It’s lovely to have Emma and Mana staying with us. The bathroom has exploded into ‘girl-space’ as suddenly its bulging at the seams with face and hair care products. Being an extremely low maintenance wife (you’re welcome Jeff) it never sees these things scattered about (well – apart from the times Jeff decides to grow hair, then he gets in touch with his inner girl and hair care products start turning up). And it took me five minutes to work out what that strange sound was!! (Hair dryer)
We have been busy getting this and that ready for Sunday (weather has been looking decidedly iffy) but we took time to go down for a stroll on Wynyard beach so Mana could feel like she really had left home and give Emma and myself a chance to have a bit of fun with our Harry Potter wands & see who could out-jinx who! (I know – nerd city)
I did take some time out from nerd-dom along with trying to gain points for “Aunty of the Year” and take some photos of the evening cloudy sky
Anyway, there is a market on tomorrow, so I am speed-blogging again so I am not up all night – therefore some chance of actually getting up at the right time to get a good spot. Also trying not to just go “Rah rah, blah blah, here – photos – bye”
Was awesome having a jar-washing-side-kick (Thanx Mana) Such a painful job – I cleared out some old ones before starting on the cooking
Still heaps of bags of raspberries in the freezers so I did a couple of batches of jam
Manual labour – but I love my ‘Mooley’ (Moulinex). I use it heaps for my sauces especially, but it takes about half the seeds out of the raspberries – I just prefer my raspberry jam slightly less seedy.
For those jam cookers out there – how do you judge when its ready? I am slowly getting it right – I very much do NOT enjoy having to empty out the jars to recook the mixture.
So, sometimes it ‘drips right’
But I prefer to put it on a cold plate in the freezer for a few minutes to then see if the skin wrinkles.
All labelled and ready-
While I am not working the girls excessively hard, they enjoyed todays job of folding seed envelopes
Since I also had both a broccolini carpet & a willing helper, I figured potting up some seedlings for tomorrow may be a good idea
No shortage of plants
I have pots everywhere, so I just had to pick up a bag of potting mix
Do you think $1.50 per pot sounds like enough of a bargain?
I also picked the rest of the cucumbers that were ready. Lets hope they sell!
Time to do what the cat has been doing all day (no- not bathing)(or chasing bugs) and get to bed!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend wherever you are in this amazing world
Cheers
