Since I last wrote, we have spent all our time looking
after Morse & Lewis, as you can imagine. They are quite delightful, but
exhausting. They can use the dog door, get up & down the internal &
external stairs & are just about ready to leap onto couches & chairs if
given any encouragement!
We’ve enjoyed showing them off to visitors. Judi brought
Jan Pengilley with her on Monday morning & they were each happily cuddling
a puppy when Barbara arrived bearing gifts. We are rationing the toys as
present & giving them the things least likely to be ruined in a minute.
Judi & Michael’s big box of toys contained a brilliant rope tug, which they
love, and a ball which they have learned to chase & bring back most of the
time. Barbara’s squeaky toys are a great diversion when they are heading for
power plugs & sockets or glasses.
Lewis & Morse
quite liking the camera!
On Tuesday morning it was Gillie’s turn to visit & she
brought us eggs from her chooks & home-made lemon marmalade, which are much
appreciated.
Nick Massaro came in the afternoon to give me a massage
& we greeted him at the door with a Labrador each. He was delighted &
has made arrangements to bring his wife, Robyn, with him next week for a proper
visit & cuddle.
There was no Mah Jong on Wednesday, but I had appointments
in town, so walked in & suggested Wes put the boys in the car & pick me
up, so we could show them off. That wasn’t my best idea. They tried to escape
when being put in the back of the station wagon & again, when the door was
raised.
Lyndal, my hair-dresser, was delighted to see them &
happily cuddled Morse, while Wes held onto Lewis. David Reilly spotted us &
came over with congratulations. We eventually got both boys settled again &
drove to Hepburn Springs, where I had hoped we could show Alanna, my
manicurist. Sadly, this wasn’t possible, as Lewis spent his time trying to leap
onto the back seat by squeezing past the mesh divider & Wes was anxious to
get them back home & safely behind doors.
Sandra arrived to clean & was happy to sit on the floor
cuddling them for as long as they liked. She was allowed to give them their
first doggy treats as she left & I suspect they will be very keen to see
her again!
I have been doing my share of minding them, although Wes
has been very good having them help him in the garden each morning for a couple
of hours until they collapse with exhaustion from dragging pruned branches
around the lawn.
Lewis & Morse
drinking water happily together
One of my projects this year, apart from the puppies, is to
cull our library of books that we won’t read again. This is a very difficult
task & I have decided to tackle it one shelf a week. Each shelf has two
rows of books, and I remove them from the shelf, give the shelf a clean &
polish, and arrange the books on the dining room table for Wes & I to
inspect & cull. When it comes to returning them to the shelf, I am making
sure they all have labels with our names, when & where they were bought
& their number in the author’s series of writings. This is fiddly, but fun &
I am enjoying it so far, although we haven’t made heaps of room to date!
Wes has a delightful project of writing single page Family History Snippets, which focus on
one aspect of his family history. So far, he has covered their love of Carlton
Football Club & why; the First Maloneys to reach Australia; ditto the
Marshalls; Convicts marrying other Convicts, & the very early French
Connection. If you are interested in receiving these snippets, please email Wes
on warrenbm@bigpond.com
Barbara very kindly agreed for their usual Wednesday
morning session to be delayed to the afternoon as we have been reluctant to
leave the boys on their own for any length of time, so I did parent duty while
Wes gardened across the road.
They slept all the way through Wednesday night until they
were woken by Wes at 5.30am. It was my turn to walk around the Lake & I am
most amused by the geese. They used to shield the gosling from us, but now it
is every man for himself in their rush to get rice from me.
Wes bathed them both for the first time on Thursday morning
& they loved the water & stayed clean for a while. They are so small
they can get into just about anywhere & everywhere & emerge from under
bushes covered in burrs & twigs.
Under the furniture in
the study.
Wes had a long lunch with our financial advisor that day.
They arranged to meet in The Plough in Trentham & I am
sure Chris was the only person there in a jacket & tie.
On Friday, I had hoped to join the Daylesford Bushwalkers,
who were doing the lovely Wombat Trail
in Trentham, but I was tired after the busy day before & realised I had to
have a very quiet time instead. We finally rang NBN to get on the dreaded
system. We have been avoiding this until the very last minute as we are not
looking forward to it at all. Fortunately, the sales person at Telstra, Blake,
was on the wavelength & very helpful & we await the arrival of yet
another modem (we seem to have a drawer full of them).
That night Wes was on duty at the Daylesford Cinema in its
temporary home at Daylesford Town Hall. The film was Bohemian Rhapsody &
the 8pm session attracted 73 patrons, which was excellent.
Yesterday was very hot. It was my turn to walk around Lake
Daylesford again & I was most amused when the geese emerged from the water,
flapping their wings & racing each other to get to the rice I had brought
them. It was too hot to do much except watch Australia finally beat India in
the first one-day match in Sydney.
This morning we have invited the Breakfast Group to our
place, which should be fun. Amazingly, it is quite cool & windy early, so
we may have to sit inside, instead of on the decking as we had planned!
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