Sitting down to start the day in the home office while hubby – Peter is recovering from his hip/pelvis surgery on the six weeks. Video conference emergency flashing notification message from a Deaf caller on the desktop, was the first thing to start the day at 930am. Click and start the video conferencing to find a silly and confused contractor who was lost for his job by his Fibre Company and asking for the request on which Kia Oranga (formerly Housing New Zealand) house. Guided him by describing the house in front of the Deaf person’s rented house by Kia Oranga. He located the right house and hung up the video call. Resume checking my diary, checking, checking appointments until Peter yelled out Mummmmmm, and came into the home office, the printer won’t print. Sigh!
A few moments at a time, I sorted out the printer and stopped for a coffee break to calm my annoying of having distracted. Nova, our young dog, bought home a ‘throw out bread crust’ for I know Peter threw put from the kitchen windows. Oh, bother, I decided to leave this and head back to the home office, so I continue to work.
Barking, barking, swiftly, swiftly go the noise, I went out to investigate where dogs are doing, and Peter is painting the side door. Our dogs had been chasing tractor pass down the road. Sigh! Walk back to the home office and found a notification message flashing on the desktop, waiting for me to answer. It was the caller from the UK about the disability news – Deafblind group. It was lovely to receive their story from them.
Moving on to my course materials where I was supposed to do the assignments since Peter was out of the hospital. Reading the materials and thought of something to take notes and details in the course materials. Another flashing message popped up, asking if I am free to chat over a grave concern or not. Oh well, why not! Rats the update software popped up at the same time I was prepared to send the chat to the Deaf caller. I was waiting for the downloading software to finish and finally hit the chat video button. We chatted over the issues, then noticed my time near for my quick lunch and headed off to my appointment in the city of Hamilton.
Finally, I came home but guess what! Peter lets our dogs out as the dogs were pleased to see me at the front gate, where I headed to open the gate. I gave them a command to stay, so I get in my car and move inside the property before heading to the carport. Quickly out of the vehicle while our dogs chasing around the car and came to me while I closed the gate. I turned and found Peter was standing near the carport, and I did not hear him telling our dogs to stay. He has amused us as we walked back to the house. I saw our side door freshly painted in greyish colour. That was a nice colour for a change from dark blue as the door had been weather battered down over a few years. We have a coffee break, then Peter off to rest his hip and pelvis, and I head back to the home office to do more works. I was hoping no more distracted or disrupted while I am working until nearly dinner time.
There was never-ending as Nova got vomiting, Peter had done the rubbish bag ready to take out, our middle dog – Jazz barking at the person who walked past, and then our older dog Joseph wanting to sleep under the work table. More emails came through, and I have a quick check through emails. I decided it was time to stop and take the rubbish bag out by keeping the dogs inside so I can have a breather while walking down the private road. I turned around to check our fields – ohhhh, for God sake! Peter let the dogs out, so they came to find me on the other side of the fence. I walked back to the gate for the dogs to know that they stayed until I closed the gate. A few more jobs to do outside, such as locked the garage side door and the greenhouse double doors before heading back to the house as dinner time already.
That was my daily routine around at home while Peter is recovering from the surgery since six weeks ago.
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