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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 200691" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day to everyone.</p><p></p><p>Fran, Christmas stuff already? That IS scary! Mind you, mother in law wants to come shopping with me on Tuesday so she can get the dried fruit for her Christmas pudding.</p><p></p><p>Linda, you must have needed that sleep. Sometimes I wish I could teleport you over to our village on a day like today - first Sunday of the month is our local artists' open day, I took difficult child 3 & mother in law around to see some of the studios we didn't get to see last time we did this. Now we've only got the next village to go. husband was working on our taxes and frankly needs to be left alone when he's working on them; he gets like a bear with a sore head. And mother in law needed to get out and do something a bit more exciting than stare at her four walls. Today we only saw three artists - two of them turned out to be friends of mine but I was never exactly sure where they live (one has only recently moved to her current place which used to be owned by another artist friend who died earlier this year). And the third - our neighbour up the road, who is currently doing really well professionally. He just got back from an exhibition in New York on Chinese Revolution artists (he was one of them) and from installing his fabulous mural in Kuala Lumpur.</p><p></p><p>Today was the first day of summer Daylight Saving for us. We have a long weekend so it makes the impact a little softer. difficult child 3 was re-setting clocks wherever he could, including in the artists' studios!</p><p></p><p>The weather is still cool, it will stay cool for the rest of the week. Our football grand final was today - Manly Eagles (based in Sydney) vs Melbourne Storms. And Manly won! Yay!</p><p></p><p>More rain is forecast tomorrow, I'll be happy for my garden. I hoped to get more done today with tidying up the garden beds outside our bathroom - it's an enclosed courtyard with (at the moment) a heap of sand and two palm trees. I want to turn it into a tropical garden and weeded out a lot of rubbish a couple of months ago. There is one wall of glass opening out to this courtyard, the budgies love to sit in there all day every day so I want it to be a nice place for me to sit too. I'm hoping to get some work done before it rains. Doing planting in the rain is good - it makes the job easier. I'll be wearing my warm clothes though - 18 C is the max (64 F). After enjoying the heat at the beach last week, it's frustrating.</p><p></p><p>I'm enjoying the garden - I have discovered for myself that coffee grounds in the garden kills the slugs and snails! Now I have to drink up even more coffee - I harvested some red silverbeet tonight (and some yellow) and found a few snails doing damage. I'm going to harvest more vegetables tomorrow and plant some more. I'd like to get difficult child 3 to help me, but his current project is installing a lot of our old educational software on our "broken" computer, the one that got its ethernet chip burned out in the lightning strike. Everything else works; plus difficult child 3 has been asked to do some maths coaching, he can use the software to help.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Sunday.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 200691, member: 1991"] G'day to everyone. Fran, Christmas stuff already? That IS scary! Mind you, mother in law wants to come shopping with me on Tuesday so she can get the dried fruit for her Christmas pudding. Linda, you must have needed that sleep. Sometimes I wish I could teleport you over to our village on a day like today - first Sunday of the month is our local artists' open day, I took difficult child 3 & mother in law around to see some of the studios we didn't get to see last time we did this. Now we've only got the next village to go. husband was working on our taxes and frankly needs to be left alone when he's working on them; he gets like a bear with a sore head. And mother in law needed to get out and do something a bit more exciting than stare at her four walls. Today we only saw three artists - two of them turned out to be friends of mine but I was never exactly sure where they live (one has only recently moved to her current place which used to be owned by another artist friend who died earlier this year). And the third - our neighbour up the road, who is currently doing really well professionally. He just got back from an exhibition in New York on Chinese Revolution artists (he was one of them) and from installing his fabulous mural in Kuala Lumpur. Today was the first day of summer Daylight Saving for us. We have a long weekend so it makes the impact a little softer. difficult child 3 was re-setting clocks wherever he could, including in the artists' studios! The weather is still cool, it will stay cool for the rest of the week. Our football grand final was today - Manly Eagles (based in Sydney) vs Melbourne Storms. And Manly won! Yay! More rain is forecast tomorrow, I'll be happy for my garden. I hoped to get more done today with tidying up the garden beds outside our bathroom - it's an enclosed courtyard with (at the moment) a heap of sand and two palm trees. I want to turn it into a tropical garden and weeded out a lot of rubbish a couple of months ago. There is one wall of glass opening out to this courtyard, the budgies love to sit in there all day every day so I want it to be a nice place for me to sit too. I'm hoping to get some work done before it rains. Doing planting in the rain is good - it makes the job easier. I'll be wearing my warm clothes though - 18 C is the max (64 F). After enjoying the heat at the beach last week, it's frustrating. I'm enjoying the garden - I have discovered for myself that coffee grounds in the garden kills the slugs and snails! Now I have to drink up even more coffee - I harvested some red silverbeet tonight (and some yellow) and found a few snails doing damage. I'm going to harvest more vegetables tomorrow and plant some more. I'd like to get difficult child 3 to help me, but his current project is installing a lot of our old educational software on our "broken" computer, the one that got its ethernet chip burned out in the lightning strike. Everything else works; plus difficult child 3 has been asked to do some maths coaching, he can use the software to help. Enjoy your Sunday. Marg [/QUOTE]
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