Monday Menu 7 November

Here I am again.  Got to love summer this side of the world and all those fabulous vegetables and fruits that you can find around and about.

Here is my menu.

Monday   chicken stirfry and noodles (a fabulously easy recipe)

Tuesday  tandori lamb kebabs

Wednesday   spaghetti carbonara

Thursday   crock pot whole chicken with baked potato and green salad

Friday   dinner out with my children.

Saturday   tuna patties in hamburgers.

Sunday    bbq

I am linking this to I'm an Organising Junkie

Cute Conversation 1

You need to read this remembering that Haydens cognative age is 2 - 3 years old even though he is 9 years old.

Me     What are you doing Hayden?

Hayden      Making

Me    You need to turn the hammer around Hayden

Hayden    No I can't I am 4 (years old)

Me  Can I help you Hayden

Hayden  ...continues hammering away.

Me    ouch (as he hammers my fingers)

still under renovation

Still upgrading my blog.....I can see there are some errors but that will be for tomorrow.

Sorry

My blog is under renovation.

Ok my blog is under renovation.  Please excuse me while I make some changes.  it could taken me some time to work things out.

Wordless Wednesday 2 November

Here is my photo this week.  More renovations but as you can see my son immitating his father by helping.  I love the candidness of this photo.

I am linking this post up to My Little Drummer Boys.

Happy Wordless Wednesday

My Camera

It doesn’t matter which way I look at it, my camera is all I think of when it comes to a precious possession. All the memories that it records, all the journalling that I am prompted to write. The good times, the sad, the happy and mad time all recorded to look back on and wonder what would it have been like if I did not have my camera. Cherished moments forever safely recorded.

Now I just need to get my scrapbooking printed out then it can be enjoyed by everyone.

(the credits can be found here)

Monday Menu 31 October

Here is this weeks menu

Monday  Quick quiche.  I did not make this last week so here it is today.

Tuesday  Freezer meal. I have a busy night so a preprepared meal is waiting to be served.  It is a beef crockpot

Wednesday  Meatloaf and salad

Thursday  Roasted potato, chicken sausage and peppers with green salad

Friday  chicken wraps

Saturday  steak with a rub with pasta salad.

Sunday  Leftovers

I am linking this to I'm an Organising Junkie

Moving the Pool Part 3

As you would have read here and here just on a month ago we moved the swimming pool in our new house out of the ground.  I don't know if I said before but it needed to be moved for the safety of everyone but especially Hayden.  You could get access to the pool from every ranch slide in the house.  In the middle of summer those doors would be unlikely to stay shut thus a huge safety risk.  Also space.  We live on 1 1/2 acres and had no yard....this had to be fixed.

So the pool sat in our yard for sometime until I got into get to sell it on Trademe.  This is a site like Ebay.

Rather an eye sore if I might say so.

So after 10 plus enquiries the pool sold.  We were so excited that it would be gone and that we would have a few dollars to easily finish the last of the jobs before summer really arrives.

This is how the pool left our property

In comes the truck, it braces itself, gets its crain ready, attaches strops and chains.

The pool is drained of water and lifted onto the truck.  It is a tight fit but does the job.

The pool is situated lopsided on the truck because of our driveway.  It is going to overhang our fence line.  It is a really tight fit, it even scratched a little mud off the bottom of the pool.

Then finally there is the tight 90 degree turn to navigate. The pool needed to be repositioned on the truck to get around the corner.

We all stood there heaving a huge sigh of relief.  Please that it left our house in one piece and that the truck was able to get around the corner.

Now our yard is looking like this.  The photo was taken this evening.  Hmmm all that grass will have  to be sowed and mowed but that will be for next weekend.

Relax

When time was mine and mine alone I used to love lying there on my back, enjoying a summers day just looking at the sky.  I loved to feel the sun beaming down on me and listening to all those native birds enjoying life around me.  A book at my side completes this picture.  Sadly there is very little for this in todays world. 

Just maybe one day in the future this will happen. again but at this time I am more than happy to give it up.

I hope you all find your moment to relax

Wordless Wednesday 26 October

It is three photos today.  Not the best photos but I hope they tell they story.

Firstly there are the trees at my place.

Then there is the ladder that McKenzie and her cousing built.  They used only sisal for this part.

Finally the tree house.

So we have plenty of bamboo and some figure eight rope tying skills were developed but two days of work during the school holidays and these two were happy.

I am linking this post to My Little Drummer Boys.