Last Sunday was a funny sort of day - when we arrived home from the Market, I was exhausted, and we decided I should stay home & rest, while Wes & Morse went to Ballan to water Rob & Dene's place. They arrived back about 2 hours later, having given everywhere a good drink. We had been promised rain ourselves, but the afternoon went by without any, until suddenly around 4pm, there were thunderstorms and very welcome rain. This went on & off for some hours & in the morning we found 18mls in our gauge, which was amazing.
On Monday, we had a sleep in, and I went off to do the supermarket shopping at Coles. When I arrived home, we had no power, yet again - our fourth outage in 17 hours. Fortunately it didn't last too long and we were able to enjoy our savoury croissants and hot drinks. Instead of School, we were due to give our bathrooms a really good clean - Wes did the lion's share including both shower recesses, and washed the floors when we were finished.
I woke on Tuesday with not much voice and a cough. Did a RAT, but it wasn't COVID, which is always a relief. I had a very short Zoom chat with Leanne, to see how she was going, before having to cancel out of an Old Friends catch up with Libby & Becky in Gladstone.
And that's how the rest of my week has gone - cancelling or postponing Zoom chats, Mah Jong & breakfast out with Wes. He has been wonderful, as usual, doing all the cooking, looking after the back & front gardens, and keeping up with his chats & phone calls. He's contacted Barbara in NZ twice; caught up with Carole Hardwick in Essendon; with his sister, Denise, here in Daylesford, and with Wendy Owen on the Bellarine Peninsula.
On Friday, Wes bought me a beautiful bunch of Asiatic Lilies, which are yet to open, and three punnets of pleasure. I've planted two of them - Dolly Dahlias to grow under our bedroom window, and Honey Babe Calendula which are outside the study window. The third punnet is orange & yellow Gazanias, which will go out the front in boxes when the old plants have been removed.
Yesterday, Wes spent the morning watering our neighbour, Glen's place, Serendip, as Glen is in Melbourne for a few days. He finished up doing our front garden as well, so I turned our homegrown spuds into potato salad (with cucumber, salad onion, hard-boiled eggs and celery for interest). We had double the crop of spuds this year - quite a few full-size ones and plenty of smaller ones that were perfect for the salad.
Last night was the return of State of Origin footy with a match in Perth of Western Australia vs Victoria. The Vics won by 4 goals in a high-scoring, skilful game, which augurs well for future matches. I only lasted to quarter time, and look forward to watching the remainder of the game today on replay.
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