My amazing road trip ended a couple of weeks ago. Four weeks of long days’ travelling but I was enthralled by the landscape at every turn. I am looking forward to sharing much of how I see our beautiful country but it won’t be until next week. I’m a stickler for order and rhythm so must get something up today so that my archives show a blog for September. Since my return, my dear ninety four year old Mum has had to leave her home and go into an aged care facility. Lots of work for my siblings and me to pack up her home and affairs. Deep emotion at being in her home without her sunniness, love and laughter about the place. We are finding a history of her life in papers, writings, letters, photographs. And deciding what is important to keep and what is not. I will compile the story of her life with what we find. She is pleased with that.
I have had a tenant vacate one of my rental properties and decided to sell it. So right now I am also preparing this home for sale. More emotion as I go there each day alone. Warren and I always fixed up properties together. I come home at night physically spent. I was going to write this last night but along with physical tiredness comes mental tiredness, for me. I was tossing up between a dose of ginseng to boost my energy or a glass or two of good Barossa Shiraz that can sometimes facilitate free and uninhibited writing. I went for the Shiraz and fell asleep in my lovely comfy Danish chair. So this morning I have relinquished my daily swim to get this up before I go to the city to pack up the last of Mum’s things.
Have a guy coming in a minute to look at repairing one of my sheds that came to grief in a wind storm. Life is busy. I have a dream to rent a hut in a clearing in a rainforest in far north Queensland and stop – to write a book. A dream or a vision? Or a pipe dream?
Will write again next week
Sue