Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn

It's that time of the year again.....
Time for a new season, new beginnings and Hope wonderful hope.
Hope that your garden grows beautiful in the new season......
Hope that your flowers bloom all in a row......
Hope that everything is flushed with the myriad colours of Nature's Bounty.....
Hope that your veggies are as green as ever......
Hope that they tickle your taste buds like never before......

While Hope definitely turns one on to try and do things differently,
it certainly doesn't ensure that things can be better & beautiful.
Yes one looks forward to the results of one's own efforts....
nail biting days and wakeful nights nonetheless.....
the only constant being 'HOPE' of course!

Can i hope to be rewarded this winter by a garden as pretty as a picture ?
Mother Nature will this be THE season when i can rest pretty and see
your bounty in my garden ?

I am most definitely looking forward to the cold months and hoping for
that most elusive of miracles that only Mother Nature can give me.

A family affair

The computer and the ways of the net have been objects of apprehension in my life till some 9 months ago.
While i would agree with all & sundry how the computer has made our lives easier, i was only paying lip service.

All this changed last month, when i planned our family holiday. Here was I, a babe in the woods so to speak,  valiantly surfing the net for cheap air tickets if you please. To top it off, also proudly claiming to one & all how the net has so much to offer!!!

When i started out, i had not a clue about how to go about it.I just clicked on airline sites and gave my dates.First time lucky they say, but in my case it proved to be true........i just couldn't believe it. It certainly felt like eating chocolate, it was so easy !

 With my new found confidence i went surfing for hotels!!! Boy oh boy i seemed to be spoilt for choice! There were hotels & hotels & all i needed to do was click my requirements.If this isn't a cakewalk then what is?

 Unfortunately hotels needed credit card details for booking purposes.......& that i did not have. Internet banking in my dictionary was meant  for city slickers, not required in my parts of town !

Goodbye beautiful self-confidence, hello sleepless nights. Would i ever be able to scale these mountains that kept coming up ? So help me God!!! Believe you me I am a selfish believer, when nothing seems to work i go in search of the Divine intervention. So far He hasn't let me down!

The card details proved to be small pebbles in this vast ocean of learning  i had embarked on. Maybe the Supreme Being took a fancy to my new avatar. Whatever it was, this new self confident me certainly managed to scale the new 'impossibles'.

We have had the best vacation ever......the children are back in school with happy memories.......yours truly is certainly a lot wiser with the ways of the computer AND raring to surf the net for more holiday options.

A sense of liberty (???)

Suddenly i am on my own at home, if you discount all the house help who  are regularly in & out .
And guess what? I am loving this isolation! Frightening thought really, but is it that i prefer my own company?
I don't know & neither do i want to dwell on this line of thought.

What i do know is the fact that i have only myself to be accountable to......aah bliss.
I wake up on time certainly, ( i have set that for myself ) but everything else thereon is as i please.                     I eat only when my stomach reminds me & not because it's that time of the day when one has to eat.

Food is not uppermost in my thoughts and thank God i don't have to plan what has to be cooked.
It's such a liberating experience, short lived i know, but oh wow.

When i was planning for this time by myself, i had so much things to do i thought. I had planned on
bringing some order to my room by way of all the paper work that needed tackling. I thought i'd
 rearrange the rooms to my preferences (if you please!),but all that and many more such "plans" have
happily flown out of my window! No regrets !!

I spent half a day playing 'magic words' on Mindjolt & certainly my vocabulary hasn't got any better,
but it was a liberating feeling all the same. I didn't have to look out for anyone, neither was i answerable
for my actions, therefore this happiness.

Today i threw out some furniture that cluttered the room but i know they'll come back again !!! Still it was
nice while i was at it. And when they make their way back into the room i'll have no regrets. At least i would
have had the satisfaction of seeing the room less cluttered even if it was just for a couple of days !

I have kept the 'phones far away, just so i need not answer them. I'll make my calls (if at all) in my own time
and when it pleases me.

I know all these little pleasures are short-lived, maybe that is why i am treasuring it !