The Seasons of Life

I became very aware of the seasons of life this past week with the death of my father-in-law who was in his nineties and who was the last of my children's grandparents. After that sad event there just seemed to be a week of bad news some of which I won't mention but to cap it all off my sister rang to say that her doctor is almost 100% sure that she has Graves Disease. After being unwell off and on for over three years now it is almost a relief to finally have a diagnosis after being told for years that there was nothing wrong.

 

Some unexpected finds

The last couple of days we have had a reprieve from the heatwave conditions which will return tomorrow. Temperatures of 35/36C are forecast until Sunday here but it will be worse in the west as usual. As it was cool enough to take a leisurely walk around what used to be the garden and is now a mass of weeds I went 'down the back' to check out the fig trees and then remembered that the CEO had fenced off a small area from the chooks and that there were cherry tomatoes growing there. I noticed some plants growing there beside them which I didn't recognise and was going to pull them out as I thought they may have been weeds but it is just as well I didn't as they actually were Rosella plants. I knew he had bought a plant a while back but had no idea where it disappeared to and just presumed it had died from lack of water. Not so.... the bushes are covered in Rosellas.