Ready for Christmas here in Luckyland. Don’t even have to cook on the day, off out to see Mrs. B’s outlaws.

I think I can now sit back and start to unwind now……………… sewing is all done……. vegie garden is feeding us……. yep……I think I can slow down some now…….

good work Lucky… if I were ya boss, I’d let you take Saturday off too.

pain master said:

good work Lucky… if I were ya boss, I’d let you take Saturday off too.

Thanks:)

Next year we’ll have a little ankle biter to spoil:)

Will the Ankle Biter be old enough to understand “spoiling” by then? lol!

Was just thinking about you today.

Have finally got motorised wheels, spent the day planning the menu as I planned to go Chopin tonight, but the rains have started again (Sonny Joe has just fininshed remowing the yard after some yelling from his Pa) so Sonny Jim is leaving his work car down the driveway and I don’t know if I can get into town tonight. Drat. Serves me right for not getting my menu ready sooner.

We leave for the Big Smoke tomorrow, well our regional big smoke, anyhow…my ham is at the butcher’s and the turkey is still in the freezer at woolworths…at least I hope they left me one…prawns ordered…I hope to have a full day at R on Friday in order to get the cooking out of the way, only breakfast will be cooked on Christmas day…we may be joined by one or two folk who are far from their families…so we will have to be well behaved for most of the day, won’t we?

Doing Secret Santas this year, everybody is happy with that…Santa is still expected to make deliveries but he’s suffering from a brian freeze right now…

So nope, not ready for Christmas…no ankle biters on the way either, thank goodness…

Will the Ankle Biter be old enough to understand “spoiling” by then? lol!

Was just thinking about you today.
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Yep:D sure will be old enough……..

Was that why I was sticking an ear bud in my ear mid-morning???? LOL

Lucky1 said:

Ready for Christmas here in Luckyland. Don’t even have to cook on the day, off out to see Mrs. B’s outlaws.

I think I can now sit back and start to unwind now……………… sewing is all done……. vegie garden is feeding us……. yep……I think I can slow down some now…….

yep – had our holiday first – so that was all the family presents out the way.
now we just buy serendipity stuff and wrap it spectacularly.

Dinetta said:

Will the Ankle Biter be old enough to understand “spoiling” by then? lol!

Was just thinking about you today.

Have finally got motorised wheels, spent the day planning the menu as I planned to go Chopin tonight, but the rains have started again (Sonny Joe has just fininshed remowing the yard after some yelling from his Pa) so Sonny Jim is leaving his work car down the driveway and I don’t know if I can get into town tonight. Drat. Serves me right for not getting my menu ready sooner.

We leave for the Big Smoke tomorrow, well our regional big smoke, anyhow…my ham is at the butcher’s and the turkey is still in the freezer at woolworths…at least I hope they left me one…prawns ordered…I hope to have a full day at R on Friday in order to get the cooking out of the way, only breakfast will be cooked on Christmas day…we may be joined by one or two folk who are far from their families…so we will have to be well behaved for most of the day, won’t we?

Doing Secret Santas this year, everybody is happy with that…Santa is still expected to make deliveries but he’s suffering from a brian freeze right now…

So nope, not ready for Christmas…no ankle biters on the way either, thank goodness…

Stealing secret santa is loads of fun but little ones might not think so.

wrapped last 2 pressies last night, I have been finished for weeks, only veggies to buy here tomorrow and all done, till all hell breaks loose Xmas morning, turkey and baked ham on the menu and prawn cocktails and 3 deserts, not bad for 4 adults and as lucky calls then 2 ankle biters, I call en scone grabbers lmao, Cat missed out this year , she can have the turkeys bum

i prefer to stay out of all the xmas fuss, visit my mother that is all :)

Thee said:

wrapped last 2 pressies last night, I have been finished for weeks, only veggies to buy here tomorrow and all done, till all hell breaks loose Xmas morning, turkey and baked ham on the menu and prawn cocktails and 3 deserts, not bad for 4 adults and as lucky calls then 2 ankle biters, I call en scone grabbers lmao, Cat missed out this year , she can have the turkeys bum

still 2days to go – have you got a book?.
i pick up the legoflamb from the butchers this arvo.
then a nice rosemary and garlic roast i think. we will have the meat cold because of multiple vegitarians.

pepe said:

Thee said:

wrapped last 2 pressies last night, I have been finished for weeks, only veggies to buy here tomorrow and all done, till all hell breaks loose Xmas morning, turkey and baked ham on the menu and prawn cocktails and 3 deserts, not bad for 4 adults and as lucky calls then 2 ankle biters, I call en scone grabbers lmao, Cat missed out this year , she can have the turkeys bum

still 2days to go – have you got a book?.
i pick up the legoflamb from the butchers this arvo.
then a nice rosemary and garlic roast i think. we will have the meat cold because of multiple vegitarians.

what would I want with a book, and what sort ? What you can it cold so they cant smell it LOL

what would I want with a book, and what sort ?
What you can it cold so they cant smell it LOL

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books – you know – those things, with pages, prior to blogs LOL.

Yep so they can’t smell it – hot food is stuffed capsicum (without the mince).
doesn’t sound like a lot but there is usually too much to eat

Boss booted us out early. Have been at home over an hour doing absolutely bluddy nothing :)

Yeehah said:

Boss booted us out early. Have been at home over an hour doing absolutely bluddy nothing :)

oh you poor thing!

Sonny Jim (sparky’s ‘prentice) is home already, “finished for the year”. Boss has bolted already so tradie and Sonny Jim finished off and here he is.

No chance of travel: the southern side of the Capricorn Highway is under water (good 6 inches) again, just around the bend on the western side of Charlevue Creek. This is a God-send, I need all this time to get ready for travel tomorrow, and the yonkers are helping Sonny Jim clean the kayaks ready for loading on the car, etc.

However most of my chopin is done, gawd turkeys are dear…nearly $60 for a very small one…I see where a lady has them in town (rural residential), might check it out with her next year…

Leg of ham collected. :) oh I do love a good quality ham at Christmas…(:

bluegreen said:

Yeehah said:

Boss booted us out early. Have been at home over an hour doing absolutely bluddy nothing :)

oh you poor thing!

Crool, innit?

Thrown her right out of kilter, I bet!

trichome said:

i prefer to stay out of all the xmas fuss, visit my mother that is all :)

Oh no I like the whole caboodle whilst the kiddywinkles are still unattached…time will go fast enough…I guess one day I’ll be the dreaded MIL….

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Yeehah said:

Boss booted us out early. Have been at home over an hour doing absolutely bluddy nothing :)

oh you poor thing!

Crool, innit?

Thrown her right out of kilter, I bet!

Washing machine’s gone mad. Gonna clip my toenails in a minute. Sooooo busy ;)

trichome said:

i prefer to stay out of all the xmas fuss, visit my mother that is all :)

sounds like a pleasant thing to do… hmmmm, might even call my mum this year???

We did a big fruit and veg shop and gave downstairs a really good clean up. Eldest son’s mates will be sleeping down there and it was/is still a work site. At least now it’s clean and as dust free as we can make it.

The toilet and shower down there isn’t quite finished but they can use the upstairs one.

MrBL’s going up to the supermarket late tonight to buy some goodies for our Chrissy picnic. Goodness knows where we’ll go if it’s raining. It might be a picnic on the lounge floor. lol

All I need to do tomorrow is cook a turkey roll and undercoat a door.

Going gangbusters with excitement here. Mental as Anything on the CD player, burning “car copies” of CDs to take in the car, reading the catalogues of the post-Christmas sales :P and cracking into my new Sudoku book.

Nobody would go with me to the club that has “10 bands for 10 bucks” and I hate going alone.

Christmas all ready set go here.. at Mrs Daughters place. I’ll be resting, I couldn’t lift the skin off a custard atm. The girl is coming over shortly to pick up the chrissy tree cake and the plum pud, and bags of my home grown stuffs spuds, zucchs capsicums and eggs and herbs :)

Happy Potter said:

Christmas all ready set go here.. at Mrs Daughters place. I’ll be resting, I couldn’t lift the skin off a custard atm. The girl is coming over shortly to pick up the chrissy tree cake and the plum pud, and bags of my home grown stuffs spuds, zucchs capsicums and eggs and herbs :)

Christmas day at your end is shaping up to be a foodie’s delight…

I’m hoping for more strategic rainfall overnight…that damn road is open again…I really want to stay put…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Christmas all ready set go here.. at Mrs Daughters place. I’ll be resting, I couldn’t lift the skin off a custard atm. The girl is coming over shortly to pick up the chrissy tree cake and the plum pud, and bags of my home grown stuffs spuds, zucchs capsicums and eggs and herbs :)

Christmas day at your end is shaping up to be a foodie’s delight…

I’m hoping for more strategic rainfall overnight…that damn road is open again…I really want to stay put…

So you’re hoping for more rain? Stay put if you want to.

Mrs. Daughters mother in law reckons shes never tasted a sage stuffing so good before :) I finished candying the next lot of angelica and made little toffees with the left over syrup. Ohh angelica toffee mmmmmmmmmm! it’s beautiful!
What was I saying about putting on weight ? lol!

Happy Potter said:

Mrs. Daughters mother in law reckons shes never tasted a sage stuffing so good before :) I finished candying the next lot of angelica and made little toffees with the left over syrup. Ohh angelica toffee mmmmmmmmmm! it’s beautiful!
What was I saying about putting on weight ? lol!

A moment on the lips… :P

I should know…

am looking around for free weights…as in barbells…

Dinetta said:

am looking around for free weights…as in barbells…

Older Son has been indulging in weights, got him to buy me some but haven’t quite got a complete set yet. Got two chrome bars and 1.25 and 2.00 kg weights (black discs). Think he was checking out KMart and BigW. 3 of any size disc doesn’t help much :P

Yeehah said:

Dinetta said:

am looking around for free weights…as in barbells…

Older Son has been indulging in weights, got him to buy me some but haven’t quite got a complete set yet. Got two chrome bars and 1.25 and 2.00 kg weights (black discs). Think he was checking out KMart and BigW. 3 of any size disc doesn’t help much :P

These are hand weights btw, not the big bar. He reckons having the ability to change discs gives more flexibility than buying pairs of weights that can’t be adjusted.

I thought if I had some weights tucked under the bed I might happen to use them sometime. Gym has limits.

Yeehah said:

I thought if I had some weights tucked under the bed I might happen to use them sometime. Gym has limits.

Same. Not sure where the 3 black discs come in? I have some, the barbells with the interchangeable discs, but wuss that I am, they are just not comfortable. Might have a look at A-mart at the regional big smoke, the local sports store no longer carries them…

Anybody care to put up the Skinny Thread, please?

★Merry★* 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
•。★Christmas★ 。* 。
° 。 ° ˛˚˛ * _Π_____*。*˚
˚ ˛ •˛•˚ */______/~＼。˚ ˚ ˛
˚ ˛ •˛• ˚ ｜ 田田 ｜門｜ ˚♥ From my house to yours! ♥

Be good, be kind and stay safe. And to all of you, have a fabulous New Year :D

Happy Potter said:

★Merry★* 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
•。★Christmas★ 。* 。
° 。 ° ˛˚˛ * _Π_____*。*˚
˚ ˛ •˛•˚ */______/~＼。˚ ˚ ˛
˚ ˛ •˛• ˚ ｜ 田田 ｜門｜ ˚♥ From my house to yours! ♥

Be good, be kind and stay safe. And to all of you, have a fabulous New Year :D

very nice. have a wonderful Christmas everyone, and a safe and fruitful New Year.

The last of the shopping is done and I’ve put the first coat of colour on the new bathroom walls.

Oh Boy, is it ever green. LOL

It’s MUCH brighter than the sample pot seemed.

bubba louie said:

The last of the shopping is done and I’ve put the first coat of colour on the new bathroom walls.

Oh Boy, is it ever green. LOL

It’s MUCH brighter than the sample pot seemed.

paint always is much brighter when first applied… you’ll warm to it. GF was looking at a magazine the other day and informed me that our dining room will become a new colour in the new year. She has chosen a green also.

pain master said:

GF was looking at a magazine the other day and informed me that our dining room will become a new colour in the new year. She has chosen a green.

green is a calming colour i reckon, easy on the eyes :)

trichome said:

pain master said:

GF was looking at a magazine the other day and informed me that our dining room will become a new colour in the new year. She has chosen a green.

green is a calming colour i reckon, easy on the eyes :)

well we bought this house this year trichome and it is predominantly salmon coloured… so anything other than pink will suit me just fine.

pain master said:

anything other than pink will suit me just fine.

yes totally agree :)

outside it’s wet, wet, wet, wet and i love it. a good drop.

trichome said:

pain master said:

anything other than pink will suit me just fine.

yes totally agree :)

outside it’s wet, wet, wet, wet and i love it. a good drop.

I think this thread is well and truly hi-jacked, so I shall continue. 12.5mms so far outside this afternoon, which leaves me with only 20mms to get to go past 2100mm for the year!!! The ducks are splashing around, they love it. The vegetables are surviving quite well I may add.

Off to a Christmas Eve bbq with Mr Y and Littlemiss shortly.

This time tomorrow will have my boys with me at Ma and Pa’s house :)

Then watch out youse southerners, we’ll be hittin’ the frog ‘n’ toad!

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

The last of the shopping is done and I’ve put the first coat of colour on the new bathroom walls.

Oh Boy, is it ever green. LOL

It’s MUCH brighter than the sample pot seemed.

paint always is much brighter when first applied… you’ll warm to it. GF was looking at a magazine the other day and informed me that our dining room will become a new colour in the new year. She has chosen a green also.

I like colour and bathrooms lend themselves to quirkiness but I may have over done it a tad this time.

We’ll leave finish it and see what we think. The laundry and downstairs family room are going to be green as well but a softer green than the bathroom.