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  1. New floor

    January 5, 2012 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    Yes­ter­day the car­pet in our main liv­ing area got removed and they have started to pol­ish the con­crete. It is a dusty job. Our car­pet was very old and dete­ri­o­rated, so the own­ers have opted for the pol­ished con­crete option. So the process is to Paul up the car­pet and smooth edge. Then pol­ish all the con­crete and fill any holes and cracks. They then give it one more quick pol­ish and put a clear coat of sealant on top. It will look pretty cool as far as I’m con­cerned. Just very dusty at present.

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  2. Long weekend

    December 25, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    Yes, how quickly time passes. Ten days since my last entry on my blog. As the silly sea­son hits us (Christ­mas and New Year), work got extremely busy. I’ve been work­ing a lot, so hav­ing a break is a wel­come change. Yes­ter­day, we pretty much had a nice cruizy day with a bit of a sleep in and a leisurely break­fast. We still had our meet­ing to go to, but that is never a burden.

    Today we’ll be clean­ing out the garage in prepa­ra­tion for Dad’s visit. We are going to do it up into a bit of a bed­room, so that we can all be com­fort­able. When not in use as a bed­room, it can be a study and a cof­fee room. Ryan Ped­er­sen has given us some slid­ing glass doors, which we’ll be installing just behind the garage roller door. That way we can open up the roller door and have a nice bit of light come in, keep an eye on the kids play­ing out the front, while still hav­ing a closed room.

    Cam and Sean have been busy boys in our back­yard. They decided amongst them­selves that, while our fence made out of bam­boo reed was ok, it could do with improve­ment, so they con­creted the poles in and have started putting up a proper fence. It’s great! It gives a nice level of pri­vacy in the back­yard. It was quite a nice sur­prise to see their hard work when arriv­ing home.

    Jan­u­ary is going to be another busy month. We have our CO visit, and Reilly will be going to the US with the Pen­folds for the intense pro­gram at the Son-Rise centre.

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  3. Successful trivia nite — visitor gone

    December 16, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    After some hic­cups the Trivia nite turned out a great suc­cess. So much so that we have no hit the tar­get for the Pen­folds to be able to go to the US this Jan­u­ary. It’ll con­tinue to be an ongo­ing costly exer­cise, but at least this hur­dle has been overcome.

    The board went for $2200!

    We had a bit of a hic­cup. About an hour and a half before we were to start, the lap­top on which I had the Trivia pro­gram setup (to run on the pro­jec­tor screen), decided to just die alto­gether. It just went blank and wouldn’t power up any­more. So, I very quickly drove home, installed the soft­ware on a dif­fer­ent pc, re-type the ques­tions (which I thank­fully had printed the night before), redid the audio clips and drove back to Ban­ga­low, to have it all set up and run­ning just in time. Phew, that was a close one.

    Aunty Shane left yes­ter­day. We enjoyed hav­ing her here. I would’ve liked to have spent a bit more time with her, but unfor­tu­nately was very busy at work. But we man­aged to catch up and have some nice talks. I think she enjoyed her stay and had a good rest also. She devoured a few books while here and slept in a few mornings.

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  4. Visitor and Reilly’s planning skills put to the test.

    December 8, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    yes we have been busy and even Reilly’s plan­ning skills were put to the test this week. tomor­row nite we have the Trivia Nite for Cove. And today Aunty Shane will be com­ing to visit for 8 days.…. or so Reilly thought.

    In fact, she arrived yes­ter­day! Reilly received a mes­sage at about 12.30 say­ing that she had arrived at the Gold Coast air­port. Whoops. So I jumped in the van and went and picked her up.

    All is good!

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  5. Recovering Cove trivia night

    November 29, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    Before I forget…

    We have a spot to book tick­ets for the Trivia Night.

    (16–12-11 — note: link now dis­abled) There is a link in the side bar on this blog, but I’m insert­ing it in this post also:

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  6. Sand everywhere

    November 29, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    So, I’ve been back at work for a week now, and tomor­row things should be return­ing to some sort of nor­mal­ity. John flew back from Syd­ney this after­noon and will be back at work again tomorrow.

    But, it has not all been work and no play. This after­noon, after work, we went to the beach for a while. It has been a really hot day here and even at 6pm, when we went to the beach, the sun was out and the water was beautiful.

    I’m hav­ing to force myself to enjoy the beach more. It is funny how some­times you build up a men­tal block in your mind. When I think of going to the beach, I think.……“sand every­where.” Yes okay, I under­stand that his may seem like stat­ing the obvi­ous, but I mean, you bring your sun­nies down, sand all in the lit­tle hinges etc. try and have a drink or some­thing to eat with­out sand get­ting on it.…. Love the extra crunch on that salad sand­wich… Oh wait, it’s sand.… And then there is the sand that trav­els to every nook and cranny of your body.

    So, do I dis­like the beach? The funny thing is, no I don’t. Once I get to the beach, I love it. I enjoy swim­ming in the ocean, I enjoy spend­ing time at the beach. I really do!

    So what is the point? Well, in my case, I found the point to be that we some­times tend to have reser­va­tions about doing cer­tain things in life. Some of these reser­va­tions may be valid. Let’s face it, sand in your jocks is never a good thing. But, some­times, we allow minor things to become major reser­va­tions, which then pre­vent us from doing anything.

    In my exam­ple of the beach, what do we have. We have beau­ti­ful weather, miles and miles of ocean, and a beau­ti­ful clean beach. And we have sand. Sand which is nice and soft, sand which allows us to build sand­cas­tles with our kids, sand which allows us to walk on a nice soft sur­face, and yes, sand that gets in everything.

    But.… Sand washes off just as eas­ily. One quick wash with a gar­den hose or under a shower, and not only have you enjoyed the beach, but a refresh­ing shower to top it all off. Now we are clean and refreshed.

    Les­son learned. Focus on, and enjoy the good things. Don’t allow minor incon­ve­niences or ‘neg­a­tives’ to stop you from enjoy­ing the beau­ti­ful things in creation.

    Pro­found med­i­ta­tive stuff or a lot of gass­bag­ging? That one is for you to decide.

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    Loca­tion:Pacific Vista Dr,Byron Bay,Australia

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  7. Back at work.

    November 23, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    After arriv­ing home, with the KH pc to be repaired, there was another sur­prise wait­ing. John (my employer), rang me to let me know he was fly­ing out to Syd­ney as it looked like his mother would not have much longer to live. So this morn­ing, it was back into the full swing of things.

    John’s mother did indeed pass away this morn­ing. I am very happy that at least John was able to be there by her side as she passed away.

    Our thoughts are with him and his family.

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    Loca­tion:Home

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  8. Our brief but enjoyable holiday

    November 22, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    We just got home from a 6 day hol­i­day in Yamba. We rented out a house with Cam, Kel­lie and their boys, Sean, and us three. It was very enjoy­able. We couldn’t have asked for bet­ter accom­mo­da­tion or weather.

    We went to dif­fer­ent beaches every­day, enjoyed the surf and prob­a­bly gained a few pounds!

    I also did a lot of read­ing and study­ing. Got the elders book, so went through that a few times and did all my research for the elders school com­ing up in Feb­ru­ary. It was great to have the time to do all that study­ing, know­ing that I wasn’t going to have to inter­rupt it to go to work or sort out any­thing. I could just focus on my study. It was great!

    Oh, and we also took Lilly fish­ing a cou­ple of times. Caught a flat­head and a whiting.

    As soon as we hit the road to come back, the first call came in. The sound sys­tem in the hall was struck by light­ning. Yay! Lennox is hav­ing their meet­ing tonite. So on the way back we stopped by at the hall, removed the bro­ken bits and got the sound work­ing. Now it’s time to get back to work both at my job and in the congregation.

    But, at least, I’ve had the chance to wind down and relax for a few days. And I’m def­i­nitely feel­ing the bet­ter for it. It was an over­due break, but the best one I’ve had in a long time.

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    Loca­tion:Yamba, nsw,

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  9. One day assembly

    November 13, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    We had our one day assem­bly yes­ter­day. For the past few assem­blies we have had to drive to Bris­bane. Always tricky because we are in NSW and Brissie is QLD, so that means that dur­ing the spring/summer, they are an hour behind us.

    It’s a bit of a drive to get to Brissie, but it is def­i­nitely worth it. In the past, we used to go to Lis­more and have our assem­blies at the com­mu­nity cen­ter there, which was not very com­fort­able to say the least. The assem­bly hall in Bris­bane is a pur­pose built one, which means much com­fort­able seat­ing and good sound.

    It was an enjoy­able day. But I have to say that I’m pretty exhausted today. We have been extremely busy over the past few weeks, with even our week­ends taken up by things like the con­struc­tion of the carpark at our hall and then the mar­kets last week. So as a result, today is our first day ‘off’ in weeks.

    But, this Wednes­day, we’ll be dri­ving to Yamba for a short hol­i­day. I’m very much look­ing for­ward to a bit of a break.

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    Loca­tion:Pacific Vista Dr,Byron Bay,Australia

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  10. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

    November 9, 2011 by Sebastiaan Scholtens

    Yes indeed, I have abstained from post­ing any­thing on my blog for a cou­ple of weeks. One does not want to over­load one’s read­ers with too much triv­ial information.

    To be hon­est, it has been a very busy period. John (my boss), has had to fly to Syd­ney twice in the last two weeks, as his mother is very ill and prob­a­bly doesn’t have much longer to live. This has left me in charge of run­ning the busi­ness for the bet­ter part of two weeks. Good fun indeed.….…hmm.

    Then of course there was the mar­ket day prepa­ra­tion for the Sun­day mar­ket stall (more on that on Reilly’s blog).

    At our king­dom hall the new park­ing lot was put in last week (some 47 truck loads of concrete!).

    Of and this week­end we drive to Bris­bane for our assembly.

    Any­way, I decided I needed a bit of pam­per­ing after these busy weeks and asked Char­lotte to give me a hair­cut. It has made me a new man.


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    Loca­tion:Gre­vil­lea St,Byron Bay,Australia

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