Exploring the Land of the Long White Cloud

In a Pembroke St garden in the shade... Come and have a visit in our backyard on a fine summer's evening.:    http://youtu.be/vKHTzKAJpoE

It has been a very long time since I have been into the cake making. For years I have been without my full kit of supplies to do it and trying without the right tools usually leads to frustration. When we shipped all of our stuff down from Canada, that included a giant tub of cake pans and decorating supplies! However it still took a couple months before I put it back to use. I just needed a good excuse. Turns out a guy at work was getting married so voila, a perfect reason to dust off the tools - they weren't actually dusty, this is edible work we're talking about! The workmate likes racing cars so this was my best idea without a lot of time to plan. Then, I was so keen that two weeks later I created this little number for a friend's birthday. She's a Gaga fan so I tried to capture a bit of Lady Gaga in a cake. Any suggestions for my next project?

In a stroke of genius, NZ has two public holidays for New Year's Day. There is the usual, January 1, New Year's Day and then there is the cleverly named January 2, Day after New Year's Day. That means two two-day breaks two weeks in a row to wind out one year and start off the next. So, what else do you do on a sunny Day after New Year's Day but go golfing... And we didn't forget the camera:  http://youtu.be/HFjYR9svWtg

I'm not much on words today - not because we partied it up last night (unless by "party it up" you might picture Dustin falling asleep on the couch around 6:45pm and me weeding the garden and then both of us wanting to watch a movie and realizing there are dozens of movies from this past year that we haven't seen, or even heard of, and watching trailers for about half an hour to decide which one to watch) - but I'm not much on words due to a general fatigue that's been plaguing us lately. Whether we're working, or off over Christmas, we just seem to go go go lately and after another day off we are both exhausted. So here are some pictures and stories from lately. This is our room a week and a half ago. Wallpaper down. This is what Dustin did while I was eating sausages and drinking beer.  I did bring home a box of meat that day though! My work got us each one from a local farm, Green Meadows Beef . We took the gib down beca...