(a verandah resident - a friend tells me it's an orb weaver spider ....
I'm not sure about spiders - but I certainly can empathise with the bug right now!)
I'm not sure about spiders - but I certainly can empathise with the bug right now!)
Right now I feel I have so much to do, no time to do it in and that everything - EVERYTHING - I do is WRONG..... agghhhh! What fool willingly puts their hand up to do a solo exhibition?! It's hard at the best of times - and THIS is NOT the Best Of Times.... I'm starting to feel that I'm something like a clockwork mouse - who has been wound up too tight (any second now I suspect something is going to go PING and it will all turn pear-shaped!).
I can't speak for all mums, but I can tell it how I find it - and I find it almost IMPOSSIBLE to get the balance right with kids and work and creative stuff..... this last week I've had swimming carnivals (we have stupidly sporty kidlins) and multiple committee meetings and dairy diversions and EJ's Big Birthday Pool Party and printing deadlines and garden disasters and arty deadlines (missed! agghh!) and FP heading off interstate alongside all the usual dramas....
I try not to dwell on the difficulties... but I rarely have time out (note to self - remember to breathe!)
Yesterday, when I was over on the other farm, checking out the progress on the new dairy I noticed my favourite trio had dropped in for a visit....
I love wedge-tail eagles... they are so HUGE yet so agile and elegant. Up close (and I've only had the opportunity to get really close a couple of times) they are breath-taking. I love how they catch an updraft and UP, UP, UP they go high into the sky.... It's not hard to imagine why raptors are the subject of myths and legends around the globe.
Yesterday there were three big birds circling the paddocks together - looking for a meal (the wedgies like to come out on days with cloud and great updrafts). I'm not sure what the relationship between the three birds is - especially after watching a bit of mid-air action....
(ps the birds are a fair distance away - and I only have a max of 105mm lens on the Nikon - so these pics are a bit grainy)
... but they are welcome regulars to the farm - and the sight of them yesterday really lifted my spirits. I always take it as a good omen when the wedgies visit....
here's hoping so!
......
Wonderful, wonderful wedgies. You're so lucky to have them visiting. The closest I've seen them was driving past a large road kill and two wedgies slowly flapped up and flew alongside the car before taking off.
ReplyDeleteAs you know I really like a good spider photo...
Just keep that breathing going, Ronnie. So much happening in your life, it will all get done, and I bet your kidlets don't think you have any reason to feel guilty. Remember the wedgies and let your spirits rise. xx
Hi Ronnie, its tough and that feeling of stretched literally to breaking point is not nice, so be as gentle on yourself as you can be. It will happen, and the world will keep turning...
ReplyDeleteWe saw a wedgie today as well - our first on the mountain; and I agree with your thoughts on their magnificence and regality.
We call those spiders 'drop spiders' - they drop from the eaves and gutters at dusk and scare the living daylights out of me!
Go well, stay well , and breathe.
Carol said it perfectly!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with all ahead!
of course it's hard, but i will tell you this: you CAN and WILL do it and it will be GOOD. really. i know it from last november, when i thought it all was going to be too much. the show went up, and then it went down and my life went back to "normal". whatever that is. yours will too, promise. breathe.
ReplyDeleteThose wedgetails look amazing. They really are such magestic creatures. I'm sure they are a good omen too.
ReplyDeleteFinding a balance between kids, work and creative stuff?...ooph...sometimes...