Alexa - A Simple Life » support network http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com Living simply and content Thu, 29 Jun 2017 03:00:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Farmer gets a wife http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/farmer-gets-a-wife/ http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/farmer-gets-a-wife/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:58:37 +0000 http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/?p=2335 of 1978, country life, country wife, rural living, old homestead , stone cottage, visiting a farm with children, cookery the Australian way, scones

Impressions from my sister in law.
Memories of 1978.

#farmergetsawife
Agriculturalists gets a wife
City bride new to the country
City spouse new to the country
City girl marries her farmer
City miss weds her rancher

All of the above are depending on from where you live in this world.
Different expressions….same meaning

“I married my beloved farmer or rancher as the Americans say. A young lady who lived nowhere near the country but by the sea. Near Semaphore in Adelaide, South Australia.

We had a four day honeymoon on Kangaroo Island, a remotish tourist destination where the only access was via a two hour ferry trip down the Port River and over the ocean. Being a roll on roll off ferry we were able to take our car to explore this rugged place.

On our return and in light of the fact that this boat berths unpleasantly early we sat in our car outside of my parents home waiting for them to wake up. Waiting for the household to show signs of stirring.

I was particularly looking forwards to seeing my mother; and which girl doesn’t!

Knowing likewise that I would not be seeing her again for quite a while to come.
A new country wife living a few hours away where distances are measure by time depending on the roads.

Well all this came to nought. No happy catch up time. No time for chit chat.

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Country life line

Rather, a call had been received from my parents in law asking that we return to the farm property immediately for my husband to help with the grain cleaning. In those days you needed to wait having made a booking for a man to go to your property or ranch on a set day to do this job …well that time slot had come early!

So with my heart heavy we headed to my new life with dear husband who didn’t even have any work clothes with him. Fortunately there were some extra garments sitting at the main farm for him. Work boots, jeans or shorts, flannel shirt or T-shirt and the ever present hat of sorts.

As for me, after dropping my man off I proceeded down the white unsealed road with scrubby bush on either side, trusting that I would wind up at my new home, an old stone cottage with resident snake!

All roads here have a striking resemblance with each other to the uninitiated city folk….directions can go like this- go two Kms , then turn right and go another two Kms. At the telegraph pole turn right over the sheep grid and follow the road to the house. I must say it’s far easier to do in the day.

There was no new bride to be carried over the threshold. I ventured into our stone cottage myself.

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But I love our life here. Over the years we’ve lived in a few different houses. First was that stone cottage.

Now our son runs the farm with hubby working for him. New ways, new methods, new ideas, new generation, new energy, new grandsons.

Cycles of family life.

Alexa back here again.
Our cycles of life
The years roll by
Silently but ever moving

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Our family visiting the Farm

Now I must search out that pastie recipe from an old school book when we did Home Economics at High School. My sister in law bakes an awesome one.
Best eaten on a cold day which is the opposite to what we have here presently in Australia. Summer heat waves. Yet I guess you could eat it with a salad.
I think I will wait though so that the oven does not over heat the already warm house.

What a pity I did not keep my copy when I culled all my books during our recent move. The modern copy is rather pricey now.
Live and learn.

Recipe of pasty…….
Page 7 of 8
“Cookery the Australian Way” 50 some years old and still serving and teaching our young.

Memories are the threads of life
A tapestry in the making

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This is a Post-it note
Notebook
Diary to myself
To remember

Old-timer
Waiting patiently for a new outfit
Having been so very patient
Hoping to be smartened up

Forgotten
Neglected
Once so bright and fresh…
A garden bed
Waiting
Waiting a year?

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Old drainage removed from two sides of garden
Thanks Liam and friend for wielding the pick
Now there is a growing pile of cement

Hedging for one side purchased at short notice on a very hot day
Brought home squashed into two cars
Then a family day of visitors
Hard slog of hedge planting wielding pick and spade in the summer heat started by Rachel whilst extended family visits

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Little boys playing happily
Exploring the garage thinking no one is watching
Heaven!
Pulling out everything they think can be played with…for two minutes :)

Must not forget the ice blocks and ice creams savoured that night outside in the cool of the evening.
Watching the free and hilarious antics of the little ones sitting in their little chairs on the grass. Listening to their chatter. Ice block juice dripping and running down bare little arms…no problem….just splash the arms in the paddling pool close by.

Hedging continued by brother-in-law Derek another morning

I must remember to buy an axe to remove chunky old tree root where one hedging plant needs to go
Plants and ground slowly deep watered by soaker hose again

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Rain some days later gave the best soaking start

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Thank you Rachel for sanding the bathroom door as it rested on a saw horse. A new experience for you with a power orbital sander with instructions by your hubby dear
Bathroom door has two coats of paint…hip hooray…it only took a year ;)
Thanks Steve for your help
Side gates nearly all painted. One more coat on the bigger gate and meter box and it’s all done
Straggling uneven plants removed on driveway boundary side
…now all streamlined

Getting there
Now the endless job list seems do-able because we can see results
A goal in sight
One step at a time

Thanks to the team effort of young and older

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A lesson to remember for our Life’s journey.
Side by side.
Full of vibrant energy
Or the remembered strength of youth

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Love you Husband dear for working beside me
And love the brilliant sunshine of the young
In the heat or in the rain
Hand in hand
Moulded by the hand of the potter

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Words for this day in Australia. Resilience. Support.

Life can be fragile ….like the poppy.

My version of resilience in a tough environment.

Planted nearly fifty years ago on a farm. An apple tree.

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Love and care.

Wordless Wednesday

]]> http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/resilience/feed/ 8 Chocolate Chia Pudding and then horror http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/chocolate-chia-pudding-and-then-horror/ http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/chocolate-chia-pudding-and-then-horror/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:11:44 +0000 http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/?p=1700 Chocolate chia pudding and then horror, chocolate chia pudding recipe, family, home made, Lindt Cafe, Martin Place siege , Quinoa, support network, Australia, chia recipes , sadness, emergency personnel , save lives, protect lives,

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Last night just thinking of myself and craving a snack I found a recipe for Chocolate Chia pudding.

I pottered about in a hum drum sort of way and put the prepared healthy pudding in the fridge to soak ready for the next morning.

Morning arrives and with much anticipation I prepare to be delighted by a delicious sustaining meal…..

Oh dear. I discovered that I had used Quinoa instead of Chia. Ahhhhh!
Not to be deterred I strained out the Quinoa and added chia seed and returned it to the fridge to do its soak.
The Quinoa will be experimented with another day.
And yes my pudding did turn out. Cold, thick and refreshing on a hot day.

In between it seemed we lived in a different world, a parallel universe.

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As the stars in our vast wide country heavens so brilliantly pulsated last night, and most of Australia slept, a scene of unimagined horror climaxed and exploded in the madness of the Martin Place siege.

In a Lindt Cafe.

A happy place, a refuge and a meeting point on an ordinary Sydney day.

For ordinary people starting their day.

Instead, horror and the resultant aftermath.

A day to be forever remembered.

Lives forever changed.

In my life, thankful for our safe families sleeping in their own beds free from danger. By God’s grace.

For support network of friends when in times of need after the event.

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For those who give their lives
For those who save lives
For those who protect
For those who mourn
For those traumatised

Forever thankful for memories of quiet peaceful times at the Thomas family Moorlands farm.

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For the silence of growing grain in our vast land.

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For the old apple tree with battered lichen encrusted branches still quietly sending out delicate blossoms and the resultant apples.

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Peace

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]]> http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/chocolate-chia-pudding-and-then-horror/feed/ 6 Memories and a walk in the rain (Part 1) http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/memories-and-a-walk-in-the-rain-part-1/ http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/memories-and-a-walk-in-the-rain-part-1/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:50:47 +0000 http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/?p=1589 Memories and a walk in the rain, migrants to Australia, migrants, pioneers, discovering Australia , grandchildren, make time, work hard, memories, outdoors, sense of Adventure, support network, thankful, thankfulness, thanking our forefathers, work ethics, rainbow, children in a strange land

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Australia is indeed a spacious land. A safe Haven mainly, where we can explore and wander and discover, if we are so inclined.

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In the 1950′s Australia was billed as a Land of Milk and Honey to migrants. A land of untapped wealth and needing workers. So they came, to help build the infrastructure and to discover. In a way they were pioneers with sight, prepared to make a better life, learn and work hard in a strange land. They were from all walks of life and prepared to take any work.

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Look at a few of these examples. Migrant City folk who had to learn about the land, agriculture, livestock, farming, animal husbandry. Or farming folk, homesteaders in their own country having to adapt to an extremely different climate. Australia being a land of flood AND drought. A vast land. Then the labourers, brick layers, hardy men on their own hoping to bring family to this new country and working hard to save.

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We were privileged because our family was befriended by kind and generous Australians who taught my parents about the new country. My mother was a city girl and my father knew or had learnt tool making. Both longed for a new safe place to call home, raise a family and were prepared to work for it. So thanks to the family of Mr Malthouse a hard working farmer near Bradbury, South Australia our family started their life in a new country. I feel sad though because as happens in life we lost contact, and this is my mother’s constant regret in her age where she has time to reflect.

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I was a child in a strange land and it was only later as adults did we truly realise the blessings we had and have around us. The abundance, even when making do. We knew no different. There was freedom of space to discover and learn.

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We also learnt that if it rained and we missed the bus to school we had to walk in the rain. There was no car! Instead, with raincoats and gum boots on we set off remembering to beware one particular bend on that narrow road near a Beech Forest in Stirling. A dip in the road where a monstrously long puddle formed next to the footpath. You see we had to strategically plan this stretch because if we didn’t take it at a run from one end to the next we were bound to get drenched. I know I got soaked at least once when I didn’t see a truck approaching the bends. A snaking road past ancient, dark and looming trees on a huge property. Huge and menacing to a child and it hasn’t really changed much now.

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So now a few generations on as my little grandson and I take a walk…

I have learnt how to go walking with toddlers
I have learnt how a grandmother can alleviate cabin fever
I have discovered exercise can be fun

…to be continued in Part 2

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Today I have just a few little lines on “to remember”

From Webster Dictionary
re·mem·ber verb
: to cause (something) to come back into your mind
: to keep (information) in your mind : to not forget (something)

Today I remember
Those who would love to feel the dew on the grass again
To walk on their own into the fresh air
To go outside and feel the air brush the face
…whenever they want
To look at the sky but not through a window
To sit by the ocean but not just dream the murmur of the waves
…whenever they want

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Remember them, whoever they may be.
You may know them or of them.
Remember them and be thankful that you maybe can
Whenever you want
Feel the dew on the grass
Walk in the fresh air
Look up at the sky
Sit by the ocean

May they be surrounded by love, find inner strength and peace.

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]]> http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/remember/feed/ 9 Rose of Jericho…a lesson http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/rose-of-jericho-a-lesson/ http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/rose-of-jericho-a-lesson/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:03:38 +0000 http://www.alexa-asimplelife.com/?p=1335 Rose of Jericho...a lesson, life giving water, gift of love

Today I share with you an email received from our son in Texas

Mum

Thought you’d like this time lapse video of the plant called the Rose of Jericho. With water it goes from a dried up tumbleweed to a beautiful fern over a couple of hours. I watched it and was thinking that people are the same. They can appear dried up and withered and hopeless, when all they need to get smiling and happy is some love and attention :-)

Here’s more about the plant here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaginella_lepidophylla

Love
Mike

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Finding Joy…
I wrote this a week ago during a drive to visit family. A moment when thoughts just flowed. Since then there have been tragic news stories abounding which makes us want to hold loved ones closer.

“…It has been an emotional few weeks visiting, supporting and driving from one end of an out-of-state town to the other. Showing our love, compassion, cheer and empathy to two dearly beloved family members of two different generations. One ageing being cared for in assisted living and the other too young, with a short life expectancy but fighting valiantly to continue.

Many emotions and memories for all.

Today we decided to drive a different route home after morning coffee with family. We’d been refreshed with our eyes exploring the wide horizons of the beautiful Adelaide Hills. A change from city driving. From little car parks and trying to find another parking spot, again, today. From hospital car parks. From the stale confined air of hospitals.

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…so we took another road not quite knowing what the journey would be like. We had time and were in the mindset to try “different” and I’m so glad we did. It was just a road, a straight unimpeded road with less bustling traffic and for most of the way it exuded tranquility….older stately houses, graceful homes, bigger blocks, greenery….it was my meditation

Sights which I would have loved to photograph.
Instead…
Snaps I took with my mind of quickly passing scenes
A quaint cupola roof peeking out amongst the green
Gorgeous stone and metal lace work from old religious college
Sprawling slate roof on stately lady of a house with vibrant green moss growing amongst the tiles
‘Bespoke’ luxury apartment with advertising sign for sale…Oh, what a gorgeous old worldly word
Watching a young father with small son on his shoulders walking to the nearest place to play ball
…each carrying their own basket ball
…regular size and child size
…and that REALLY made me smile

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So I found a beautiful place to linger in and was refreshed.

Do YOU find these places?
…by observing with a different eye.
…A little beauty and joy on an unfamiliar road.

Another little detour later in the day…
Taking the long way round to go visiting …
Food for the soul-
A drive along the ocean.
Serenity

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Orange skies, luminous clouds outlined with gold
Brightest of beams displayed surrounding an even brighter sun
A heavy ball is the sun, drooping and dropping into the ocean
And gone…
But so many Joy filled hearts
Sitting in parked cars or lined up with cameras,
Silhouette of family standing on sand dunes
Even paused mid stride it seemed,
on the footpath with shopping in hand.
All savouring a brief magic moment

Do you savour the moment? ”
For B.

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Love my family
No matter the ills
Keep on keeping on
With patient explaining

With patient explaining
With hugs and support
For years long ago we needed support
…Now turns the tide
Young must support the aged.

Then too also
With loving concern
To strengthen and cheer
The younger in need…

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Remember to hug your loved ones today
For that is all that matters…a hug and a smile

Love is patient , Love is kind

1 Corinthians 13

Dedicated to those who care for the aged, the weary, those who suffer in body and soul.
Dedicated to those who suffer due to age; the failing of mind and body.

In haste and briefly touching base
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