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Larry & Annette Fisher
We met 1962. Larry was a Boy Scout & soon to become an apprentice boilermaker. I was a check out chick.
We married in 1967.
In 1969 we built & lived in Daisy Hill for about 5 years.
Thinking there must be more to life than this decided to travel for a couple of years. We rented the house & bought a caravan. Off we went with 2.5 kids at this stage. Larry worked around Nabiac, Long Jetty, Windang, Canberra & then Shepparton. 1976 we headed back to Brisbane. I stayed in Brisbane while Larry did shutdowns in Moranba, Dysart & Blackwater Mines. Larry ended up getting a permanent job at Utah Blackwater Mine as wash plant operator. So off we go again for 4� years. (it wasn't all that bad).
I came back to Brisbane in 1980 when it was time for high school. This is when Larry bought his first motor bike. A CB175 Honda. (He swapped his push bike for it.) Larry stayed on in Blackwater for another 8 months flying home every 6 weeks.
We had renovated our home when Larry took a job at Tarong Power Station near Nanango travelling home weekends. He did that for 2 years until I decided we might be better off going & living up there with to save him some travel time until the job was finished. Off we go again, rented the house again & bought another caravan. ( that was fun with 3 teenage daughters). After 12 months we came home again, sold the van & bought a block of land at Logan Village. Ended up selling at Daisy Hill. The girls & I lived in a hire van for another month while the 40x20 shed was being built, which we lived in for another 7 months while the house got built. (Gee why don't I like camping) Larry still worked at Tarong at this stage & still coming home weekends.
1985 Larry started his own Engineering Business. This when he bought his CX500. I had only one ride on it. It was not my style.
Shortly after we decided to go into another Engineering business with 3 other partners. (That was fun) we only lasted 5 months. One of the others shot himself & of course the other 2 are rich. Totally devastated Larry sat on the back step for about 3 months. Then one day he thought it was about time he found himself a job & vowed that he was never doing boiler making again.
For the first time in his life he went the CES who offered him a job driving a mini tipper. Six months later we bought the mini tipper & six months after that we bought the excavator & truck. Which we still have today.
Our 3 daughters are all happily married & we now have 7 grand-children.
The Goldwing came when he turned 50. You know the rest.
Now how boring is that?
Larry & Annette Fisher
