Enter The Clear Cold Air

I’m enjoying the change to Autumny-Winter.
There’s something about this time of year, when the air is fresh and approaching cold, and there’s a breath of ages past if you stop to feel it. It could be that I’m feeling that a bit more this year, since this house carries with it a history that I don’t yet know. This week I’ll settle for a peaceful coffee and a book on the front verandah…

We still don’t know what’s happening after our lease ends. Our internet is still out – I’m using a temporary dongle/modem (choose your preferred name 😆 ) at the moment, which we’ve been given as a temporary fix. It works, but only if we all sit around it in the same room. Otherwise there’s no signal.
I have decided to enjoy the time we know we have here, and extend that enjoyment through to any extra time we get 🙂
Unpacking and organising was stopped for a bit while we tried to find out our status, but we’ve started to get furniture again. I’ve finally sorted out the plants.

Let’s see how many survive 😆

We’ve finally got a lounge chair…

…and a sofa will be added to it when we pick it up on Tuesday.

I treated myself to a cute ceramic bunny.

He serves no purpose, except to bring me joy 🙂

I have found that I’m starting to feel better since the move. I did my part of the cleaning today – not an amazing achievement for most, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time getting less and less able to do the easiest things. I even enjoyed washing the dishes!
We’re getting used to the clothes washing schedules – with four adults in the house, we have to have assigned days.
One of my chairs has its own decorative cover.

…but that’s only because it’s a hand wash item, and I keep forgetting to wash it!

We’ve sailed through our first inspection, and we’re getting used to the weird bits of the house.
As the cold air intensifies over the next few months, there’ll be plenty of opportunity to get clarity about our place here.
And to learn to enjoy the serendipities – whether big or small.
Like a bougainvillea flower, brought in on a windy day, gracing our old floor tiles with a splash of colour.