HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY NEW MOON!
The moon turns new on Wednesday night or Thursday morning in the US/UK. Sorry, AQ, I didn't look up Australia.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
Everything has turned green here, and everyone is taking wildflower tours and foraging for wild mushrooms. Hunting the fields and woodlands for the treasured and tasty wild morel mushrooms is a much anticipated rite of spring here. They sell for over $25 per pound and they taste divine.
Love to all. Sending healing and good energy to OG.
Morning all:
AQ: Oh that must be so distressing for your OH - and you too. My OH took a tumble last year, had to call the (tall, dark and handsome - a silver lining to every cloud!) young men from the Fire Department for a Lift Assist. Had to laugh at "hold the book closer?" suggestion, but clearly I should have called the city when I couldn't read road signs and asked them to replace them all with large-print signs. Lovely that you can finally go on your stained-glass tour. Re French tour of Town Hall, Auntie Google hints at French arrival in 1700s, but colonial aspirations failed to materialize...?
Rusty: I guess golf isn't the kind of sport where you build a lot of body heat (jog in place in between shots maybe?)
Lindybird: We bring our bird feeder in every night now following rat problem three years ago. They're still around, but aren't using the back fence as a highway to the feeder hung in the bushes. My questions/comments are eminently forgettable, so no worries. :-))
Heather: Oh no. Everything collects in corners! I get a fright when we're doing yoga floor exercises and I happen to look under the TV table. Yikes. Have you Googled 'cleaning devices for tight spaces'? There must be something out there. Otherwise, occasionally hire grandchild/someone young and/or agile to do the job? Any exercises that could help with getting up?
RUSTY – Our state’s schools have always had a strong education in French language. Also SA could have been French not British! In 1802 Matthew Flinders on the English ship “Investigator” was exploring Aussieland’s coast from the west, while Nicolas Baudin, captain of the French ship ”Le Geographe” was doing the same from the east. They met near present-day Victor Harbor; Flinders later named this location Encounter Bay. They exchanged maps and dotted along our coast are French names - Fleurieu Peninsula, Cape Rabelais (named for a satirist). Cape Dombey (for a naturalist), Cape Buffon (botanist), Lacepede Bay (naturalist), Rivoli Bay and many more.
HEATHER – I have 2 step stools (aka garden stool thingy); one inside and another for garden. I sit on a stool to clean corners and to do weeding. I see you plan to do same. I used them to lever OH up from his fall. Yes, he has Parkinsons and he is slowly declining. Such is life. For better for worse and all that.
ANNETTE – There was great rivalry between the two nations but the Brits got in first by off-loading convicts to eastern coast and somehow managed to snatch the whole continent. The French had other colonies – French Caledonia, in Pacific, Reunion in Indian Ocean come to mind.