She's baaaaaackkkkkk...

Can't believe I've been away from this blog for two years!  But I'm back...hold the applause.  So, what's new with you?

For me, the past two years have been busy.  Moved house, had two new grandchildren, the Moose (hubby) semi-retired, I wrote and performed in an award nominated sold out show with two other comics called Three Stuffed Mums for two seasons at the Adelaide Fringe Festival (still performing it around Oz), taught a successful comedy workshop with the other Stuffed Mums and in the middle of teaching the second workshop as I type.  I am also in the process of writing for a few other projects and I've started a historical novel.  (I spend a lot of time researching, and more time procrastinating.)  I work three days a week at the Natural Resource Centre down the street from my house which is just enough to keep me in the real world and appreciate being self employed the rest of the time.  I've found my inner Martha Stewart, tending two vegetable patches, a productive nectarine tree and a couple of heavily laden plum trees.  I'm waiting for all the plums to ripen so I can learn to make plum wine from the neighbourhood botanist - and I don't even drink wine.  And of course, I've aged two more years and gained/lost/gained another twenty pounds.

Our new house has a much larger garden than we've ever had and it's a time consuming job to battle the weeds, keep the roses tended and the birds from raiding the fruit trees.  I even started making bread.  Well, the bread maker makes the bread, I just  put all the ingredients in and leave it alone til the bell rings to tell me it's done.  Not exactly pioneering stuff, but if you knew me in my younger less domestic life, you'd know that's near enough.  My friend Charmaine in Honolulu is always speechless when I rattle off my new found skills.  (She knew me when the only thing I made for dinner was reservations.)  I even bake a lot.  My son came to visit from Hawaii and told his fiancée I never baked for  him when he was young.  In my defense, while he was growing up I was working two or three jobs at a time and barely had time to take a nap.  Now that I'm an old bat with not such a hectic schedule and no parents to care for or children to raise, the occasional loaf of banana bread, carrot cake or batch of chocolate chip cookies is pretty easy to do...and makes me seem much more accomplished than I actually am.

And that brings me back to the blog.  I'll probably cover a bunch of those adventures within these pages now I'm back in the blogosphere.  I'll either bore you to death or keep you entertained, you'll have to decide.  But I hope it's the  latter, so don't hesitate to drop me a comment and let me know which it is.  In the meantime, it's back to my 'to do' list until the next blog.

Who said things slow down at 60?  Pfffft.