Good morning, @eth! So good that you are here for a chat too! Your cooking for the farm sounds so delicious. Leek tart and pesto, oh yum, I wish I was there to eat it!
@CheerBear, my close (at a distance) friend in country Victoria contacted me about the death of the mother of three women I also know from my visits to that town over many years. The memorial service for the mother was yesterday and I was asked to make a video for it from a piece of her writing. It involved working on the organisation and actual making of it from midday Wednesday straight through until about 8am the next morning, including being awake all night. It's the fastest I've ever made a video and a real challenge due to the extreme time constraint, but I wanted to do it for their sake, and that of my friend who asked me if I'd contribute. I don't think she realised how much work involved in me making a video, and was a bit shocked that I was staying up all night to do it when it came to that. I wan't sure I'd make the deadline but was determined to give it a go, and succeeded in a way that was satisfying to both me and to them. I was told you could hear a pin drop when the video was playing at the service and there wasn't a dry eye in the room. Much gratitude came my way. It felt so good to add comfort and meaning to this time of their loss.
How have you both been in my absence, which was not that long by any real world standard, but in forum time seems quite a stretch. Funny thing how we seem to live in a different time dimension here, isn't it?
