Picnic at the park

A picnic and an opportunity to feed the ducks never fails to please and put smiles on faces, no matter the age.

I made ham rolls, boiled eggs and took some biscuits and chips, plus a big bottle of water.

These are the ducks coming after some bread had been thrown out.

There were pigeons, ibis, ducks a water dragon all vieing for a small piece. We also saw turtles, eels and a cormant. There was a roll left over so ducks got that well.

A quick walk around the lake trying out al, kf the exercise equipment while I packed up, then across the road to the proper playground for a few minutes then home to air con as it was hotter than I thought it was going to get. 28 degrees.

Tree trimming and Flowers

A guy dropped in a few weeks and asked if we would allow his company to trim our tree. The business was a florist and they use the foligage or greenery to put with bunches of flowers. As the tree was due for a trim, we agreed expecting them in a couple of weeks.

I would say that it was four or five weeks ago and just as we were discussing it, Warren got a message on his phone, someone would there the next day.

This was the tree a couple of weeks ago.

They didnt take that much.

This was our payment. A win/win situation

Christmas gifts

I had a couple of gifts to send for an online group that I am involved in. One was a secret santa and I was to send a small gift of approx $10 to that person. I was hoping that we would be given our person sooner rather than later mainly because of the post.

I had bought a Christmas jelly roll a few weeks ago for about $13. A jelly roll is used mainly for quilters, its a heap of fabric, mine had 10 different pieces. Each piece is cut into about 2 inches or 5 cms wide and 2 metres long. Although mine was 10 pieces there were two strips of each.

I bought it, my first jelly roll to make an advent calendar, I made two and there was still heaps left over and so I made two wall hangings, the backing was from a pair of curtains that I made and then replaced a few years later as the windows really needed heavier curtains.

I had bought a book to go with the wall hanger as both like to read.

Most of the stiching   was hand done which I did while watching  golf and cricket on the TV last weekend in the heat. Items were posted yesterday and thats my Christmas stuff all done.

Flowering trees

We have a tree in our garden that does have great flowers. It was the first tree that we put in almost fifteen years ago.

Lucy and I were walking tge other day and in a street near us was this one, so many blooms on it.

This one is ours

Not quite the same yet.

A little project

Earlier in the year, we exchanged our bed from a queen size to a king size one. When we went shopping for it, I saw one made up on the floor and it had a sign on it saying floor stock only one left and as such it was a discounted price.

Not one to shy away from a bargain I had a good look at it and it ticked several boxes. Had a head board but no foot board, our old bed did and several times we had walked into the corner of it so no foot board was a bonus.

The colour was good a dark but not too dark walnut and it had two drawers at the end of the bed.

Yep that was what I wanted.

Putting away winter clothes in my drawer at the bottom of the bed, Warren saw me grooping under the draw to pull it out, there is a small lip but it is right underneath, and he said, "That could do with a handle".

We had a couple of things to get at Bunnings yesterday and I remembered about the handles so we bought those as well. I figured that if we had them, it was closer to having them put on.

Working in my sewing room, I heard some noise but didnt know what it was until I was asked to come and comment.

Woohoo handles were on.

Cost? $5.45 each and a bit of time but will make opening the drawers much easier.

Exploding sausage rolls!

I got cooking yesterday, made a couple of salads, a quiche for dinner and I knew that I had some pastry in the freezer, which these days is unusual for us. I also had sausages so decided to make sausage rolls, the easy way.

The easy way is just cut the pastry sheets in half, place a sausage along it, sometimes need two and a bit sometimes just two depending on the size/length of the sausage.

I had bought cheese sausages, hadnt bought them before, they had pieces of cheese inside.

Well, the first problem was, I had a feeling that it was short crust rather than puff pastry. I had used a couple of sheets and just repacked it in a plastic bag.

Not sure why they exploded, maybe the pastry, it did taste a little sweet. Maybe when the cheese in the sausages got hot, it expanded. Never had it happen before.
Warren tells me that they taste alright though.

Black rope

Since Lucy has hurt her leg, she hasnt wanted to come in through her door. Thats fair enough but we have found that when leaving the door open for her, with the heat tge flies were coming in so we needed to do something else.

Warren took himself off to Bunnings of course and rang me to see what I thought of his choices. I just said black.

He bought it home and then put it up after making two hooks to hang it off.

This is what it looks like and it WORKS!  We can leave the door open and it does keep the flies out. Seems wwird as there would be plenty of room for them to come in but they dont seem to do so. How cool is that!