TOW BAR...VISITORS

First thing this morning Stew takes his car to 'Designer Bars' in Te Rapa, where it will be fitted with a tow bar and electrics for the trailer.  He is being given a courtesy car for the whole day too... pretty good service eh?

As for me... I'm off to the supermarket for a few supplies.  We have visitors for the next few days, so I need to get some stuff.  I'm making me 'famous' Teriyaki Chicken tonight... my mouth is already watering just thinking about it!

Now, cos I can ... here's a photo of the three little Tree runners I got made these last couple of days:

ABOVE: I am really happy with them all!  So cute. I hope they sell well cos I really enjoyed making them.

ABOVE:  And yeah... although you have seen plenty of the bigger ones... here's the one I made yesterday too! 

Once I get home from the supermarket I will be making the marinade for the chicken and getting it in the fridge.
Then I can move on to sorting out beds/bedding and so on.  The Palmy girls are due mid afternoon... I seriously can't wait!
Although I've been away from Palmerston North for over 10 years, I still love those girls to bits.  They are like me sisters.... doesn't matter how far apart we are, we got that bond.
BFF's for sure.

ONWARD...

11.05 am:  And I now have the cleanest hands ever.  Spent the last hour or so cleaning the family bathroom.
Now all I have to do is STOP Griffin from using it while we have visitors!  Cos seriously, he's .... a boy.

Can't say much for Brylee either... she is the one who's supposed to clean the shower and sink, bench top.  Yeah... nah.  I just spent an hour doing it PROPERLY.  
Grrrrrr.

Lacy just called in to borrow a mattress... seems sleeping on a couch ain't the best way to get a good night's sleep!  

And I'm taking a well deserved break from housework.  I've got washing on, washing drying, washing to be folded and put away, WASHING.  WASHING. WASHING.

OMG how did women manage before we got our lovely big, automatic washing machines???

I can remember when my Mum used an old wringer washing machine:

ABOVE:  It looked similar to this, and you had to physically fill it with water from the tap from memory (usually with a hose), then it did agitate by itself.  But then you had to wring the water out through the wringer by hand! 

My Mum held out getting an automatic washing machine for years too!  Crazy woman.

BUT anyway... time to sit still and do nothing... for a little while.

Doing nothing didn't last long.  *sigh*
I decided to start another House Table Runner... only this time I have laid it out just like a tree table runner.... so it's easier to use/display etc.

ABOVE:  See.. it will have straight edges (on the top) instead of being the shape of the houses roofs.  Maybe not as funky, but way easier for me.
This one is a work in progress...  Might get it done in time for the Saturday market... we will see.

Well our visitors arrived, and I've fed them and now we are yakking and having a few laughs.

Fed them... whoops on that one!!!   I totally forgot that Chris D does NOT eat chicken... not at all!
So I had to quickly make her Teriyaki Bacon instead!  Not too sure how that would have tasted!  But she ate it and is still smiling!
lol

My bad.

Signing off for the day now... got more yakking to do.