Back..and just in time too.. Look at this mess ! Sheeeesh....

Well...I have once again been remiss in updating... (hangs head) I know...how slack.
I've been struggling however.. Struggling with wanting to put in this dramatic update about how there was this fire, I put it out single handily, burned my lungs got this infection in them, turned into a roaring bronchitis leaving a bed of inflammation so that simultaneously I caught a delightful upper respiratory bug and have been laid out for like over a week.
But I won't do that. Today is the first day in (I'll quote delightful Australian colloquialism here) Yonks that I've felt I actually might survive this thing. Coughing is down significantly, and the antibiotics have this thing on the run I believe. Most that know me know I'm a 6 hour a night sleeper. Anything more makes me feel almost hung over. Been that way since I was a kid and all, but yesterday was the longest I can recollect in my life. A 2 hour nap in the noonish time, followed by crashing at like7 and waking at about 8 this morning.
None of the whammys that hit me were helped at all by me working out in the blasting cold and rain for 2 days right after the fire.. I know..One would figure I was a bit smarter...heh.. But duties duties everywhere and I hate to let folks down. Guess pushing up daises wouldda let them down a little bit more, but I really didn't think it was all that bad at first (Can we say denial ?)
All in all there was probably a couple grand in loss from the giant shed contents that burned. It was sad mostly cause there were newly hatched chicks in a brooder that went up..and a beautiful old surrey (horse drawn cart) as well as various bits of furniture and lots of canning jars.
However.. I have yet to get all down about it. I have since the first moment reclining in my bedroom slippers and track pants (standard Australian firefighters ensemble) after the fire was extinguished thought, thank God it wasn't in the house.. How much worse could it have been seriously ? It was brought under control within 20 minutes, and aside from the little peepers, the rest of the stuff was just that..stuff.. We own nothing. Everything on this plane is on loan. We can think we do, but when that day comes they toss you into a box, nothing else really fits, and even if it did you wouldn't know it was there nor use it. My proof of that last statement is Tutankhamen's tomb and contents (nods) He never got up and played with any of his stuff.. in thousands of years..so.......
Everyone is safe, albeit a slight bit worse for wear but nothing a tincture of time won't relieve. And...as Pollyanna said... "You can be glad about that."
and I shall.....
So..slight cough still present, tonight will be the inaugural launching of Texas Tea at the local Drakesbrook.. Y'all come down now...ya' hear ?
T.