Chocolate peanuts

So a packet of chocolate peanuts is $2.00 from the supermarket. Ok, rubbish food is cheap! But if it makes you happy why not? Happiness is in short supply in 2020.

This story is dedicated to my friends and family in Texas as hurricane Laura bears down on them on top of the Beastly covid 19! In the middle of summer it should be pool parties and cold Coors (my Texas drink of choice) but NO….they are hunkering down, praying that the wind and water will keep away from their homes!

The week has passed and a search for dads phone has produced nothing, we can only assume that it is now part of the road (having dropped from his pocket and yours truly running it over)

Sunday saw me take a big chunk of time out from jobs of any kind and dedicate my day to a jigsaw, kindly donated from my cousin (who has canine babies). The end result was two chewed pieces and four pieces missing ( presumably more than chewed!)

This flowed over to my evenings after my work day and “voila”….

Puzzle number two complete by Wednesday evening. My addictive nature has seen me sitting at the kitchen table well into the evening – while the Sky Australian news blasts away in the background (dads entertainment of choice).

Another week of hello fresh meals with a twist! Some distributed to the workers at dans house, a leftover meal for Al and Sue, and tonight, Jax cleaned up the last one cooking at ours for Steph and I (a vege risotto) while dad and he enjoyed a blokes dinner of sausages, mashed spud and greens!

August has presented its usual mix of winter weather: sunshine, rain and chills!

My friend at Waiwera sends me daily images of dawn, storms and dusk…this one plagiarised from his library, promising one thing and delivering another. So it is winter; we always expect the unexpected.

And as we roll into the last quarter of 2020, it seems isolation, jigsaws, face masks and family only are our future (at least for the next few months). We all have places we want to be, people we want to hug and adventures we want to have. Sorry guys it’s all chocolate peanuts and jigsaws….at least for a while. Even if we move to a restrictive level 2 we are looking at period of rolling in and out of lockdown, and parties of 10! Not looking promising for a couple of 60ths on the horizon!

In the meantime we all pray for our friends in Texas, Russ’s second home and one I have come to love!