Whoopee! Valentine’s Day today … I sent Ken a Valentine’s card from me but forgot to say “Today” and put down 14^th February, but Australia being a day ahead, Ken will only receive it tomorrow! Oh dear, but I did try!

My day began as it normally does in a flurry of fur, which included the feeding of one famished feline. I made myself a mug of coffee and went up to my studio (seeing it was a lot cooler this morning) to have my Quiet Time.

Ah yes! Great jubilations and exhilarations as we had 13mm of rain overnight! What a blessing that was as the weathermen had mentioned only 1 - 5mm rain was possible.

Ken and I left the farm at about a quarter to nine in order to get into Port Macquarie for our Bible Study Group meeting. We will be meeting on a Thursday now at Garden Village in Port Macquarie instead of at the Boyce family home in Wauchope. The reason being that the Boyce boys (three little guys) have soccer training at Telegraph Point, which means that Cathy’s time is cut short with John if we have the meeting in Wauchope.

Our little Bible Study Group is growing steadily. We now have eighteen people attending - obviously not always as some people are away, sick or have appointments to go to et cetera. There are eleven men and seven women in our group, which is a really good mix. Today there were thirteen of us.

After Bible Study Group Ken and I headed off to Aldis to do a little bit of grocery shopping, but I did not need much this week. Then we headed for Settlement City where we had toasted sandwiches for lunch. From there wee went back into Wauchope as Ken needed to get some supplies for the farm, fuel and his prescriptions. I also had to pick up my Teacher’s Manual for teaching Scripture at school. Tick - tick - tick! All done and dusted, and we were free to return home.

We got home mid-afternoon but too late for Ken and Koda to have their siesta. Instead Ken went out to the back of the farm to see if he could find the heifer about to calve. He did, and he brought her closer to us so he could keep an eye on her here. She had already started to calve.

Later Ken went down to check oh how the calving was progressing, and she had produced a beautiful little black bull. Clever now cow (no longer a heifer)

I had planned to watch something on Netflix tonight, but a great weariness overcame me and I cancelled that idea. I decided that sleeping was a better option for me.

Unfortunately, I had only just gone off to sleep when Ken came to bed and I woke up. That was the end of any thought of sleep for me, I was WIDE awake. I really did try go to sleep again, but uh-uh, no ways was that happening, so I got up and went up to my studio to do some studying until I got tired again.

I stayed up for two hours and then my eyes were tired so I shuffled back to bed, but still could not sleep so tossed and turned, turned and tossed, but eventually did fall asleep.

When my alarm clock rang two hours later, I gave it a firm whack and slept for another one and a half hours before rising and shining. No, scrap the "shining" bit there was no shining happening!

What lesson did I learn today? What a wonderful country Australia is in that we can still meet as Chirstians without fear of persecution.

What am I grateful for today? For the rain we received last night as the ground is still slightly damp today.

My saying for today is ...