Rita

I have a spring cold but fortunately it is not too bad and has improved a lot. We had to miss out on going to my cousin's house in Gosford for a visit last weekend because I would have been infectious. Fortunately I was past that by Tuesday when we had to go to a funeral in Sydney. We buried my mother-in-law's younger brother, the last of her siblings. He died on the 1st October aged 88 years.Here is a photo of Rita waiting to go to Sydney, rather sad under the circumstances. Would you believe she is 92? What an amazing woman she is. It is such a privilege to have her with us still.

Rita is very active for her age. She walks more than a kilometre to and from our place and the shops at least 2 or 3 times a week, further to the post office or library. She also goes to a weekly craft group, a weekly exercise class and a weekly outing group. Once a fortnight Rita takes herself and her walker on the bus to Queanbeyan to go shopping there. In addition she likes to do most of our washing up and brings in and folds the washing. Oh and she still does the puzzle magazines and has won some prizes, reads, does crosswords, watches news and interest programs as well as movies, Antiques Roadshow, whodunnits etc, crochets handtowels and sachets and makes her own birthday, Christmas and other special occasion cards. Not to mention waiting hand and foot on a very demanding 9 yr old cat we adopted for her a year or so ago.  Midnight certainly fell on her feet when she came here. Poor Midnight had a traumatic year before being surrendered to the RSPCA. She is now being well and truly pampered!