The hottest Christmas Day in Minyip for a long time, so Amy's blow up pool was perfect.
Bill was our number one chef and he did the most amazing job of cooking the traditional Christmas roast meats and veg for all of us. He started at 8am.
Way too hot out there for backyard cricket even though Amy had it covered thanks to Kim, Trav and Zach and their fabulous personalised cricket bat.
Thanks for drawing my Christmas picture Ethan. You did such a great job.
It was still 36 degrees at 8.30 pm but the kids still headed to the silos as is the Christmas tradition ( no idea how that started or even why...).
These little boys have their own Christmas Eve tradition.
A sprinkle of reindeer dust.
Leaving out food for Santa and his reindeers.
And then a Christmas movie before bedtime. Bless them.
In spite of the extreme heat, the farmers were out there day and night.
So much activity on the farms right now.
We brought home a trailer load of pea straw bales for the garden.
So hot doing this little job. Don't know how the farmers do it.
My afternoon cuppa ritual has just gone up a notch...thank you Sam and Kiann and boys.
Merry Christmas to me....
Merry Christmas to both of us....
A tractor sprinkler.
Flowers picked just before Christmas for special Christmas tables.
Our own little Christmas table a few days before the event.
And the following morning we waved goodbye to Amy's girlfriend Helen, as she winged her way to Kuala Lumpur and Kathmandu to join a group of climbers trekking their way up to Mt Everest Basecamp. Her plane almost flew right over our house.
A strange creature sighting had them racing down the driveway in their pjs shrouded in fog on the morning she left.....
Cherries from our tree picked just before we left. That's the complete harvest!
Around the garden path yesterday.
Something munching on the new sunflower seedlings.....
Gorgeous zucchini flowers.
First cosmos flower.
Shasta Daisy going crazy.
Newly opened liliums called Lambley Trumpet strain.
Liliums Arachon still looking gorgeous.
Geranium Rozanne.
A Christmas gift to plant. Thanks Leesa and gang.
Amy is going to spend some time refurbishing Bertie's interior.
Demolishing the heavy wooden cupboards was an especially satisfying part apparently....
My holiday plan is not quite as energetic.
Hope you all find some time to do the things that make you happy and rested this week. It's the kind of week where I have no idea what day it is...!
