Sweet Mary

The other evening, while cooking dinner, I looked up to see a most beautiful scene unfolding itself outside. Above the vegie boxs and the old tyres planted with tomatoes the sky was not only pretty shades of blue and pink but it kept changing so fast that by the time I had rushed to get my camera the best bits had been and gone. I still had to blog about it and just let you know what a beautiful part of the world I live in. My husband, Mr Picture This says the Hawke's Bay sky is the best. Christmas is less than 7 weeks away and I love every moment of it. So, I started with a wee bit of festive shopping last week. A gentle build up to the great day. We are having some family to visit this Christmas so it will be extra special.

Well it must be nearly upon us - spring that is. I was tempted to cut these pretty things and bring them into the house but decided against it as they look so pretty in the middle of the lawn protected by the large tree. Honey took the day off work to help me put up and fill the vegetable boxes in readiness for our spring planting. Luckily we actually delayed the planting for a week or two as we were given notice to leave a few days later by our landlords. The funny thing was we had been thinking of moving on but had put it on hold as we couldn't make up our minds so we got the shove we needed. We have already found a new rental which we move in to in 3 weeks time! Its an old farmhouse again but this time on an organic orchard which is much more our thing. We do love large rambling farmhouses in rural areas and when we are finally sick of that (hard to imagine) we will buy something small in town. But for the next few years we will continue to enjoy being country bumpkins. Anoth...