Hodge Podge
Taking tea
This week I’m looking forward to spending some time with one of our daughters, we’re going to have a pot of tea and look over some old photographs. She wants to know what else was happening and the background info at the time. After our first four children we started to use a digital camera and so we didn’t have the albums of the younger siblings, at one point they asked me why their dad and I didn’t have any pictures of them when they were young. That made me think of how fast the world is changing and technology with it. We have hundreds of pictures of all of them, but a good many now are digital and on discs or a computer. It made me a tinge sad inside when they really believed we didn’t have any of them, so we sorted that out straight away. So later this week we’ll be poring over the albums, reliving old times and birthdays, grannys and grandads, trips to the zoo or wildlife park, all the things you do with your children.
I love photography, that moment frozen in time for ever, the lighting the subject, the location, all add up to a winning shot. Whether it be a prize giving at the school, your favourite pot plant, or a visit to your great Aunt Singe. All worthy subjects.
I love being a shutterbug, it’s exciting, going out and not knowing exactly what it is you’re going to get, it’s a sort of fishing in a way. I’ve been lucky enough to get some really nice pictures over the years.
So, this week I’ll be getting out he albums and reliving old times with our daughter, like I said. I’m really looking forward to it, especially as I don’t have a lot of free time, it makes it all the more important to make the time available. I’m going to try to dress the table up a bit and put a nice tablecloth out, maybe a cucumber sandwich or two, with the crusts cut off of course. Use some nice eclectic crockery and boom, you have it. A very pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
Friday, I will be back to the grind and my normal chores, that’s ok, I’m driven enough to carry on. Roll on summer as I said, when I can turn my attention to the list of minor fixes I have for the outside of this place. The way I look at it you have the spring and autumn to get ready, either for summer or winter, I don’t mind either way.
We’ve decided to put up some bird feeders and humming bird stations, that should be nice to see. I’m going to mend the deck fence out back and after that I’m free to explore the garden and plant some flowers like nasturtiums and pansies, I’m going to put some potatoes in pots, so they don’t get too big and are nice with some bacon and some green beans.
That’s a way off I know, so for now I’m content with inside activities like, taking tea and looking at albums. Or catching up on some of my projects I have on the go. I have a crochet hat in progress, a pair of tank slippers to make, a blanket to make, I’ve just finished repairing a coat for someone and I’ve got a jumper in progress for someone else, busy, busy. I don’t mind, I never get bored and that’s a good thing. I honestly need another life span just to make all the things on my wish list that I’d like to make for members of our family alone. That’s before I get to things I’d like to make. Good job I’m patient.
Of course, once everything’s done on my list there’s only one thing left to do, that’s take a cup of tea out into the garden and enjoy it all, maybe take a few photos for the albums, look at my list of things I’d like to make.
There I go again .....