WINDY WEDNESDAY - WHEN THE CHILLY WINDS BLOW

Good Morning and Welcome to a windy Wednesday in Adelaide and we have rain again.   I did manage to get my laundry all dry yesterday but not before it had a final rainwater rinse - the joys of autumn days.

We are having very cool weather for this time of year - part of the chaos of the world wide weather pattern - and we did have a fairly mild summer with only a few days of extreme heat and none of those long protracted spells of blistering heat and I am thankful for that.  It is lovely that the house is cool and it makes sleeping much easier (I really must learn to sleep better though),

I have a busy day doing the last few things before my visit to hospital - bed linen already changed and now have to tackle the fridge and a few other things.   I leave here at 6.00.a.m. tomorrow for Flinders and am thankful for the friends and family who support me and take me to my appointments - and also come to bring me home again after a phone call.

My daily gratitude today is:

"I am grateful for the telephone which keeps me in touch with family and friends, even when their lives are busy."

Try to imagine life without it - both land line and mobile - we used to manage, but I would hate to be without either one of them.

I love the way people share what they have - jams, jellies and preserves- things from their own kitchens and shared with others - a jar of fig jam was received this week and apricot jam some weeks ago.  The sharing of produce from our gardens and the pleasure it gives to the grower to share.

I received this quote in my mailbox yesterday and share it with you:

~ As you travel along the road of life, pull over frequently to breathe, 

stretch and enjoy the moment with a sense of awareness.

 Do it as a remedy that will help free your mind to think clearly toward the path that is certain to come...

You know, the path that will open your heart...

The path that will make you say. "Yes, that is my life." 

Then you feel a sense of serenity, and the door to your heart melts open.~

 Windsor, Life Coach

I have just been listening to the World news and sadly there doesn't seem to be much joy around today apart from the fact that the two Pilots of the American fighter plane that went down in Libya are safe and well and back in USA hands.

There is so much doom and gloom - I listen to the early morning news and then leave it alone - I can't change things and it is so easy to overload on the misery and it can easily take control of your mood and thinking.

I can't do anything but pray and give and I do that - the rest of it is outside my hands - but I do care and it troubles my caring heart.

Ash and Avery are one day closer to coming home and I give thanks for that.  It is going to be a painful parting for them because they have been happy in Japan and probably it is all little Avery remembers of his life, and he has learned so many skills and language.  Both sides of their family will rejoice when they are home and I too will give thanks for their safety.

Avery eating sushi and using "L" plate chopsticks,

I am anxious and apprehensive about tomorrow - I don't want to go but am taking this as a sign that I am well because I know it was lovely to go to Finders when I felt so ill.  I sometimes think things are working well - leave it alone, but know that there is chance of infection so it must be done.  My head knows that but my heart is arguing the point and I don't like general anaesthesia - but the alternative scares me more.   

I hope that today is a good day for you, trying to find some sunshine here in Adelaide on a gloomy gloomy morning. 

I may not get to post again before my procedure (I will if I can - but who knows) and will let you know how things went as soon as I can.

I hope that the coffee is good, the mood fine and that your day brings you all the joys you hope for,

Love and hugs and thanks for reading "The Musings from my Heart"