Paella lunch and the end of the planter box works

The day before most of us went back to work, January 8, we made a paella and had a family lunch here. Mmmm.

Mum, Mark, Cliff, Colton and Mia lounging.

And extra lounging; Christmas can sure take it out of you.

But, before lunch, the boys helped us move a pohutakawa in a wine barrel down to the bottom of the yard where Mish had prepared a nice deep hole. Here's the finished planter box behind, pre plants. That'll be jasmine we have managed to layer over a few months, up in the veg garden. We have roots, lovely - free plants. And some sweet peas Mish has ordered online - special ones, of course.

We are about to have a doozey argument putting tree into hole...oh well. I'm  'just do it' and Mish is 'do it slowly and properly'. Anyway, it's in and it'll love it there and it looks great!

Since then it has been raining on and off the whole time. Which is brilliant as we have been pretty dry. Most of NZ is in drought and it is raining all over - too much in some places of course - so we could be coming right.