After spending much of this week thinking and crying about these bushfire victims I have not done much other than try and do things that may help... and I still feel miserable and unhelpful....
I need to get my life back in order because me being sad doesn't help anyone at all... so this weekend we are going to stay with BIL and his wife on the south coast of NSW as we did a few weeks ago... it was really lovely and we can't wait to go back there.
Then next week it is our wedding anniversary on the 18th, can you believe 31 years and we are still happy :) every year we try to go away for our special day...... we leave Monday and will be back on Sunday, didn't think we'd be doing it this year thought dh would have to work but he has got time off... we are heading to our favourite destination.... our boat and we will spend lots of time relaxing, swimming, fishing, stitching, reading, eating and a few glasses of bubbly to celebrate.....

Hi everyone, I tried to write a post yesterday but I just couldn't... today I feel quite ga ga, quite stunned... on Saturday it was very hot again I thought oh great another 43.c day, our airconditioner still isn't fixed ... it's okay I'll do what I did last week and sit under the fan and read a few blogs with a cold drink yes even too hot to sew..... I read Granny Loz "deja' vu" post mid afternoon and thought same for me, I was going to comment on it when I noticed a lot of smoke outside.....decided to turn the radio on and heard about all these fires and they were telling people in certain areas to activate their fireplan.... our area was one of those places.... then the wind got up and I thought s**t what the hell is a fire plan.... where we live I have always felt very safe and thought it totally unnecessary to have a fire plan, we have houses and green paddocks all around us and no bush maybe a little along the river which is across two paddocks away... we have pine plantations a few kms away but after seeing this horrific wind and heat I am now rethinkng my fire plan. As it turned out the wind changed direction and we weren't in any danger but then it rained and now everything outside is filthy and black, our new outdoor setting is putrid and it is undercover, the cars also undercover.. black, the house, the windows...can't see out of them, our spa looks more like a billabong, even Archie isn't a golden retriever anymore he is dirty grey and of course you have to use soapy water to clean it all so we have a big cleanup ahead of us,
BUT at least we have something to clean and we are all safe.... not like so many poor poor people who have lost loved ones, friends, neighbours, their pets, livestock, their homes, even their whole town, just everything... my heartfelt sympathy goes out to all these people and their communities, it just breaks your heart hearing their stories.... so so sad....
How brave and courageous must our firefighters and emergency workers be and all the support people that go with them... I think it is time they were recognised in a big way for the extremely hard work they do.......
I don't know what else to say just hope everyone stays safe........
I think I will just go do some quilting now and say a quiet little prayer and lots of thanks for what we have ( strange for me I not very religious at all reallybut what else can you do)......