Saturday Morning Relaxation

What a perfect way to start my Saturday!

I swam a few laps, floated for a while, tossed the ball a hundred times for Harley, tried to upend Adoring Husband on his floating device and soaked up plenty of vitamin D.

I followed that up with 2 hours of Christmas wrapping … and still I’m only halfway done!

After that, a Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie helped me relax my aching back.

My “fend for yourself” dinner was battered prawn cutlets in sweet chilli sauce and tuna patties.

Now it’s almost midnight and I’m ready for sleep.

Nite all.

Ready for Arting

Three hours in the art room rearranging and creating separate spaces for ourselves …

I’m looking forward to using my new space tomorrow. I’ll probably spend all day wrapping Christmas presents, but my energy will be positive and I’ll be ready to do art on Sunday!

I enjoyed 90 minutes with the art girls on Thursday and we planned our Christmas lunch for next week. It was a beautiful morning and we were all in fine spirits.

Adoring Husband attended his end of year golf presentation.

BGWLBH drove into the Bay to attend an appointment.

So I had about 3 hours to myself at home.

BGWLBH was kind enough to bring an icy green juice home for me.

So the last two days have been fairly productive and I’m well worn out! Even after an hour long nap on the couch this afternoon!

Nite all.

A Lot Like Christmas

Christmas shopping officially done and dusted.

Now it’s going to take me weeks to wrap and mail it all!

On Monday, I had a day in the Bay - bought some home made dresses for little Hazie for Christmas and visited the art/craft store where BGWLBH sells her art. It’s a lovely little shop with a good variety of arts and crafts available.

There were clothes, beautiful handbags, journals, jewellery, wall art, cards, painted rocks with quotes, hanging mobiles, garden ornaments, coasters, stubby holders, quilts and so much more.

Tuesday, I got to sleep in because meditation is done for the year.

Today (Wednesday), BGWLBH and I escaped to the Bay.

We had the guy coming to repair the roller door in the garage/art space, so we had to move the tables and the paraphernalia that was on them so that he could access the parts that required repair.

To avoid noise, power cuts, discomfort and anything else that we imagined would occur, we chose to escape.

Turns out he was only here for 20 minutes and the job was complete!

So I guess tomorrow, I will spend quite some time wrapping Christmas presents and hopefully sending them in the mail, so that they arrive at their destination before Christmas.

It’s now heading towards midnight and I need to be up early for morning tea with the art girls, so sleep time for me.

Nite all.

To Market

I’ve enjoyed my weekend of sport viewing.

Happy that Australia defeated England in the second ashes test.

Not so happy with the golf results.

Rory McIlroy was disappointing and didn’t live up to his hype. He’s generally a brilliant player, but not this week. 

On the final hole, it was between the Australian, Cam Smith and the Dane, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen. The Dane took it out - his first victory on the DP World tour. Exciting for him, but disappointing for Australia.

On Saturday morning, Adoring Husband and I attended the Howard Country Markets, where I picked up a few small Christmas gifts.

The lady who promised to order me some capri pants in the small size, clearly had forgotten to do so, despite her excuses. That was annoying.

Afterwards, we drove to Torbanlea to try the new coffee shop. I’m not a coffee drinker anymore (I’ve had about 15 in the last 12 years) but I decided to try a lactose free latte on Saturday and I have to say, it was DELICIOUS!

We then drove out to where the train building grounds are. We saw nothing except the gateway in.

On the way out of Torbanlea, we noticed that the local hall had an arts and crafts market happening inside, so we stopped for a very successful visit.

More gifts AND I met a lady who runs pottery classes in her home at Howard! Not wheel pottery, but pinch potting, coil potting and slab potting, which is exactly what I want to learn. Her next classes are at the end of February, so that’s on my “to do” list for 2026!

I’m so glad that we stopped.

That’s pretty much my weekend in a nutshell.

I’m not sure what’s happening tomorrow, but I’m ready for sleep now.

Nite all.

Aussie Captain

My son has been asked to captain the Australian cricket team! 🏏 

A bunch of old yachties are coming to Australia from England and when they land in Perth, they’ll be playing cricket against a bunch of old Aussie yachties.

It should be an interesting and eventful match, especially because my son is a bowler and is currently nursing a fractured elbow!

I’m hoping the match will be live streamed so that I can watch it, but otherwise I’ll have to rely on Number One Son’s description, which I’m certain will be colourful.

Today was a long day in The Bay and while Adoring Husband was having a scan done, I did the grocery shopping.

Prior to that, we had lunch at a fish and chip shop that does gluten free batter on their fish AND they have a separate area in the kitchen to cook their GF options. We had cod and chips. I thought the chips were a bit too dry, but the fish was large and delicious. I could only eat half of mine so AH had extra.

While we waited for it to cook, I popped into Tinkerbell’s and bought a Christmas gift.

AH dropped me at Stocklands where I got a few more Christmas gifts - I still have 3 more gifts to buy - and I did a small grocery shop that still cost $160!! Living is certainly not cheap.

Tomorrow morning, I hope to attend Howard country markets because I ordered some capri pants from one of the stalls and I think I can get those last three gifts at the markets too. Fingers crossed.

So now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.