Return of the Slack Tart

Hi all,
Sorry for being so slack lately. It's that time of year, in Cairns, when my brain goes into melt down.
I know that most of you have been experiencing extreme weather conditions of one kind or another, but the humidity here has been terrible.

8/2/06

It's effect on people is weird. Even the most sensible of people, suddenly develop sponges instead of brains...Ask Rob! This morning he rang me in a bit of a panic. He had arrived at the Casino Car Park to discover his briefcase and his lunch bag were missing. He had visions of having left them on the roof of the car, while he came back into the house to pick up his car keys. He asked me to check the garden to see if they had fallen off there...rather than on the journey in to Cairns. In actual fact he had placed them on the top of the outside freezer. So apart from having to buy his lunch, all is well!

The renovations to the Computer room and the hallway are STILL not completed. My grandson has been procrastinating and, instead of taking a week to do, they are still waiting on final coats 5 weeks later. I'm totally fed up with living in a mess! Soon it will be time to strip the walls in the dining room and start painting there...I'm honestly considering Rob and I doing the job ourselves - I can't bear the thought of a repeat performance!

The lovely rain we had last week, seems to have disipated. It's a pity, because we need a lot more to bring the water table up to a sustainable level. The garden is flourishing...apart from the cucumber plants which drowned. The weeds have been horrendous, but are (fingers crossed) within management range. I think Rob has nightmares at the rate the lawn grows! We actually gave in and purchased a motor mower a couple of months ago as it was just too exhausting for Rob to be using the hand mower in the heat.

Speaking of the rain, our clothes dryer went on the fritz just as the rain arrived. Rather than race off and buy a new one, we put up clothes lines in the outside entertainment area. I have a rotary line out in the garden, but I hate standing in the sun, so, even though the rain has ceased (for now) I still hang the clothes on the undercover lines. Each time I do so, I think of how much money I'm saving on the electricity bill. My son will be buying a new and larger dryer soon. They need a larger one because of the, not to distant, birth of their baby. Karl is going to pass their old one over to us. I'm going to make sure that it only gets used in an emergency.

It's nearly time for Zelda to have her annual shots. Hard to imagine that she's owned us for over a year now! Amazing how one stray dog can have become so important to us - but she certainly has. I'm very grateful for her companionship and the lavish love she spreads on the family.

I guess I've rambled on for long enough...time to go read the latest edition of Better Homes and Gardens, that the postie just delivered!

Catch you all later!

Vickie.

Posted by Midus at February 3, 2006 09:10 AM