Springtime

It's absolutely bucketing rain here today but the last few days have been gloriously spring-like and warm ... lots of gardening. Or mowing, as we realise just how much grass we have and how quickly it grows.

Most of the trees are still bare but some of the blossom trees are out and very beautiful.

Daffodils are decorating unexpected patches of the yard, and they are all different sorts. My husband said it looks like someone just ordered one of everything from the daffodil catalogue then stood on the front verandah and chucked them in every direction. It does not appeared planned ... but they do seem very healthy and it's fun to see how many different ways you can combine yellow, pale yellow, dark yellow, orangey yellow, pinky yellow and white.

I brought some inside (with wattle and forsythia) which was a very good idea given how grey and miserable it is out there at the moment.

Last week we had a lovely few days when my sister and a friend of hers visited - they had been up with the friend's rellies in Sydney beforehand so took the train down and I picked them up at Tarago railway station. Possibly the smallest station I've ever seen; they were the only ones getting off so had to hop down quick smart. There was nobody else there at all, no-one working or meeting or leaving. Wonderful.

We went down to the beach for a couple of days to see some ocean (sadly no stingrays at the jetty, I think the tide was too low). Super lovely to catch up and have some chill family time .. they had a poke around Braidwood too but there's not that much to see really. 

So now we are back into the swing of whatever it is we do ... although I've had a bad cold the past couple of days which is a bit unfair. It's the first bug since I stopped working - I wouldn't have said I was around enough people to catch germs but maybe someone sneezed on me at the grocery store. I struggled into quilters on Tuesday, and there's garden club on Thursday, and I think I might gather my courage and go to the drawing group on Saturday. They say it's "all levels" but it still requires some level of bravery to draw in a room full of strangers ... although it's at 4 pm and the bar is apparently open. That may help. 

The cat has been very clingy since we got back. I have a lot of photos like this where she is 'helping' me with various household chores.