Block Swap

This is my block from Shauna from Canada... just what I asked for red star and aqua background love it... the background fabric is so pretty the  photo doesn't show that very well at all..

Shauna and I have signed up for the swaps via ''Quilting Block Swaps Australia"... you don't have to be Australian to be part of this swapping group either...

Our weather has turned extremely hot these past few days 42c and it is expected to rise to 44 or 45 over the next few days... the mozzies are so bad after the rain we had and they are loving the evening when we are all outside sitting having a cold drink before dinner...

Yesterday evening we went down our south end to where we have a set of caurts hills... hubby's Dad's request before he died was to have his ashes scattered from these hills on a windy day... well we decided that it was time while all the family was home... up we went his ashes, a bottle of rum and a steep climb...

Hubby scattered the ashes in a slight breeze and we all had a mouthful of rum ''straight'' mind you hahaha... 

It was his favourite tipple ''rum and coke'' or coffee with room 

after dinner with friends...

We left the bottle up there with him and came down the hill where we had set up some chairs and a table we had bought some cold drinks with us and some hot nibbles and sat and waited until the sun when down.. was very nice and he would have loved that we had done what he wished and ''he would laugh that we left the bottle for him too'' hahaha... we couldn't stay to long as the mozzies started!!!!

 What A Great Day....

Family Friends Food Fireworks... oh and Drink

hehehe

 oooooo aaaahhhhh ohohohoh

 ooooo wow oooo

 wow oh oooo

 and of course the ham... recipe by???? cook by me...

maple and apricot jam and crushed hazelnuts

smelt soooooo good in the oven

 and our famous 'bush Christmas tree''

I think a fair bit of squeezing went on by one daughter!!!!

and my very merry runner from Lorna in Canada...

Hope you all had a great day and aren't to sun burnt or hung over or toooo over fed...

 

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Off TO Town We Go...
Yesterday we decided to make a trip to town to check the road out and to see how much water was laying around this end... our kids will be coming home starting today and we need to see if they could get out here... the road is 63kms of dirt once they get of the highway...

as you can see there is a little bit of water around the house area!!!

Middle daughter car will not make it through this... so we will meet her in town tomorrow and drive out with her and once we get to this part we will park her car up... unpack it of ''all my chrissy pressie'' hehehehe and leave the car there... it will be safe...

Our eldest daughter is coming today with her boyfriend and he has a four wheel drive so they will be fine... just slow and steady... the youngest our son is travelling home on Friday and he has a ute with four wheel drive so he should be fine in getting through the water... he will ring when he gets to town and then hubby will go wait on the other side for him and guide him through...
It is still very overcast and we had a few showers of rain yesterday....
Luv T xxx

When Your Down And Out...
I was blog surfing this morning and came across something at chookyblue's
you must go check her blog out and her latest posting of this
very well done... I am not a u-tuber either but there are somethings you just have to look at hahahahaha