Day by slow day.

I have been feeling a bit depressed about what is happening in our world. Only phone calls from family and no personal contact. We do walk most days, sometimes twice, on the beach and cliffs. There are more pole about but we all keep our distance. I am trying to keep up with ,y sketchbook revival on line classes but sometimes I just fall asleep watching the videos so I am way behind, although I have taken notes. I just loved these made birds done in Tamara's class and I think I will go on to make more. In our gravel the globe chilli are ripening, finally. The vine is a sweet potato. West in egg plants, a bit late but have had some fruit from them and there are lots of flowers, we had 1 mm of rain over night, would love a lot more. We looked for seed in the shed, very out of date but the radishes have germinated abd the silver beet thinning were put to good use last night. We have put in our first on line Woolworth order, not easy on the first one. We asked for an order next week so we will see what comes. I am so used to wandering the aisles and some brands were not available. One tends to forget what one wants. We are living in interesting times but I am missing my family, especially the great grand babies.

Today I did day 2 of sketchbook revival, this was my version of Mary Beth Shaw's lesson. Not something I am not comfortable with but I enjoyed doing it. Keeping me from getting too bored.

Another day, another walk.

I am listening to the sound of Bryn Terfel singing through the house. I am going back to my cd's and enjoying the sounds. We met, at a distance a lovely young puppy on the beach this morning, his walk out and he was a little nervous. Something I think to keep his owner occupied through the next 6 months. There were pelicans on the outer reef but they dont really show up on the photos. A cold wind blowing up my skirt but lovely walking non the less. I have spent the rest of the day doing a bit of the first day of sketchbook revival, today Carla Sonhieim's blob "things. Great fun. I have her book. I may put some up tomorrow but my walk photos are enough, especially with the delicious Bryn in the background. We saw him but didnt meet him when we were in Wales all those years ago. Such a full life, good to look back on, but for how long?

Playing

Keeping me occupied. I wonder how long it will last. Not terribly good, I was never any good at butterflies.

The last few days

I have been quite unsettled over the last few days. I think it is the feeling of being a bit isolated and shut away. Thank goodness for our walks, although my back has been killing me. Oh dear I cant remember what order I put these up, but there were crabs on the beach the other day, dead but rather interesting looking, a common rock crab and I think a type of spider crab. This morning we went over to Parsons Beach and walked along the cliffs. Not a terribly good path as a lot of odd rocks but I did manage it with my stick and didnt fall over. Lovely clouds and the big sandy beach, more fishermen than surfers this morning. Oh and some leaves I picked to sketch, I have a few sketch book pages done but I will put them up another day. I think the first few were of our normal beach walk at the bay. It has been lovely to get out and about and in the fresh air. I am not sure how we are going to manage 6 months of this but thank goodness for my kindle and lots of not too expensive books and I have been re reading some of my older ones on there. I think I will have lots of free online classes ahead of me too. I just have to get my body working. Yesterday I pulled a heap of plants out of my garden as they were looking very tired. Only trouble is it is not good for my aged back. I couldnt believe how dry the garden was. We had a whole 0.6 mm of rain overnight but it really didnt make much of an impression. Enjoy our walks.

Flowers from my garden.

A bit of play yesterday with some paint and this morning some photos of my front garden, pink sage and a holly hock. Love holly hocks as I could never grow them on the farm as the crusader bugs gave them a virus. In to shop early this morning, still a lot of empty shelves and as it was a nasty hot and windy day a lot of people. I think apart from milk and fresh fruit and veg I have enough for 2 weeks and we have a great green grocer that should have all of that. I couldn't believe what was not on the shelves but I normally have a reasonable stock of stuff, that's what being a farmers wife does to you. I came home aching so I hope the cooler weather isn't too far away. No walk this morning, shopping was enough. We had 2 yesterday and I think one late this afternoon. Lots of on line courses are appearing, some free too so that is good. Back to some sewing to see if I really have got this bag sorted.

Still low tides, lovely walking.

This is becoming a worrying time, but we can still walk on the beach, not many people out there. The weather is warming up and so far in South Australia there are not a lot of cases of the virus but I suppose that will soon alter, we dont see many people but shopping is going to be my biggest worry. I just hope neither of us get this wretched virus as we are both in our 80's and with underlying health problems. Still we will soldier on. I think it is the uncertainty of it all that is so frustrating.We were so pleased to hear that our grandson W who was in Canada was home before the shut down has occurred> Not fun reading the papers (on our kindles) but it does keep us up to date. Now if only the weather would cool down and give us some rain.