Some progress

• the lights arrived from Melbourne, we picked them up and this week we'll have the electrician to wire them in.

• Chose the sinks for the kitchen, decided on the dishwasher, bought the toilet, ordered the tiles
  
• trimmings around the ceiling, doors and windows are done
• Serra form Hong Kong arrived and she is helping with all this varnishing, painting, oiling...
• planted out the gherkin seedlings
• new lot of ducklings hatching
• Paul remodeled the Plum Pond. Again! If it'll still leak I'll SCREAM! :-))))
• new phone finally working!
• Jonathan shot Eszter...with the new camera...(what were you thinking?? :-))) )
  

Some of Sara's pics

Sara from Canada left yesterday and she sent some pics she took while here.
Our animals:



The vineyard, winery, wines and Sara working:


Far South scenery:

Debudding and dumpling making

All week we were working on de-budding the trunks of the grapes. It's going well, not much left to finish. Tracy helped and while she was working in block 4 the neighbors' horses came over and asked for some 'better grass' :-)
We had nightly cooking lessons, here we're making chinese dumplings
and the result...
She left for Melbourne to fly out home next week and Sara arrived from Canada.
We buried Timur on the hill at the Robinia forest. He is sleeping with his teddies and bunnies, his soul watching over us, protecting us to eternity...I still cry every day...
But life goes on......the native hens hatched 4 fluffy balls of chicks. It's their first brood, they were quiet successful. 2 of our hens and 3 ducks are still sitting on eggs.
We bought the timber for the under-windows shelves and the pendant lamps.
Have a happier weekend then we have and give a pat on its boofy head if you have a dog...

Timur died this morning !

Timur was hit by a car between 5 and 7 AM this morning. He died instantly by the force of the impact. We are in the 60 km zone. It's Sunday morning. The driver didn't brake, didn't swerve and didn't have the decency to let us know...
I'm too upset to write anything more this week...