Can you even believe we’re making a start on the eighth month of the year already? I’m at a stage in life where the days can be so very long yet the months and years seem to fly by with milestones being reached, stages and phases gone through and previously distant future things like starting school getting almost unbearably close. Preschooler SSG is set to start school in 2018 and I wonder what it’s going to be like dropping him off in the morning without his entourage of toys. In a uniform and already having had breakfast. Life’s a bit cushy like that as a long day care mum….
But I’m getting ahead of myself. 2018 is still ages away. So until then and beyond then, I’m going to try and take things one day at a time. Or one month at a time max.
In the spirit of one day at a time, some pretty photos around which the rest of today’s post shall be written.
This is how the last day of July looked for us. We took a walk on Sunday afternoon up the road to our local park.
Some older children were having the time of their lives playing bubble soccer. From what I can gather, you play the game whilst hot dogged (for want of a better term) in the middle of a transparent, inflated beach ball contraption. It looked like so much fun and was a sight to behold as the balls bounced around and caught the light in the winter afternoon’s sun.
He’s already fascinated by soccer balls so I might have to look into whether classes are available in the local area for preschoolers. Me, a soccer mum? Never saw that coming….
Bare branched trees have so many faces through the winter. They can look so stark and haunting under a grey sky, they can look on the verge of coming back to life when they’re under the full sun and there’s a swish of gentle wind running through them but when they’re backlit in the afternoon light on a clear skied day? They look as if they’re anticipating summer as much as I am as their branches arch and reach out toward the sky and sun.
I had no idea that Lucas’ Papaw Ointment has become the skin care world’s equivalent of gold. I remember a time, not too long ago, when a tub like this would have only set me back $9. Its street value in 2016? $12.
Theories abound about why my previously cheap as chips beauty miracle worker is now so expensive (a similarly sized tube of Vaseline costs around $4). Apparently a beauty blogger of influence in China is rather keen on it which might explain some of the price rise. I can’t complain too bitterly though because felly Papaw fans in New Zealand pay around $45 for a tub and in the US, I hear it’s the equivalent of $40.
Have you heard any other theories behind why Lucas’ Papaw value continues to rise beyond the rate of inflation? I know it’s probably just a simple case of demand exceeding supply but any interesting hypotheses you’ve heard or seen on the interwebs would be greatly appreciated. I don’t even think there’s that much papaw in the formula either. So it can’t be the rising price of papaw….
What’s the craziest price (high or low) that you’ve seen it sold for?