Hold the front page! My sister baked a cake!

I hope you have all suitably recovered from having read the title, this is such a rare event, Halleys comet comes around more often than Sandra bakes! Here is the alleged cake, Sue and I both felt that more photographic evidence should have been provided. We will accept her word for it and just announce here to the world that we are very proud. Here.....is.....the...cake!! Ta dah moment.

Banana loaf!! Looks good actually eh?

Well done sis!!

In other news, another fairly rare event occurred today, a Suesday.....

 Praying for a good day

I found a few books....

The book Jo's boys had a message inside, it was from a Mother and dad to their daughter at Christmas dated 1956! I love that, a book with a bit of history.

Go take a look at Sue's blog too :-D

We've had a few frosts this week but it's made for some glorious winter days, frost is good it kills the bugs in the ground, bugs which sometimes aren't good for the animals.

I took my camera out for a bit of 'off auto' practice

Here are a few of those photos

 

 

 

And to finish off, a little something for the weekend

COFFEE AND TESTICLES

A guy goes to the Post Office to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, "Are you allergic to anything?"

He replies, "Yes, caffeine. I can't drink coffee."

"Ok, have you ever been in the military service?"

"Yes," he says, "I was in Iraq for one tour."

The interviewer says, "That will give you 5 extra points toward employment." Then he asks, "Are you disabled in any way?"

The guy says, "Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles."

The interviewer grimaces and then says, "Okay. You've got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8 a.m. To 4:00 p.m. You can start tomorrow at 10 a.m., and plan on starting at 10 a.m. Every day."

The guy is puzzled and asks, "If the work hours are from 8 a.m. To 4 p.m., why don't you want me here until 10 a.m.?"

"This is a government job", the interviewer says. "For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls.   No point in your coming in for that."

Have a great weekend ya'all xx

 

Weekly round up: Friday 14th - Friday 21st March 2014

And yep, another week passes in the blink of an eye and I'm sitting here trying to remember what I've done. It's a bit sad when you have to search through photos to bring it all back! That's why I take so many photos, they are my memory!!

Last Friday we were at Sue's for her son Max's 21st, his actual birthday is next week I believe. I didn't take any pics but Sue did and you can see her post here, it was a great evening. And because I'm so hip and with it, I was at another 21st the next night as well! Party animal or what? Mind you I was knackered for about two days afterwards. Gone are the days when the weekend was one long party. Ah well, I partayed enough for everyone back in the day.

On Monday we took the dogs down the beach and then had fish and chips at Raglan Wharf, I reckon we should do this once a week, or at the very least once a fortnight.

 

On Tuesday my friend Dawn came over for our long awaited mosaics project. The barn has been well used of late. Dawn found a couple of shop dummy torsos on Trade Me a while back and kindly gave me one. We finally got our dates together and set to work.

Both mannequins are the  same as were our ideas of doing swimsuits. The tiles and design are different however. Mine is the top picture.

 Dawn is using large tiles which she is cutting as she goes so quite labour intensive.

Whereas I'm using inch square tiles...

Not finished yet obviously but we've made a start and will resume next Tuesday

Wednesday we had craft in the barn because we were expecting a scheduled power outage on our usual Thursday, no power = no machines and no tea making facilites!!

I'm working on another UFO, yet to be revealed.

Yesterday, Thursday, Joe and I got our work clothes on and made a start on tidying up the garden border by the front door. It was getting overgrown and some dead foliage needed cutting out. I didn't take before photos as I was just SO keen to get outside and start!

Taken from the hallway

From the front entrance

 

Looking back

 Joe's been putting wooden edging along the edge of the grass to tidy it up, he's carried on with that today whilst I've been out on a "Suesday". Poor bugger had a lot of digging out to do too so that the wood would bend without breaking.

Yeah a Suesday!! But wait hold yer horses I'll get to that in a minute!

 I walked down the slope towards the kitchen and these photos are looking back up, the window is the hall window where I took the first photo

Okay now brace yourselves!! 

It's time for today! A Suesday! A rare occurrence of late!

We had a third person with us today, our mate Kerry, not a Sue I know but we make allowances.

First stop Hospice shop, tops $2.50 each. Plus quilt patterns and bag handles

At the Sallie's in town

Red Cross in Frankton, I've been after the crochet book, and there it was for $1!

At SaveMart

 

A quick visit to the dump shop I checked out some new wheels! Sue thought I should try taking it up the skateboard ramp that was there, but the battery was flat!

Perhaps a sporty red would be better???

Nice cardi from the Sallies near Sue

From Look Smart blue top which will be perfect for a Fijian beach in August

An assortment of goodies from Habitat for Humanity

And that was  my week, busy but great, just about perfect really. How many people can say that they had a week of doing things they love?

So until next time I'll just say goodbye and leave you with us girlies in all our gorgeousness ♥