Age It Must Be Getting To Me!

Well after the last posting with all that rain, Port was cut off completely for a couple of days as the only road to cairns was blocked by a landslide!  Boulders as big as my little car, sure glad I was safely home and not driving the range or minnie and I may be floating out to sea!

Its still raining and I've just made up the bedroom all ready for sis to arrive. Hope she's remembered to bring her wellies and a umbrella cause she'll be needing it!  Took a pic to show her her room was ready and low and behold have an entity on the right of the photo!!   Probably my mother hanging around to tell us off for not going to her special day the family is having in celebration of her birthday!!But the thing that is bothering me the most is the fact that I think I may be approaching that time in my life where the brain is not up to full capacity....I mean really....I went down the street shopping the other day and didn't realize till I was getting ready that night for my shower that my top was inside out!!!  All day and nobody said anything and the tag was showing on the outside!!!   Then I went down to spotlight only to look down at my feet and I still had on my slippers!!! Arrrrrrr!!!!!!   I realize the slippers in the pic look like thongs but they are towelling and definitely look like slippers !!! Next I'll be wearing my knickers over my trackie pants!!!! Ohhh the worry !!!And Besides they didn't go with my cooool outfit!   But nevertheless that night I went out with some very good friends who still love me the way I am, we had lots of laughs  and  had a lovely night! See thats me at the end of the table on the right next to the upturned bottle of wine......I sure needed that!!!     

Rain!!! Rain!!! And More Rain!!!!

Well I realize if you live in the tropics of far north Queensland you have to expect rain but this is getting ridiculous! Here I am an hour drive from home and a bit weary of traveling around the range ( as its quite dangerous ) to get to my place of abode.

Yes this is the gorgeous tree at the front of my property, beautiful red flowers when its in bloom!!  But anyway as I was saying, trying to get home was a bit of a nightmare.  So I thought I'd stay down in Cairns till at least the rain...ha...I mean deluge stopped or eased off!!!!   My husband stays in cairns for a couple of nights a week as the trip back is soo tireing when working all day, and I go down for a sleepover to keep him company!   But I was beginning to regret that decision as I hunted in the fridge for something for lunch. Men....leave them to look after themselves for just a short time and beware!!!   Everything in the fridge has to be studied....either...... way outta date or off .....no butter....smell the milk....arrrr, managed to find 2 pieces of stale bread, a can of salmon and had a cuppa with the last drop of luckily ok milk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!          So finally after a few hours  I trudged off to wind my way home along the ocean road under a heavy sky.  Luckily it stopped raining on the way but it was getting quite dark and stormy looking!The sea was very rough and the water was gushing very fast along the sides of the road!   Well it is the wet season and I can't really complain because we've had an exceptionally good summer with nice days and not too much humidity,  but I guess it's going to make up for it now!!!!   Told my sis who's coming up for a holiday to bring her galoshes, she said target had very noice leopard pair so maybe I'll dash down and invest in some too and we can be the matching pair!!!!!!!     Only hope she doesn't mind frizzy hair!!!!!!!

Good Read!

Have had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the rain and the dark days for a change. Started off with a yummy meal out with some close friends on friday night altho the head was singing "I 'm hurting" in the morning!

  Cooked a delicious pasta dish on saturday for lunch and altho the treadmill was begging me to use it, I completely ignored it and sat down and started to read a book I downloaded on my ipad. "Raising Abel" by Carolyn Nash.... And altho I wondered if it was a wise thing to do as I'm easily upset by these sort of stories I could not put it down.....I read into the night, briefly getting up to throw some dinner together..(had to feed the old geezer) and still read on till my contacts fogged up so badly it was time for bed! 

This morning after a sleep in and breaky I had to continue on with the book.   A few "Oh my Gods" and a few tears I finally finished it feeling all"s right with the world after all!   It's a an amazing story (all true) and well worth the read!....So now it's time for a cupcake  or two and a noice pot of earl grey!  I'm afraid my cupcakes are no where near as good as grandaughter Mobina and daughter Skye's and I certainly need practise with the icing ...lol...but they still tasted yummy!!  I thank God after the book that I've just finished  I and my kids and their kids have had loving, blessed lives and also....it makes me realize we have so much to feel grateful for!!     SEE YA!!

My Little Man

The very best thing this week was recieving this little Video of my grandson Milo partaking of his first solids!!!   Hahah! Love it and laugh as I get my daily dose!......His mum has a great blog of her own called...HEAD IN THE CLOUDS....READ IT ...YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!

Just Another Day

Well it's sunday and after a sleep in, which I may tell you is unusual for me, it's just another day!  This weekend is a relaxing one just pottering around and doing my thing!  Just finished (well almost ) my computer room and lined two walls with cork boards so I can pin up all the gorgeous pics, sayings and dreams to remind myself how fantastically lucky I am!!

                                          

And  of course I have also have my little reading Nook ready so I can snuggle up and get cosy and dream!