Spring is sprung

Some spring pictures taken at a garden a little south of here.  Don't you love the different coloured leaves on these plants?

 A very pretty clematis........

 ........and a gorgeous azalea.

Our new garden is doing well and so far all plants are still alive.  Some very welcome rain last night means they are all smiling today.  Pics will be taken soon, I promise - even though the tiny size of some flowers means I may be lying on my stomach to do so.  If I can't get up again it will be your fault.

A few 'lasts' this week - last Monday night choir rehearsal, last Tuesday night ukulele group, probably last Thursday night choir tomorrow night - because they all go into recess during school holidays which start at the end of this week, and the first day of the next school term is when we leave here to begin our holiday.  In less than three weeks we will be in Canada, yay!  When we return home there will be plenty of time to take up singing and uke-ing again.

This morning was the meeting of a new local branch of the Australian Sewing Guild, and I started a tablecloth skirt because it looked like a fun project.  And it is!  Still need to attach the waistband, and overlock all the seams.....had I been properly organised I would have done that when the pieces were first cut out but never mind, it will get done in due course.......my fabric is a dull solid red cotton with a self-woven check and it suits the design well.  But it will not get finished until that challenge quilt is all quilted, labelled and bound; I want to get it out of my hair first.  All setting blocks and triangles are quilted and thread ends are in the process of being buried, or will be once I get off the computer.

While I have been diligently doing the exercises to strengthen my torn shoulder muscle the different exercises prescribed on the last visit to the physiotherapist are causing a certain amount of pain and discomfort, so I have been easing back on them.  Somehow I suspect that after our return from Canada I will be talking to the doctor about Going Under The Knife to have it mended once and for all........not looking forward to that but if it helps fix the problem it will be worth it.......even holding the folder of songs for choir practice and concerts is causing pain, and as I'm planning on living for a long while yet I would like to be as pain-free as I can.

"Yielding to one another.
One of the greatest disciplines of human life is that which teaches us to yield our wills to those who have a claim on us to do so, even in trifling, every-day affairs; the wife to the husband, children to parents, to teachers and to one another.  In cases where principle is concerned, it is, of course, necessary to be firm, which requires an exercise of moral courage."

The forthcoming holiday will be the longest time the two of us have ever spent away from home in each other's company........it could be interesting.......there may be a certain amount of yielding happening.  While we have been retired for a few years now it's easy to keep out of each other's way with our separate activities, but spending six weeks together will be different.  Ah, well - I'm sure we will have a good time, regardless.

Enjoy your days!