Clinging WOW

Well, what do you know.....blogger uploaded these pics in order, not in reverse order as it usually does.......that's too much for my little brain to take in. Taken a couple of weeks ago at sunset with storm clouds rolling in, looking across the valley from our front verandah - the little light on the left horizon was the last of the sun's rays bouncing off a structure that may have been a silo. We get some wonderful views from our verandah.
Today's little wombat has feet that hang on so he is trying to climb my sewing desk lamp, nice person that I am I tilted it down to make it easier for him. My sewing room needs a few wombat friends, yes?

I am not a happy little vegemite today. Yesterday I went to a doctor about something that had me slightly concerned, and what a waste of time that was. I don't think we were on the same page, in fact I don't think we were even reading from the same book when it came to communicating. I don't know where he learnt his English but it certainly wasn't at the school I attended. Anyway. So this morning I dutifully trotted along for a blood test (having fasted from last night as required, and starving without my breakfast) only to be also told that the request form also included an ecg which required my stripping to the waist. Never again. I was also supposed to have a chest x-ray but I cancelled it because it also meant stripping. I value my personal space, and my privacy, and my dignity, and don't like having them invaded or trampled on. When I rang the specialist's office this afternoon as requested, the receptionist started to say "he wants you to have a stress test....." - "no I will not", says I, "I will not have any test which requires getting undressed". The nice receptionist said the message would be passed on. I don't want to hear platitudes such as "leaving one's modesty behind at the door of the doctor's room" because I don't feel that way, I cringe the whole time. My husband thinks I am being precious, but it's different for men; a man does not feel the same as a woman does about stripping in front of strangers while they attach sticky things to her personal bits. I hate it. I will not do it.

We have a new computer! And I can play with EQ7! Just need to negotiate our way round Windows 7.....so far, so good.......working out how to do the monthly fabric downloads because I couldn't get them at all with the old computer.

Last week my name was drawn to be the lucky person to have friendship blocks made by the members of the Thursday quilt group. Much as I would have liked to I didn't choose "Coronation" because the fact that a 12in block has 58 pieces (although it's not difficult at all to make, I have done so) was enough to give some people conniptions, so I played safe and chose "Jacob's Ladder" instead, to be made 9in finished in different green fabrics on a plain cream background. I have always liked two colour quilts, and have I ever mentioned that I really really like green? One day I will make myself a Coronation quilt, it makes an interesting design when several blocks are set together without sashing as more stars form where the corners meet.

We are seeing and hearing birds which are familiar and some which are not - although it's from Canberra, this site has several of the birds we see and hear each day. Several of the pages have the bird calls as well as pics and information about the birds, so if you would like to have some of the sights and sounds of Australia on your computer feel free to click away! The noisy friar bird is a bird we had never heard until we moved here.

"The importance of trifles.

Some people are wont to depreciate those kind and tender qualities as trifles; but trifles, it must be remembered, make up the aggregate of human life. The petty incivilities, slight rudenesses and neglects of which men are guilty, without thought, or from lack of foresight or sympathy, are often remembered, while the great acts performed by the same person are often forgotten. There is no society where smiles, pleasant looks and animal spirits are not welcomed and deemed of more importance than sallies of wit, or refinements of understanding. The little incivilities which form the small change of life may appear separately of little moment, but like the spare pennies which amount to such large fortunes in a lifetime they owe their importance to repetition and accumulation."

Well said, the folk of 1885 knew a thing or two about human nature didn't they? Now I am going to ponder deeply on the outer border for my challenge quilt, I did take a pic but it was so bad I deleted it, so the world will have to wait a little longer to see my work of genius.

Jennifer