Indoor Cricket milestone

The last few days have been memorable as far as indoor cricket goes.

We've had a lot of guys away from the team. Pete was in China for a while, Dave was in China, then in USA. Tim has been all over the state (Bourke, Wellington, Cobar) working for the National Australia Bank. Ben Morris moved to Northern Territory cos of his Army training. Nathan has gone back to Orange for a couple of weeks too.

Fortunately we haven't been doing much losing, even with a skeleton team. We have a couple of strong new players. Banjo (Brendan) joined up a few weeks ago and is showing some class. Last week he brought along a friend, Dallas, who also has some good cricket skills.

Tonight we had another of Brendan's friends fill in, his name is Ivan, and he also seemed to know a thing or two about cricket.

BUT the biggest thing worth noting is the batting partnership between Banjo and I. FINALLY I started seeing the ball well and playing like I did when I was younger.

Last Thursday against Nunfa, Brendan and I made 104. We clocked the scoreboard, cos it only goes to 99 for each skin.

Then tonight, to prove it wasn't a fluke, we played a more confident team than Nunfa - Tracey's Tilers. They got a respectable score, then proceeded to defend their skins. Salvos looked a bit down, taking only 1 of the first 3 skins. Brendan and I went in to try and get our skin of 41, but the game itself was about 70 or more runs out of reach.

Luckily we had our eyes locked in on the ball, cos we got the skin, then I sealed the game by hitting a six on jackpot ball. We got 80-something, and a total of 4 game points.

SWEET!

I'm hoping that form carries through for a while. I'm enjoying hitting the ball again.

BIG weekend

Janene and I had to hurry up and do some extra work on the house, cos the bank was sending around an independent valuer to check we'd spent money on the renovations.

Our builder (and christian friend) John Parker offered to come over on Saturday and do some construction jobs (free of charge).

We put in a hard day's work, from about 8:30am til maybe 7:30pm. I did a whole lot of painting, and Janene did lots of cleaning and staining of the timber woodwork.

John spent the day putting shelving in the laundry cupboard, as well as other odd jobs, such as fixing the kitchen floor.

The valuer rocked up on Monday, asked a few questions, looked around for ages then left.

Once all that is finalised, we get to pay back the $130k!! Yay... joy!

Check out my Flickr album, I have put some photos of the painted dining room wall (first coat only).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogsta/