I had been planning to write something about Lego Lover but it’s late and I’ve got too many unformed thoughts to get it into writing at this time of day, or night as it’s the early hours of morning.

This morning, my mother-in-law came around 10:30 so I could borrow her station wagon to pick up the outdoor furniture I bought at Kmart yesterday. I thought it would be odd and difficult to drive it after our relatively new vehicle but it wasn’t bad at all. My only problem occurred when I got there and couldn’t work out how to remove the key from the ignition for a minute or two. That’s actually rather embarassing because this is the first car I ever drove after coming to Australia. We had been in Australia about six or seven months. I had been pregnant with Game Fanatic for the first several months and was too scared to try driving on the “wrong” side of the road. It was only when he was about three months old and the Scientist had started his first job that I was motivated to take the next step. And it wasn’t that big a deal by that point. I’d been riding as a passenger for long enough and everything was just the opposite of driving in North America.

I was home again within about forty five minutes and we unloaded the two boxes. One was a flat pack with the table and the other was a large cumbersome (but not heavy) box with the chairs and cushions. All parts were left in the back yard to be assembled. The chairs weren’t too hard but they came with little screws to connect the backs to the base of the chairs that were too big. The Scientist is going to have a try at getting them in when he has more time. The table was much easier than I anticipated and was complete in no time at all. There was a great, big sticker on the table top that took a while to remove. It all looks really nice and comfortable under the big bottlebrush tree in the back.

I sat there and looked at the big pile of shrubbery/tree cuttings that needed to be shredded and finally got that going. My two hours of work didn’t seem to make much of a dent in the pile. It’s still quite big but it’s not as high as it was. And the resulting mulch doesn’t seem to amount to much,  possibly  filling one small wheelbarrow at the most. I hopefully will be motivated to get more done on Friday afternoon before another major heatwave hits for the weekend.

I only got to sit and enjoy our new furniture for a short while before I had to leave to take G to his aqua aerobics class. It was very nice while it lasted, with Lego Lover and the Scientist both enjoying it with me.