When One Door Closes, Another Opens...

Just when I think I'm comfortable with the somewhat skewed course of our lives, the Gods conspire to throw us off the deep end. Take this last week, for example. Nine days ago, we welcomed our French and very green backpackers, Bas and Pascou, to the House that Rocks. By Sunday, they had had experience helping Michael in the workshop and home sheds, been introduced to a red back spider and a snake named a gwardar (classified as dangerous!), participated as flaggies at the Motocross, been covered in mud and attempted to dry washing during an unusually wet April. In addition, we helped them source a car and paid work during the week. Monday to Friday for the next four weeks, they are part of a team repairing and cleaning a pub in a nearby town. Saturday and Sunday, they are back with us.

Exit one set of helpers on Monday morning. Immediately replaced with another willing worker and his trade assistant. Ryan McCoy wandered into the East End Gallery last Friday with Muddy Waters, a genial and well mannered ten-year-old Red Heeler.

On the road and in search of work, Ryan has swapped power and the use of our loo and bathroom for assisting Michael with moving metal, installing a couple of power points (YAY) and is looking for work, here in Heavenly Beverley and elsewhere.

Self-contained in his camper bus with a fully loaded ute, Ryan is available for electrical, mechanical, farm, yard, welding, MR truck driving and can turn his hand to most jobs. Being half the age of the Beverley Hillbillies, he has been a godsend!

I will be devastated when he and Muddy move on. (sob) Muddy has fitted into our menagerie with no issues. The Three Stooges have become the Awesome Foursome. And he acts as deputy curator and security detail at the East End Gallery.

Ryan is marvellously helpful and tidy around the house. Girls...he washes dishes and cleans kitchens. He can be contacted on 0429 775 585.

What a man!

Muddy, hard at work in the East End Gallery.

Ryan, a man who chews wall plugs!

Up...

up and away!

Muddy in anxiety mode...

whilst his Dad and honorary uncle are enjoying a well-deserved liquid refreshment.

Muddy at the end of a busy day, back in relaxed mode.