Gifts and Garden

I received some lovely gifts for Christmas this year. Lucky me.

This teaset was a gift from my eldest daughter, Sarah. We used it Christmas day as most of us are tea drinkers, it makes a nice cup of tea.

Outdoor setting from hubby and son.






Some much needed pyrex dishes complete with lids from hubby and son.



I have been spoilt well and truly.






The hibiscus is flowering profusely at the moment, probably because of all the rain we received a few weeks back.

Nectarines are almost ready.

Cucumbers in abundance.

Pumpkins coming along nicely.

It's a jungle out there.

We picked these a few days ago. 6.5 kilos of cucumbers, and 1.1kg of capsicum. The first Zucchini for the season as they had a slow start.

With all these cucumbers, I will be making some of Rhonda Jean's bread and butter pickles very soon. I made these last year and they turned out well and were a great hit with hubby.

I have nearly finished giving my house an overhaul. I cleared out the pantry and re-organised it a couple of days ago. I needed to make room as I couldn't fit anything else in there. Plenty of room now. I will be washing down walls etc shortly.

Glorious weather here at the moment, I guess the hot weather is coming soon!

I just had a look on my old post and this time last year we were sweating our butts off, with temperatures in the 40's (104F plus).

We have had a couple of slithery friends in our backyard here this past week. Only young Brown snakes, about 1 -2 feet long, but still deadly. I nearly stepped on the second one while outside, but at least I scared it before that happened and it disappeared under our rainwater tank really quickly.

xx Tania