Recovering from the heat !

The past few days have been such a relief from the days of 40+ degrees heat of earlier in the week! I'm hoping it wasn't a taste of things to come this summer! I had an enjoyable morning with some of our KYB ladies watching a DVD of a speaker at the CWCI 50th birthday events, it was a moving and encouraging talk on being Jesus' sheep. I'm looking forward to watching/hearing next weeks' DVD. Speaking of next week, my sister Kath & I are using our senior's free train ticket to go to Melbourne for the day to have a look at the Myer Christmas window and, of course, do a spot of shopping............as you do. That's it for tonight, it's almost my bedtime, so goodnight for now.

Back to blogging!

Well, here I am again at your request Karen! It is nearly 3 months since I wrote anything on here, so much has happened, but I'll just have to write some of it. Firstly, Peter has had 15 weeks off with long service and holidays, it has been a great time, especially since we were able to travel up to Merimbula in September and down to Tassie in October. I just love Tassie, we saw so much down there, but one of the highlights was actually seeing snow falling for the first time on Cradle Mountain, this was followed closely by the Gordon River cruise. Amazing place! I want to go back and see more!!!! Merimbula is a lovely place also, we travelled down through Gippsland then up the coast to get there, stopping at various places on the way there and back, a really nice holiday. I think that is enough writing for tonight!

Holidays are fun!

I can't believe it's been so long since I wrote anything on here! As you can see by the photos, I've had a wonderful holiday in Queensland only to return to the coldest frosty mornings. Now, yesterday we had 28 degrees then today 17 and tonight is going down to minus 1!! We so desperately need rain, especially with that heat so early. This weekend Karen & Rob and Fiona & Richard are coming for Fathers' Day, so that will be wonderful.

Holidays!

Holidays

I can't believe that in 5 weeks time I will be in sunny Queensland!! Not only that but also celebrating my best friend's special birthday, how amazing. I'm sure the time is just going to fly as I have many things to do before I go. This week is our 7th study in KYB for this term, only 2 to go for this term.

Lovely Weekend

We have had a wonderful weekend with our 2 daughters & sons-in-law here. We belatedly celebrated Mothers' Day and caught up in general. Today we went to my Mums' and had a delicious lamb roast lunch, all our childrens' favourite! We have also been blessed with wonderful soaking rains, God is so good!! The farmers are working long hours sowing their crops, this is the best break they have had in many years. I can hardly believe we are up to study 5 this week in KYB, only 4 more after that for this term. Then it's off to sunny Queensland for me to celebrate a special birthday!!

Pansies

Busy Week

Last week was a very busy time with quite a lot of babysitting, a night out at the movies and our first get together of KYB groups for this term! As if that wasn't enough, we had a house guest to stay last night, a meeting after Church then a fellowship lunch, no wonder I'm feeling a little tired. I must say, all of the above was enjoyable and I thank God that he gives me the energy and ability to cope with it all. We will begin our first KYB study for this term next Friday, I can't wait.

Easter and a new term!!

Easter here was very quiet with just Karen & Rob here for Saturday & Sunday. We were blessed in having a Pastor come to give us a preaching service with the Lord's Supper on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday we had a lay reading service, a wonderful celebration of our risen Lord & Saviour!! Now the new term starts on Monday, all KYB ladies will meet Friday week to receive our new study books - always exciting - we will be studying Nehemiah, will be very interesting!

End of term

Well, today is the end of term and our last KYB study on Matthew. I just love my KYB ladies, they are so encouraging, caring and committed to their faith! I will surely miss seeing them over the next 2 weeks. Next week end is Easter, it is hard to believe it is nearly here already. Karen & Robert are coming for Easter, it will be great to see them again. Today is also our wedding anniversary so we went out for dinner, very nice, now I think it's time I went to bed.

An amazing Day

Last Monday was Labour Day here in Victoria, so we had a lovely long weekend. Then my week became very busy, I had to reorganise my days so as to be able to go to Bendigo on Thursday. It was a special day celebrating the 50th anniversary of CWCI (Christian Women Communicating International), they are the organisation who first set up the KYB study groups. I was amazed to hear that this began here in Australia and has now spread to many other countries!! But I'm jumping ahead of myself, firstly I had to get up at 5.30am to be on the bus at 7.15, we arrived in Bendigo at the huge Baptist Church complex about 9.40, we were served a delicious morning tea, then it was into the day's proceedings. We had a wonderful day of singing, a guest speaker from USA who spoke on "Living in Jesus' abiding presence", and a Christian bookstall (always very popular).More delicious food was served for lunch and afternoon tea, then it was back on the bus and home about 5.40pm. We were tired but exhilarated, next morning it was walking at 6.30 as usual, then off to KYB at 9.15, it was great to be able to share all of this experience with the ladies who couldn't make the trip!

Great weekend

What a lovely weekend! Friday we drove down to Melbourne and stayed overnight with Fiona and Richard, then Saturday morning we picked up Karen and Rob to drive down to Churchhill in Gippsland. We went there to attend Karen's graduation where she received her degree in business and economics!! It was a very hot day but none-the-less enjoyable. Saturday evening back in Melbourne the six of us all went to a wonderful Italian restaurant for dinner - Yummy!! It was a wonderful family time together, we were sorry we had to return home Sunday so Peter could go to work - driving the truck to Melbourne of course!!! This morning, it was back to walking at 6.30 am, now I'm just a bit tired, but I will recover soon.

Shrove Tuesday / pancake day!

I don't really have time to write tonight, it's a bit late after watching Dancing with the stars!! Anyway, did you have pancakes today? We had them for dessert tonight - yummy. My blood test results were very good so I could afford to have a little splurge!! It's great to see you have a blog Kristin. We'll be busy commenting, it'll take me all night to keep up with everybody!! Well I'm babysitting at a Christian young Mum's group with Kath tomorrow morning, then at Tepper's late afternoon, so I'd better go to bed, it's a busy life!

Fridays are special

I just love Fridays! It's KYB day and I love spending time in God's Word and with the beautiful Christian ladies who come along every week. We have a great range of ages, from young Mum's to 70+, we are blessed in having a creche so the young Mum's are able to enjoy the study without the usual interruptions of small children and babies. We are so blessed in this country to have the freedom to study, hear and do God's Word!! God is good, praise His holy name!!

Morning Walks

Another week is gone and I ask myself what have I done? Well, I must say, I do enjoy the early morning walk every weekday morning with my sister, Kath. We walk from 6.30a.m - 7.30a.m, it's so beautiful out there enjoying God's creation, there's something about early morning - peaceful - the only hard part is getting out of bed!! We started nearly a year ago, because of health reasons for me, now it's just part of daily life. I better finish up for now because getting up that early requires one to go to bed at an earlier time!!

What a great weekend, except for the heat of course!! I really don't like it when the temperature gets up to 40 and over!! Karen & Rob, Peter & I went to Murrabit market yesterday morning before it got too hot, stayed in under the air conditioner all afternoon than went to the Pasta Inn for tea - yummy. Fiona & Richard had their usual breakfast at Spoons, then we all had lunch at home. Now every one has gone home and Peter in the truck, still very hot.

Wow! it's February already, where did January go? We are having Karen and Rob, Fiona and Richard coming for the weekend, it will be Karen's 40th birthday on the 7th so we will celebrate it early. Karen is into all things Narnia so I guess she is hoping for some gifts of that description!! The weather forecast for Saturday is 38 degrees and 40 on Sunday!! Well that's enough for me tonight

Wow! Not too sure if this is what I am meant to do, anyway I'll give it a try! Today, here in sunny down town Swan Hill the temperature reached a pleasant 31 degrees .........ah, easy to live with. I know, I know, I'm rambling, well that's what you get to do when you reach the grand old age of 60!!!!!!!! I enjoyed getting back into my KYB studies, finished 4 days questions today, I'm very eager you see!! That's about all I can say tonight, so it's bye bye for now