Blog for Tuesday 1st April 2025

I had a horrible, horrible dream last night and woke myself up at just before midnight feeling so incredibly sad. I hate dreams like that as they seem far too real to be just a dream. I find the aftereffects of a dream like that seem to linger and taint the day afterwards. I will do my best not to allow that to happen to me today!

I flipped out of bed at just after four o’clock this morning and into the new day waiting for me in the darkness.

There is something magical about that – the not knowing what the day ahead holds for me. What I may learn – who I may speak to – what I will do – what I may accomplish no matter how small that maybe. Life lived!

After I had had my Quiet Time, done my Bible Study and also begun an extra study on my own of the Book of Revelation, I finished my birthday invitation. Yahee! So now I have the two invitations ready for the printers.

My next job was to apply the leather cream to our leather lounge suite which I have covered with sheets to prevent Raafie’s muddy paws messing them up.

Nope, that idea (putting cream on the leather lounge suite) got shelved as I decided to do make a start on sorting those tools that must go  down to the bottom shed, as best I could.

Next, was to put on the loads of washing that have mysteriously piled sky high once again! I am sure the washing multiplies when I sleep. Hmm, I think I must give up sleeping!

Ah! Wonderful!  When Ken got up I asked him to help me move the beds from standing on their ends to a supine position, which he kindly did. Then we tried – well Ken did the work I looked on intently, as he tried to get the last drawer back into the cupboard but it steadfastly refused to do so. That problem can wait for another day.

Ken then helped me begin to pack the tools up – the larger ones first to go down to the bottom shed.

I then suggested very quietly that it would be beyond marvelous if Ken could fix the leg of the large pine table so I can move it and the eight chairs out. It was quite a hallabaloo to do that, as he had to glue the holes then screw the bolts into that, but he was not that happy with the result which looked fantastic to me. Look if the leg stays on that is all it has to do, not so? Anyway, I was suitably impressed and extremely pleased!

My next plan was to have a shower, so off I went to do just that. I stripped, threw my clothes in to the wash basket and stepped into the shower but … the water pump had tripped! Plus, my washing machine was flashing E10 to get my attention!

Wonderful! (Not!)

I did what any thinking woman would do, I wrapped myself up in a towel, put my gumboots on and walked outside and around to the back of the shed to turn the pump on again – praying that the workmen on the Highway opposite us had really bad eyesight or that it was too far for them to see anyway. I did not want to be responsible for any trauma caused!

I so enjoyed my lovely hot shower that washed away all the dirt and dust after I had been working out in the main shed area marking more containers, sweeping, moving the beds with Ken, and sorting out tools and all things foreign to me.

In the late afternoon I went up to my studio to do a few more crochet stitches and rest while doing so. I set my timer for half an hour, so I don’t feel that guilty!

In the morning, I also typed up the Farm Expenses for the months February and March and sent them off to Ren’ - our daughter-in-law, who does the farm books. That was a good feeling to have that done.

Hmm, for our supper tonight I think I will make butter chicken, fluffy rice with buttered slices of bread, and I may still have a little bit left of the South African chutney as well, which will be nice to have with that.

Tonight, I will watch a little more of “Scrublands” if I find time to do so. I find that I am sometimes too tired to do that and so often opt rather to climb into bed and sleep.

Today has been very overcast and we have had a few unexpected light showers of rain. I have not been down to the river today, but I can see from my studio window that it is still high. We have had to cancel our Bible Study Group for tomorrow as we cannot get out, and Ian and Keith are up in Queensland. These things happen sometimes!

What lesson did I learn today?  To keep pegging away at sorting the shed out - baby steps to achieving that are okay.

What am I grateful for today?  To have made quite a bit of headway in tidying in the main shed area.

My saying for today is …