G'day, friends.
TM, you sound like you have a really fun day planned, even if it will be busy. The birthday party will be a good way to wind down after the day.
We had another lovely day in paradise. Ok, not so warm as yesterday, but sunny and pleasant nevertheless.
We went to church this morning and our friends from Africa were also there, having stayed overnight after the fundraising dinner last night. Once more the father of the family spoke about his/their experiences as refugees. He continued his story including a humorous anecdote about his difficulty in finding a church just after they first arrived in Australia - a local shopkeeper told him to look it up in Yellow Pages, and our friend just didn't understand. He finally found out that Yellow Pages is a business phone directory; and then he had to try to connect the phone number and address as printed on the page, with how to find the building on the street. In all their times constantly trying to escape conflict and living in various refugee camps, he'd never learned how to use a phone directory or a street directory. Mind you, he was a fast learner. A very intelligent man, with an amazing story. The tragedy is, it's just one of millions of stories.
After church we visited another friend's place - she's just opened a small gallery (as if our town hasn't got enough?). It only opened this weekend, her current exhibition is of four local photographers. Her place is also right where we park when we're going to difficult child 3's favourite beach, so after having a look at all the photos on display, difficult child 3 quickly changed and went for a swim. Kids! They don't feel the cold... the water temperature was 17C (62F)!
We bought a photo (unframed - much cheaper), would have loved to have bought more but we would need much more wall space than we have. I just framed it, it meant rearranging other family photos, but that's OK. Now all I need is husband to put new picture wire on three of our photos and a couple more picture hooks on the wall, and we're in the gallery business ourselves - at least our own private gallery.
Tomorrow will be hotter again, with possible storms. I got my new plants in this afternoon (most of them) so I must try and get the rest in before the rain tomorrow, so they can get watered in more naturally. Plus there's more work to do in the vegetable garden, more work to do with my tomatoes, some seeds to plant - and a doctor to see in the afternoon.
So much to do, so few hours...
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Marg