Already two months gone
The year is moving along at a cracking pace. Seems like just a few days ago it was the new year and now the first two months are already done. Life has been busier than usual the past few weeks with lots more appointments happening and some more to come. I still need to make a couple other appointments but I keep using that procrastination gene about doing that.
The latest excitement in our house is the new mattress that was delivered for our bed yesterday afternoon. Years ago we bought one of those pillow top mattresses and paid a tidy sum at the time. Within a few months we realised how much we disliked the mattress but it was too late by then. The support was lacking almost from the start and we vowed not to buy another pillow top mattress again. Besides, it’s quite difficult to find sheets to fit the mattress and the ones we have used have all gotten stretched out of shape. I bought two new sets of sheets from Target today while they are on sale but was unable to find a mattress protector that was suitable. Seems all the queen sizes in the type I wanted were unavailable even though there is a sale that only started today. I will try another Target store tomorrow and try a couple of other shops in hopes of something that works for us.
A couple weekends ago we went to Fremantle for the first time in a year or so. I think the last time I was there with Lego Lover to see the Queen Mary 2 in late February but the Scientist hadn’t been since November 2011 when we went on a whale watching cruise. Our plan for the day was to eat at our favorite eatery then visit the Shipwreck Gallery which has some interesting exhibits about the many shipwrecks that have occurred off the Western Australian coast over the years. Lego Lover really enjoyed this visit and I’m sure we’ll be back some time soon. He got a souvenir coin from the museum which is a part of a series of coins from tourist places all over the state. After we finished there, Lego Lover wanted to go see the Maritime Museum again so we traipsed over there and renewed our membership that lapsed a year ago. Normally I don’t notice many changes between visits but this time there were quite a few new exhibits and others had been altered in some ways. It made it a rather new experience compared to some of our last visits. We also happened to get there on the last weekend of a special exhibit about Antarctica which we quite liked. It had one display which was essentially a rather large touch screen computer where you could find out more about some of the topics included. What was really neat was the way you could bring up a photo and then make it bigger or smaller and even move it all around the screen. Our visits were all near the fishing boat harbor and the quay but we had parked a few blocks away to get free parking. With my relatively new cross trainers, I managed quite well for most of the day and then really suffered on the way back to the car. I was worn out enough that I skipped going to the gym that evening because there was no way I’d have managed any exercise.
March started with some cooler weather after what has been a record of summer heat here. Apparently it was a record across Australia as a whole and not just for Western Australia. To me it didn’t seem to be a particularly hot summer. On at least one level  there’s a record based on the number of days where the temperature rose above 37 C. I’m not quite sure that’s a good reflection of the overall picture since it doesn’t reflect the temperatures over the course of the day. February was particularly dry and I don’t think we had any rain through the month despite a tropical cyclone hitting the coast up north. I assume it moved in the wrong direction to bring us any precipitation.
