finally i've got a chance, the stars were aligned so to speak............time, photos, charged laptop, 

Now onto my gorgeous Secret Santa Christmas Swap (SSCS) parcel...........

I shared the lovely ornament Marika @ My Little Quilt and Stitchery Life from Germany sent me in my last post............

This gorgeous little quilt will be hung on the wall in the Chookshed.............I want to have a mini quilt wall and I have a few plans in the making but nothing really to put up yet so this will be the first one.............i'm so excited.............

Here you can see the stitching at the top......."A house without quilts is like a sky without stars"...........Marika even quilted some clouds into the sky............

Also she added this little pincushion/clip holder.......what a great idea to keep these little clips.............I love them and keep losing them in the bottom of the sewing containers so to be able to clip them onto the pincushion will be great.........she also added some lovely threads.............thanks so much Marika...........I love my parcel and now I will try and catch up on all your SSCS posts.............so many gorgeous gifts sent out............

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Just a meer 42 degrees today...............glad to have a swim in the pool and hide indoors in the air con to stay cool...........

wow what was supposed to be a quiet week has been pretty busy.............

We put up some fairy lights..........I love fairy lights.............We had some neighbours over............otherwise no one would ever see them..........

When we first got marreid we put up lights for many years...........very few people ever saw them..........it's was more just because we loved to do it.........

this week has seen some early starts to get some sheep work done............well I am normally up way to early anyway but usually out in the garden putting hoses on and fiddling around in summer........it was pretty dusty..........I tried to stay out of the worst of the dust as the last few times I have ended up sick...........weaning (taking the lambs from the ewes), needling the lambs with vaccination - think childhood vaccine programs and also putting in the required visual ID ear tag..........you can't sell them without the tag  in their ear...........
But exciting news is that my SSCS arrived.......we only get 2 deliveries of mail a week if we are lucky and a bundle of mail came in earlier in the week when I was busy and I forgot to go back and then I found my SSCS parcel............

thanks Marika in Germany........hanging on the tree now how cute is this ornie..........the main present is safe under the tree.........

WISHING everyone a Merry Christmas...............please take it that if I comment on your blog during the year I have read your Christmas post if you have put one up or if you do tomorrow and I have thought of you as I read them but just too busy to comment on all of them........

Stay safe and have a wonderful Christmas........

Hope the man in the big red suit finds you.......

I am so over the bugs the other night I took a pic and this is what they were like on the gauze.............

and that is to a yellow light that doesn't attract so many bugs........they were inside everywhere not quiet as thick as this but millions all the same.............

the people you run into...........we both took pics and text to another friend our random meet............a very quick hello but we will have to have a day together very soon............

the guinea fowl started a nest in the front garden again..........in the agapanthus bed..........I have been raiding the nest and they have moved on thankfully as I have a party in a few weeks right here and don't want to upset a nesting guinea fowl...........they would have made an another nest I just have not found it yet..........I do find random eggs drops on the ground in random spots............

SSCS parcel is on the sleigh..............where will Santa drop it we will have to wait and see..............

ok gotta go..........it's already 34 and it's not 9am yet right now the hottest spot in Australia.......i'd prefer not to keep that record all day.......someone else can have it...............

heading for 42+ today.........OMG.....nearly got all my outside jobs done.........

it's too hot to even go into the Chookshed with the air con on today......

stay cool everyone...........or warm what ever the case.......