May 10, 2013

• Friday 10th May

  Happy 25th Birthday Brianna.
  You sexy wee thing you!
  Loved you heaps then, love you muchly more now

  

   

  The day was calm and clear when I woke today.
  Anson text to ask if I wanted to go out on the boat visiting.
  But I was too exhausted.
  Also checked the forecast and it was not looking promising.
  Took a rain check on that idea for now.

  He came around and got roasts of wild pork and mutton cooking in the wood oven for dinner.
  Marah came for a visit too - always nice to see her and get my Marah-hug.
  When they left I went and had a shower to warm up, put on several layers of clothes and pulled out a jersey to wear for the first time this year.
  The weather has suddenly turned cold.

  Margaret and Helena spent the morning gardening.
  Christophe helped Anson with the dog kennels but it got so cold they had to give it away.
  The wind came up and the bay turned white when the forecasted SE gale blew in.
  They said it would rise to 50knots and it sure did.
  The waves have been pounding the shore most of the day - I can still hear them pounding tonight.
  If it is this rough in here then they must be copping a real good storm over on the east coast.
  Heard tonight that the Wellington Ferry had to turn back, it couldn't get to Picton.

  Brent & Sue came over from Homestead to pick up their mail and have a catch up.
  They gave me a gorgeous rose bush called 'Courage'.

  It is hard to capture the size of the waves in a still photo, but we barely have any wave motion at all in here usually so for us these are big waves.

  

  

  

  The mailboat had a slow trip out of the bay as it ploughed into the waves.

  

  Margaret sewed this arvo with Mahalia.
  She lengthened her onesie and now Mahalia has her arms and legs covered adequately and is very happy & much warmer.

  I spent the afternoon on the phone sorting out some things to do with Tim's accident.
  I was not happy with something in the Coroner's Report so I called up and talked to the lady there.
  She was lovely and asked me to email her my concern so she could get it fixed, then she discovered there was more that needed to be dealt with that the Coroner was not aware of, so she asked me to send her all the information I could.
  So that meant I had to collate events of the night into some logical order, which meant I needed to get phone records etc.
  That all took time but Vodafone was very helpful.
  I now have to spend some time recalling 'the' night and getting it down on paper for her.
  Hard but necessary.

  I was also trying to do some accounting  stuff but for some reason the internet was not co-operating and everything was either really slow or just would not load.
  So I ended up giving up.
  That all put paid to the rest of my afternoon.

  Azzan peeled a mountain of potatoes and cooked up some roasties.
  I asked Christophe to cut up the pumpkin as I intended to roast it.
  But when I finally got back to the kitchen they had cut it up into tiny pieces.
  Misunderstanding/language barrier.
  And the potatoes were well over cooked.
  I was feeling somewhat fragile due to the past few hours.
  It was nearly time to eat and dinner was nowhere close to being ready.
  So I retreated into the pantry with Shoshannah, had a small melt down, and unloaded all my emotional frustrations.
  She is a good listener and between us we made a new plan for dinner.
  We found a delicious recipe in one of my new cook books for a pumpkin risotto so we made that for dinner.

  Anson & Marah came for dinner.
  I was gutted to find the mutton hadn't cooked enough.
  Anson carved around the edges and put it back in the oven.
  The pork was cooked properly so the others all ate well.
  The kids & I don't eat pork, so there was enough mutton for the children and I went vegetarian, which I can handle no problem.

  I quickly made a chocolate fudge self saucing pudding which went down a treat.
  That and the pumpkin risotto balanced out the very over done roast spuds and the rather under cooked mutton!

  Marah is on countdown.
  4 weeks and 2 days to go till D Day!!
  Isn't that a gorgeous baby bump there?

  

  The internet connection is still being womble-ish so I am going to flag trying to load this tonight and hope that in the morning the internet fairies will have done their job overnight and all will be working swell again.

   

  I had hired the fourth season of 'Brothers & Sisters' before we left town so I watched some of that instead.
  I sorta identify with the mother in the series so guess that's why I am enjoying it.

  When I finally turned off the dvd I snuggled down and tried to get comfortable.
  It is so cold and lonely in my bed.
  I had my electric blanket on while I was watching the dvd but when I tried to get to sleep I kept on feeling the coldness of Tim's side of the bed.
  He was always there to keep me warm on cold nights.
  This winter is going to be so hard.

  I cried myself to sleep.

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