A little ray of sunshine.

Thank goodness for some sunshine today, gosh that rain hasn't let up for weeks now.  I know that you farmers love it but my ground is so sodden, I cant walk anywhere with out a squelch...squelch under my feet.  When I put the chooks to bet at night the gooey mud almost sucks my gumboots off my feet. 

Now I know you will get a laugh out of this and at the risk of taking the you know what out of myself but in the interests of a bit of a laugh I will tell you what happened the other night.  Hubby is away for a few days and he usually puts the chooks to bed.  I forgot a to go down at 5pm...I had a little nanna nap and dozed right through.  The chooks actually slipped my mind until about 11pm....I rushed straight down to their run to shut the gate and keep the foxes out.  I guess I rushed just a little too much as I slipped in the gooey mud and landed flat on m behind.  I was up to my armpits in mud.  OMG it was ugly.

I had the PJ's on as I had spent the day in bed reading my fav book.  It was a really indulgent day as I haven't done that in over 20 years.  I sure came back to reality in 1 great big thud.  I can laugh now but it wasn't at all funny then.  I sure did smell as I was covered in a mixture of chook poo, mud and grass clippings.  Not a pretty site.

I bet you are wondering what book could have kept her reading all day like that.  As I am dyslexic I dont read all that much so it is amazing that I even read a book at all.  But then this book was special.  My daughters and I have been bitten (so to speak) by the "Twilignt" bug.  The girls had read all 4 books in the series but there was no way I was ever taking on a book with over 400 pages in it.  I would get them to tell me parts from it and I loved hearing their excerpts.  We had all seen the movie but they said the books were better.

Anyway they took it on them selves and gave me a copy for Mother's day.  Hmm how nice I thought...that will look lovelly sitting on my bedside table.  And it did for a while.  The girls kept asking where was I upto.  I had the book for a few weeks but didnt even turn a page.  Finally Jess said that it was an easy read and the words were large so why not just give the 1st chapter a try.

Well I did and would you believe I have now read all 4 books.  The last one Breaking Dawn is 756 pages long and I finished it in 4 days.  Hence the day spent in bed.

For those of you interested my daughter and if she got the job.  She got to the last interview and it was down to her and one other and sadly she missed out.  I guess in one way it was sorta a good thing as she would have dropped a huge amount in salary as well as having to buy a new car and pay tolls and fuel.  At the moment she can walk to work.  But that didnt stop her being sad.

A few weeks after missing out on the job her cat that she rescued got very sick.  He had renal failure and other complications and they were presented with a vet bill for over $5000.  I know what you are thinking re the money thing but they dont have any kids and she loves her animals.  So there you go.  He is still having ongoing care and will cost a bit to keep him healthy but he is now doing very well.

I will sign off from my newsy update as I wouldnt want you all to get bored.  I am back for the long run.

Thanks to all of those lovelly people who emaild me making sure I was OK.  Expecially the nundle chicks...you are all truely awesome.

Till next time...

May you Angels Come to Play with my Angels

Shelley

Comments

[Peg]

Number one here....sorry but I did chuckle...mud, grass chook poo, nice...well done on the read, vet bill gee what can I say...we do love our pets....take care..stay upright...Peg xx

[Jo]

I know the feeling of gumboots being the only fashion must have in this rainy weather!!! Mine are hardly off my feet and when they are they are in the car ready to go! Jo xo

[Chookyblue]

so pleased to see you back online........

[Kerry]

Hi Shelley,
glad to see you back in blogland. See you are still up to antics. Congratulations on conquering the twilight books. I'm a fan too, but have only read no. 1 so far.

[Fiona @ Dragonfly-Crasfts]

Glad to see you back at the computer. Great news for your daughter, I'll cross my fingers and toes for her too.
Now Twilight! NO NOT YOU TOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
My daughter, who NEVER reads, has read ALL the books in just a couple of months so YES Twilight is in this house too.