Remembering Chris.......And don't call me Shirley

I realised with a start that my brother would have turned 58 today.  It seems to odd to think of him at that age.  Our father was 58 when he died and he seemed like an almost elderly man to me then.  Chris was only 49 when he was murdered.  I hadn't seen him since my 41st birthday in October 2000 when he brought Mum and a few of his sleazy hangers on up to Gunnedah for my party.   By early New Year's Day 2002 he was dead.  Mum still really misses him, of course he was her son, her child, but he also helped her a lot and spent a lot of time with her.  He even had a room set up for her in his house in Sydney for when she came to stay.  I hope wherever he is he's celebrating with Dad and Grandfather and all the other family who have gone from this world to the next.
It's still raining steadily here and it's forecast for the rest of the week.  Not such good news for the cherry farmers who were about to harvest and probably for some of the other farmers but that's life on the land, their livelihood is in nature's hands.
And it's cold tonight, of course I chose today to put the Summer sheets on the beds didn't I? 
And SCORE TWO!  I was tidying up Em's room and checked out the shelf above her dressing table that goes across from one wardrobe to the other one and lo and behold what should I find but my pink sparkly glasses case, my good blusher, my other pair of glasses AND a screwed up jelly crystals box.  I KNEW she took them and she denied it over and over.  And who eats a whole packet of jelly crystals?  Ugh.  Anyway I didn't say anything to her, I just took my stuff and put it away.  It will be interesting to see what happens when she realises it's all gone from up there.  I just wish I could find my garnet ring, maybe she didn't take it and I lost it, but I doubt that.
I asked Phill to cook dinner tonight, he did his specialty dish, crumbed chicken with mashed potatoes and vegies and it was sooo nice to have someone else cook for me.  He even put broccoli in the egg mix! 
I figured Harley still had a few weeks to go before she has her kittens but last night she was acting strangely so I got the kids to bring her bed in and we set up the litter tray but I think she was just feeling uncomfortable, she may well have more in there this time.  I'll keep her indoors till she delivers but I still think they'll be Christmas kittens.  She's enjoying being back inside again and Noah has taken up residence on the end of our bed whenever he is inside.  She still won't have anything to do with him and is actively hostile towards him poor little kitten, he doesn't understand.  He's such an affectionate cat and a real little character.

Sad news that Leslie Nielsen, a favourite actor of mine, died today aged 84.  He just never seemed old to me, such a funny man.  We loved the Naked Gun movies with Priscilla Presley.  Who knew she was such a comedienne? 
Tomorrow is the last day of Spring.  And I'm sitting in bed with Winter pjs and my electric blanket on.