The day began for me at the sound of my alarm clock shrieking, in its tinny voice that it was four o’clock and time for me to greet the new day. I did so.

After my Quiet Time I quickly had a shower and got myself dressed as we wanted to leave the farm by about half past eight. Well, that is what we aim for, hoping that the bovines will not change that by wandering onto the Highway, or some such nonsense.

Nope., the bovines behaved and that meant Ken and I could leave the farm as decided and we headed into Port Macquarie, where our Bible Study Group was meeting. Unfortunately, several of our members were away for a variety of reasons, but we still had twelve people attending the meeting this morning. This group has grown up to twenty now, after a very small beginning in Ellenborough. Very exciting!

After Bible Study Ken and dropped George (one of the people at the meeting) off in town as Norma (his wife) was caught up visiting a friend of hers in hospital. I popped into Office Works to see if I could get those lovely little A5 Display books again for the children’s work this year. Hallelujah! I can. I bought ten this morning and will keep doing that until I have the forty books that I need for the kids.

We eventually landed up at Settlement City, where I had my hair cut whilst Ken sat and had a coffee and toasted sarmie. There he bumped into Pam, from our church, and the two of them had a good natter while waiting for me to return shorn.

I had a parcel slip to pickup form our little Post Office but had absolutely no idea of who had sent me what! I had ordered nothing, and the envelopes I will be addressing for the Wedding Invitations for Tayla and Malcolm (our eldest granddaughter) I had already received. Oh-er! I always get so excited when I receive a parcel.

My goodness gracious golly gee! WHAT beautiful surprise I had. My dearest friend Kat (as I call her but she is known as Kerry Anne Thomas to most), had bought a pair of shoes she had seen and thought had my name written all over them! She was quite right as they are so me! I will try and put a photo of them up if I can … I am not sure of how to get the photo off my mobile phone but shall do my best.

As we were travelling into town this morning, and not long before Wauchope, the heaven opened and the windscreen wipers could hardly cope with the down pour, but not a drop had fallen on the farm by the time we got home. So disappointing.

But in the later afternoon the rain arrived at our farm. It arrived with my hoo-hah, lightning, thunder, wind and the works! What a wonderful show and we received 44mm of rain at long, long last. The sound of the rain thundering down on our tin roof was pure magic.

I finished sorting the kitchen out, put washing on, tidied our home and wrote out lists of what I still had to do before leaving tomorrow. Hopefully I get it all done!

What lesson did I learn today? That there is a time and season for everything under the sun. Today was our turn to get some rain!

What am I grateful for today? 44mm of beautiful rain.

My saying for today is …