New Year Road trip

We travelled 1800 kilometres in five days and saw a lot of places that we hadn't seen before.
Adiminiby has the giant trout
Cabramurra is the highest town in Australia.
Corryong is the home of the Man from Snowy River.
Glenrowan is the town famous for the siege with Ned Kelly.
Wangaratta was pretty.
Whitfield is the home of some nice wine and also Chris and Shelly.
Millwa has the mustard factory, closed at 8 in the morning.
Allans Flat has a strawberry shop.
Yackandandah has 5 kilometres of bunting through the park and main street.]
Holbrook has a submarine
Ettomagah doesn't have a pub anymore
Albury has a good Rivers Shop
Junee has a chocolate and licorice factory, closed at 9am.
Wee Jasper doesn't have much of anything
Yass has a great pub.
Home has Kelly

 

 

 

 

 

The meal plan for the week
Monday- lamb chops and vegies
Tuesday- steak and mushrooms with mustard sauce
Wednesday- Fish with pasta salad
Thursday- pork chops and potato bake and vegies
Friday- out
Saturday- something from the freezer
Sunday - Roast Lamb

end of year wrap up

Christmas is over thank goodness, it was a disaster with the grand kids, I didn't even take a photo!
Max did not like his present and cried and cried, I told him his mother said he wanted the city police lego but apparently he didn't. Joel din't like the lollies I had they were too sweet! WTF!!! but they ate them all so they were nicely full of sugar to see Renee's grandparents I hope it went better there.
Next Christmas I will call Max and ask him what he wants cause two years in a row he hasn't been happy with me. Can I see a pattern? is she trying to sabotage my one day of the year that they visit for an hour?
I was so disappointed I couldn't wait for them to leave. It was the first time I had seen them all year they were going to call in a few times but didn't for whatever reasons and now that Grant and Renee have split I think I will see them even less. Never mind
Christmas Day was hectic as always getting food cooked in time to take it to Sarah's Brett's step sister had to go to work so the food needed to be there it was raining, and we were running late. Never mind it got there and was good
I took some pics of the Fuschias with the macro setting they came out very nice indeed

 

 

catch up time!

well it has warmed up here , it has been a while since I posted, was I busy or lazy? bit of both actually.
We had a great Melbourne Cup Day at work, we blinged it up and the clients hatted up and we had a good time.
I am hoping to get my sewing machine off layby this week if my beloved hubby will lend me some money until payday. I have a flexi on Friday and would love to play with it.
I made some things for work last week, horses on sticks stuck in dog food cans by plaster of paris. I will have to take a pic they look better than they sound.
I haven't had time for hexies but I am still crocheting my flower and rug.
This weeks menu
Sunday  Seafood Vol Au Vents
Monday homemade Pie and chips
Tuesday  Pork stek with 5 spice and plum
Wednesday  Beef Stroganoff and rice
Thursday    Chicken Parmi and veg
Friday Salmon and fried rice
Saturday going out

weekend away

We had a great time at Greenwell Point last weekend. The weather could have been better the wind was so cold I was so proud of myself getting all my clothes in one bag!!!!!! but then I needed a long sleeve shirt and a lighter jacket , never mind. I think I need to get a couple of cardigans. The company on the weekend was great and a good time was had by all.

I don't have a menu plan for this week its fly by the seat of your pants time.
Last night I made Cauliflower pilaf with Pork steak and pakchoy in hoi sin sauce yummo.
Tonight might be chicken

I have been doing my hexagons and crocheting flowery cushion at home I am hoping to get my sewing machinethis week, I have spent too much at parties in the last couple of weeks so I think my pay is all gone
The pics below are the gorgeous lorikeet I saw in the tree out the back, Shane and Brad taking happy faces LOLthe hungry Pelicans the beautiful sunrises the tree where every morning the cockatoos fly from the island to this tree, the funny little duck chasing the other birds.

 
 

Winery Tour

What a great day we had, the company was great, the food was awesome, the weather was perfect and the wineries were very welcoming with great wine to taste.
we went to Crooked River Wines first,they have a lovely Pink Chardonnay and Verdelho, the Mountain Ridge Winery was next with a lovely Rose. Coolangatta was probably the least favourite. Two Figs Winery was the best the Chardonnay, Verdelho and Sav Blanc were beautiful and there Fort, not allowed to call it Port anymore was scrummy.

weekly wrap up

After a great long weekend it was back to work as normal but it was only a short week as Friday was a flexi day. Yay!

 

This week I have been getting a few hexagons done, I restarted my flower cushion after I read the instructions properly, oops, and I did a few rows of my crochet a long blankie
I seriously need to plan colours better.








Things I was thankful for this week!
Shane came and got his skateboards and MMA stuff so that is gone from my room
We had drinks last weekend to farewell Shelly and Chris, we will all mis Shelly.
I caught up with Sarah and Brett I hadn't seen them for a while.
I cooked some seriously good food.

I am looking forward to catching up with friends tomorrow at the fishing club BBQ

Public Holiday Monday

Well it has been a busy two days here, the garden is going great guns. we have planted shallots, spring onions, lettuce, pak choy, corn, capsicum, basil, coriander and lemon thyme. Dave went and got some horse doody this morning on his way back from getting some crabs and it has been mowed and spread over everything.
Last night we had delicious chicken pesto pizzas to watch the football with.
This morning I cooked hoi sin pork for dinner and a few containers for lunches, I made some mini spinach and cottage cheese frittatas, did all the meat cooking for dave's week and made banana and date muffins.
Our menu for the week is
Monday hoi sin pork
Tuesday Dukkah Fish and feta and beetroot salad
Wednesday Mustard steak and veg
Thursday parmesan crumbed chicken
Friday Sticky pork chops
Saturday leftovers
Sunday Roast beef