A different waiting room

Today the MUX is booked in for its 50000k service. All it has on the clock is 34000ks. Paul put up some ks when his vehicle was off the road recently . I have given it a few runs but thats all. I must say I enjoy driving it. I seem to default back to my little Cerato which I also like driving. Soon I’ll have to make a decision on which one to keep. They are both up for rego!

The door bell rang a couple of days ago and there stood our postie with a registered letter in his hand. Its been 4 weeks and Chris’s official death certificate finally arrived. Its hard to describe my feelings but suffice to say they caught me by surprise. End result, more tears!

Now I can work on getting things in order.

I went into the health fund office last week to notify them and adjust the policy. The lady on the desk was busy on the phone and nobody else was waiting so I stayed. She finished and I managed to begin to state my business and was fine till she offered me condolances and then the tears came! She asked if I wanted a cup of tea and I said yes if she was having one. She went away and was soon back with 2 cups of tea in nice China mugs plus a cream biscuit! We managed to sort things out and it still amazes me that we had so long undesturbed. I couldnt believe that she was so kind. Normally you stand in line but that day nobody was there.

On Monday, Karen and John S came over to help me get an idea of what wood working tools/equipment, plus timbers Chris had collected. They, John and Chris had discussed wood working projects in the past and I was going to be the recipient of a hand crafted box from selected timbers Chris had purchased on our trips to Tasmania. John asked if he could select some of these timbers and he would make me a memory box for Chris’s keepsakes. More tears!

I really look forward to Tuesday lunch with my wonderful friends, they are such a comfort.

Denise and I saw The Book Club recently and had lunch afterwards.

My garden is now getting some much needed attention. Sharon and I did a lot of weeding over the weekend so I’m very happy. Even planted some cuttings, iris’s and plants I got from Aunty Isabell’s house. She recently moved to a retirement unit. I also took cuttings of carnations and chrysanthamums from some of the beautiful floral arrangements we recieved.

My modified vegie patch, which I’d prepared earlier, is planted up with tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, beans, snow peas, raddish, zucchini and rhubarb Lynda had given me from her garden in Comboyne. So far my dog proofing appears to be working!

It’s another beautiful day and it looks like the MUX is ready to go.