Last night was so relaxing. Friday nights are starting to become quite different now we live here in the country. Well, it’s a suburb in the country – as country as we’ll get without being miles away from anything.
Winter is drawing to an end but still extremely cold and quite wet here. I knew Graham was coming home a bit earlier – as he often does on Friday nights. I now know how to set the fire properly before lighting it so had a roaring fire going before I picked him up from the station.
The loungeroom was nice and cosy with the heat of the fire as well as our central heating. We don’t really need the wood fire but it has such a lovely ambience – there’s something comforting about it.
So once dinner arrived (we always get it delivered now on Friday nights) we settled in front of the large TV and watched a movie, hubby and I snuggled on the couch and the cats around us. Bliss.
You wouldn’t believe the week I’ve had – this blog crashed and I don’t know why it happened. Seems something got added into the control panel that stopped php working and rendered the blog invisible. Taken me days to find out what’s been going on and I lost the post I wrote last Monday about my beautiful eldest daughter turning 30. Guess I’ll have to redo it!
I saw this post at Footprints as a result of Aspiring Mum blog and thought I’d join in. The idea is to post 5 things that have happened this week that made you smile.
- Family time together around the fireplace after the Sunday evening meal – the first time really since we bought our new home. Lovely to have our daughters, sons-in-law and grandson spending an evening with us at the start of the week.
- Work has improved this week and after a downturn in June I’ve matched the whole month of June in the first week of August. Hopefully it means this month will be on track.
- Spending some of Wednesday with my daughter Christine. We went to Belgrave Lake Park and watched dogs running around happily and then spent time planting a tree fern, a couple of dwarf wattle bushes and another bush in my garden at home.
- Hearing my husband laugh. I love that.
- Seeing my grandson’s little red cheeked face light up into a smile when he sees his grandma. He’s teething poor little guy but still had a big grin for me this morning.
Now, I’m going to follow in Janet’s footprints and invite you to join in Five For Friday – simply leave a comment with a link to your blog post, letting us know all about your Five For Friday. Have fun!
woo hoo! A 3 day weekend! What are you going to do with it – those of you who get to have it?
I know our US readers recently had a long weekend just a week or two ago I think.
For many of us here in Australia the weather is getting much cooler, in fact you could say definitely cold. Here in Selby, Victoria, I don’t believe it’s gotten much above 8C or 9C during the day for the past couple of days. And we certainly get a lot of rain! But despite that I have been out almost every day for the past week, going for walks and taking photos. I spend far more time outside now than I used to when living in Cheltenham. So the shift has probably been a ‘healthy shift’ for me too.
I plan on relaxing (I hope) and perhaps spending some time in the garden. We have a ton of leaves to rake up now that autumn is over. Just to give you an idea of what we see up here in the mornings now.
I’ve been outside for probably nearly 2 hours monitoring and putting out a fire.
I had a guy and his wife come here today to cut up fallen branches and he lopped a dead tree too. He offered to burn off some of the wood and said he does it all the time – he has many clients in this area so I said that’s ok, as long as he knew what to do, because I don’t. He said he did – he’s grown up in the country and had done it heaps.
An hour before he was due to leave he told me I’d have to monitor it until it went out so I told him to stop feeding it with more branches. I had no idea I was going to have to be outside to monitor a fire – that was not my plan for this afternoon. I told him I was supposed to be going out and can he put it out before he goes.
He said he couldn’t put it out unless I had enough hoses to get to where the second fire was. So I had to ring a hardware store to buy up more hoses (we needed an 80 mtr (about 260 ft) length to get to where the burn-off is) and then I had to ring hubby to find out about fittings and things – do you think he was happy? NOT!
By the time I’d finished on the phone and had checked our garage re hoses and then gone out to pass on messages, and stuff, it was time for this guy to go and the fire hadn’t been put out yet.
So I had to go to the hardware place after he had left with one fire smouldering and the other still burning. He said we could just leave them smouldering and check them in the morning. What???!!! No way, I wouldn’t sleep tonight knowing there was a fire smouldering outside, even if it is damp and foggy up here overnight and winter has begun.
So now I’ve got one fully out and the other is still smouldering but the steam and smoke has gotten a lot smaller. I have to keep going out to check it.
The joys of living in a country and not having done a burn-off before. Hubby was planning to do our first one sometime but he’s been beaten to it…
