Lazy Sunday Afternoon

The Kinks - Lazy Sunday Afternoon . . .

Well it's Sunday afternoon, but not a lazy one.

Have business stuff to sort;

Dinner is in the crockpot - silverside - yummmm

Pie is in the oven for tomorrows dinner

Washing is being recycled through the machine, the clothes airer and the dryer.

And here is Sunday afternoon in the garden:

Pukekohe Onions and Beetroot

Clockwise from top left: Great Lakes lettuce, Peas, Bright Lights Silverbeet and more peas

Onions, carrots & hen-pecked silverbeet

Lettuce leaves ready for sandwiches, but not much else

Nectarine

 

 

 

 

Apricot

Cherry

Also looking good in the garden, but not on the camera:

Strawberries

Blueberries

A couple of  potato plants

Peach

Joshs Quilt

Finally finished!  Feels good to have it done - and he LOVES it.

For someone who is pretty much a non-sewer - I'm really pleased with the final result.

Two weeks ago I . . .

Planted seeds

Made a strawberry garden

Had an audience

Also, after reading Sue's blog Living the Good Life where she was doing some decluttering I decided I had at least one hallway cupboard in particular that I needed to declutter, too.

Before:

During:

After:

Don't ask me where the rest of the cr@p has gone - got rid of a huge bag of rubbish, but am now waiting to buy a cupboard for the photos albums and board games.

Those pics I promised . .

There were SO many seals, just having the most wonderful of times.

And what a perfect setting.

Busy weekend!

Well another weekend has come and gone - HUMP day already - and the next weekend is just around the corner.

We spent Sunday through to Tuesday in Christchurch, visiting with the boys and checking out some blocks of land for sale.  I think we have decided that Oxford is too close to the Alps - I can imagine it being VERY cold! 

Ricki has his very first car - a Nissan Primera . . . looks good, too. Black, with a sunroof and spoiler.

We went out for a meal on Monday night.  If you are ever in Christchurch and are starving, go to Sequoia 88 - they do a smorgasboard menu and it's amazing.  I have never seen so much food!

On our way home yesterday we stopped off at the most magical place - it's just north of Kaikoura.  A few minutes along a walking track is this little pool with a waterfall and it is absolutely full of seals playing. It is an incredible place, and one I will definately stop at again. Photos will follow when our internet has sped up a bit!

Sundays

Sundays are normally spent thinking about all the things I need to do before going back to work on Monday . . but today I know I have an extra day up my sleeve.  Having a day off paid work tomorrow as we have the heat pump men coming to put a heat pump in the hallway in the morning and the dishwasher man coming in the afternoon to hopefully sort my dishwasher out.

Made yummy lemon drink this morning - so easy:

6 lemons
1.5kg sugar
50g Citric Acid
Boiling Water.


Peel the rind of 2 of the lemons being careful to get just the outer skin; no white pith.  Place the peel and 2 cups of the sugar in food processor and run the processor until the rind is really ground up and the sugar is yellow and oily looking.
Squeeze all 6 lemons and mix the juice with the lemon sugar, the remaining sugar and citric acid.  Add the boiling water to make up to 3 litres - stirring until the sugar dissolves.  Cool and store in the fridge.  Dilute cordial with cold water, fizz, soda, or hot water.

Easy peasy.  I have a jar of it at work - hot lemon drinks are perfect on cold mornings!

Have spent an hour this afternoon cuddling with a brand new baby - Oliver Carl - such a wee sweetie, but I forgot to take my camera!!

I think I want to come back as a cat.

The demon threesome waiting for their dinner.

Murphy

Joshs quilt - nearly finished

Home made clochey thing - also protection from the chooks and dogs LOL

Mustard growing alongside.

Winter.

Yes winter is here - well and truly.  And with winter comes the usual winter coughs, colds and flu bugs.  I am off work today - have a terrible chesty cough and sniffles.  Josh has had it for a while now, too.

I don't mind winter - as long as the days are bright and clear and the sun is shining.  It's the cold, grey, miserable days that get to me.  And we've had a few of those lately.  Lots of rain, rivers up, both clothes airers covered with washing all day, all night, all week!!  More rain coming tonight . . . along with a big number of teenage boys coming for a LAN - ugh!  The joy of school holidays . . .

Tickets have been booked for the December Bon Jovi concert in Wellington - cannot wait!!  Haven't seen them in concert before, so I'm really looking forward to it.

And some more ~

This is the quilt I am currently working on . . .

I would have thought it would be too cold for these guys now, but they are still about!

Pics . . .

The saga of the phone.

So my cell phone went through the washing machine.  A full cycle. I wondered why I couldn’t find it.

Took the battery out; sat it all in the sun, wide open to dry. One day. Two days. Three days.   Put it all back together again.  Charged it. It buzzed. It moaned. It buzzed some more.  Took it off the charger.  It died. 

Put it on charger again.  It buzzed again. Continuously.

Ended up with a phone that would hold the charge, and couldn’t be switched on if it wasn’t connected to a bolt of electricity.

Two weeks of this and yesterday I finally caved in and got a new phone.  I’m hoping that this one doesn’t go through the washing machine too.