Since we had a nice sunny day, so I wandered around the garden looking for some colour, and thought I'd share these we gems with you...everybody say awwwwww!
Got up this morning to find the windows of the car iced up, now that's a fairly unusual occurance for us out by the coast. When I worked on a couple of stud farms (one of them was in Auckland and the other Cambridge) it wasn't unusual on the coolish mornings to be going out and breaking the ice on top of the water troughs so they could get to the water, but being out this close to the coast, frosts such as this are pretty rare. I was also talking to my sister tonight who said there are quite a few signs around out Karaka and Papakura way in regards to black ice - again not that common a sight up here!
I went out for lunch today with my friends Kathie and Ollie. Kathie is off to the South Island for a couple of weeks in August (for her husbands work plus a bit of time to play!) and then in November off to the States, Cuba, The Cayman Islands and a couple of other spots out that way (she has a son on the Caymans). While we were talking about shopping over there and bringing stuff back it reminded us of a funny thing that happened to me a few years back... Really good friends were off to the States, part work, part touristy, and asked if I wanted anything bought back. I wrote a list, and said "that would be great have written a list, so that if you can't get the first thing, then you might be able to get the next thing instead and so on" (ummm all scrapbooking stuff of course!) Now somehow there was a breakdown in communication and they got everything on the list (never in my life would I ask someone to bring back that much stuff (and that was eight hundred dollars worth!!) - if it's not flat and light I wouldn't even think of mentioning it!). So while I was one happy camper, I was dumbstruck on how it happened, and to this day when someone asks if they can bring something back for me...I make sure it's as clear as a bell, and I don't write a list...!!! Mind you, it's not hard to get stuff here or imported now, thanks to the internet!
Well I probably should get my butt off here as I have my appraisal to do and am really just finding ways to get out of it...unfortunately that doesn't get it done!! Happy scrapp'n!
6 comments:
haha that is so funny - but costly.... no way... my girlfriend gets me scrapping stuff from the US for birthday and XMAS and as a NON scrapper she always gets the most perfect stuff... amazing - love the flowers too - I do the same thing at our local botannical gardens - so pretty
Beautiful shots there Trace. Far out $800 worth, far out!! I would have had a heart attack working out how I was going to pay that amount. Funny story though.
Delightful ... mind you a bit of a bill at the end of it ... must have been some list - ROFLMAO.
Lovely, just lovely - the floral pics ... I did the awwwwwwwww!!!!
Wasn't it a lovely day? The flower pics are stunning.
Wow, $800 worth of scrapping supplies! I would have been freaking out, there is no way I could have paid that!!!
Wow, you must have a beautiful garden, Trace.
The rose and the camellia look perfectly formed, as does the rhododendron (or is it an azalea?)
Funny story Trace but wow $800 worth of "stuff" - thats like 10 Christmases in one.
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