Marguerite
Active Member
G'day people.
Summer is definitely here. The days are hot and sunny with cloudless sky burning like lapis enamel. Then mid-afternoon the clouds build. Sometimes they don't venture past the horizon; other times they slam in had and fast, dump a load of thunder and lighting with varying amounts of moisture (from none to torrents) in fifteen minutes, then the sky clears again.
I drove easy child 2/difficult child 2 to the therapist today, then to the optometrist (new glasses - thank goodness for her health insurance, it paid for her new glasses) then home to work on job applications (after some valuable advice from the therapist). She began to complain of feeling tired and having trouble concentrating - I pointed out that I had other work to do at home and she needed to use me while i was there. So we finished.
Driving through the heat of the day - we tried with the windows down and finally had to give up and put the air conditioning on.
Back through the bush - the flannel flowers are out in full bloom. They are beautiful, in a simple way. They look like white daisies covering small bushes. These flowers have tiny pale green tips to each petal and look like they have been made from velvety soft fabric. For me they are a sign of Christmas coming soon. And also in abundance along the road through the bush, are small white moths out in the light, as if some of the flowers have taken wing from the plants. Pretty - until they slam into the windscreen!
I wish I wasn't so busy and could go sit on the beach. difficult child 3's schoolwork is now finished for the year, although the school year still has a month to go. So we're trying to get him to start next year's work - normally not allowed, but the school is trying to find a way around it. Because they're correspondence, they are permitted to post out next year's work for him to have ready to start on, next January. We just have to not post it back until the new school year begins after Australia Day.
I still have a lot of work to do tonight, to get ready for a publishing consultation tomorrow. ONce I get that out of the way I can work on my own stuff, I need to give a presentation next day. Very busy, but thankfully all close to home!
Enjoy your Friday.
Marg
Summer is definitely here. The days are hot and sunny with cloudless sky burning like lapis enamel. Then mid-afternoon the clouds build. Sometimes they don't venture past the horizon; other times they slam in had and fast, dump a load of thunder and lighting with varying amounts of moisture (from none to torrents) in fifteen minutes, then the sky clears again.
I drove easy child 2/difficult child 2 to the therapist today, then to the optometrist (new glasses - thank goodness for her health insurance, it paid for her new glasses) then home to work on job applications (after some valuable advice from the therapist). She began to complain of feeling tired and having trouble concentrating - I pointed out that I had other work to do at home and she needed to use me while i was there. So we finished.
Driving through the heat of the day - we tried with the windows down and finally had to give up and put the air conditioning on.
Back through the bush - the flannel flowers are out in full bloom. They are beautiful, in a simple way. They look like white daisies covering small bushes. These flowers have tiny pale green tips to each petal and look like they have been made from velvety soft fabric. For me they are a sign of Christmas coming soon. And also in abundance along the road through the bush, are small white moths out in the light, as if some of the flowers have taken wing from the plants. Pretty - until they slam into the windscreen!
I wish I wasn't so busy and could go sit on the beach. difficult child 3's schoolwork is now finished for the year, although the school year still has a month to go. So we're trying to get him to start next year's work - normally not allowed, but the school is trying to find a way around it. Because they're correspondence, they are permitted to post out next year's work for him to have ready to start on, next January. We just have to not post it back until the new school year begins after Australia Day.
I still have a lot of work to do tonight, to get ready for a publishing consultation tomorrow. ONce I get that out of the way I can work on my own stuff, I need to give a presentation next day. Very busy, but thankfully all close to home!
Enjoy your Friday.
Marg
I'm not even sure if she sees the connection of any of it, but I do. Hopefully her new glasses will be in soon and maybe that will spur her back into it, but it might not since her book order just got in and even though she really wanted these books when I ordered them she hasn't even looked at the back covers, let alone opened them. One she didn't even bring home, says she's reading it at school (might be true, it's an account of shark attacks and with her marine biology obsession and morbid humor she may actually read that one). The other books I got her are the start of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, so I'm hoping when the movie comes out on DVD that might get her to read those.
