Wednesday
Lovely morning again. Ali left for work just after 6. Travis and I sat outside while I had my morning pick-me-up. Hubby was awake so he joined us for a cup of tea while I had my second cuppa. It was really nice to sit out there together without worrying about rushing off to work. I just might be able to manage having him around permanently if he retired.
I spent the morning looking after Travis and doing office work when he slept. After lunch Diane and I went to the local shop for milk and dog food. We decided to take the sunbeam for an outing – standing too long is not good for the battery. I put Travis in the back and off we went. Travis really thought he was the “Bees Knees” and couldn’t stop smiling. He really enjoyed his little back seat with the window at his height to look out at the passing scenery.
The afternoon was spent playing with Travis in his playroom as the wind had come up and it was much too windy to take him outside. Late afternoon Diane asked me to transfer her goldfish from the dirty tank to his clean one. I got round to doing it early evening.
About nine Diane went to feed her fish and couldn’t find it. She came running to me to ask where I had put the fish and I told her “In the clean tank.” Really! Where Else! And went to show her . Diane stayed by the door while I went to show her that it must be hiding under its plant. To my surprise it wasn’t there and then HORRORS!!! There it was lying next to the tank. I thought, OOh My Word what did I do ? Then I thought but I know I put it in the water because I had to shake it out the net. I felt awful and told Diane where it was. She was horrified and I thought she was going to cry. I took a tissue out my pocket to pick it up. When I looked at it I couldn’t believe my eyes – the fish flicked its tail – so I dropped it back into the water. Surprise! Surprise! The fish swam away though I must admit very slowly. Diane gave it some food and we decided to leave it until the morning to see if it was still alive.
By now I was really tired so I loaded the dishwasher, put it on and went to bed. Looking after a little one can be exhausting at my age.
Lovely morning again. Ali left for work just after 6. Travis and I sat outside while I had my morning pick-me-up. Hubby was awake so he joined us for a cup of tea while I had my second cuppa. It was really nice to sit out there together without worrying about rushing off to work. I just might be able to manage having him around permanently if he retired.
I spent the morning looking after Travis and doing office work when he slept. After lunch Diane and I went to the local shop for milk and dog food. We decided to take the sunbeam for an outing – standing too long is not good for the battery. I put Travis in the back and off we went. Travis really thought he was the “Bees Knees” and couldn’t stop smiling. He really enjoyed his little back seat with the window at his height to look out at the passing scenery.
The afternoon was spent playing with Travis in his playroom as the wind had come up and it was much too windy to take him outside. Late afternoon Diane asked me to transfer her goldfish from the dirty tank to his clean one. I got round to doing it early evening.
About nine Diane went to feed her fish and couldn’t find it. She came running to me to ask where I had put the fish and I told her “In the clean tank.” Really! Where Else! And went to show her . Diane stayed by the door while I went to show her that it must be hiding under its plant. To my surprise it wasn’t there and then HORRORS!!! There it was lying next to the tank. I thought, OOh My Word what did I do ? Then I thought but I know I put it in the water because I had to shake it out the net. I felt awful and told Diane where it was. She was horrified and I thought she was going to cry. I took a tissue out my pocket to pick it up. When I looked at it I couldn’t believe my eyes – the fish flicked its tail – so I dropped it back into the water. Surprise! Surprise! The fish swam away though I must admit very slowly. Diane gave it some food and we decided to leave it until the morning to see if it was still alive.
By now I was really tired so I loaded the dishwasher, put it on and went to bed. Looking after a little one can be exhausting at my age.
Thursday
Was up as usual and happy to see it was a lovely day again. Had my Me Time under the tree. Hubby had not had a good night again so he didn’t join me. Gave him his breakfast and medication. Next time I looked he was up and dressed ready to go in to the workshop. He was very clever! Said he would go in first and take my BMW in and check the thermostat housing as Gino had noticed a slight leak there. I needed to do some office work and had an appointment with an insurance agent so agreed. Hubby left at about nine. By the time I was finished it was half eleven. I was worried that he would be over doing things as usual. When we arrived he was just going to have a cup of tea in the office with his friend. Diane was chatting to Gino so I sat with them in the office. Faizel - one of the workers – was busy making the tea. We all watched as he was concentrating so intently on making the tea dark enough. I told him hubby likes weak tea. Hubby told me what a good cup of tea he makes and offered me one. Faizel passed them their tea and they took a sip. Spluttering in disgust they asked Faizel what he was trying to do. The poor guy had forgotten to boil the kettle. I laughed and left them making another cup while I quickly went to the supermarket for some supplies.
When I got back I told hubby we must leave as he had been there long enough and needed to get back to eat and take his medication. We rushed home where Diane made us one of her vegetarian pasta meals. There was some leftover chicken which I added to hubby’s meal. It would be asking too much of hubby to eat a meatless meal. Though he does say he is a potential vegetarian – if he had to hunt his own meat he would never eat meat. We were all rather tired after this so we all chilled for an hour with a book (one each of course). When we resurfaced Diane and I sat under the trees with Chocolate Brownies and coffee while hubby had his tea in front of the TV.( lying on the bed). The wind had come up again so Diane decided to fly her kite for awhile. She had fun. I pottered around cleaning the kitchen while Diane started to clean her room and sort out what she is taking to Oz.
We had a break for a glass of wine and a chat under the trees. I am now busy with supper and writing my blog while the food is cooking.Typical Woman – A Good Multi Tasker.
Well we have had supper and after cleaning the kitchen we are going to watch TV with a lekker Milo. A perfect end to a lovely day
Cheers for now
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