Friday night was online board games with my friends. We played some games of Jump Drive, Knarr, Can’t Stop, and Just One. Nothing really big or long, as people were popping in and out with things they needed to do. I made pizza for dinner in the middle of a game, another guy took his dog for a walk, and so on.
During the day I did my usual critical thinking classes.
After lunch we had a painter come in to inspect the place and prepare a quote for repainting our apartment. We’ve decided to bite the bullet and get that job done. It will be a big job, requiring packing a lot of things into moving boxes and storing them in the garage so we can move the furniture into the middle of rooms to allow access to the walls for the painters. The guy said it would take a full week to do the job. We’re planning to do this some time in October or November.
Today I did a 5k run in the morning. The day was very cold and very windy. A cold front system is blowing up from the south, bringing a lot of cold air. We were supposed to get snow on the Blue Mountains west of Sydney overnight, but I don’t know if that actually happened or not. It only snows up there about once every three or four years.
Scully had a vet checkup to follow-up her tooth extraction last week. The vet said she’s doing well and can go back on crunchy foods. Then after that we dropped her off at the groomer for a full cut and wash. While Scully was at the groomer, my wife and I took the Metro into the city and used the opportunity to go places where we can’t take Scully. We got off at Barangaroo and walked over to The Rocks.
We browsed around in a art supply shop and bought a few things. I found some fillable brushes with actual bristles, that you can fill with ink or liquid watercolour. I’m going to try them with ink for drawing. Then we stopped at La Renaissance, a French patisserie, and had some pain au chocolat. I did a sketch while sitting at the table outside the patisserie.
We moved to a bench seat by the street across from The Garrison Church, and where we also had a view of the Harbour Bridge. Mt wife sketched the Bridge, while I started work on the church. Unfortunately, about a quarter of the way finished, a bus pulled up and parked right in front of us, entirely blocking our view! The driver turned the engine off and got out, having a break. I had to walk around the bus and stand on the other side, next to the traffic, to finish drawing the church.
After heading back and picking up Scully from the groomer we went out to our local pizza place for dinner. Normally I have pizza, but tonight I tried a fettuccine with lamb ragu and mushrooms, which was really nice.