YES, IT WILL BE A QUIET DAY FOR US

 

Today Stew and I will be having a quiet day.

Stew got almost everything crossed off his list of 'to dos' yesterday.  And I certainly did.

So, no plans for today at all.

We will be looking after Marley today, as the kids are going on a day trip to the Bay of Plenty.

Coco will love having her sister come and stay for the day.

Perhaps we will take them both for a little walk down by the river?  That will depend on how Stew's knee is feeling of course.

ABOVE:  This hydrangea is one that was already here when we moved in.  Isn't it just lovely.  I hope to plant more over the next couple of years, both inside our gardens, and the gardens around our fence line as well.  I have taken a couple of cutting from plants around here, just waiting for them to take root before I put them in a pot of soil, then they will go into the ground after the worst of the summer heat is over.

I'm pretty sure I've taken cuttings, and planted hydrangeas everywhere we have lived. 😊😉

ABOVE: We are starting to eat our cute little lettuces... well they are basically just leaves.  I hope to get more lettuce plants,  ones that are more 'traditional'.  The ones I want next are called Iceberg lettuces. 

Hmmm, maybe we will go out later and get some plants.  

Right, I'm off to make a start on our day.

Catch ya later.

11 am:

ABOVE:  We woke up to a light fog!  It was so cool, it felt like winter.  Well, almost winter.

Very glad we didn't have to do a market today, even though the weather has warmed up now.

It would have been a cold start.

ABOVE: Marley back in the 'prime' spot.  Poor Coco wasn't brave enough to join her.

ABOVE:  The girls are getting on just fine.  

ABOVE:  Until I get my big sewing machine back, I am going to work on getting a few runner lay outs done.   I'm getting a couple of Fat Bottom Girls ones done today, maybe more.  They take a while to sell, but they are great attention grabbers, and do eventually sell.  We have none left.

Around lunchtime, we are going out to get a few things on our list, then we'll no doubt have lunch somewhere nice.  

2.31 pm.  We have been out and bought new lettuce plants, wood screws and isopropyl alcohol.  We had lunch at Burger Fuel.  It was average today as they had overcooked a lot of things.

Home.  And AGAIN, I decided my clothes were NOT working on the rack in the sewing room!!!!

So we took the cubby unit out of the wardrobe, put the hanging rail back into it, and just rearranged a few things in our room.  It didn't take much to accommodate the cubby unit in our already overcrowded room.  *sigh*

ABOVE:  Before the Christmas decorations/trees/Christmas Friends go up in the attic, I decided to go through them and get rid of some.  I'm sad to say not many are leaving the house!

I like/love too many of them.

Stew said if I wasn't here, he'd not put anything out at Christmas.    Boo.

Now... Stew is watching a movie on Netflix and I'm going to do NOTHING for a couple of hours. 

TOO FUNNY!!!  That Fat Lady Runner (now wall hanging) is already sold!  And it's not even properly started yet.  Now I just have to hope McDreamy gets back from Sewing Machine Hospital sooner rather than later. 

ABOVE: The kids arrived to pick up Marley.  I offered them the choice of any of the surplus Christmas decorations etc.

ABOVE: They took them all.... and the clothes rack that I no longer wanted.

Then Steve and Bex put all our Christmas stuff back up in the attic for us!

That was our major job for tomorrow... and now it's done.

We would have struggled to do it in fact, so we are just so thankful to them.

ABOVE:  Everyone leaving, carrying something, even darling little Lily.

We can truly relax now.

I wonder what we will do tomorrow now?

8 pm, and I'm done for the day.  We did heaps today, quite a bit wasn't even on our agenda.

Pottering around the house and just enjoying being at home.  I love it when we get things done 😊.

Catch ya tomorrow.