May 2012

  This is my Granny and my Aunt Liz at Liz`s oldies daughters wedding. I LOVE the pic.

 

Ok so my friend and I went out for lunch and we found this wig. LOL we had such fun trying it on and taking pictures of each other. I think that my kids would love to wear a wig so we will have to buy one for them sometime.

 

 

 

My friend took Family Photos of our family. I think that they come out very well.

 

 

 

The new addition to our Family, Asher

The girls made a Chocolate cake for John for his Birthday, we also gave him Hot Chocolate so he had a very sweet day.

We also went and got ourselves a new gas stove and deep freeze, We are planning on being off of electricity in the next few month so we are getting prepared for it. We also got our selves a new generator which come in hand last week when the power went down and again a week later when a bird flew into the cables and we sat with out power for nearly 24 hours.

We ended up being off of electricity permanently from the end of this month. We have been enjoying it as the kids have been filling the house with laughter and I feel we have our Family back. No more everyone doing there own thing but doing the family thing again. The lanterns give off such a lovely relaxing glow that we have a peace in the house and the kids are not hyper all the time. It is amazing have electricity not only gives energy to electrical things but to people as well. 

 

We have also started on our own vegetable garden and I am very excited to be planting vegetables and look forward to learning to grow them.

The weather has turned cold and we have been having a fire inside most days, It has been nice and cosy with the fire and the Family around,

The girls had a friend around this week, they have been so busy with walking up the mountain, helping with the garden, helping John set up our water pump so we could pump water, moving the gas stove and fridge to a new place.

 

We made some yummy pot bread the other day, the kids took tuna tins and half filled them with dough and then covered then and made their own bread in the fire. Everyone really enjoyed the bread. Nothing beats hot fresh bread with home made butter, and a slice of homemade cheese on it. 

April 2012

Hey! All right I have managed to get started on the blog early this month as the weather is FREEZING and I have not made it out of bed yet, Aimee has just bought me my lunch and I have only posted last months blog now.

 

So my darling Husband has bought two more bee hives, we now have four. The bees unfortunately started to fight as they where new to the area and not sure where to find pollen. John being the peace keeper thought he would put some sugar water there for them so they would stop fighting. He did go and put the sugar water in front of their hives but the one bee was not happy about that and decided to take his life and sting John on the eye. He has been swallow for two days but is looking better today. Both John and Aimee is suiting up to go out into the freezing cold weather to go and put the supper on the hive. I much prefer my bed to the cold and playing with bees.

 

 

We have just had Pesach  (Passover). We did a very quiet Family thing and I really enjoyed it as there was no stress and the kids did a skit for the plagues as Sharna read the story. We laughed at the kids as they pretended to be the cattle and died there on the carpet, David played the scene so well  Jodie preferred the water that had turned to blood to be moved around the house then scrunch up before we got to tell the story, lol. I know in a few years we will be able to do a better job of Pesach. 

 

Here is my chilli bush with a chilli on. I now have 3 chilli's, I have 6 chilli bushes so we are waiting for them to start getting a lot. I have no clue what to do with them when I have them so it will be fun learning all about chilli`s.

  Here is my carrots and beets,

  My different types of mint that I have planted, the one is choc mint and I am so hoping that it will grow as everyone would like it to.

Aimee make us a define butternut soup, with yoghurt on the top.

Butternut Soup

2 onions – chopped

little butter

1 diced butternut

1 Tbsp flour

1 tsp curry powder

1 1/2 stock cube (in  3 cups water)

1 1/2 cups milk

1/2 cup orange juice (we leave it out)

pinch nutmeg

black pepper

125ml cream/yogurt

 

Fry the onions until soft. Stir in the flour and curry powder. Add everything except the cream. Simmer for 20 minutes. Liquidise. Add cream just before serving ( Freezes well )

Enjoy with a  nice bread

 

Puri   (East Indian Bread)

2 1/2 cups stone ground whole wheat flour

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

1/2 cup soft shortening

1 1/3 cups yogurt

Mix all ingredients well. Roll to 1/8 inch thickness and cut in rounds with 4 inch cutter. Fry in hot oil (350 degrees) until puffed and brown. Drain on absorbent paper. Makes 36.

We now have out own Post Office in Twee Rivieren. It is all very exciting.

 

 

Me with the kids on my daily walk to take Mousse to the land to graze for the day.

My gorgeous children.

 

 

 

 

So it was Aimee`s !3th today and she invited a few people around. She really enjoyed her day and my kids all ate to much sugar so they were all on a sugar buzz for the night and I said good thing we have a break from birthdays for a while so the sugar is no long around.

  

Sorry Karen had to post, Our Scary Friend, LOL.