Easter ... Mischa and the car - Cassia and the walker

Thanks to everybody who sent Easter wishes across the miles

... we send more of the same back to you ...

The Car:

Joseph wanted to do three things with Mischa; visit the grave, witness the *solar panels being installed on their house and go for a long drive ... in the Merc.  Mischa had hoped for a weekend in the van but “settled” for a drive - in the Merc - on Good Friday, whittling it down from the Flinders Ranges (10hrs), to Mt Remarkable (8 hrs) to finally Clare (4hrs) the famous wine district but with views out to those areas. We 

They visited Wirra Wonga, but the solar panels now happen on Tuesday so that left the wait for “the drive” to be almost intolerable (mostly for me). “What time is it?” - “9.30” “oh it’s time to go?”  - “no it’s 9.30 at night”, and again at 12.30 a.m. and then at 5.30 a.m. finally it was close enough and after dressing, pills and brekkie, it was 8.30 a.m. and they were gone ... in the Merc ... with Mischa in charge of the music!

*parents often live vicariously through their children, and it’s been Joseph’s dream for Mischa and Simone to have solar panels. Not a rush for Mischa but it became Joseph’s obsession of late -so Mischa did his homework, we cashed in three more gold bars and April 14 can’t come quickly enough.

The Walker:

Joseph had three wishes for Cassia; learn our finances, keep an eye on my spending and, of late, having her help look after his book-collection bequeaths; 16 (huge/heavy) Volumes of Birds of the World go to SA Birds, who have gratefully accepted the gift but don’t know where to put them, the ridiculously-heavy, two-volume boxed collection of The Far Side to the President of Birds SA who seems excited about them!

Since his fall trying to tend to the books himself, Cassia now wheels them along on his walker from one end of the house to the other, to sit on my bed, hold them up for him in his bed to see, await instructions then slap on a sticky note. ... and if you have showed even the teeniest, slightest bit of interest in a subject, that sticky note might have your name on it; Geology, birds, design, trees, flowers, art, King Tut, canoes ... be ready - it’s coming. Of course if you showed that interest and live in Australia, the better your chances!  

Oxfam will receive the others, but I worry about those oh so “Canadian books” that nobody here will know/want/care about ... Pierre Burton, Peter Mansbridge (signed!!), Farley Mowat etc. Right now it isn’t possible to send packages by sea (via Post Office anyway) but perhaps I should keep them and make sure they make it back to the land they love?

Poor cassia, she accomplished wish #1, she knows the improbability of wish #2, and works on wish #3 in between looking after her two kiddie poohs with Jospeh barking instructions from his command post  ... and while it’s not quite the same as driving Dad in the Merc - she wouldn’t have it any other way.