MERRY CHRISTMAS.
It rained for our Christmas and it is raining now for Boxing Day, so who knows maybe I will be able to keep my job. The rain means that gardens will start growing and people will start using, needing and need to repair equipment so will need David Evans. Also farmers will be able to start the hay season and that will mean machinery break downs and David Evans will be needed.
Our Tractor Mechanic came in to say Merry Christmas on Monday. He has a lisp and a limp, but I think he will be back at work on Wednesday the 2nd, so I am hoping 2013 will be better for him.
I was allowed to go home early on Monday. The Manager had no interest in being there and tried to tell us we would be out of there in an hour when he arrived. Yeah right! So he went leaving us there.
I managed to get out by 1pm. I went to my friends and gave her a prezzie for letting me go there at lunch times. A bath mat with memory foam that just feels like luxury when you stand on it. She said at the moment she stands on a threadbare towel, so she will really notice it. She loved it.
My other friend wasn't answering the phone so I went into Town and visited a friend who has opened a shop in town. I bought a bracelet which is an owl. It is big and chunky and the opposite to what I usually wear, but it was the thing I liked the best in her shop. I also bought a fascinator and to help her out I didn't buy the cheap one, I bought the expensive one at $27.00. I have heard that they sell for $100.00 in some shops, so I was happy with that price. Then bless her she gave me a bit more off as a friend.
From there I went and browsed in the Supermarket. I bought a deodorant crystal for my friend with cancer. I have read that people with cancer have survived by cutting out all chemicals. However my Mum's friend when we told her it was pancreatic cancer that has gone to his liver said that he will only have about 6 months and Mum (ex Matron) did not refute that.
I also bought a redwin deodorant who my friend I gave the bath mat too, told me about. I have started scratching and she said I could be allergic to the aluminium in deodorant. I have tried the crystals, but they don't work well enough really for working in an office with other people for me. So I will tell try the Redwin. I am off this week, so I will just use the crystal one for this week. I did that recently and I did stop scratching.
Back home and I don't think I told you that we went to the movies the night before and saw Skyfall. So both hubby (also off early) and I managed to fall asleep for the afternoon.
Up early Christmas morning. At least I tried. It seems that for me saying we would get up early means that we normally get up at 5am so we would get up earlier than that. Hubby said no that early for Christmas Day means after 5am.
Hubby brought me my present. I opened it and it was a battery operated set of salt and pepper mills. It is a gadget that I don't have and we were at a friend's recently and I remember hubby commenting that they had a gadget that I didn't have.
I smiled and thanked him and hugged him. It is the thought that counts and at least he tried. I don't eat salt or pepper but I it will be good to put on the table if we have friends over.
I didn't give him his prezzie as I had his in santa sacks. 2 for at Mum's and one for at his families. I went back to getting ready to go and then I saw him through the door bringing a plant.
I greeted him at the door. A smile on my face. Did you get a new grape vine? No, is it a new fruit tree. No, and he gave it to me.
:hugs: It was a Bonsai and he bought it because it said that it is the gift of Life. It has a rock and a ..... I have no idea because it doesn't say, and he came with me to put it in the garden and pick where to put it.
:hugs: AND THEN when we were driving to Mum's he said, "Do you know you can't buy a pair of johdpurs in Beaudesert? which advertises as being very horsey, has horse festivals and the parade of 1000 hooves.
What about the saddlery above..... Nope closed. What about the place that we bought the measuring tape. Nope don't have them. :hugs: he tried to get me a pair of johdpurs. :hugs: I just said that most of them are western and western people don't wear johdpurs.
We delivered hay to Dalson Park and I left their present on the table. A hand held fan that is battery operated and you can put water in the bottle. It can get very stuffy in the indoor arena when they are teaching.
Onto Mums and Mum's school friend and Jim, the son of a very good friend of ours were already there. They both had slept the night. I had dropped off a blow up mattress for Jim and he said it was really comfortable and I got to see it blown up. I bought that a few years ago, so it finally came in handy!!!
Mum gave me a solar light bahahahaha an owl, so it looks like I am collecting owls now. I do have an owl in the garden, so now I will get an owl in concrete if they have one from the place I have found that sell cheap concrete statues.
Mum I gave a wisker as the one she has seems to want to fall apart. A wind spinner that has a solar light and a digital scale, that they had great fun with as it weighs in pounds, stones or kgs.
Hubby I gave a diary from off the bench at work. It is actually a dairy diary and has a space each day for grazing your cattle, where you are irrigating and stuff like that. He said I could fill it out!!! But then later he was going through it and asking us questions out of it like what is the heart beat of a cow and things like that. It has it for all the farm animals including the dog, but not for the humans.
I also gave him a storage system that unfolds, so that will be useful in his shed or the house.
Mum started with I don't need to lose any more weight spiel again and I produced the risk of diabetes tape. I put it around me and showed that I have gone from the red into the orange but I not in the green yet. Mum put it around her. She weighs less than me by a few kgs now, however she was right in the red. The difference of me doing pilates and her not.
On to hubby's family and again we played the Chris Kringle game. Although this time people did not steal, except hubby who stole a box of eclairs and I wouldn't have wanted to steal any of them either.
To the point that I was wondering whether to choose my own gift. In the end I didn't, I chose a different one and JOY it was a clock. I have been collecting clocks and this one had a garden scene on it. I wrapped my arms around it and growled, snarled and roared if anyone looked like wanting to take it!!!
My presents were left to last. The hosts brother chose the lifter. You are supposed to be able to move anything by yourself. You lift it and put sliders underneath and you can then move things by yourself. Up to 10 times your strength. He loved it and was going home to try it.
When one of the other guys chose the wooden shoe rack I had bought, hubby's sister laughed and said she couldn't believe it as she had just told them that they need to buy a shoe rack now that they have bought a puppy.
I gave out our calendars of the farm to everyone and also the little lights that go on caps which they loved and then an individual prezzie to hubby's brothers and sisters and a little toy to the kids, who are getting older so the prezzies will have to change in the future.
Hubby's sister in Canada gave her daughter, who hasn't gone back yet, a prezzie for me, a little horse head keyring that is also a bottle opener. Their daughter gave us I think it was fudge. Hubby opened it and put it in the esky so I haven't really seen it, and hubby's other sister had already given me rooster salt and pepper shakers.
Hubby I gave a fold up esky, that when you unfold it turns into a stool that takes 100 kgs of weight. Papa the wind spinner that has a solar light and some stubby holders from work that have tractors on them. Hosts I gave a gadget that removes corks from wine bottles and the lady a neck glass, it goes around your neck and will not stand, so you can't put your wine glass down so as noone can spike your drink. She said she loved it but will probably use it as a candle holder, as it is a lovely shape.
Our brother in law is into golf so I gave them an impossipuzzle of golf sticks and hubby's other sister some upmarket tasting bowls that came with a tray for entertaining.
Then there was food and plenty of it.
I hadn't been able to get any chickens the day before. A sign in IGA saying you could only get chickens if you pre-oredered them. Red Rooster was closed Christmas Day, so we in desperation went into IGA on the way to their place Christmas Day and as soon as we walked in the door, there was hot chickens for sale and on special!!!! We grabbed 3!!
So there was chicken, ham, turkey, salads and cheese cake, hokey pokey ice cream cake with toblerone through it and another chocolate cake from one of our nieces which didn't have flour, sugar or egg. It did have maple syrup so it was sweet and at least edible for me. (Hubby didn't like it.) Rum Balls and lindor chocolates. Which I guess were liqueurs or something as I didn't like them!!!
Back to Mum's and her school friend and I were doing a jigsaw puzzle and hubby played with Mum's school friends dog and had a lie down on the floor.
A report came that a house was on fire and the firies were there so hubby went and checked. A house outside the resort, 2 kids playing underneath it with matches. Sigh.
He came back in time for tea and we just had a bit and no dessert as we were still full.
We tried to go home, but the firies were blocking the road still.
So we tried to go round and hubby turned the wrong way. I mentioned that he should turn around. Why and a no through road came up, so I just said well this is a no through road and the road you want is in the opposite direction. So phew he turned around and came back to where we wanted to be.
Rain when we arrived home and rain again this morning.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
