aka R’acquel

Life’s been sending me so many signals of “Stop!” “Not Now!” & “slow right down!” with this house move. Phone calls engaged, road blocks, no car spaces in car parks, a blocked back door that wouldn’t open, the big & boisterours barking dogs sensing a stranger arriving at the new property, a car which has been parked so close to our driveway that it not only makes it difficult to drive in & reverse, but i couldn’t put the garbage bin outside our house either! Had to put it several metres away from the driveway! The 55m lens doesn’t do it justice. *lol*

Gah! I hope i can get past that on the day of the big move… which was initially planned for Saturday, but now shifted to Sunday - beause the trucking company called an hour ago to say “we can’t do it for fri/sat”. Another road block? *lol*

Upside is with the moving date changed, we can attend another person’s housewarming party on the Saturday, where kids are welcome so it’ll be a good opportunity for my son to meet other kids. =D …and we could possibly find another extra strong back for the Sudnay move too. Who knows. I can’t wait to get out of here now!

I’ve been feeling sensitive about the bad feeling vibes i’ve been getting, as though it’s a bad omen - but in another way, it’s as though there are external forces demanding that i must endure a course of internal shifting in preparation for big changes around the corner.

I began digging around in my front yard, to rescue treasured tulips bulbs, but couldn’t find many. The daffodil bulbs were saying,

“Please don’t uproot me, i want to carry out the rest of my destiny of turning into a perpetual weed here please …and besides - it’ll save you from all the hard work it’ll take to replant us guyz at the new place anywayz, so yeah - take it easy!”

A great reminder to myself that i should never expend the amount of effort & money that i did in trying to maintain this current garden and that such energy should return solely to my pot plants that i do “own”!

I guess this was the ultimate signal which told me to stop my efforts in the garden today. Check out this hibernating little bugger that i dug up in a place where i would never think that a possible funnel web could live! For those who don’t know what a funnel web is - they’re very poisonous & deadly Aussie spiders. While the venom is really poisonous, you will be ok if you can get to a hospital. It’s quite funny how a funnel web entering our house after a big storm last year made the humble huntsman spider look very cute in comparison afterwards! *lol*

I didn’t have the balls to check out it’s ass and back legs to confirm it, so while it could be a trapdoor - i was in no mood to muck around with it because we do have many funnel webs living in the backyard! It was very sleepy, so it didn’t move much when i tried to flick it away with the shovel and deciding to kill it during the process. Phew! *lol*

So for now - i’m taking things easy. Life’s telling me to slow down and enjoy the now, so that’s what i’m going to do!

Though i’d indulge the reason for why i’ve never been able to venture out into the backyard to hang out the laundry here and why I’ve had to use a clothes horse instead!

Alright - lets start walking down the stairs and dare to walk over all that ivy and the millions of pine needles that have made the dirt really soft & squishy!

Lots of funnel webs living under this area, so it was really freaky for me to walk across it without any gum boots on!

A momentary shot of some of the back yard

And here we are at the redundant washing line, slowly being burried by pine needles so you can’t lift it up. It’s quite dirty and not a good idea to leave the laundry out at night, as you don’t know what creatures will want to crawl into the clothes to make a new home for themselves! *lol*