10th Anniversary and Balloons over Greystone

On the 20th March we celebrated 10 years of buying section to build Greystone. Lillehus completed 1998, Stage 1 (Pebbles) completed 1999 and Stage 2 (Boulders) completed 2003. Where did all the years and the offsprings and spices get too? Now only a stone retaining wall at the back to set up a summer beer and Bar B Q area under the trees and a stone seat are needed to complete. Lawns are currently being relaid - much pick and shovel by Sadie to get rid of some old river bed and driveway.

This morning just as the day was sunning up 11 hot air ballons could be seen from Greystone (and all of Greytown). Pictures show one right over Greystone and moving south about 10 kph.

Au revoir all those still their thirties and thirty somethings from Sunflower Sadie

Greystone - Late Summer 2008

Help! It is dark when Sadie and Sammo get up and dark when we retire for the night! Europa is dragging the sun back little by little. Still we get to start the harvesting. many runner beans have been blanched and frozen, peacherines bottled, lettuces chomped, onions pulled and dried, pears munched and plums extracted with the alcohol for liqueuer base. A good crop of tomatoes is just ripening and many will be bottled. See the line of tomatoes waiting in line for the bottles - just like Sadie waiting for the bottle each evening!

2 L of Limoncello and 2 L of Lomooncello * were bottled Sunday and the former makes a wonderful adjunct with G&T. Mike please note that the G&T made for emergency purposes for Sammo many years ago is still intact. Touch and go some days but still intact.

* Lomooncello is named in honour of the once very young Kristina who called oranges 'lomoonges.' Lomooncello is an extract of lemons and oranges and goes so very well with white rum and/or gin.

Sadie and Sammo completed concreting the base for the stone wall and the stone chair and the base for the 'Greystone." See the picture of the latter for a pair of hands that appeared. By chance they fit Sammo's hands' profiles.

To get the Greystone in perpendicular fashion prior to concreting, following abortive attempts by Sadie with wood and car jack, Sammo suggested - "Why not bunt it with the CRV?" Bunt it we did with the rear spare tyre appropriated protected and 'voila' we now have a perpendicular Greystone. "She was an engineer's daughter!"

Meanwhile Waldo surveyed the surroundings and made suitable, appropriately supportive comments. Waldo sees much and comments little - but he will on occasions 'drop' Picasso and Cleopatra the hungry cats in it.

Sadie's work now is to relay some of the lawns ready for autumn sowing. Such a busy life! S(he) now wonders where S(he) found time to go out to work. It has been rumoured that certain persons in Greytown are getting up a petition to get h(im) (er) back to work. Something about preserving their sanity?