Today our dear Roadie friend Chris Riley passed away. She bravely battled several different types of cancer from her teenage years through to her seventies, but she couldn’t beat the last one.
Chris and Bill have been together for more than 52 years. Chris had hoped to make it to their 50th wedding anniversary later this year, but that wasn’t to be. Bill has been by her side throughout these medical battles.
Chris loved reading my blog, especially about the antics of our critters, and seeing their photos. Our Roadie family is reaching out to Bill, and we hope to see him soon.
We left Auburn at 10am and made a tourist stop at the small town of Saddleworth. The colours used in the house renovation make it stand out.
I recognised the yellow scaffold platform as being the same as the one I bought recently. I am glad I don’t have as much work to do on it as the owner of this house.
A former shop now houses a local museum. It was closed, otherwise I would have visited. The front bay windows are in an unusual timber frame.
The 1873 Saddleworth Institute was remodelled in 1963 when the unattractive entrance was added to the front door.
This impressive two storey Art Deco former bank was built in 1938 as a branch of the Bank of Adelaide. The branch was closed in 1942 as part of wartime rationalisation. In November 2023 the bank building and attached residence was sold for $539,000.
We checked in to the Nuriootpa caravan park just after midday. After setting up, we drove to the bakery for lunch, then to the Barossa Co-op for shopping. The rest of the day was devoted to washing and getting it dried. Clothes that can’t go in the dryer are hanging around the Bushtracker.
On one of my treks to the laundry, this gorgeous kookaburra was sitting on a clothes line. He or she posed for photos!
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