Mildura

We had a great weekend at Mildura a few weeks ago, the weather was lovely, sunny days and cold nights, and we were parked right on the Murray river so we enjoyed the Paddle steamers going up and down. Also watched a Steamer go through a lock which was interesting and we visited Orange World - run by Mario and Maria! Mario has the most amazing memory and remembered all of our names, and the rest of the group (another 10 people) for our whole tour.

He had the kids off picking oranges and mandarines for everyone and he encouraged everyone to buy Australian, not Californian, fruit! Needing 400L per tree, per week, it has been hard to keep up amongst drought conditions and he has had to pull out trees, then last year they had super hot weather and many of the flowers fell off before they went to fruit. Such is the life of the man on the land and we sympathised with him.

We dropped by two days later and Mario still remembered our names - what an inspiration in putting our mind to good use and ... memorizing scriptures maybe! I recently read about someone who memorized a verse a day over three years, that's 1000 verses, who is up for the challenge! Start with Psalm 1, 23, 91, 121, 139, 150 they are all favourites of mine, have fun.