Seriously Strapped for Time!!

My Gosh! I seem to have been inundated with Good Wishes, & Good Fortune, from wonderful Blogging friends!

It has all been while I seem to have been rushed off my feet, as far as finding enough hours in the day, to attend to all the things I want to do!

Bren, from Pieces From Me, gave me this award. I was amazed to receive this, as I just putter along. Bren & I have many differences in our ideas, but we each respect the other, & though we stand for differing beliefs our aim is the same in the end, & as she says, we are very very alike in a lot of ways.

Thankyou Bren. I will have to think about awardees.


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Tuesday's visit to the Coalface of Christmas, was rewarded in a way I find very hard to describe.

When we arrived home, I noticed a square cardboard box on the doormat. I could see it had a Customs declaration, & was so excited to find it was a package from Wanda, of Exuberant Colour, who had sent me the most wonderful collection of scraps of some of her wondrous stash!!

Wanda has been one of my first calls each day, ever since I first discovered her wonderful Blog, to check up on what lovely colourful creations she has posted. I love her quilts & her wonderful fabric stash, & her sense of colour, so vibrant, & varied.

Blog Friends have to be the most wonderful, generous people on the planet.

Feast your eyes on some of the fabrics Wanda sent me.

I have gone through them over & over, & have got all excited, dreaming up ideas of how to use them.

I spread them out on the carpet, & flexed the arthritic knees, to get down & really enjoy them!!

I feel I have displayed them poorly here, & have not done them all justice, so I will have to get sewing & show them in all their glory!

Of all the fabrics in the huge package, there are only 2 I have seen before, or have, & they are different colours, to the ones Wanda sent me.

I guess only another quilter or Fabriholic could understand the almost orgasmic thrill I got from all these wonderful bits & pieces!!

Gom sat in his chair, watching me happily playing about with them, & even he was impressed, as he loves colour, - the brighter the better!

Here is a Wandaful Block that Wanda has already constructed, which is lovely as it gives me direction on how to do those blocks. I have never tried them before...

Give me space & time!!

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I thought I had a day to spare, as it were, yesterday. Gom was taken out & away by our Daughter J, & I had 'time on my hands'.

Be sure the Cosmic Conspiracy To Piss People OffCCTPPO came out to play with me, & before I knew it the day had gone, & I was greeting the bleeding but happy happy shoppers home again.

Best laid plans & all that!

"A Day Well Spent" they said! Well goody for them!! haha.

I did manage to approach the sewing machine. I did manage to sew a little.

I did manage to fondle & admire Wanda's gifts.

I did rather enjoy the solitude, & the peace, & the music of my choice. So, not really a day wasted.

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Today has been another Allsorts Mixture.

We were to have SG, & we did.

A Sister, in NZ phoned me, - we spent literally hours! on the phone, catching up with each other's lives.

SG entertained Gom, whilst washing the outdoor setting. I think they may have quarrelled, judging by the body language, as a small boy hurtled past the computer room!! Huffy shoulders could be seen, washing hands, in very hostile mode!! Body language is sooo telling!!

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We had visitors, another phone call, a meal to organise..

Where did this day go???

Now. We are having thunderstorm activity again! Leo has come to lie at my feet.

The chorus of cicadas is quite deafening, as they seem to be hatching & singing? playing? roaring? croaking?.... what does that noise sound like??

Summer in Austalia?

Chris Isaak, Think of Tomorrow.

Dream Trails.

This was last evening's sky. It was debating with itself... Will I??

Yoo Hoo!! What about me? See me over the back here, all bright & silvery?

Perhaps I wont tonight...

We have been getting thunderstorms in the evenings lately. With some welcome falls of rain. But last evening it just did a tease, & didnt amount to anything in particular.

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Still dealing with craptacular things we would rather not, so not much concentration available to think straight.

While waiting in the Dr's waiting rooms for a script, the Receptionist & another patient, plus the Dr, & I, were exchanging our various 'rodent' stories. This may seem a very peculiar subject for a Doctor's waiting room, but said Dr's rooms are situated on the bank of a large creek. Water rats have been spotted from time to time. Not in the surgery I hasten to add, but once, in the garden, scurrying up a tree. Dr D & I both spotted it at the same time, & were quite amused- more so, than shocked really. Who knew rats climbed trees??

The Receptionist, C, told us that she had once found a burned Oppossum in her garden. She saw the poor creature's tail, all burnt bald. It was during bush fires in the area, & she felt so sorry for the poor little thing, with the fur all burnt off it's tail. Since she had a large Alsatian dog, she grabbed a wooden crate & threw it over the Possum, & weighted it with 2 bricks. She rang WIRES, which is the body which deals with distressed wildlife, -injured or burnt native animals, -in times of crisis. They promised to collect the Possum as soon as possible.

Now this will seem strange to New Zealanders, because Possums are a menace over there, & are freely shot for their pelts, & regarded as a danger to New Zealand native fauna. In NZ a dead Possum is a good Possum! But here, in Australia Possums are protected, & so, worthy of saving.

C said the man from WIRES duly arrived, & on lifting the crate, the man grabbed the two bricks, & clapped them together on the hapless animal! C was horrified! But it turned out the "Possum" was really a very large rat! The 'bald' tail had been rodent, not singed Possum.

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Now to the dreams. I often have dreams of such clarity, upon waking I could swear they are real.

In this past week, I have dreamt so vividly of Monks in saffron robes, & I have heard them chanting, & the bells they strike, so clearly, I just could not believe I was in my own bed, when I woke.

I have met with people I have never seen before, we have had much in common, & spent happy hours together.

Sometimes the dreams are too nebulous to recall, & they hover, just out of reach at the corners of my mind, taunting me all day, or for several days, after the actual dreaming.

At other times the dream's details will remain with me all day, & call to me, to return, somehow. I will keep feeling I am being swept back into the 'dream'. I can feel textures, or see the colours so clearly. And hear the voices.

Perhaps I am going mad? I dont really think so. It seems I have had vivid dreams all my life, & have terrible nightmares at times, which will haunt me for weeks.

GOM always claims he cant remember his dreams. He knows he has them, but the details are lost upon waking.

AS I hve previously mentioned, we are having some personal turmoil in our lives at present, & I suppose all this is playing tricks with my mind. I am not sleeping well, & perhaps the dreams are acting as "stress relievers". Who knows......

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This last pic is of today's Church Fete find... isnt it bright...some might say ugly, but something about it appealed to me, & 2 metres for $3 seemed a good buy. The small piece was the princely sum of 10 cents!!

I hope you have all been enjoying great weekends with your heart's desires being granted!