December 25, 2012

  • Sunday 25th December

     

     

     

    Today was just way too hot for everyone.

    Cat was busy chainsawing at 7am.

    Consequently everyone else was awake too laughing

     

    The pohutakawa is called New Zealand's Christmas tree and ours are blooming right on target this year.

    All the trees along the waterfront in front of our house are covered in red blossom.

    So gorgeous.

    Tim took Cat, Leann, Bri & Nick, Shoshannah, Halina & Geoff out in the boat after breakfast.

    They went diving and came home with lots of fish and Cat got these wonderful critters.

    The biggest crayfish weighed in at 3.1kg.

     

    While they were away the two kids and I sorted through all my papers and tried to make some order of my art stuff.

    I would work for half and hour and then go lie on my bed and rest in the cool for an hour.

    I'm enjoying the 7th season of Grey's Anatomy at present.

    The kids think it is funny cause they caught Tim lying there watching it with me this arvo!

    Finally got it all under control just as they were all returning home around 2pm.

    I finished by dumping stuff in boxes just to get it tidy so I now have 4 banana boxes to sort through and then it is all done.

    My online art course begins at New Year so I am hoping to be all ready to go.

     

    We invited everyone in the bay to come for a bbq dinner tonight.

    There were 15 of us.

    It was all very low stress.

    I made cous cous and a lettuce salad.

    Azzan made lots of foccacia bread.

    Leann fried up the fish.

    Alan barbequed chicken & scallops.

    Tim & Cat served up the crayfish.

    Graham boiled potatoes.

    Seb & Phoebe made salad.

    Halina & Geoff also brought salad.

     

    Azzan mixed drinks and served us all.

    He did a great job.

    The bread was delicious and the drinks refreshing.

    He also made two jellies which we had with Shoshannah's rhubarb & coconut cake.

    Leann also made a chocolate sherry log covered in whipped cream for dessert which was absolutely delicious but we were all thankful no one was driving home laughing

     

    It was lovely sitting outside in the cool of the evening after such a hot sticky day.

     

     

     

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