At home in Aireys Inlet

With my visa in hand.... at last!! It took three weeks and much angst, as opposed to two days compared with Sue!
Michele and I are now down at Aireys Inlet ensconced in our lovely holiday, eventual retirement place, and we're going to stay for a week.
The fire is glowing and we are starting to unwind- me after the stress of the visa process and the school year and she after the visit to the doctor to check out her BCC on her nose. It's small barely noticeable but nasty and needs removal. However the removal will only happen when I have removed back to USA.
The drive down was easy and pleasant. We came straight here instead of stopping at the supermarket in Anglesea, and within twenty minutes of being here had some lunch (delicious homemade cauliflower and bacon soup and fresh bread) and then unpacked all the bags of things we had brought down.
The things include rejects from our Footscray place which have been replaced by some of our mother's things and then other things straight from our mother's house, kitchen items and fortuitously bird books that have helped us identify the birds we spotted in the garden later in the day during our game of scrabble.
After the sorting and putting away of things we took all the removed items to the Anglesea Opportunity shop. Weren't they in for a treat. The shop has been expanded and even then they are overflowing with stuff and we added to it all.
The dogs we left at the house in Aireys which made the shopping journey much easier. By the time we returned to the house the dogs behaved as if we'd left them for weeks. Always lovely to have such enthusiastic greeting when one returns home.
And so we are settled in with only needing brief forays to the video library and the store for the paper, then walks on the beach, art journaling, catching up on scrap booking and reading.

Ah, Bliss thy name is Aireys Inlet!