10 - 17 July
G’day everyone.
Well, this week has been a week of carnage of all sorts. As I type I am a bit bruised and battered after tripping on a piece of carpet in the wallow last night and down a very ungraceful carpet dive across the floor and into one of the posts in the wallow. Of course this happened in front of absolutely everyone! All I could do was sit on the carpet with tears of pain and laughter streaming down my face as the boys looked on wandering if I was really hurt and all looking quite distressed. Very embarrassing indeed. I am SUCH a cluster!
I now sport no skin on my knees or the top of my right foot and have a very huge black bruise on my right arm.
We had another Blizz during the week – surprise surprise - which did more damage to our recently repaired IPS antenna farm. So up we went to repair what we could on the one day the winds abated for a few hours. By 8pm that night we had winds in excess of 80 knots once more.
There were a team of boys up at Wilkins Runaway doing some work and they struck carnage on their trip back. The caravan careened off the track and was swung sideways with all cars concenteening into each other. A door and a set of steps was literally ripped off the side of the living van while two of the other vans suffered torn walls and a ripped open metal sled bar.
Thank goodness the Hagg was nowhere near the carnage at the time or there may have been some serious human damage as well. But the Hagg was not without mishap either. The tail bar of the trailer was sheered off and fell behind without the boys even realizing in the huge storm until they stopped at a way point.
Today Chris, John and I headed out in a Hagg to find and retrieve the debris. Goodness me, there was a lot of carnage indeed and I am very surprised that we found all of it and bought it back to station. Winds may have been fierce but the debris was in a semi concentrated area of about 1000 metres. We found the abandoned trailer another 1200metres up the track.
Saturday afternoon I finally finished off my "Art piece" Mirror. Now I just need to make the frame and backing. Saturday night saw the first of our hanger ratz sessions. My poor little plane crashed and burned on the first run – having smashed off its wings and torn apart it’s body frame. It was a very sad moment indeed. It didn’t take long for the pool table to become the local “Carnage Area” as rat after rat fell from the sky and was destroyed in some way. But it was a fun evening and we all enjoyed ourselves well into the night. Today I spent some serious time putting the plane back together and also prettying it up so it is truly deserving of the “Prettiest Plane” award in a few weeks time. It hasn’t a hope of beating some of the times already laid down last night.
Next Friday is the second run of rat time trials and then on Saturday night we are having a “Karaoke” night. I have a good bottle of pink champagne put aside for the evening. This will ensure my “Dutch courage” is well and truly covered. I am thinking of belting out the “Age of Aquarius” just so I can wear a caftan and beads and act like a hippy all night. ;o]
Stay tuned for some very funny photos next week I imagine.
Till the - have a good one.
Trace :o]
Well, this week has been a week of carnage of all sorts. As I type I am a bit bruised and battered after tripping on a piece of carpet in the wallow last night and down a very ungraceful carpet dive across the floor and into one of the posts in the wallow. Of course this happened in front of absolutely everyone! All I could do was sit on the carpet with tears of pain and laughter streaming down my face as the boys looked on wandering if I was really hurt and all looking quite distressed. Very embarrassing indeed. I am SUCH a cluster!
I now sport no skin on my knees or the top of my right foot and have a very huge black bruise on my right arm.
We had another Blizz during the week – surprise surprise - which did more damage to our recently repaired IPS antenna farm. So up we went to repair what we could on the one day the winds abated for a few hours. By 8pm that night we had winds in excess of 80 knots once more.
There were a team of boys up at Wilkins Runaway doing some work and they struck carnage on their trip back. The caravan careened off the track and was swung sideways with all cars concenteening into each other. A door and a set of steps was literally ripped off the side of the living van while two of the other vans suffered torn walls and a ripped open metal sled bar.
Thank goodness the Hagg was nowhere near the carnage at the time or there may have been some serious human damage as well. But the Hagg was not without mishap either. The tail bar of the trailer was sheered off and fell behind without the boys even realizing in the huge storm until they stopped at a way point.
Today Chris, John and I headed out in a Hagg to find and retrieve the debris. Goodness me, there was a lot of carnage indeed and I am very surprised that we found all of it and bought it back to station. Winds may have been fierce but the debris was in a semi concentrated area of about 1000 metres. We found the abandoned trailer another 1200metres up the track.
Saturday afternoon I finally finished off my "Art piece" Mirror. Now I just need to make the frame and backing. Saturday night saw the first of our hanger ratz sessions. My poor little plane crashed and burned on the first run – having smashed off its wings and torn apart it’s body frame. It was a very sad moment indeed. It didn’t take long for the pool table to become the local “Carnage Area” as rat after rat fell from the sky and was destroyed in some way. But it was a fun evening and we all enjoyed ourselves well into the night. Today I spent some serious time putting the plane back together and also prettying it up so it is truly deserving of the “Prettiest Plane” award in a few weeks time. It hasn’t a hope of beating some of the times already laid down last night.
Next Friday is the second run of rat time trials and then on Saturday night we are having a “Karaoke” night. I have a good bottle of pink champagne put aside for the evening. This will ensure my “Dutch courage” is well and truly covered. I am thinking of belting out the “Age of Aquarius” just so I can wear a caftan and beads and act like a hippy all night. ;o]
Stay tuned for some very funny photos next week I imagine.
Till the - have a good one.
Trace :o]
posted by Tracey in Casey - Antarctica at 5:44 pm
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