OUT ON A MISSION TODAY

 Well today I've got a mission.

A very dear blog reader/patchwork customer has offered me a car!

Yes, a car.

It has been stuck in Airport Parking for over a year, as they could not come back here to New Zealand due to the damn Covid virus.

So ... long story short, it arrives in Hamilton today on a transporter, and will be getting it's old petrol drained and a new WOF.  If all goes well it will be coming home with us in a few days.

In return, I shall be packing up all their personal effects (mostly clothes) and posting them back to her in Australia.

WIN/WIN for both of us, as they did not want to continue paying huge parking fees on a car they could not use.

And we can either use the car within our family circle, or sell it.  I'm inclined to think it will stay in the family.

So, this morning I will go down to the garage where the car is due to arrive at, and make sure they know what's what with it.

I have never been just given a car before!  So thank you ever so much Heather!  Fingers crossed everything goes well with the fuel change and WOF.  😉😊

One that is done, I shall come home and get on with the housework.  There's quite a bit to do... vacuming is top of my list.  I find it fairly difficult now with my lower back playing up, but if I spread it out over a few hours I should be fine.

I tried putting epoxy resin on two ceramic, alcohol inked tiles yesterday.  Messy.  Not perfect.  Bloody difficult.  Not doing it again!  The epoxy resin is damn expensive and I can't afford to be wasting it on stuff ups.  Lesson learnt.

I've seen videos where artists put it on their acrylic pour paintings too.  I'm not even gunna try that!  Spray on varnish is all I'm doing, it WORKS just fine.

So, I have this epoxy resin just sitting there... hmmmm.  What to do with it?

I'm tempted to try getting a couple of silicon moulds to make some epoxy resin coasters in?  Dunno yet.  Could be a fun project... or just a messy, sticky, 'should not have done that' thing. 

Our son Steve is 'on call' during after hours with his company.  He has to attend and fix up 'Insurance' jobs.

Like, if someone drives into their garage door (Oh, I've done that!), his job is to make the house secure until a proper repair can be done.

Yesterday he got called out to a Hamilton Mall which had suffered a ram raid.  Some dicks had driven a stolen car into the Liquor shop!  So Steve went over and erected a temporary wall and door.

ABOVE:  This was the mess that greeted him.  Hopefully he will send me photos of his 'temporary' fix.  He's had a few jobs over summer so far, after hours.  It's a great gig, he gets paid heaps more than 'normal' for these jobs.

And well... that's me for now.  I'll catch ya later.

ABOVE:  And THAT is how ya secure a ram raided shop!  

I'm about to ring the garage about the car... hopefully they know what I'm talking about?

WOW!  Some pretty strong views 'out there' from ANON'S today!  I'm at a loss how to reply to them.  How about.... NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS? 

Well, I'm glad I decided to ring the garage instead of driving into town.  We got things sorted just fine over the phone, and I didn't have to get hot and bothered trying to get into town during peak traffic time.

I WAS going to explain in more detail about the car and how we shall end up owning it... but NO!  I don't owe anyone an explanation!  In fact, I wish I'd never mentioned it at all.

It is much cooler today... even though it is looking to be a nice day.  Better get on with the vacuming before it gets too hot.

DOGSTARS:  Thanks for the nice comment.  I did not ASK for this car, Heather contacted me with a request, and I accepted.  End of story really.

AUDREY:  Heather and her husband are NZ citizens.  But thanks to Covid, if he wanted to come back to visit his Mum (very elderly), he would have to go through two lots of Quarantine, pay two quarantine fees ($6,000) and to add to it all, he probably wouldn't get a Managed Isolation Allocation for months!  Heather herself is unable to travel for the foreseeable future.

So, they simply cannot come home, and the car was raking up parking fees worth more than the car!  Hence why she approached me to get it out of the airport car park.

ABOVE:  I decided the vacuming had to wait... the tomatoes couldn't!

We had so many I'm making spaghetti sauce.  I'll freeze most of it for later on.

The goggles?  Stops me eyes from crying over the friggin onions of course.

ABOVE:  how good does that look?  Not cooked yet of course.

ABOVE: These ones are not ripe enough yet. I'm thankful we are coming to the end of this year's crop!  We got so many, we couldn't keep up with them.  And I'm running out of freezer room too.

1.31 pm:  I just tasted the tomato mixture, it's still reducing down.  OMG it's actually got a right kick to it!  It's going to be an amazing sauce to add to spaghetti and meatballs etc.  

Because I don't want it to burn, I'm keeping close to it... stirring it and picking out skins as I go.  I should have thought about removing the skins BEFORE I put them in the pot.  Oh well... can't think of everything.

Brylee came over for a swim.  She didn't stay in long as the wind is quite cold today.  We've had two good showers of rain... so my washing is not exactly getting dry.  *sigh*

My tomato mix is ready for the freezer.  I got 4 good sized containers out of our tomatoes and onions.

10.14 pm:   And it's been a fairly cruisy day for me.  I got most of my housework done, did some of my jig saw and of course, made lots of Tomato - Spaghetti sauce.

We had some this evening with mince and bacon.  Rather yum.

I finally got my washing dry and in before it started to rain again.  Yaaa.

Now?  Bed soon.  I'm seeing double with the jig saw... man is sure does cause eye strain.