Happy New Week and Happy New Month
AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
You are all dear to me, and I wish you all joy, peace, love, and wonder in 2025.
We will close out the year with a rare "black moon." That's the second new moon in a single month.
The moon turns new on:
30 December at 2:26 p.m. in California
30 December at 10:26 p.m. in UK
31 December at 8:56 a.m. in Adelaide, Australia
Nice to have a brand new moon to start the new year!
Honestly, this has been a bad year for me personally and for the US collectively/nationally. I'm danged glad to see 2024 in the rear-view mirror. LOL
Love and hugs to all.
Glad that awful year has finished - hope we all get a better one coming!
GD is doing better - but no news of what comes next. Her recent surgery has healed and she and the boyfriend went home to her house (not far from parents') for New Year's eve night. Her sister anf boyfriend had been to visit at the parents' with nasty colds - just hope they didn't leave viruses behind now they have gone back down south.
We phoned Dau #2 for her 31st Dec birthday - all ok up north.
OH developed the virus last weekend and has been tired and stressed - and he is so loud with colds etc - gives me an extra headache! Now J has decided to have it too - not sure how genuine his is.
We were all unsettled last night - I woke to single firework at midnight and wished OH happy new year. There were a few more after that, but didn't go on late. J woke at 4:30, turned off the security alarm and went to spend rest of the morning nappng on his lounge chair. All got up late today. OH and I not feeling quite so bad, and we are just letting J complain to himself. Doing a few menu related jobs, and OH has caught up with the laundry - ironing will go on a few days more, but cleaners will be back Monday, and one of them will finish the ironing then.
Rusty - glad your journey was alright. Its been so bad here that on TV they showed even main roads under water! Enjoy yourself & tell us all about it afterwards.
OG - Sorry you're all catching bugs. Hope it's short lived. My ironimg pile is HUGE as I've had Time Off from it!! Good news about your GD. Hope she can now recover gently.
Thank you to Everyone for your Good Wishes for the year- ours could do with being better this time too!!
Thought everyone might like this:
Liindbird: Nice thought - I just wish I'd arrived with all the wisdom my ancestors accrued over their lifetimes.. :-))
OG: Take care. UK niece has now been ill for about 8 weeks. First a vicious cough; now body aches like never before. She was hunting down a Covid test last I heard....
Today is a huge football day here so my yoga teacher is hosting a 'come-as-you-are' chili and cornbread non-yoga-non-football gathering for our small group at her house this afternoon. Saw daughter and grandaughter at the ranch this morning but they started getting on each others' nerves so I waved bye-bye and came home. Families!! :-)
Families ! You can say that again, ANNETTE...
We enjoyed a family meal last evening - home made lasagne, salad, left over puddings and a cheeseboard. My son made the meat sauce and for my sins I had to make the bechamel sauce. He was going to make the whole thing but I objected (!) to his idea of buying a ready made white sauce.Consequently I was given the job. Maybe I should keep quiet!
It is cold here this morning no snow this side of town but middle daughter says big flakes and it is lying where she lives,near the A96.
LINDA – no she will not recover – crohn’s is a life-time ongoing disease – but she will have various tweaks to her bowel – some small, some large – until they adopt a regime that works for her!
Not a bad day here – quite a lot of sunshine – birds seemed to enjoy it – but mostly temps around zero. All coughing and sneezing together.
We had a lovely χmas lunch yesterday – turkey roll, roast potatoes plus carrots & peas. I forgot the pumpkin until too late to roast. Dessert was choc cream pie &/or tiny bakery fruit cakes (tiny? Half was ample). The Trio were happy with their gifts, not surprising as I chose from their wish lists. Plus chocs. I also gave Dau some special chocs for evenings when “she is feeling miserable”. Dau gave me 2 books, one about Charles Todd who built the Overland Telegraph Line from SA to Darwin in 1872 thus connecting Aust with the world. The other is “Invisible Women, exposing data bias in a world designed for men”. Looks interesting. The Trio gave me pencils they decorated with pipe cleaners, also lots of hugs. MissTeen helped me with my new stupid phone. Now I can read any texts sent to me. What idiot dreamed up 2 OK buttons?
I have one eye on the sprinkers. Starting before 7 am, I am trying to water the lawn before it gets too hot. Expecting 36 C today so I have covered my suffering tomatoes.
Now the χmas visits are over I can dismantle the tree & decorations. No idea what other chores need attention. I hardly know what day it is. There are 3 more weeks of school holidays.
AQ - Great that you enjoyed your family lunch. I'm sure everyone enjoyed their presents. We are still confused over which day of the week we're on!!
OG - I meant that your GD needed to recover from the latest events. I do know a little about Crohns as a friend has it, & its also a sister to my late mother's condition of ulcerative colitis. Neither of them any fun. Best wishes to her.
I forgot to say that over Christmas a member of the family heard from Awful Cousin! And.....she is planning to visit us all in September!! Aaaaargh!!
My OH got in touch with the hospital today & they told him that his (preventative) treatment was to begin on 22nd January. Once a week for 6 weeks, so all done by the end of February. He's keen to get it over with & get on with life.
It's been freezing, literally, here. Where its been flooded lately its causing ice lakes on the roads :-(
LINDY plenty of time to think up your excuses (sorry reasons) for not seeing her. Hope all goes well for your OH.