Winter is on her way.

Greetings to you all, I trust today finds you ready for the new week and new month. Winter has sent out a few testers over the past week so, things have really cooled down nicely.  From Friday, we had more or less continual rain with some extremely heavy downpours through Saturday night. Blessed, blessed rain.

This week was one of those weird weeks which felt totally disjointed 🤷🏻‍♀️. On Tuesday the Hubster and I left home early, as we had an appointment in Cape Town. Followed by ... you guessed it; a long list of chores and stops.  The most important (for me) was a stop at a carpet factory shop.  Once we recovered the couches we realised that we would  need to put a carpet in. Yikes! It is amazing how one small decision can have a knock-on effect.  As is my normal trend, I had been window shopping for weeks and thought I had narrowed it down.  Was I ever wrong.  Once inside the enormous warehouse and actually seeing the printed carpets, I quickly changed my mind and just as quickly realised that I have very expensive taste. LOL.   Thanks to two extremely helpful staff members, we were guided to a different pile of Indoor/Outdoor carpets.  I was pleasantly surprised.  After literally leafing through the entire pile and some quick bargaining, I found exactly the right carpet.  It even slid into the car without any need to be folded or tied down.  Once home we unrolled our new prize and it is absolutely perfect. Now I have to work on scatter cushions; still the knock on effect haha.  I must give credit where credit is due. I have to thank Poppet and Jelly Bean for their input and wisdom regarding design and colour. Thank you girls xx.

Somehow this whole day trip messed with the rest of the week and I was constantly on the wrong  day.  It turned out to be a very quiet week, physically.  Jelly Bean and Hubby basically grounded me because I developed two holes along my wound lines.  Praise the Lord one closed off really quickly. The other is still the same.  We also discovered that I still have a stitch which got overlooked.  Once I post this we are on our way to the Surgeon for a check in. 

I am really missing the family at the moment. Big Guy is so far away so visits are far apart.  The last time we saw The Bears was Mother's Day and we haven't seen the Bandy Clan for about as long.  Everyone has been so busy and most of them are working way beyond an 8 hour day.  Princess is still busy writing exams and has been studying every spare minute.  I think I have mentioned this before, but it seems that the chaos of the last two years has culminated in extreme work loads; with fewer people who now have triple the amount of stress.  Right now I have now idea whether life will ever revert back to what we used to call normal. Then I think that at some point it has to.  People are not designed to carry the loads and stress that they currently are.

A few months ago Hubby bought a very big pork roast as Food Lovers were having specials.  I have kept it in the freezer waiting for the right get together however the need for freezer space could no longer be ignored.  I decided to roast it and freeze the excess.  Well, thanks to the treasured Air Fryer and old fashioned roasting pan we had a perfect roast and for the first time ever, perfect crackling.  When the roast was almost done I was able to literally peel the crackling off. 6 minutes in the AF resulted in the best crackling ever.  We ate a huge meal; Hubby had some for supper and I froze a further three meals.👏

That's it from me for this week folks.  I wish you all a blessed week.  Please take a few minutes every day to just stand outside and breathe deeply.  Just smell the 'roses', loosen your shoulders and breathe.  Stay safe and healthy folks.  Ciao Ciao.

Our new carpet.