a furry friend...

a furry friend
the priceless gift
of shared happiness #haiku

📷(my daughter's photo of her beautiful Bella in the Temora main street outside a coffee shop) pic.twitter.com/vDSO2byozJ

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) November 2, 2023

teacher's strike and personal duty...

My daughter's an exhausted primary teacher. She's always acknowledged strikes. But today's different. Some students are in a sports final...in a country town. She's in charge. The final is today...strike day. She wanted to strike, but didn't want to disappoint the students...so

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 30, 2022

winter window of sunlight...

winter window of sunlight
listening to
my daughter sing#haiku pic.twitter.com/5pPfYNlfoa

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 25, 2022

it's puffer jacket weather...

It's puffer jacket weather in Temora...

(Cold + windy + wet most days...)

I don't think I have ever seen so many people in one place wearing a variety of puffer jackets...

Black seems to be the norm...

But other colours are making a debut too...Reds and purples and pinks are emerging...

Above is my daughter in her Temora backyard...

 

the waiting game...

PASSING THOUGHT: Itching to do so much with this little old Temora house...But can't till my daughter finally moves into her new home...Trying to gather 'bits' ready and waiting...
Call it frustrated excitement...
Meanwhile, her new house progresses very very slowly...end July?🤔

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 8, 2022

art of covid isolation in the house...

PASSING THOUGHT: We're getting this covid-isolation-in-the-house scenario down to a fine art...Whenever my covid-struck daughter wants to go to the toilet+shower, she texts us all. We get behind closed doors. When she is back in her room, she texts us all that the coast is clear.

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 4, 2022

covid has not disappeared...

PASSING THOUGHT: Covid has not disappeared...My daughter has covid and is quite sick. My 2 grandsons have covid. So far, my son-in-law and I have escaped it...So far...Not easy trying to keep separate and isolated in one house...We can only try...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 2, 2022

My daughter is exhausted from her work as a school principal and teacher...Recently, her school has suffered from many teacher absences covid-related...She has been covering for them...or trying to do so...Her husband begged her to take a day off...Now she has covid herself...Her hubby is almost relieved because it has forced her to stop where he failed...Now, here's hoping, she gets mild covid and can just focus on resting...

P.S. I have discovered that covid-ridden, stressed, exhausted teachers are grumpy. Offered my daughter a coffee from behind her closed door:

'No thanks. Don't fuss'...

Hmmm...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 2, 2022

My daughter also added 'I'm OK'???????? 

Nothing like 'in-house' text messages...My daughter just texted me from 2 rooms away that she is going to the toilet + having a shower...This is crazy...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 3, 2022

my Mother's Day gift...

Adore my Mother's Day gift from my daughter...
Little planters in the form of books...

Now to find mini indoor plants to put in them... pic.twitter.com/chJtr9uZFC

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 8, 2022

new life begins...

Last Tuesday19th April, my son (from Adelaide) and I took a long rainy drive from Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula in southern Victoria to Temora, in the Riverina region of southern NSW...

My son drove my car (+ me) to Temora...to my daughter's current home...I stay with her, (possibly 10 weeks), till finally her Temora home is completed. Then I take over her rental...a cute little olde world cottage with a white picket fence...Love it...

This changeover was an amazing moment...For the first time in some years, I was seeing my son and daughter at the same time...My son stayed with us for a couple of days before heading back to Adelaide with his partner...

My life by the sea is now converting to my life in a country town...

My daughter's gift to me when I arrived in Temora... pic.twitter.com/Bs8SczDzLm

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 22, 2022

Adore the stained glass panel on the front door of my daughter's current Temora home... pic.twitter.com/S8Ir2nyIzk

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 22, 2022