Abundant Tennis

Tennis, tennis and more tennis.

The US Open tennis grand slam started on Sunday.

I fell asleep at midnight, woke at 2.47am to pee and turned on the tennis to watch Popyrin play, but fell asleep 30 minutes later. Woke again at 6.30am to watch De Minaur play. 

Harley got his play time at 8.45am and I made some bone broth with poached chicken wings to bring back to bed where I could watch more tennis until 3pm.

All the Aussies, except one girl, won their matches and are into round two. My day felt decadently delightful.

For dinner, I made chicken saltimbocca with sweet potato/potato mash and mixed vegetables of capsicum, green beans, carrot sticks, baby spinach and tomato.

I had more chicken broth with wings. So delicious.

Now, I hope to wake at 1.30am to watch Djokovic play his second round match. Wish me luck!

Nite all.

Cool by the River

Hello Number One Son!

I hope you had a nice evening on your boat 🛥️

I received a phone call from No 1 Son tonight, which morphed into a FaceTime call to do a walk through of his new boat. 

Very flash! Very big! Very nice!

It was a 45 minute call and I feel like that’s the longest call we’ve ever had 🤔 

While I was looking out the window at a pitch black sky here, the sun was still up and on my phone screen,  I could see blue sky in Western Australia.

It was nice to see my son’s face and to chat with him.

Today was meditation day and I actually arrived four minutes early for a change. It was another great class about sitting in our self sovereignty. 

After class, The Gypsy and I sat chatting by the river for two hours. The weather forecast was for a warm 24°C but thankfully, I followed BGWLBH’s advice and took a wrap because it was quite chilly!

I was home by 12.30pm and heated up some cauliflower soup for lunch. Stupidly, I toasted a bread roll to have with it. My new eating regime excludes bread and I felt the negative affects of it almost immediately and I felt unwell all afternoon.

Ugh 😩 

For dinner, I reheated last night’s fish pie leftovers for the team. I had plain coconut yoghurt, blueberries, raspberries, papaya, 1 grated Brazil nut, 3 grated apricot kernels, almond flakes and a drizzle of pure maple syrup.

That settled my tummy nicely.

Adoring Husband and I watched the oldie but goodie movie “Tequila Sunrise” starring Kurt Russell, Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer. 

That was my day.

Nite all.

Productively Unproductive

Today I did zip.

Out of bed at 9am.

Made my warm lemon water.

Played with Harley.

Made my breakfast and soursop tea.

Watched Canadian Pottery Throw Down, hosted by Seth Rogen. It’s a new series so only one episode was available, but the contestants are already so much better than the British series!

I watched “Fun Mom Dinner”, a movie with Toni Collette and Molly Shannon. I quite liked it.

The footy was next. I got two wrong this week, but everybody else got four wrong so I’m still way in front!

I cooked apple chicken with mixed roast vegetables and green beans with snow peas for dinner.

I am now in bed watching “Death Becomes Her”.

An early night seems a good idea (well, earlier than the usual 11pm).

Nite all.

Golden Nothing

This is Harley’s Mum  …

This photo was taken at the beginning of her labour. She gave birth to ten pups, all different colours, six girls and four boys. She did that in five hours!

I can’t wait to see pics of each individual pup.

Aside from that most exciting news, super Saturday football was today, and as always, there was a team to stuff up my perfect round. A team that nobody expects to win, decides to have a blinder and blow everybody’s mind.

Parramatta defeated the Roosters 30-10.

This means that I have five from six correct with two games to be played tomorrow.

BGWLBH and I spent five hours at the RSL Club attempting to win a golden ticket 🎫 today. Unfortunately, good luck didn’t lean in our direction and five golden tickets landed in the laps of five other lucky people.

Despite snacking at the club, by the time we got home, we were starverated and cooking our dinner for ‘fend for yourself’ night was high on our priority list. Pizza for BGWLBH and pork sausages for me with coleslaw and grapes.

Now it’s almost midnight so it’s definitely time to sleep.

Nite all.

Almost Solo

BGWLBH drove into the Bay alone.

Adoring Husband spent a lot of time in his room or at the local shops (he has a tender knee at the moment, so he’s not much good for anything), so I spent a lot of the day alone in the lounge room.

I binge watched a series of Great Pottery Throw Down, followed by my quiz shows.

Of course there was Harley play.

Two games of footy tonight and so far I have three correct from three! It would take a great tragedy for me to lose the footy tipping comp from here … but you never know!

I remembered tonight, that I haven’t touched my book for a couple of months and I still have to design my affirmation cards, so I hope to make some time over the weekend to do both of those things.

Having done nothing all day, I’m feeling a bit weary!

Nite all.

Delightfully Dull

It was a warm sunshiny day with barely a cloud to be witnessed in the blue sky.

Forty minutes away, in Maryborough, it was pouring with rain during some of Adoring Husband’s golf game!

I had a two hour zoom catch up, over a cup of soursop tea, with The Gypsy this morning. Love our chats.

Made myself an early lunch and parked my butt you-know-where … the couch … where I watched mindless TV for 3 hours.

I made three different meals for dinner.

BGWLBH: Spinach and ricotta ravioli with creamy garlic and cheese sauce.

Adoring Husband: Tacos.

Me: Chicken wings and mushrooms poached in buttery home made chicken broth. (To die for!)

We played trivia for an hour, watched “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves” before the footy started.

Souths annihilated St George 40-0. I tipped correctly. Adoring Husband did not.

And so another perfectly delightful day has ended. 

Nite all.

Another Hump Day

BGWLBH and I decided to head into town to renew our lotto tickets for the week.

We were trying to work our way around the predicted weather, which is for heavy rain all week. The sky and the BOM were looking reasonably clear for us, with just a few patchy areas scuttling around The Bay, so we chose today.

It was a good choice until we were on our way home and at the halfway point, the rain came tumbling down causing some dangerously large puddles across the road that could have led to aquaplaning. The traffic was quite heavy for 1.30 in the afternoon.

Obviously, we made it home safe n sound and there had been no rain in our town all day!

At home, we unpacked the few groceries I’d purchased, made some lunch and a cup of soursop tea and I parked my butt on the couch for the afternoon.

For dinner, I made a coleslaw, a garden salad and sweet potato and potato wedges to serve with GF meat pies.

We watched The Block and then headed to bed.

I have a zoom meeting in the morning so it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Believe it or Not

It seems, these days, that it’s not necessary for you to use your own brain to perform many tasks. This fact fills me with dread for our future. This gives “the powers that be” free rein to control and/or manipulate all the information, education, facts, history and future offered to us.

I don’t know about you, but at my age, I’m already noticing changes in the telling of history.

[For instance, in 1969 when man (apparently) landed on the moon, it is reported that children all over the world sat in their class rooms watching it live on TV.

Fact: The astronauts walked on the moon for 2.5 hours. The time in Australia was 1pm, so it stands to reason that we were watching it in the classroom.

In Washington USA, it was 11pm. In London, it was 4am. In South Africa, it was 5am. In India, it was 8.30am. In Russia, it was 6am. Brazil was midnight.

Therefore, children all over the world were NOT sitting in their classrooms watching men walking on the moon.

Even the moon landing itself happened at 6.17am in Australia, which is 4.17pm in USA - after school hours.]

So here are some ways to perform tasks, create things or gather information without using your brain…

50 AI tools you can’t ignore in 2025

1. Claude.ai – solves anything

2. Syllaby.io – create and publish videos 

3. MidJourney.com – generates art

4. Hellowarrant.com – ai for marketing compliance

5. Heygen.com – creates AI avatars

6. Soundraw.io – produces music in seconds

7. Ranked.ai – rank higher on Google

8. Submagic.co – turn long videos into shorts

9. SlidesAI.io – makes presentations for you

10. PicWish.com – edits photos fast

11. Fastread.io - create ebooks

12. Bibley.io - ai for Bible study

13. Manus.im - code any app

14. Capsho.com - podcast into content

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26. labs.google - Google's AI video maker

27. Beautiful.ai - make sleek AI presentations

28. Remove.bg - instantly remove backgrounds

29. Uizard.io - turn sketches into UI mockup

30. Aiva.ai - compose AI-generated music

31. AnimaApp.com - turn designs into code

32. Replika.ai - AI relationship companion

33. notebooklm.google.com - turn anything into a podcast

34. Photes.io - turn photos into text notes

34. Magai.ai - all AI models in one

35. CopyOwl.ai - deep research into articles

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37. kuse.ai - ChatGPT into white boards

38. createanything.com - create apps and websites

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40. sintra.ai - team of ai agents

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49. lemlist.com - turn website views into leads

50. gohighlevel.com/austinarmstrong - best ai marketing tool(affiliate link)

Now it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Shaky Weekend

Well, Saturday was a bit exciting!

At 9.50am, I was in the pool area playing with Harley when there began a loud rumble in the ground with a strong vibration under foot. It lasted for about 15-20 seconds.

At the time I was helping Harley get his ball from behind the pergoda and I thought the noise and vibration was the pool filter blowing up or breaking down, but then I heard BGWLBH yelling at me and asking if I’d felt that? Next thing, Adoring Husband came running out of the house yelling “Are you ok? What the hell was that?”

After a brief conversation about what it could have been, I could hear everybody in the neighbourhood coming out of their houses and calling out to each other speculating about the rumble and vibration.

We looked online and discovered lots of comments and posts on Facebook about a possible earthquake.

Then a Google search confirmed that we’d experienced a 5.6 earthquake!

Harley and I had only got out of bed 20 minutes before the quake happened. Instead of running in and out of the house like a crazy animal, as he usually does first thing, trying to encourage me to hurry out to the pool area, he nervously stuck very close to my side. 

Even after we got to the pool area, when I threw the ball, he stood and looked at me weirdly.

So I think he could sense something was about to happen.

There was constant activity on social media all day regarding the quake, but I was ‘over’ it within the first hour. No damage, no injuries, no fatalities, no biggie, move on.

I’ve had an excellent weekend of footy tipping and I’m now 18pts ahead of my nearest rival! I only missed one game - South Sydney Rabbitohs ruined my chance of a perfect round.

We watched the movie “Michael” starring John Travolta, William Hurt and Andie Macdowell. It’s from 1996 so it’s almost 30 yrs old! Crazy! Still a good movie.

It’s already 11pm so I need to sleep now.

Nite all.