Booked!

We missed finding a cache on Saturday, it was part of a series, I had spent quite a bit of time working out the puzzle. I was a bit miffed. So when I went out in the afternoon I decided to try one that is quite close to home. Yippee, found it and there was a card in the cache.

Interesting! I did some research and talked to some people. As we had to miss Alice Springs n our big lap, I had thought we might fly in just for a few days some time next year.

What an excuse to finalize dates instead of "sometime or other."

Warren wants to go in the camper van and go to Gem Tree which is just north of Alice and then its not that far from his sisters and while we are that close we might as well drop down to Melbourne, sure, why not? 

Dates are organised, sites are booked and paid for, Warren was looking for the cost of the event, couldn't believe it is free to attend.

Our quick trip has blown out to a month, just waiting for house sitters to get back to us.

Yay this is what retirement should be, from not knowing to fully booked in three days is a great feeling. 

Knitted blanket

Well its not the greatest but its done finally. I really dont like projects that take forever! Forever in this case being eight weeks as I started it when we got home from our big lap.

A blanket of many colours, it doesnt look too bad now that its altogether, i thought the colours that I had would be boring and dull but not so bad.

I had bought a couple of knitting mags while away which had some wool with them, I realised that I would not make the items so the wool has been included here. I had some odd balls from other projects so it ws a good use for them.

I havent measured it but is is about a metre 100 cms by 140/150cms, kids blanket or a knee rug.

Honey Prawns

Yum, one of my favourite things when we got to a Chinese restaurant, not that we have been for a long time, humm, must change that soon.

On TV the other night, I cant remember what show it was as it was only a quick flick but someone was talking about honey prawns and how easy they were to make at home.

That sparked my interest. so I took note of what they did.

First it was make the batter using two egg whites, egg whites?

This morning we were out and about, taking a walk through a park and Lucy did need some big bones to chew so stopped at the supermarket. Lucy and Warren stayed in the car with the AC on while I raced inside. I didnt have any money on me, oh dear what an opportunity to buy a few prawns and try this recipe. I had everything else at home. Then I didnt feel guilty about using my card.

This was the end result. Not a cheap meal but far cheaper than going out.

The prawns for half a kilo was $10 and I have enough for lunches tomorrow. Its not the prettiest dish but in future I think i would let the prawns sit in the fridge for awhile after they were coated in the batter. I probably tried to cover too many at the same time so I will make them again. Did taste pretty good.

National Dog Day

Who would have thought that there was a national dog day! Apparently though it was on Friday, 26 August.
Our dog is going a bit silly this morning as it is past her walk time, we are having a slow day today. I have just given her a chewy thing to amuse herself with as we will go out to a park once my phone has charged so she will get a drive and a walk. Seems every day is dog day but the beauty of that is, we also get a drive and a walk in the sunshine, a win/win situation.

Freaked out!

Warren took Lucy for a walk past the dog free park a couple of days ago, as there was no-one there, he took her in and let her off the leash.She apparently panicked and went crazy. He had trouble getting her to come to him and he said that he was worried she was going to jump the fence and just run!

We both took her for a walk yesterday and rather than go the way I normally go with her, we went towards the dog park. I was thinking that we would take her into the park but keep her lead on.

We trot down the road thats her trotting and us walking, and we see a guy coming towards us with a small white dog. When there is about 30 metres between us, the guy takes his dog off to the side and down into the gutter area. The dog starts yapping and Lucy gets scared. We talked to her and had to stop to reassure her, her tail was between her legs and she was like a different dog. We set off and Lucy takes off, thank goodness we had the choker collar on as she pulled me, not an easy feat, for the next 30 metres to the kerb. The yapping dog was long gone. Lucy did sit at the kerb as she has been taught but was no interested in getting her treat.

As soon as we said she could cross, again she was straining to get further away. Two small dogs crossed in front of us and their owner put them int the dog park. I took Lucy to a bench to sit down and hopefully so she could calm down, she did a bit but I could tell that she didnt want to be there. Warren was talking to the lady and her dogs in the park. After a few minutes, Lucy was still agitated so we wen on with Warren catching us up. I thought that maybe it was the trees and bushland freaking her out as she had been found dumped  in bushland but only a few metres away from the park, her tail started to come up and her ears. She changed in a very short time and was back to the normal dog that we know.

We didnt go as far as I intended as i thought she needed to be home in her own environment so we crossed the road and of course there were a couple of barking dogs in large allotments, only a cyclone fence between them and us so Warren picked her up and we walked past them.

Once we got into our area she was fine again. Not sure where I am going to take her today for her walk, maybe just our usual one although, now that she does know it and walks well, it is not really long enough for her. At least today is not windy which probably didn't help yesterday.

We have got ourselves a dog with a few hang ups, just hope we can help her overcome them. I have never seen a dog so terrified before.

My two new completions

I have always had a habit of starting things and after awhile getting bored and going on to something else. one of the reasons why I have so many UFOs in my sewing room.

After finishing my TOTT bag the other day, I finally decided that as I have heaps of materials for kids clothes I should do something with it before its too old to be of any use. After all, I did buy three new patterns a few weeks ago.

This is the results of two afternoons work and I have another cut out ready to go.

I am not sure what I bought te material for but I considered t not right for kids although I wouldn't wear it either so it has sat and sat. One of the patterns that I bought had similar fabric as the cover photo and it looked good so I used it. 

The frills were quite easy no gathering. I did also stop before I had finished the second one, after all it was ten minutes before afternoon tea but gave myself a good talking to and got it done. I had hand sewing to do around the facing on the neck but all done now.

Two pieces of fabric out of my stash but it doesn't seem to be getting any less.

Its Back!

Yay, our favourite program on TV is back on which is amazing because it was on erlier in the year! i dont mind at all as its funny, entertaining and witty. Or should that be that because it is funny and witty that makes it entertaining? Whatever it is a good show!

It is Google Box! The most weird concept of a program ever. Who would have thought that watching people watching TV programs would be so entertaining but it is.

All the old favourites are back with a couple of extras who were new to the program at te start of the year.

Programs they watched last night were The Bachelor which some-one coined the phrase "The Bitchalor" which is pretty much on the money as the girls are really bitchy to each other.  There was a little bit on the Olympics, then Australian Survivor and it finished with the movies Beaches, a real tear jerker. I havent watched the movie but I have read the book. The women were all teary and the men were quite cynical about it.

Unfortunately the timing was wrong as it is on the same time as another program that we like to watch. We had to toss up which one to watch and which one to tape. Google was on later so it got recorded however we did end up watching it at the end as we didnt want to wait until today.

Top show.