R.I.P

Our dear friend Lorna died today. She will be with her darling Hilton now.

Sophie and Charlie

Here are a couple of photos of Charlie and Sophie. Unfortunately they are not the best photos but it took a little persuading for them to have them taken.

Sydney

We had a great week-end in Sydney staying with Denise. On Saturday night we had the pleasure of Alex, Russel and Romy over for dinner. Photo

On Sunday Heidi and Nick, Lisa and Andrew came for lunch. Photo

Denise is minding Aylah for the week while Michelle and Thomas are in Fiji.

Birthday

What a lovely birthday I had. Great art work from Seattle. Many phone calls and a visit from Denise. Melissa and Paul cooked a great dinner and we spent too many hours trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle.

Mother's Day

My first Mother's without my mother. My day was spent very quietly. We were dog sitting for Melissa and Paul and family who went to visit with Paul's parents. Margaret and Frank were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

Washington and the Cherry Tree

Dad is Tony and the Apple tree. We have spent the day cutting down the apple tree. A bit sad but we didn't look after it properly and diseases could spread to other trees in the area. We have designs to move a couple of our plants from the front around to the back.

Cataract

Dad had his cataract removed/repaired on Thursday. He says he is not in pain but the eye looks very bloodshot. He is not to do any heavy work for a week or so - that includes golf. His back is improving but finds it hard to remember to do his excercises!!!
The weather here in Canberra is absolutely beautiful. We did have some rain over Easter which is improving the greenness of the grass. Oh how we wish for more rain. Queensland is drowning!!
There are so many repairs/jobs to do around here that I don't know where to start. We will have to work out a programme of attack. One small step at a time. I must get on to painting the rest of the iron work on the back patio. The front looks quite decent with the carport, gate and wrought iron painted.
There was an earthquake in Melbourne recently and it did damage to John's retaining wall. Of course the fine print in his insurance policy does not cover repair of that. It looks like he is postponing a proposed trip to Jamaica. Living on one salary is quite stressful for him. He doesn't complain though.