Jill and Gerard's Seachange

Oh My Goodness!!! Up before the birds!!!

Well after eating half of the brownie, I fell asleep in the chair.............................................

When I woke up the Christmas lights were still flashing at the windows on the verandah, the Christmas tree was still merrily sparkling away and the T.V. had some wierd show blaring away.... I looked up at the window and noticed an orange glow in the distance, goodness!!! is that the sun?????? I squinted over to the clock to see what time it was after I managed to get Ashley off my shoulder!!!!! OMG!!!! It was five in the morning!!!!! I had a wonderful sleep, except my neck felt a bit stiff.. Gerard not here to wake me up which was good so I did not get a disturbed night!!!

I ended up deciding to go for a walk, by myself, without Milly!!! Now how was I going to do that???? I quietly put on my shoes, walked back into the kitchen to grab a pear to eat and some bread incase I saw some swans and as I walked around the corner to go out the laundry door, there was Milly at the door outside. I ignored her and kept going and quietly creapt out the laundry door and off I went. Why should I feel so guilty????? I ended up going around the block and down to the waters edge near us and not a swan in sight, disappointed, I ended up creeping past our house without disturbing the dogs and walked up to the hill. On the way, I stopped to give a Maggie some bread and delicately she took the bread and flew to her baby not far away, after a couple of times I went on and she was still going back and forth. I think the baby was pretty new as it was hiding low in the bushes.. i ended up walking to the hill and back again. It was such a gorgeous morning, the orange sun rising and the water was so dark in the distance I could not see the difference in the swan colour and the water..

It had been a windy old night so much so the waters edge reminded me of a washing machine with all the suds, the wind had tossed the water back and forth so much there was white foam everywhere.

I was a bit disappointed with my walk cause there were no swans about, as I walked back, a few groups of swans flew over and six pelicans also soared past me. By the time I got back to the house, Milly was sitting outside so I let her and Sassy out to go for their walk back to the waters edge. I still had bread with me and there were about 60 odd swans scattered about the place. Only 2 swans came over at first, then along came a couple with their new four bubs and they came so close, they are so gorgeous...

Well I suppose this is a first going for a walk and being up before the birds!!!!!

So what did I do then??? Go back to bed????? No way, my foot had coped so well with the walk and I was feeling good. I ended up raking up the dead leaves, cleared up the dogs mess and trimmed my Papyrus! Did a few other things outside and then came inside and thought I had better do some dishes, by now my foot had decided to pack it in!!!! ouch... By this time Pat the painter had arived to do some more painting outside and before I knew it it was time to go to Mums as the landlord was coming over for a meeting. Got there by 9am to surprise Mum, after about an hour the lady next door came over to say he could not make it today!!!! Damn.

So in the end Mum came here, we watched Dr. Phil, Oprah and I showed her some emails. Ended up having to go outside to "vacuum" up all the paint that had been scraped off the walls that did not get onto the drop sheets, 99.9% of it.... It is now 4.20pm and will shortly take mum home and go to Bairnsdale to pick up Gerard from the station and come home. I have been sitting here with my foot up for a while so hope it will settle down now. Boy am I sleepy now, looks like it won't be a late night by the way I feel at the moment.

Oh yes also spent ages on the net trying to buy John Farnham tickets for February!!! No good as they were four rows from the back!!!!! No thank you!!!!

hopefully they will open up some more shows...

o.k. off to drop mum home and then to get Gerard.

posted by Jill @ 3:57 pm