Sounds pretty good to me!
Thanks to everyone who sent flowers, rang, emailed & sent messages after last week's news of Lewis's death. We really appreciated your thoughts & kind words & it does help to know that friends are thinking of you at this awful time.
Everyone was good to Morse at the Sunday Market & Wes even took him for a walk to see Jeff, the Dog Treat Man, and Ken, of Spring Park Nursery. Yvonne & her sidekick, Ken, had prepared a small mess of cabbage with slices of pear & Morse delicately picked out all the pear slices to eat first before turning his attention to the cabbage.
Beautiful tulips are the highlight of this arrangement from the Robinsons, who have always loved our Labradors
Afterwards Wes & I headed to Cliffy's for a beautiful breakfast - laksa eggs for me & porridge for him. Liam Thorneycroft, the owner, was working, and it was lovely to catch up with him. All the staff are taught to go that one step further & it's good to have the door opened for you when you leave, as well as when you arrive. We came home to find Morse sound asleep & not worrying that we had left him, especially as Rob had been in & given him a hug before he left for Melbourne.
I took Morse outside with me & we stripped the fig tree, collecting a bucketful of hard, green, unripe figs with about eight that might ripen inside in the sun. Yet another unsuccessful fig yield! Morse & I then bonded, while Wes drove to Ballan Station to catch the train to the MCG to see Carlton play wonderfully well against Adelaide. He came home on a high, which has lasted all week.
We've started walking Morse twice a day to give him some extra stimulation & he is getting very good at leaping into Sammy whenever he is invited. He still looks for Lewis & wakes crying at times, but he is much happier than he was 10 days ago. We are still very sad too, but grateful that we had Lewis in our lives, even though it was far too short a time.
Morse looking more relaxed with his friend & both pillows
We spent School on Monday planning our trip to Inverloch & discovering that we needed to take sheets & towels, as well as just about everything else....should be fun fitting it all in Sammy, our little Mazda 2. The rest of the week seems to have been taken up with Zoom chats, gardening, reminiscing & missing Lewis. I played Mah Jong with Dot as usual, and Wes attended a lengthy meeting of the Daylesford Cinema committee.
As well, we had our flu shots & second COVID boosters at Springs Medical Centre, where our appointment was a joint one. We spent it laughing with Dr Brad Wyer, who was enjoying doing computer duty with nurse, Vicki, who couldn't see where to put the circular band-aids after she administered our injections. Apart from my slightly sore arms for a couple of days, we had no other reactions.
Autumn glimpses in our front garden - weeping Japanese maple, ordinary maple & daisy bed covered in dogwood leaves
On Friday night, we collected a very yummy takeaway meal from Jackie's on Vincent. We each had chili prawns with different sauces & home-grown Asian vegetables on coconut rice. Just in case the footy didn't go the way we wanted, we decided to accompany our meal with a bottle of Cofield Sparking Shiraz & what a good idea that was! Collingwood never looked like it against the Doggies, who got off to a flying start & played well all night.
Yesterday we had plans to take Morse to the local footy, but it started raining in earnest mid-morning & got heavier as the day wore on. He was happy to be with us & we did a practice run of packing instead.
The rest of the day was taken up with watching footy on TV, where the closest game was between St Kilda & Geelong with the former producing a stunning win over their more fancied rivals. Richmond & Hawthorn played a thriller as well until the Tigers ran all over the Hawks in the last 10 minutes.
We've got a quiet day planned - no Sunday Market, finish packing, watch Carlton play GWS & hope for a win, and eat leftovers for dinner, after enjoying prawn congee for breakfast.
Stunning photo of sunrise over the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens taken by Glen this week
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