OMG its cold!

and wet and we have had hail stones. Its so cold that its taking ages for me to type as my fingers dont work.
Its so cold I have done something I seldom do. I have turned on the ducted heating.
My poor garden doesnt know what to do. Im sure it thinks the 3 days of heat we had was summer and is starting to go back to sleep. I am so glad that I planted the pumkings in the hot house or else I wonder would I have gotton a crop this year.
It hailed pretty heavily this morning so I wonder what the produce in the main garden area will look like when I finally pluck up the courage to go outside.
And my poor little chicken that decided to hatch a batch of eggs under the bush plant, I hope she is alright, even if the eggs dont hatch.
Busy day today, baby girl has her dance concert. Two performances and 11 dances in each. She will be a tuckerd little girl.
Have a great day, stay warm and dry.
see ya

stuff

I am going through alot of stuff at the monment. On tuesday it was 11 years since my brother passed and even though it isnt as fresh and raw as in the begining, the pain is still there. It acually comes as a shock as most people tell me that I should be "over it" by now. So no-one is there for me, like at the start, and I do really need someone to just say that its normal to feel this way.
Mean while my 42nd birthday is rushing towards me and since my children are growing up and away from me I am really having an identidy crisis.
I was married at 21, only 3 years after leaving school.
A mother at 22 and at 24.
I have been someones daughter, sister, wife, mother...etc all my life but I have never been me.
Who am I?
Not knowing is bad enough but finding out is really scary.
What if I dont like me? What if I am exactely the type of person that annoys the crap out of me?
All this is going on in my head and boy is it driving me crazy.
I hope the energy shifts and I get over this.
Real Soon.
see ya

No time!!!!!

I havnt had time to blog recently and I have noticed that others are the same. Just today I had work this morning, and I have quilting class this afternoon. So in between I have had lunch and got dinner cooking in the slow cooker, will pot around and do a few things before I go, and tonight baby girl has dancing . So I will be taxi driver again. I think it will stop about 9.30 tonight when I will have a relaxing bath and hit the sack.
boy am I exhausted.
see ya

The cleansing sound of rain

This morning I was awakened by the sound of thunder, flashes of lightening and the glorious sound of rain. After a very hot two days this was bliss.
Now the gardens look so clean and green and have come back to life. Not to mention that the tanks are all topped up.
Even I feel better, I have been very grumpy as I do not like the heat. The chooks in the back yard are going nuts so even they like it better now its cooler.
Hope you get some rain where you are
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Total confusion

Today I had my first shift at work. Talk about being thrown in the deep end. My boss tried to teach me everything in 4 hours. So, I have remembered nothing. Im sure Ill get it eventually but I feel so stupid at the monment.
At least the ladies are very nice and It was fun.
Hopefully I will "get it" soon and I wont feel like such a dummy.
see ya


Sorry Lisa,
My job is working at the gym that I have been going to for the last 18 months. At least I know how to use the machines. LOL

Missing in action

We normally have 4 people working in our workshop. My dear old hubby, two qualified mechanics, and wonderson is the apprentice.
One mechanic had to have a hernia op so his is missing for about 6 weeks, wonderson is at tafe. He has tafe every Monday and Tuesday. An the second mechanic we sent home as he had a crook tummy and was loosing his breakfast from both ends.
Its very quiet at the shed at the monment.
Meanwhile I had my quilting homework to do as class is next Tuesday, not to mention having to cook dinner early as baby girl had dancing tonight and I will be on the road taking her to two different places for her class and the classes she teaches.
I'll be glad when today is over.
see ya

The hothouse effect

This is a picture of my pumkings growing in the hothouse. These pictures are a week old and they have grown even more.

This is my watermellon. We love watermellons but the trick isnt how to grow them but when are they ripe to pick them. If anyone knows how to tell when that is, please let me know.

And this little one is my cantalope, rockmellon. See the little flower, its very exciting isnt it.

I just love my new hothouse.

see ya