A big scare

November 19 11 2014

We have had a great weekend with friends from NSW who stayed with us whilst they ran an art workshop. They brought wet weather with them so I got a rest from endless watering and could enjoy in depth conversations about everything. I find visitors are very important because I get to re evaluate what I am doing with my life.

I had a bit of a fright one evening. I was walking past Edd’s work shed to take stuff to the dairy when there was a sudden flash of light. I had a momentary thought that it might be a gun shot aimed my way but that thought was washed away by an enormous clash of thunder that blew me right over! Strangely there had been no storm action before this and nothing but rain, coming later, followed. I had the distinct impression that something was targeting me!

Now our friends have gone the dry has returned and I am back to watering. The grass has gone green again, though, so it did do some good. Today we ate the first zucchini, and we are still getting masses of lovely crisp snow peas. The loquats are also now edible if the parrots don’t get there first.

I have started to get organised for Xmas. Beth wants a natural colour scheme with neutrals and wood. OK. I started with a look at material to make table clothes. I assume that we can use white plates from Al’s wedding, as mine are either green or turquoise, definitely not right for the theme. It seemed awfully dull to me to put white plates on a white cloth, risky too with young kids and wine. The slightly patterned fabric was horribly expensive for any thing nice but finally I found an affordable fabric that was quite dark and definitely not about to show any unwanted stains.

Now I have a start to work with and I can go white candles and it will even take the pewter and silver coloured gear. I resisted the temptation to order fuchsia or bright orange table napkins; the fuchsia was particularly hard to resist. Chocolate will probably get more use in the long run. Now I can collect the rest of the decorations. I have some good ideas for the crackers. I hope that I have got the turkeys on order and we are trying to get adults to swap consumables, preferably home made, as gifts. At least I have made a start.