Intermission

Wet Season and Life in General

Just taking a short break from 

the Canning Posts to give you 

an update on recent things here

in lovely, sweltering, humid, Katherine. 

Well, we are well into our wet season here

in the Territory, which means hot and humid days

that build up and hopefully rain occasionally. 

I love the clouds and the thunderstorms

that this season brings, but finding the time to 

go out and photograph them is another story. 

But, thankfully, on Saturday we had some time

to spend together as a family, with James and Abbi

and Miriam (and Laine of course), over at our

'new' depo (shed) that we have recently started renting 

for our business. 

It is only just out of town, but it is so

peaceful and quiet out there and the view of the 

clouds is better than our front verandah,

with less houses around. 

We were blessed to watch a double rainbow

appear in the sky and a little spattering of rain,

not much, but beautiful nonetheless. 

As you can see, I couldn't quite get the whole rainbow

in the photo, with the lens I was using, but it 

was so impressive. 

We were able to take some tea out to 

the shed and have a nice meal in the little

granny flat attached to the shed, 

which has air con, a definite bonus! 

No, that shed is not ours, 

that's Dave's dream shed, it's $2000 a week,

so it was a bit out of our price range! 

As to life here at present,

well, it's been very busy.

I am kept busy with wedding preparations

and normal day to day life.

Emilee is busy with wedding things and 

working for Dave doing freight, or whatever

else her and her ute are needed to do. 

She has now finished up at Brumbys but

will continue working for Dave once she's married,

as it's only 2 days a week. 

Maddy is always running back and forth

to her job at Brumbys, and running errands

for me or visiting Abbi and Miriam

(getting in lots of Aunty cuddles).

Chloe keeps very busy doing her

school work 3 days a week,

her work at the Day Care centre,

once a week,  her written work and her night classes for her

Cert III in Early Childhood Education course,

once a week, working at Brumbys after school hours a few

times a week and helping me around the house. 

Dave is very busy with the milk run

and freight and building some cupboards etc

for  a lady in the church, doing some recycling 

(with cans and also pulling apart engines etc)

and all sorts of other little jobs. 

We now have a part time employee to help 

with the milk run which frees Dave up to do other jobs. 

Dave is also teaching through the book of Revelation

in adult Sunday School, which has been very good

and everyone seems to be enjoying the good teaching and the debates

that come up occasionally.

We have finished up Teen Group for the year

and we only have 2 more Youth Groups to go before

we finish up for the holidays. 

There are only 3 weeks left to go

until the wedding! 

Where has the time flown?

Another daughter leaves the nest

and we'll be down to just 4 of us. 

Maddy and Chloe are excited

that they will finally get their own rooms,

for the first time in their lives. 

They have been busy collecting room décor

and making things to redecorate and personalize their

own little space. 

Dave is making Chloe a new bed

which she is very excited about. 

In the holidays it will be a time

for a big spring clean, declutter,

reorganize, rearrange etc. 

Little Miriam is not so little

anymore and is growing so quickly.

She is talking more and more 

and developing her own little personality. 

She has learnt to say the Auntys names

and also 'papa' and 'mama' for 

Grandpa and Grandma. 

Yes, it melts our hearts. 

She loves to draw and at the moment, 

everything she draws is a turtle. 

Well, that's about all for now. 

Of course, there's a lot more going on

but that's about the jist of it.