Tuncurry Here We Come

Every year at this time we go north for a month to Tuncurry (New South Wales Australia) a little beach side town. Beautiful beaches for swimming and fishing, great lakes and river for fishing and boating, nice drives for just relaxing, and a good shopping centre for when it is raining, there is also a movie theatre for when one needs to chill out and the most important shop of all is a Patchwork shop and a Craft Shop both in walking distance of the Tuncurry Beach Caravan Park

 http://www.tuncurrybeachcaravanpark.com/
Although it has been raining since Sunday we have packed the caravan, with everything that we need. This year we decided to cut down on what to take.
James has his clothes toiletries etc and of course his fishing 'stuff' I do hope that he can catch a lot of fish. As I don't really want to get out of bed at the crack of dawn and walk miles and miles up the beach to fish, he can catch the feeds of fish for us as he has done in the past.
Now me, I have packed my clothes etc, and they are important and another thing that is important is my craft 'stuff', knitting - the red cardigan I started 2 years ago in Benidgo, when I thought that it would be a good idea to knit myself a cardigan. My Hexagons
http://justmyquiltingstuff.blogspot.com/

http://hexagonalley.blogspot.com/

are packed and ready to go. Also Sandi is coming too, as I am going to knit a cardigan for her and her cousin Tillie, now I think that there is enough for me to do for a month especially when I will be doing a lot of swimming in the rock pool and socialising with all our friends that are coming with us and of course I hope to make some new friends too.



James doing what he loves =- Fishing and catching some too.

Dolls Dress

For the last couple of weeks it has been so hot I haven't felt like doing anything.

In fact the only thing that I have been doing is watering the garden first thing of a morning and seeing that the plants of ok and then putting on the Air-Con and sitting inside doing my Hexagons http://justmyquiltingstuff.blogspot.com/ which are coming along nicely. Not really fast enough but one has to be patient. Now I have to have a little rest from sewing the Hexagons as my hands are getting sore. So I have decided to crochet a dolls dress

http://www.abc-knitting-patterns.com/1029.html

My friend made one of these dresses, it was the same pattern but the pattern was written differently and hard to decipher. The person who wrote the pattern Now has made it easier to read and to decipher, so I decided to crochet the dress just to see what it would look like.

Books I have Read.

I thought that it would be a good idea if I had a list of books that I have read. Over the years I have read lots of book as one does, but never kept a record of them.
It will be very interesting just to see what type of books I like to read.

Barbara's book montage

Barbara Andrews's favorite books »

 

Barbara's books

House of Angels

by Freda Lightfoot

Kept me interested on every page.

I read this book in one day.

Looking forward to reading more of this author

The Frozen Circle

by Peter Watt

loved it as I do all Peter Watt's book.

Great story line.

To Touch the Clouds

by Peter Watt

Excellent as usual. Keep it up

An Elm Creek Quilts Sampler

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Good book. Well done

The Lost Quilter

by Jennifer Chiaverini

A very good story about quilters and quilts

 

I will update the books that I am reading often

Master Lewis' Very 1st Birthday Party

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This is Lewis's very 1st Birthday Party and we did have a great time.
I have a feeling that he didn't know what was going on, but decided to go along with whatever was happening anyway.
Everyone had a good time.

My Family in 2010

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Oh No It's December

Oh no it's December! Well that year has gone so fast, a blink of an eye. Christmas is on its way. I know that because the days are getting longer and warmer, if not darn hot. I often wonder what it would be like to have a 'cold' winter. You in the north of  the equator know about cold winters, with the snow and ice and all the warm food that goes with the colder weather. BUT then I think again.......I think that I will stick with the warm summer Christmases as everyone knows in the summer there is so much more to do. BBQ's in the twilight, swimming, long walks after dinner, the smell of insect repellent and or mosquito coils with their little wisps of smoke ascending skyward or any which way if there is a breeze if one is lucky enough to get a breeze, sitting outside with the night air looking at the stars with the mosquito's biting into the nice tender juicy skin that is exposed on an arm or leg or anywhere else the mozzies decided to feed, and the best part is that one in the south does not have to rug up against frost bite.




I decided that I would do something nice this year. Don't know what but I do know that I will think of something soon.

Last week I was walking through Big W and saw all the Christmas trees that they had on display and thought ‘that’s what I need a new Christmas tree.’ so I bought one. Then I went to the Kmart and bought some new decorations. It felt good, but I was a bit sorry for the old Christmas tree that we had  and served us for at least 15 years. So the old Christmas tree was pensioned off and today I took the 'old Christmas tree' with all its own decorations to the Sallies they were very excited to accept it. I know that someone will love the tree the same as we did.

They tree is up and decorated and it is looking lovely too even if I do say so.
The Presents are bought.
The present are wrapped.
Some of the food has been bought.
Some of the food has been made.
Now to give some thought to the menus for Christmas Day.
I''ll keep you all posted.

Jessica and Julia playing

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