Catch up

So I think we should petition the powers that be for all weekends to be three days long...and no shops should be allowed open on one of those days, so that families get some time together (sorry if your a farmer, can't do much about the animals that still need to be looked after lol!). Somehow I don't think it's going to be a happening thing, but one can dream lol.

The layout of Lyall drinking his morning coffee was for the Scrappin Patch Man Challenge and you had to use yellow and blue. Yellow isn't a colour that features highly in my stash so it certainly was a challenge lol. Oh, and you had to have metal. Haven't really got a lot of that either, maybe a few years ago I could have found some, so anyway, out came the tinfoil...

This weekend has seen us out buying curtains for the two lounges, at the moment they have an odd shade of red to clash with the grey walls. So not my thing. The new ones are good old readymades, but they are pretty nice. Will take some photos once they are up. Waiting for the cat to stop losing her winter coat before we hang them, otherwise they will be covered in black cat hair lol. Lyall got busy and hired a compactor and so now we have some rock hard base areas, ready for the top of white chip to be put on. I spent time on Saturday teaching Donna how to use the ride on, and Dad wanted a photo - so there you go Dad!

Saturday also saw me needing (notice that's needing!!) a visit out to Scrappin Patch. And yes, of course I purchased just one or two things as well as picking up what I'd ordered over the last couple of weeks...I also headed into town with Donna and we visited the market at the Arts Centre and the botanic gardens - hence the collage. Well they don't call Christchurch the garden city for nothing I guess!

We've decided to leave our paddock and sell it as standing hay (this means that the person buying it has to cut the grass for hay and turn it into bales). The big farmer down the road will be doing that (you know, the one who owns half the street lol!) For the next month or so we can still walk around in it, it's not too long yet, however for a little dog it's like a jungle and he's in heaven - run's around like a lunatic and then hides, with us looking around until this little head pops up and this maniac comes hurtling over. So just had to capture that.

We shot off to the dog park today (didn't see you there Vicki lol!). It was as busy as buggery, but such joy as the dogs run round, never any fighting, just lots of fun. Good for the soul. Makes me so want a lab again - all the labs down in the river, swimming around, chasing sticks and balls.

Yesterday Gaye and her lovely girls came over for a catch up. She's been a busy lady, packing boxes ready for the big move. And with a new house after Christmas she's got a bit of time to design her new scraproom, so if you have any good websites or blogs, send me the addy's and I'll pass them onto her. Make her head explode LOL! While here, her girls did their best to tucker Danny out and then they found the massage chair. I just had to get a photo of her eldest who thought that this was just great. Lots of fun wasn't it M!

Yipee for a short week this week - off to Culverden Fete on Thursday so only three days of work left and two of those we only have a morning session for.

Enjoy your week.