It's been a while

Ah how life has slowed to a comfortable pace in the last month. I still feel like I'm catching my breath from time to time, and so quiet days pottering about at home have gone a long way to remedy that. I'm almost there, still need a little more time.

The wedding was such a wonderful day, and the memory of it will be etched in my mind and heart forever, but oh my how I'm glad it's over. I don't think I have ever in my life put so much thought and effort into something. I think the effort paid off, but I'm glad I'll never have to do it again. If that's not a reason to never split and get remarried I don't know what is!

Work is still great and at a gentle pace. I love days like today when I have the shop all to myself dotted with the odd customer and phone call. Water features trickle in the background, scented wood shavings float their fragrances past me in the warm breezes from outside and quiet piano music lulls any listener into calm tranquility. I must admit I am getting slightly tired of the same old music. I would change it except that we sell it, and so this means I have to play it. Eight albums that all sounds the same on constant high rotation. Oh well if that's the worst part of my job, I think I can cope.

Tony has started coming home from work at reasonable times of the day which is lovely. It's so nice to now be able to share the work when it comes to cooking dinner, feeding the dog, checking on the chickens and well just generally being able to enjoy some daylight together.

I feel like we're slowly clawing our way back financially. It's going to be a good 12 months of us being boring, but future Melinda and Tony will thank me for my strict ways. I can't remember the last time I actually had money to go buy a new dress or pair of shoes. Gone are the days of blowing $600 on a clothing shopping spree. In fact the mere idea that I ever did that (and it was quite regularly too) horrifies me! My idea of 'new clothes' is now unpacking clothes I put away in plastic tubs a year ago and forgot about. Amazing what you forget you have.

My little flock of chooks are doing so well now. Lucky still insists on roosting in a tree and as of last night the second Ancona (which is yet unnamed) has taken to doing the exact same thing. I go to check on them as the sun goes down and two little feathered creatures peer at me out of the tree canopy softly clucky away as they get settled. Funny birds. The rest are quite content to do what normal chooks do and roost in their hen house. I can't wait to be able to get eggs from them. I think my Anconas will be the best layers, and so I need to construct some nesting boxes for them to brood in. By the time I actually get an egg from one of them it will turn out to be the most expensive egg ever laid!

The way I'm feeling about life these days I'd be quite happy to go live down south somewhere have a hobby farm with chooks, goats, ducks, geese and maybe even a Dexter cow. In case you're wondering no that's not a murdering cow that by day is a blood splatter analyst, Dexters are a miniature cow that act almost like the family dog! I'd love pigs too, but then what would be the use, I couldn't bring myself to have one killed and they can't produce any secondary food stuffs like eggs or milk, so in my day dream farm, I don't think I'd have pigs.

If not down south, a life in the English country side would be nice for a while. I watch these gardening shows set in the UK and the rich soil they have to play with is something us WA gardeners can only dream of.

Somehow though I doubt I can convince Tony of any of this. Ah well, I could do a lot worse than our little home in Cooby.