Time Off

It has arrived.  Time off. 
These last few months have been crazy busy.  Apart from our normal church activities we have had a new kitchen built, a granny flat (cabin) built, trip to hospital, a cruise booked that did not happen, the bathroom altered, and the place a shambles while work was being done.  At the lunch on Saturday a stranger commented to me that, “you never stop.”  I reckon that is right as I tend to be go go go when there are things to be done.  But I did notice I was running out of steam.  Things I would normally do I noticed others were stepping up and doing, and I was ok with that.
Merril was talking to someone Saturday who was saying places they normally book into for Christmas lunch were not doing it this year.  Their reason?  They felt staff needed time off.
So we are looking forward to time out ourselves.  Time where we can get to the things we had in mind to do, to get the place the way we had planned.  There is a huge new to do list, but it is without the pressure of activities we need to attend.  We love all that, but we also love the thought of a rest.  It is weird how doing all this other stuff at home, we consider a rest.
We do have a washer/dryer arriving today.  We looked up various places to find the best price and local was one dollar cheaper for the item, but we needed to add on delivery and instillation charges.  We found a place in Sydney we have used before, and they would delver the item free of charge and install in.  The saving at face value was around $150 dollars.  When I mentioned it to the builder of our Cabin his comment was “why wouldn’t you?”  My thoughts exactly really.
Apart from that the day is ours.  Oh and making sure an industrial bin we are looking after is unlocked for clearing tomorrow (it is normally Thursday).  There will be no clearance next week.
This activity does not have high excitement value at face value, but it does to us.  Hopefully we use the time well, but it is nice to have a time of working at our own pace without the usual deadlines.