Another Shopping Trip, Lunch and Sewing

Since my time so running out I have been taking up every offer I get to go somewhere. This morning a relative took me to a few stores.

This display was inside od a metal gazebo.

The white chandeliers were very attractive,

as well as the rest of the furniture

This is a candle holder that I thought would look lovely with led lights.

The colors look well together.

While buying my sandwich for lunch I had a chance to look at. Couple of the pastries made here. Click the picture to read the names.

A toasted chicken/avocado sandwich is what I had for lunch, with a pot of tea, while my rellies ordered the same thing but a different drink.

One of the fabrics at the fabric store.

Cotton cardigans i bought when i first came here.

A stainless steel teapot that was as light as a feather will end up in my suitcase. I have already used it and it does not dribble, plus it will not get chipped. The tea stays hot and also tastes good.

I bought some small cuts of lawn fabric and one larger piece for a dress. I sure hope i can get someone to take me to get some more. Maybe I can also get my d.h. to add more money on my travel card. The travel card is a nice thing because it automatically makes the foreign exchange for you when you use it, so you do not need travel checks or bother with exchanging money at a bank.

I could only find one package of these paper napkins.

Tonight i have sewn cotton flannel skirts for my mother. She particularly likes these prints to wear with black shivers, and they are easy to make, without a pattern.

After I got back home i cleaned another shelf and found a treasure. It is a pincushion made by my mother's mother.
I went somewhere with Betty and she wanted to leave early in case we got lost. The route she took got us there much earlier than she expected, and she was so astonished, she gasped and said "I got here before I left!"

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Things Today

Life is not always about things, but sometimes shopping is on the agenda and tourists like me must buy things. My time is running out, and now my priority is shopping. I like the villages and towns, all which are abundant with shops, and most business areas have sea fronts. Above, you see the handmade soap i bought today. Someone took me to the Mornington Market and bought a few things and had a look at what I want to buy next Wednesday.

one vendor had skillfully cut brand new sweatshirts and combined the colors to make them look like jackets, so I bought one as a gift.

You might remember that I spoke of coloring books for adults. Here is one i bought my mother.

 

I am going to Spotlight, a fabric store, in the morning, and I am trying to get more rest so am laying down the rest of the day.

 

View of a Mornington street,

And another house and matching fence.

we have found a lovely assisted living place and are pleased that it is all working out. I feel weary enough to book myself into a care unit but for respite i am planning to spend the rest of the time aggravating my siblings equally by staying with them by turns.

 

The "Park People" have been so helpful to me. When I first came, residents re regularly asked me if they could take me anywhere I needed to go. After being out with Betty a full day, I agreed to go somewhere with someone else, but in just two hours i was tired and ready to return to my abode. My tour guide protested: "You went out with Betty for 6 hours yesterday and I never heard anything about you asking to return home!" This is a seniors caravan park and they are all waiting to take me somewhere. They are the best tour and shopping guides.

Betty gives me advice, prefaced by the words: This is your mother speaking!

 

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Casey, Warneet, Tooradin and Koo Wee Rup

 

 

Betty took my mother and me on a four hour tour today through four villages. We were sure tired afterwards and we both decided that two hours would have to be our limit for car trips.

 

In Warneet I came upon two letter boxes unexpectedly and when I found interesting styles of houses and street names and began a collection of photos, Betty realized she would not only have to stop at every fence and mailbox, but now, at all the street signs and houses I liked, as well. "I have borne a monster" she said, which meant that by catering to my fancy for fences at the start of my visit, she had created more interests that she would have to stop the car for.

 

An outboard motor made into a mailbox.

 

This letter box looks like an old milk can. The milk cans are by far the most seen around here.

 

Also in Warneet, Betty showed me some houses she liked, as she has some obsessions of her own: she pointed out every dilapidated house, like the one in the photo, above, and said, "It just needs new curtains!"

She said the house was so small, it would fit in the car, and would be the perfect size for us since we already live in a caravan and would be used to the lack of space.

 

 

 

 

 

In the distance is a structure on the water that looks like a gazebo bit i could not find out what it was. This is in Casey.

 

 

 

This is tea-tree. Betty told us about the termites and wood-eating insects: "They go from one dead tree to the next, til they find a nice juicy house to eat."

 

 

 

 

Down one of the streets i saw a sign for a bed and breakfast inn, but Betty would not stop for a picture. "Too late, she cried, as she waved a wooden leg," Betty quipped. We are past it, it is too late, it is gone, and you cannot get out and walk.

 

 

 

Betty grew up in the area and knew about all the farms. She expressed dismay that so many farms had been sold, and were now "growing houses and airplanes."

Betty wanted to show me her Queen Elizabeth wave, since her name is really Elizabeth. She does wave at everyone because she knows everyone. Her late husband used to work in many of the places around here and she has a vast knowledge of the area's history.

As neared home, she wanted to show us a nursing home she had been in whilst recovering from knee surgery. She drove all around the complex and pointed to a neighboring swimming pool and bowling alley that was not part of the nursing home. Knowing of our search for an assisted living place for my mother, she said, helpfully.

"There you go, Lil! If you get lucky enough to get a room here and you feel frisky, you can hop over the fence and go for a swim and then have a game of Bowles!"

I have laughed so much today, I gave myself an awful headache. Still, I wish I could bring Betty home with me. I imagine she would find us a dour lot and want to get back here in a hurry to a place where everyone understands her one-liners.

 

 

 

 

 

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Touring

Monday afternoon (Sunday in the northern hemisphere) I joined a tour around some of the Mornington peninnsula provided by one of the residents of the caravan park. This is Point Leo.

Parks are maintained all around the beaches for the public, yet are charmingly personal, providing a picture view. This is Point Leo.

 

 

 

The tour went from Westernport to Sorrento and back to Mornington, stopping at many beautiful places inbettween.

 

Looking at Phillip Island

 

Taken from Point Leo, with Flinders in the background.

 

Point Leo with Phillip Island in the background

Flinders

London Bridge, Sorrento

Above: this could be the Oregon coast, couldn't it!

Looking at Bass Strait

 

Yes, it is cold here.

Somers

I managed to convince the driver to stop and let me take photos of two fences.

 

 

 

Betty (see previous posts) did not join the tour because she said it was "a cut lunch" which means that it is such a long trip that she would have to prepare a lunch and cut sandwiches and cakes to pack. She said she the 60 mile trip was too far, and that was "fair dink" , (which is short for "fair dinkum" which means truthful)and that was it, and she said she was "sticking by her story" which is another of her one-liners that I wrote down.

We were gone from noon til 5 pm and I was tired of taking pictures and tired of touring but saw one more photo opportunity when we got back to the caravan park. This is a sign with a little street light here, and below is a scene showing the low fog on the field.

I had a bit of winding-down time this evening, making a paper mirror using aluminum foil. I sometimes watch the shows about home make-over contests and wonder what the results would be if the producers of that kind of show would only allow home improvements using household products like sheets, towels and ordinary household products.

This is the pin cushion I sewed with scraps of fabric and a cardboard base, from yesterday's projects shown on the previous post.

Below is a little basket made of the same fabric, which will be filled with something handmade.

I added a little potholder to the kitchen decor with the daisy fabric.

A few thoughts on being a lady:

It is important to gracefully over-look faults in others, yet important to maintain your own integrity and dignity by not indulging in the vices or improprieties of those who want to be our friends.

Some people who come across as being rude do not intend to be so.

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