Inhale the aroma!! Aaahhhhh…. there’s simply nothing like it.
Connoisseurs of fine coffee will tell you it all starts with the premium blend of roasted coffee beans.
Sometimes you don’t realize how much you miss something until it is gone. After 7 weeks without a ‘real’ coffee, the desire was strong. So, my hubby took me for a little outing to a local cafe this morning so I could indulge in a delectable Cafe Latte….mmmmmm.
With a Latte under my belt I was almost beginning to feel human again…..yippee. After lunch hubby suggested I try another little outing just to get me in the swing of it again. Nothing too adventurous but it was still strangely invigorating. So where do you suppose he took me?
Hands up if you are an Aussie and you love Bunnings…….
Now that I am confined to only one level of our house, I can no longer access my backyard or herb garden.
Solution……
Start a new herb garden in pots on the front veranda. This area gets lots of sun and I can get to it on my own. I have always enjoyed gardening but have not been able to tend to mine for about 6 months and am unlikely to be able to do so again until later this year. So, now I can have my little kitchen garden on the front veranda, where I can harvest herbs as I need them. There are always positive solutions if you think outside the square.
On a quick visit around blogland today I discovered that Kris from Tag Along Teddies has a visitor in her back yard. This made me recall an episode in our family life.
In telling this story, I have to admit to not being a big fan of reptiles. It is amazing what guilt can make you do!!!
Our adventures with our Blue Tongue Lizard named Trevor started when his mother had the misfortune to lay sun baking on our driveway on a hot and sunny afternoon ….. right about the time I was dashing out in the car to do kinder pick up.
I’ll spare you the details, but lets just say that on my return I had to perform a reptilian burial and ceremony of sorts for my distressed children. Later that afternoon we discovered a very small blue tongue lizard wandering around our yard. Naturally, my children deducted that this was the offspring of the defenseless mother lizard I had murdered earlier in the afternoon….uugghh!!
I’m not sure if it was purely guilt or maternal instincts that made me take care of this little fellow, but nurture him I did – even to the point of picking him up with my bare hands so my children could pat him. Believe me, I’d much rather have had my gardening gloves on…eekkkk…reptile skin!!!
So Trevor, or Trev as we affectionately called him, thrived with this special attention and grew into a decent sized Blue Tongue. He lived in our yard for many years eating the slugs and snails. It was only after he disappeared that I realised what an effective pest controller he had been.
Who knows what became of ‘our Trev’? I hope he met a lovely Mrs Blue Tongue and eloped to greener pastures.
Hugs,
Kerryanne
Lovely to get out, you will be feeling like a real person again! I LOVE BUNNINGS!!! I walk around in awe at all the very cool stuff you can get to make things, fix things, use form something else! My Mum is lucky, she can see BUNNINGS from her bedroom window! Good idea to have a wee herb garden at hand to keep your hand in it, so to speak! Hope Trev also went on to have lots of offspring! Bye for now – Rachaelxo
Oh No the demise of Trev’s Mum !!
But hey sounds like he was a surviver and lived to fight another day in the big wide reptilian world!~
Ugh! I could’nt have picked the lil blighter up though.
Glad you got your outing and caffine fix….Both long awaited for too.
The herbs sound like a lovely idea
What a cute story. The same thing happened to me with the family dog. The neighbors tried to hide it when I came home but how do you “hide” a dead pet??? It was a sad day, but we all survived, chickee…….
Smooches,
Connie
Poor Trevs Mum , still you did the right thing .
Coffee and Bunnings really what more could a girl want .
Clares Craftroom
Aaahhhh coffee!!! It’s amazing what a cup of this stuff can do!
My husband often jokes that I would just about die if the coffee industry came to a halt..NO NO NO!!!
Good to see you out & about, no wonder you found a trip to Bunnings so exciting. They just built a HUGE Bunnings about 7 mins drive from where we live so I seem to frequent there now….I am still amazed at how much stuff they sell!!!
Your story about Trev is quite funny, I can just picture you doing a burial for his poor mother! I too hope Trev has a good life outside your backyard.
Sarah xxx
7 weeks without a decent coffee???? how have you survived?? i love blue tongued lizards but they scared the living pittooty out of me! enjoy your little herb garden. %*_*%
Yay! So happy you got to go on an outing. That must have done your spirit good. Wonderful idea on the herb garden – you are certainly finding wonderful ways around your limitations. Don’t let anything stop you! Your caring for Trevor shows what a kind heart you have.
Karla
How much did you savour the taste of each mouthful of coffee.It must have been pure delight!I love Bunning’s too,some of my friends think I’m weird,so am glad to hear you love it too.
Take care
Lucinda
Glad to see you have your priorities worked out, a girl needs a good coffee to feel human again. As for the trip to Bunnings, my husband is still amazed that I like it so much there, which only really happened when I found some great craft items there, paint and glue and glitter and good stuff!!
Hope you didn’t exhaust yourself too much ( like my good self) and that you had a chance to tend to you herb garden a bit today.
Kiss Noises Linda Lilly Cottage at home…
I want to start a little indoor herb garden too but I just don’t think I have a place. hmm.