My goodness gracious February is whizzing by at a rate of knots leaving me twirling in its aftermath! I can almost hear the steady and unrelenting tick-tock of time.

I was up and out of bed just after four o’clock this morning. I turned my alarm clock off and had an argument with my body - Should I or should I not get out of bed at that time. I won, I got out a few minutes after four!

After my Quiet Time this morning, as I had put the first load of washing on early, I was able to hang it out just before seven o’clock. Then the next load went on … and so that continued until the last load, load four! Yahee! Now all I have to do is the ironing tomorrow.

I was way behind with my blogs so quickly caught up with those - three days in one.

My friend Karen had given me a large bag of fabrics to choose what I wanted from it. I did that early this morning too. All done and dusted, now I need to dig out some of my old patterns and get sewing for me again. Yoh! Now that is something I have not done for a while.

I did the Homework for our Bible Study Group for this Thursday, and began to work on the Scripture lessons for the three classes at school on Monday. I have to do all this before I leave to “live” at Karen and Paul’s for five days, (from this Friday), as I will not have my printer with me. I have enough paraphernalia to drag across there already thank you!

I designed the next letter for the children’s drawing, copied it and need to make copies for the children to take with me. I also wrote out the next Grocery Items for the children to enter in their little books that they are making. Plus, I wrote out two Knock-Knock Jokes for the books that the rest of the children are making for gifts.

Then it was time to get out in the stinking hot sunshine and help Ken with Cattle Work out in the yards. It was not fun - much dust, heat, flies, bellowing bovines and not much happiness, joking and laughter! In the end it was just far too hot to be out in the sun. We did as much as we could but will have to complete the work tomorrow morning. Hopefully early!

It was time to bring in all the washing as it was bone dry, ready for ironing tomorrow morning before I do Cattle Work.

Shelayne, our middle daughter, phoned me from Seattle in the late afternoon, and we were on the phone for about an hour. It was so nice catching up with all their news. There she was sitting in front of a fire at night and it was minus 2 degrees over there. Whereas it was 39.2C degrees in our shed in the late afternoon over here! A serious difference.

Oh, how precious our family is to me! I just love catching up with all the what’s, wherefore’s and why’s in their lives. Jason, our eldest grandson, flew back from Seattle last Monday, but, poor guy, it took him five days to do so, because of the extreme weather parts of America are experiencing - snow storms, sleet, blizzards and the like, which caused roads to close, airports to ground planes et cetera, so Jase had to hop all over the world in order to get back to Australia! But … he is back, safe and sound.

As the day trickled out so did my energy levels. By seven o’clock I was ready to sit down and veg’ in front of the TV for a short time and then I headed to bed.

What lesson did I learn today? Cattle work should be done at first light. It is far too hot to be out in the sunshine later.

What am I grateful for today?  The long phone call from Shelayne in Seattle.

My saying for today is …