scratch it's belly and get on with life

We've had a shocker of a week here. You know how in most cases, situations have the potential to go belly up, but only comes close?,,,,well this week every thing not only went belly up...it laid on it's back and wanted a scratch as well!!!!

We had the lot....these covered our home in Qld, tenants doing a runner, maintenance needed, tax bills, gardening problems, work related issues.....by the end of the week we were just laughing ( not in the good way) as the news kept rolling in and rolling in and rolling in......

What do you do when you have a really bad experience? Do you believe retail therapy is the cure? A good stiff drink...or many??

I fortunately have 2 lads at home to keep me in line.We have our special needs boy  who keeps me on the straight and narrow and reminds me that we have run out of biscuits for his cup of tea, and another son has caught a cold and feels that soup will cure him. Then (to remind us he's still around) ...My eldest rings from Afghanistan and puts in a request for tea bags as all the fellows there drink coffee, and he hates coffee.

By this stage the weeks bad news has pretty much stopped flowing in, hubby and I are over our hysterical mad laughter and realize...there's nothing we can do about all the bad news that come in, except scratch it's belly and get on with life.

So I did what was needed....went shopping for teabags to be mailed to Afghanistan, biscuits for middle lad, and bought chicken carcases for chicken soup.

I woke up this morning and was quite surprised to see the sun really was still shining.
I pulled all the chicken meat off the chicken carcass and will begin chopping veggies shortly. While I was doing this 1/2 doz magpies decided to serenade me outside the kitchen window. Do you think they know something?
I've checked my seedlings in the back yard and they seem to be growing as well.

All still seems to be well with the world.







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