Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, folks.
It's felt like the tropics here for the past few days. Not just hot, but incredibly humid. We're getting some rain, but not vast amounts. Enough to keep things damp and like a hothouse. There are toadstools growing in the mulch in the gardens all round town. Not because the ground is waterlogged - it's not - but due to the humidity. Driving home last night from visiting mother in law in the hospital, the fog was very thick, a pea-souper. And in places where we don't generally get fog. But the roads heat up during the day, t hen they get damp from rain and you can actually see the mist rising from the road, like it's one large, long, fog machine. You know those old movies like Brigadoon? I used to watch those and think, mist never behaves like that. But it does here at the moment.
We collected mother in law from hospital today, brought her home. I've got a lamb roast in the oven for dinner for us all tonight. She was feeling the cold in hospital from the air conditioning, but as she stepped outside, she realised we weren't kidding when I said it's like Singapore here. But we'd turned on her air conditioning at home, so it should have been comfortable for her.
On the way home from hospital we stopped off to do some shopping. First we bought some waterproof soft matting for mother in law's bathroom area - she's not allowed to have sliding mats, but wants something soft underfoot. We found something really good, husband put it down this afternoon and he said she likes it.
After that we did a little grocery shopping and vegetable shopping, it was all handy at the mall, then we headed home. husband was driving to give me a chance to rest - we didn't sleep too well last night; no surprises there! At home, easy child 2/difficult child 2 was there doing her washing. I'm not sure how much help she will be in my attempt to clean house. We need to talk about that.
Thank you all for the support that has been expressed, over my freshly diagnosed breast cancer. As I said, I've been feeling very fatalistic about it. What's the point in getting upset, when I can't change anything? I'll post in more detail in Watercooler so I don't clog this thread, but just to reassure - I'm OK. I spent a lot of time this morning talking to my sisters and this afternoon talking to friends who have been through this themselves. I'm using the next few days to inform myself.
Tomorrow - it depends on how mother in law is going, but we might head to church. We'll see. There'll be no beach for a few days, not until the clouds lift. But it's still a peaceful place to be. We have a number of beaches in town, the one I usually visit is one of the wilder, more isolated ones. But the church is right on another of our beaches and it would be good to sit out on the veranda afterwards and just be with friends.
Dinner is now cooked, it's time to pack it up and head down the road to grandma's house and serve up dinner.
Enjoy your Saturday, everyone.
Marg
It's felt like the tropics here for the past few days. Not just hot, but incredibly humid. We're getting some rain, but not vast amounts. Enough to keep things damp and like a hothouse. There are toadstools growing in the mulch in the gardens all round town. Not because the ground is waterlogged - it's not - but due to the humidity. Driving home last night from visiting mother in law in the hospital, the fog was very thick, a pea-souper. And in places where we don't generally get fog. But the roads heat up during the day, t hen they get damp from rain and you can actually see the mist rising from the road, like it's one large, long, fog machine. You know those old movies like Brigadoon? I used to watch those and think, mist never behaves like that. But it does here at the moment.
We collected mother in law from hospital today, brought her home. I've got a lamb roast in the oven for dinner for us all tonight. She was feeling the cold in hospital from the air conditioning, but as she stepped outside, she realised we weren't kidding when I said it's like Singapore here. But we'd turned on her air conditioning at home, so it should have been comfortable for her.
On the way home from hospital we stopped off to do some shopping. First we bought some waterproof soft matting for mother in law's bathroom area - she's not allowed to have sliding mats, but wants something soft underfoot. We found something really good, husband put it down this afternoon and he said she likes it.
After that we did a little grocery shopping and vegetable shopping, it was all handy at the mall, then we headed home. husband was driving to give me a chance to rest - we didn't sleep too well last night; no surprises there! At home, easy child 2/difficult child 2 was there doing her washing. I'm not sure how much help she will be in my attempt to clean house. We need to talk about that.
Thank you all for the support that has been expressed, over my freshly diagnosed breast cancer. As I said, I've been feeling very fatalistic about it. What's the point in getting upset, when I can't change anything? I'll post in more detail in Watercooler so I don't clog this thread, but just to reassure - I'm OK. I spent a lot of time this morning talking to my sisters and this afternoon talking to friends who have been through this themselves. I'm using the next few days to inform myself.
Tomorrow - it depends on how mother in law is going, but we might head to church. We'll see. There'll be no beach for a few days, not until the clouds lift. But it's still a peaceful place to be. We have a number of beaches in town, the one I usually visit is one of the wilder, more isolated ones. But the church is right on another of our beaches and it would be good to sit out on the veranda afterwards and just be with friends.
Dinner is now cooked, it's time to pack it up and head down the road to grandma's house and serve up dinner.
Enjoy your Saturday, everyone.
Marg
