Out With The Old!

Hello to all my lovely Bloggy buddies! I hope your Christmas was wonderful & that you've had a chance to slow down a bit. Our Christmas Day was spent with the extended Meares mob & was crowded, noisy & fun. It included lots of talking, lots of food & an impromptu jam session involving most family members, three or four part harmonies, a couple of guitars, a drum box, a violin, a bass & a ukulele. I didn't say our families are conventional! Tee! Hee! Hee! Boxing Day was lower key with my folks visiting for a yummy lunch, some giftie swapping & some test cricket viewing. Two very different celebrations, both enjoyed. :0)

And My Beloved Geek Boy & I have also enjoyed some quiet days at home making a start on a few items on the list of jobs waiting for us to have time at home. As well as some reading, cooking & the usual grown up chores, I've been playing with the beginnings of a new quilt design. Meanwhile, GB has been outside ...

The back deck is a bit of a white elephant ... The previous owners kind of tacked it on cos it sounded good as a selling point in the real estate listings, but with no cover & a less-than-adequate finish, it's not really used but we weren't sure what we wanted to do to make it usable AND attractive ... Until some recent brainstorming. (Which MAY have involved a few glasses of some of the wine we collected during our recent holiday to South Australia! Tee! Hee! Hee!) So ... This will be one of our home improvement projects for 2019. It's a big job & will cost a little bit, so we'll do it in stages ... First stage ... Knocking nails back in, sanding & oiling. You can see GB has used one these babies before. :0) I'll share progress pics through 2019.

And doesn't it seem like just last week that we were welcoming 2018? Where HAS this year gone?!?! I have to say, we're actually pretty happy to see the backside of this year. It's been pretty stressful & brought some dramas along the way that have left us feeling wrung out. BUT ... Tomorrow sees us turn the page of a new adventure book with 365 pages just waiting for us to write on them. 2019 is going to be an AWESOME year!! :0) Thank you to all my wonderful family & friends who have waded through 2018 with us. Amidst the not-so-great stuff, we were humbled & blessed to be reminded time & time again how many loving & supportive people we have in our lives. As I sign off my last blog post for 2018, I'd like to leave you with one of my favourite verses, an old Irish Blessing. Til next time ...

NEW YEAR'S BEAR HUGS!!

CHEERS,

KRIS