Well the New Year has started!
Our Christmas was lovely as my eldest daughter and son-in-law came up and stayed with us for five days. We just mainly relaxed and enjoyed each others company and of course had a beautiful Christmas day meal and then delicious left overs for a few more days.

We had a few really stinking hot days and on Christmas Eve and I was out in my garden picking a bunch of flowers for my table center piece and I had one of my little dogs, Sarabie, out there with me and she was sniffing around the shrubs and I turned my back to greet a friend arriving to say hello and a Red Belly Black Snake came crawling out where I was picking. I was startled but noticed that he was in just as much of a hurry as I was to get away.

We relaxed and unwind over those few days after christmas I think the build up to Christmas was pretty hectic with the rush of getting orders out and deliveries for customers was taking its toll on all of us. We still have a few more orders to get out but they are not as urgent and Dave has his work area to clean up after the frenzy.

We had a quiet New Years Eve and on the following day we had a few neighbours around for a BBQ. It was good to catch up with them and share a meal at the start of a new year, a year that I know will bring many challenges for all of us.

We also worked around the yard and finally extended the veggie patch and I will post those photos a little bit later and we are also planning to re-arrange the shop and add more furniture so I might post about that too. I just wanted to send greeting of a HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone and prayers that we will all persevere with whatever 2009 throws at us.

Sue xxx