November News

The start of November, we had the old neighbours from Townsville call in with their van and stay a couple of nights.  It was so lovely to get to catch up with them again.  We took them to the Chocolate and Whisky factory 

Here they are at in front of some of the Whisky section

And then took them on a road trip to the family winery - Booths - Taminick Cellars where Pete grew up.  Its now run by his cousin., but was started by their Grandfather in the early 1900s.

Ros in front of the old barrels 

This is Petes Grandfather - Eska Booth who started the vineyard.

It's been quite busy around here as we head into our Summer and have a number of outside projects we want to try getting completed ..... and some we need to get done - like the boat which will be going on top of the Ute when we go on our big camping trip next year. 

Pete has worked hard on getting the jigsaw pieces together to build the automatic boat lifter (which also has the nifty outboard motor trolley that wheels inside the boat and attaches to be hauled up on top with the boat whilst travelling = No Lifting!

He has also been giving it a paint job to reduce the glare and is working on getting the floor installed .

Meantime the garden is looking lovely with everything out in flower

Lucy and I continue our morning walks 

And of course Crafting continues with these finishes for November.......

My little top - a Fogbound pattern "Idalou" will get used quite a bit 

The gnome collection continues with Gnettle getting finished

And Gnatasha who will be getting sent as a decoration swap

..... Currently working on Gnoel who is getting close to being finished and had lots of colourwork - He is Very tall!

I'm also thrilled to report that the Travel Caddy is finished!!!  The grief it gave me indicates its very unlikely another of these will get made - but I am (as I knew I would be )- very pleased with the final result and knowing how much use it will get coming in the car with me.

Another November Home project is getting the pergola up out the back for the grapevines to climb up and to give us a bit of shelter from the western sun.  I'm hopeful one section gets a cover so that there is a little pathway for when its raining lol  Since Pete is in charge of this project, I'll just have to wait to see if the idea grew into fruition lol. ......... Oh, and we have a Pool Blanket at last which is helping to reduce the amount of dust, dirt and such going into the pool as well as helping to heat it a few degrees (yes, its a solar blanket).