The simple things.

Beautiful sunny but not too hot weather here this week. We are enjoying being with family, something we relish and has become part of our non-working touring time. A stint here in NSW, some time in Adelaide and some in Brisbane are treasured components of our life.

I was struck with how much joy can be gained from the simplest things this week.  Children especially can bring this fact home. Much joy comes from the funny faces the newest baby makes as well as the pride in his sister's voice when she announces to the world "this one's mummy's baby."
I enjoy watching our granddaughter who loves to be outside either in her own garden in town or even better at the farm.

She spends hours in her playhouse at home. In her garden she has a homemade seesaw and a swing slung from a tree branch. The seesaw is my daughter's "design"  (she gets ideas like her dad) and constructed by her brother-in-law and her husband out of a log or two and a couple of planks. Hours of fun, with an obliging adult balancing the seesaw or pushing the swing.  Yesterday she was leaning on the swing seat and twisting the chains to give herself a "whizzy" and laughing at how clever she was.

You don't have to spend a fortune to please a child. K bought his granddaughter some solar lights. A couple of butterflies and a peacock. She loves them. The previous lot of butterfly lights were carried everywhere and finally gave up so these are just perfect.

Sometimes the simple things are free.
Out at the farm the blackberries are flowering behind the caravan.  We are here earlier than normal this year so this is the first time I have seen the bushes flowering. Other visits have been at ripening time so we can pick the berries as they are ready. One of life's yummy simple pleasures.

The solar panels are silently creating power for us. K gets a kick out of watching the amount of  power coming in. He is especially chuffed by the fact that the older, smaller panels that were manufactured in 1987 still work at peak efficiency.

There is plenty enough power to charge batteries and run the twin tub for today's wash. I get a bit of exercise bucketing the spin water back in each load.  (This is a good thing.)

The chooks are laying eggs and eating our veggie scraps. One of life's simple miracles, even if I don't eat eggs. Ok I just don't eat anything that has eggs in it that I can taste.These ones are going into town for their owner, our daughter, to use.

 

 

 

 

By the way, in case you thought Mr Fix It was doing nothing, here is a picture of the backup power shed rigged out of an old plastic table lent by our sun-in-law, a tarp and some tent pegs. The generator runs when there is inclement weather so rain protection is important. 

 

 

 

He has been making leads for power things, getting sand out of the DVD player our granddaughter took into her playhouse and propped up in the sand pit, testing and recharging all the batteries for the power tools and hammering something down in the shed.

Popping in to town now for some family time.

Simple life. Good life

Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move