


On the computer front, I did a disk scan on the ''new-used'', Win XP computer I bought off work. All cleear, looks good.


--GG