Our pine planter boxes for veg garden makeover arrived Christmas Eve. We placed in situ, and saw we need another one, so ordered that. But, in the meantime, started to fill these ones and get the beautiful topsoil we've made into the boxes. Then we'll lay weed mat or similar and do gravel paths around them. Fair bit of shovelling there, but they are now full. One even has peas sprouting.
Christmas was calm and relaxing at Rugby Ranch, Norm and Arlene's place. Then we had a few days in Blenheim with Sue and Phil, flying down on a plane that was WAY TOO SMALL, and back on a sunny cruisey ferry ride. Picked some cherries, here's Mish posing with a gas gun - not in use as the rain came at the wrong time and split the fruit - so a poor harvest and lots of mouldy cherries. We still got a couple of kilos, mmmmm.
Sue took us bike riding and kayaking. With lots of lovely food and games of 500. The four of us walked a track out of Picton and admired Marlborough Sounds' scenery
In the vineyard next to the house, rows of just topped vines and ones not yet levelled. There's always something going on in the vines in Marlborough.
Back in Wellington, we've had a spectacular season for flowering pohutukawa trees around town. The one outside our window is the best it has been since we've been here (eight years in a few days). Looking past that bold red to Evans Bay, the airport, and Cook Strait. Orca and dolphins galore down there in the harbour and we keep missing them.
The pohutukawa Mish planted at the bottom of the yard is also having its best ever flowering. This one is a pinky red, with a plane going over on a new flight path some of them are using (not directly over us).
Jane and Nicola dropped in for a few days and we had a lovely easy time drinking tea and wandering around town, once we got out of our dressing gowns.
Walked out to Point Dorset on the Miramar peninsula overlooking Cook Strait. Mish took a panorama on the point and her clever new phone turned it into a video pan.
Someone has carved a whimsical seahorse on the beach.
And a shopping moment in Kathmandu. Jane and I bought swish puffer jackets, Nicola already had one - so, puffer jacket kitchen pic!
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