Judging by the cold autumn days we've been having. Our heaters are on whenever we're home now, except if the sun comes out in the late afternoon when it does tend to warm the living areas. I've already broken my Make-Do pledge when I realised I needed warm jackets for going out in. I really don't buy clothes often and what I had was worn and scruffy.
I was hoping to garden today and I may still get out there later this afternoon, weather permitting. We had some heavy showers overnight so on the one hand it will be good for weeding and digging, on the other hand it will be cold and wringing wet. It will probably do me good to get out and get some cool, fresh air though. First things first, one of the lads needs new shoes and I haven't shopped for groceries in over a week and a half.
During the week, we went on a homeschool excursion to the King Tut exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. It was hard to believe that we were looking at artefacts that are thousands of years old. We loved the intricate detail of the smaller pieces. The masks and statues of faces were particularly fascinating. Its hard to believe that people thought of the pharoah as god when he looked so young and so....well, human. The boys and I studied a little Ancient Egypt in first term and we marveled at how much of their lives the people spent preparing for their deaths. Talk about not being in the moment!
By the way, Melbourne traffic is atrocious! google told me the trip would take an hour and two minutes. We allowed one hour and forty five minutes and were ten minutes late! I don't know how commuters do that every single day. I'll take my 'provincial' town anyday over a capital city thank you very much. The only capital city I've seen that I could live in is Hobart. Except for the cold.
Which brings me full circle. Its time to sign off, rug up and head out into it.
Bye for now, have a lovely weekend everyone.
I know what you mean, Joanne—it's so COLD!!! But you got out regardless, which is impressive, and you made it into the Big City and survived the traffic AND saw something awesome. You made me smile with your comment about (not) living in the moment :)
ReplyDeleteHope you're having a beautiful weekend, despite the c-c-cold!
We are hoping to see King Tut before he leaves Melbourne, but are waiting until Ken is feeling up to walking around for hours.
ReplyDeleteTraffic...oh yes I know what you mean. Ken is a courier and he says it gets worse every day. We'd like to move out of the burbs one day, but it's not easy to just pack up and go..
As for the cold weather, I checked our last TRU energy bill and found we had almost doubled our gas and electricity use compared to this time last year! Put the electric blankets on today..