Sunday, July 8, 2012

Back in the Saddle- Again



Sorry to be tardy. All is fine, it just got busy and I got really tired. Shorty and I stepped out a bit during the "good week" before the school holidays. There was a Sports Day, soccer matches, playgroup and multiple morning teas and lunches so by Friday I wasn't feeling so good any more and hit the proverbial wall.


The second keeno quilt was finished off in various waiting places


 and has been put to good use by Lala with the cold weather.




Then we had a week at the beach. It was dodgy weather but nobody cared. There were sticks to be collected, bases to be made and BIG waves to surf.





I came back overnight for Round 3 of Keeno on the Monday. All I was surfing was the i-pad.


We love this place and have been going there for seven years now. Every year the offspring still look for the pandanus base, the surfer cave and revisit the names they found and carved in the rock years ago.






Queensland winter

 There has always been the annual search for cats' eye shells just like when I was a child on the same beach. Last year we found over a hundred! Of course they mysteriously disappear back to the beach the night before we leave. We blame the "beach possums".
How many middens do you really need next to the garage back home?

                                                     

It was wonderful  to be away and being anonymous for a week. Everybody was wearing beanies and it was good to blend in. Plus if you have to be sick it's better to look at this..

Taken from the deck where I was to be found basting my melon.

than this...

the "cell"
for a change.

The first night away was bittersweet, thinking how perfect life was last time we were there. I wish I had written a little bit about every year there so we would have a seven year synopsis of our lives taken from one  point in time each year.
There was the year one little boy was too frightened to sleep until he got to the beach house, the year they pushed the three beds together and the four of them slept every night curled like puppies in the middle, the year we found the puffer fish that floated out the front for a week of pongy, stick poking heaven, the year Mum felt a little queasy and had forgotten the symptoms of morning sickness, the year we carried the three month old up and down the beaches in the magic red pouch, the year she first ran about on the sand, the year Mum was bald and Fishy got stitches at the Caloundra Base Hospital and, hopefully, the year everything was normal again.....  Is it ever? Just another year, another link in the family history chain and we keep moving on.

...and they didn't!





23 comments:

  1. Lovely to hear from you, and even more lovely to know you have been away and spent time with those chidlets....

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  2. I was wondering how you and the brood were going.
    A very well deserved break from routine at home.
    x

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  3. Hello you :D (That is a very big grin, I was beginning to be just a little worried by your long silence.)

    Great that you could get away. I'm intrigued though, what qualifies as dodgy weather in a Queensland winter? Last I heard temps there were much the same as our current dodgy summer ... it's forecast to hit a max of 17C here today.

    Be well m'dear x

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  4. So glad you're back. My mum's been asking about you, the husband's been asking about you, Debbish's been asking about you, and all I could say was, "I'm not sure how she's going, I haven't heard from her for a while", and that made me feel guilty.

    This year at the beach will just be another year at the beach where 'Mum was crook'. Don't go getting too tired.

    Your boys have such long legs! As for Instagram, I'm following you so you should be able to link up okay. Instagram's a lot easier than blogging.

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    1. I joined when I was delirious in hospital and now can't remember my password. I need to remember how to use it. Something to do in the Big Chair at Club Wes tomorrow.

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  5. Oh hello again. So nice to hear your blog voice, I had been getting a little anxious about what you were up to. Was contemplating sending you stalkerish comments on your last post. How was a good dose of that wonderful beach for the soul? (does look a lot like my favourite beach too- perhaps we will be there at the same time one day) Even with dodgy weather you all looked like you were whooping it up. The new blanket looks wonderful, so nice to see it snaffled up so quickly. My house is a cesspit of disease and I am almost completely stark raving mad as the most exciting trip out of the house in 2 weeks was a grocery shop at Coles. Take care with round 3, any thoughts on the new blanket? I just found a very cute hexagon pattern if you are interested. melx

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    1. I am just contemplating a hexagon pattern for a change although all the joining might be a pain at the end. I don't even knot or sew in my ends any more with a nifty technique somebody showed me. Last slipstitch and it's done.

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  6. Hey you. Here's looking forward to the year everything was normal again. Have just in recent days found out about a friend who is about to embark on a similar journey to the one you're currently on. If you don't mind I'd like to pass on your blog details to her, not that I would know but I imagine it helps to connect with others in the same situation. You take care. Thinking of you often.

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    1. I'd love her to hop on. I have met quite a few lovely women who are in a similar place to me right now. You're right. It helps.

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  7. So glad you are back. I have missed you and was concerned. So happy you got to take some time away at your favorite place. I think of you often when I'm reading my blogs and hope that you are doing okay. I hope life can return to normal for you soon. Hang in there.

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  8. So glad to hear from you again, Annie.
    Beautiful, touching pictures of what's going on around you.
    I still paint my toenails in rainbow colours and think of you getting better and back to 'normal'. Though now, I think 'normal' will be 'special' and never ever just ordinary again. Much love.
    Axxx

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  9. Hello dear Annie! Glad to hear you're vacationing in the winter over there. Looks freezing, NOT! I hope you're soon over the keeno. Your blanket is amazing.
    xo

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    1. Thanks Deb. We can't go oout in summer any more here without frying!

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  10. Looks very restorative. Much nicer than our winter.

    Very intrigued by the cat's eye shells. I've never seen them.

    Hope you're doing well.

    S.

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    1. Nothing wrong with a bit of snow in the right place, Steve. If you would like a couple of cats eye shells, send me an e-mail and I'll get your address and send them. We have Pah-lenty!

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  11. You're back!TG
    Your life-giving beach stay must have revived memories and renewed you all.
    New keeno rug again spectacular. Good move Lara.
    It's always so good to have some continuity in life to ride out the unexpected storms.

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  12. Sorry Lala.
    A slip of the neurones.

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  13. Aaahh.....how beautiful, I love that salto dog, who did that? Good to hear about your life, tardy, busy, reflective and still renting that holiday house. See you there next year.

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    1. That dog is Balto and we claim no responsibility. Salto would be a good beach dog name though. We looked for your names this year but couldn't find them....funny that!

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  14. Good to hear from you - I was wondering how things were going. I'm glad you were able to get away to the beach for some family time.

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  15. loving those gorgeous bright blankets and memories made. You've made a record of it right here on your blog. I love that beach is great in any weather. what is with the thongs on the fence?

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  16. Hey you. Good to have you back, even if only sporadically. You're making the good week look very good, and even the sick week looks like fun. Will see you soon, ok.

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