It was one of those typical Sunday afternoons - the Weekly Times broken up into parts and spread all over the table - and both of us reading out bits and pieces of interest as we encountered them.
So he says something along the lines of "there's a 10,000 egg incubator for sale here and it's dirt cheap...".
Of course everybody wants a 10,000 egg incubator so we thought it had probably been snapped up - but why not call.
It was still available.
Most people had been assuming that the 10,000 bit was a misprint and had nearly swallowed their phones when they heard the details. So the seller was really careful to spell out the facts.
Yes it was a 10,000 egg incubator.
It was tucked away in a garage in Melbourne's South-Eastern suburbs.
Where it had been for 30 years give or take a few.
Oh and it weighs about a tonne. Give or take a few kilos.
And it's big. About 6 feet high, 6 feet 3 wide and around 8 feet long.
And it's now in our shed.
Getting it here?
Well - 1 car transport trailer and 1 hired ute (no way ours was going to pull that up a hill and besides - no airconditioning - we'd have been soup by about Ballan).
7 very large blokes at the Melbourne end - lots of water pipe, 1 winch, 1 hour's much pushing, shoving, sweating and sheer physical hard work.
3 or so hours drive.
Next morning, 2 blokes, 3 girls, water pipe, one set of welded wheels (made the night before), a couple of bars and gravity and there it is.
It "should" still work - needs a new motor, and needs a good clean out. But lordy it's beautiful.
She's just grumpy that something else is distracting us from worshipping herself.