One that started with a trip to deliver the finally finished sampler to the new home owners along with a lot of unused household paraphernalia being given a new lease of life in a new household with much younger owners who will use it.
There was much more than these few items, I went through many cupboards/drawers thinking “do I need several xxxx , do I need three sets of xxxx, is there a need for all those sets of glasses – all those xxxxx,…..you get the idea. Then photos flew across…wherever they fly….and it was ‘Yes please’ or ‘No thank you’ time
So big smiles from me seeing empty spaces and big smiles from them receiving gifts of things with lots of life left in them
Spring seems to have finally got the message so having some bright sunny (not too cool) mornings early last week meant I could breakfast outside (a very simple one this particular day). A quiet time that sets me up for the day- no tv or radio – just me, myself and I plus a book or maybe some birdsong if I’m lucky…..one that definitely brings a smile to my face.
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Now you’re probably wondering why I’m smiling over a spindly looking Australian native red bottle brush (Callistemon) – something which seemingly is ‘ long lived, requires minimal maintenance and almost impossible to kill’ source
A few years ago the council planted several around the car park of the ‘local’ shops. This is the only one to survive. They didn’t die from ‘natural causes’ ….no some young hooligans vandals horrible little so and sos thought it funny one night to try and destroy them. Pulling them up or breaking the stems on the ones they couldn’t get out. As I said this is the only one to survive – and doesn’t it look grand with those crimson coloured ‘bottlebrush’ shaped flowers.
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Another trip (half hour from home) out into the Valley on a cloudy day, noticing the amount of growth the vines are putting out, seeing the area waking up and coming alive again, had us smiling at the thought of happy winegrowers rubbing their hands in glee.
St Hubert’s ( or Hubert’s Estate as they like to be called now) are looking for hospitality staff, there’s a confident feeling about a good season ahead.
But……there’s also a few months between now and the middle of February when picking starts and you never know what the ‘weather gods’ have in store for anyone farming there….so…you just never know how things will pan out. There could or there could not be big smiles at the end of it.
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You know, even though they are put there to ‘advertise’ how to get help in a ‘sad situation’ – the sight of another Australian native, this time a marsupial, a wombat, often seems to always bring a smile to people’s faces.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat
Sadly they are often involved in the ‘sad situations’….being nocturnal, slow moving with dark fur they often end up injured or even as road kill. Seemingly a group of them is called a wisdom – you often wonder why they don’t use some of it and stay off the road
Tuesday just gone – October 22nd was International Wombat Day
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/wombat-day/
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Most of my time and smiles this week have been directed towards ‘our big girl’ who flew in from the west for a few days. She enjoyed time with family and old friends as well as reacquainting herself with local suburbs – it’s quite flat (easy walking terrain) where she lives on the coast north of Perth so she was full of smiles at having the chance of a daily walk in a different environment…… round our tree lined undulating ‘hilly’ streets……until her leg muscles reminded her they’d been working in a different manner.
She’s away back home now and I really must get back to visiting blogs and commenting again. I’ve been very lax and it hasn’t been high on my list of things to do recently……(bad blogger) …..that’s about to change
And how about your week……have things gone the way you wanted…….
have you had much to smile about
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