Marguerite
Active Member
It's Fathers Day here. difficult child 3 got husband his breakfast this morning - cup of tea and bowl of muesli. It was a very relaxed morning. difficult child 1 came home today (instead of tomorrow) so he could wish his dad a happy Father's Day.
First Sunday of the month - the artists' open day. I dropped in on our very talented neighbour to see how his current HUGE work is progressing - amazing how fast he works, although husband said he's seen the midnight lamps burning a lot. This artist's home is between our place and mother in law's, we go past a lot. He's Chinese, friends of another artist friend of ours who is also Chinese. Our second friend - doesn't speak English so his student visits him on open days and handles the visitors. I heard that he hasn't been well so I went to visit him also, with his student. She told me that her sensei has just had more open heart surgery and is not well - he lives alone and with no English, is very lonely. I was also concerned to see he's not done much new work lately - this is a man who lives for his painting and sketching, he must be feeling more ill than he is letting on, to not be painting much. He used to live very close to our house, which is how we got to know him.
husband has been trying to repair my electric scooter - the charging unit is dead, without it I can't recharge the batteries and so I'm getting limited in where I can go. He's heard from someone in the US who says they have parts... wish us luck.
Time to chase difficult child 3 to the bath, then dinner. The sun has set on a glorious, warm spring day. We've been told that winter is dropping back in for a visit for a few days - maybe sending a message to APEC? It would be sunny in Canberra now, plus it's absolutely beautiful there, with Floriade. APEC should be in our capital city, enjoying the flowers, not clogging Sydney's arteries.
I got some spring gardening done today, including harvesting more from the veggie patch for lunch. Lots of parsley, some sugar snap peas, and I planted corn and more tomatoes. One of our hens died - she'd been looking weaker, walking slowly with arthritis, but otherwise didn't seem to be suffering. We knew she was running out of time. Not sure how old she was - at least ten years old, maybe fifteen. The boys buried her in the backyard. And even though the occupants of our chook house are all geriatric and dwindling in numbers, someone in there is laying, almost every day. Those chooks are simply amazing!
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg
First Sunday of the month - the artists' open day. I dropped in on our very talented neighbour to see how his current HUGE work is progressing - amazing how fast he works, although husband said he's seen the midnight lamps burning a lot. This artist's home is between our place and mother in law's, we go past a lot. He's Chinese, friends of another artist friend of ours who is also Chinese. Our second friend - doesn't speak English so his student visits him on open days and handles the visitors. I heard that he hasn't been well so I went to visit him also, with his student. She told me that her sensei has just had more open heart surgery and is not well - he lives alone and with no English, is very lonely. I was also concerned to see he's not done much new work lately - this is a man who lives for his painting and sketching, he must be feeling more ill than he is letting on, to not be painting much. He used to live very close to our house, which is how we got to know him.
husband has been trying to repair my electric scooter - the charging unit is dead, without it I can't recharge the batteries and so I'm getting limited in where I can go. He's heard from someone in the US who says they have parts... wish us luck.
Time to chase difficult child 3 to the bath, then dinner. The sun has set on a glorious, warm spring day. We've been told that winter is dropping back in for a visit for a few days - maybe sending a message to APEC? It would be sunny in Canberra now, plus it's absolutely beautiful there, with Floriade. APEC should be in our capital city, enjoying the flowers, not clogging Sydney's arteries.
I got some spring gardening done today, including harvesting more from the veggie patch for lunch. Lots of parsley, some sugar snap peas, and I planted corn and more tomatoes. One of our hens died - she'd been looking weaker, walking slowly with arthritis, but otherwise didn't seem to be suffering. We knew she was running out of time. Not sure how old she was - at least ten years old, maybe fifteen. The boys buried her in the backyard. And even though the occupants of our chook house are all geriatric and dwindling in numbers, someone in there is laying, almost every day. Those chooks are simply amazing!
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg