I'm a little late...

Gosh I've been absent from you lovely people! Many apologies!

I will try to sum up the nearly two-month gap since my last post in words and images. Here we go...

• Ants! Too many ants eating our window sill! The first fumigation I've ever experienced helped fix that though.

• Bacon beer?! It was sweet and smokey and we ate it with pizza which made them both very much better.

• Work continues to keep us both very, very busy. Dustin is building 6 houses. I am holding the fort down at the office.

• Long weekends.

• Donating blood and subsequent emergency room visit in the wee hours of the night. It was just low blood pressure. Phew.

• Taranaki did it! Yep, we won the final!

• Spring time flu :( I was down for 4 whole days with it. I did catch up on my Nashville though. Which is a shame because it means now I have to wait week-to-week instead of binge watching. But that, in turn, has opened up an evening to update the ol' blog :)

• Dustin transformed the backyard with a little Halloween demolition. Sadly it didn't leave time to trick-or-treat.

• Planting the veggie garden! I've scaled back a bit and put in some brick walkways (thanks to a few brick scraps laying around from somewhere...) but I may have misjudged the layout and the watermelons might not happen...

• The chickens continue to egg-tertain us. Oh that's not even very punny but I'm leaving it there.

• We're hoping like hell that this means we get some limes this year! We have plenty of lemons so just need a little green citrus to match. I have a garden full of mint just asking to be a mojito.

• Dustin has joined a local beer club and they might be working on organizing a local craft brew fest in the new year!

• We occasionally have a craving for some North American candy which we indulged this time. In true American style, these are "Easy to Eat!" which is helpful. It can be difficult.

• We have sold our station wagon and picked up a little hatchback run-around. We just picked it up this week. So at the moment that means there are 3 vehicles here until the buyer picks up the wagon. Talk about excess!

So, obviously the silly season is now here and hopefully that means some BBQ's (check - this Saturday), some sunshine, and lots and lots of visiting and some time off! Woo! We might even get around to making a video this year too. What would you want to see?

Until next time dear readers, missing you and sending big hugs!