Feeling the chill...

Its been a couple of weeks since i have been on here as there hasnt been a huge amount going on.  At the moment we are waiting on the builders quotes which is a lengthy process.  Hopefully we will here from them by the end of August.

We are now over half way through the winter thankfully.  Even with the fire roaring we can only keep one room heated to a comfortable level.  

As i mentioned earlier we have had a tree chopped down recently. In order to make the most of this and have more usable sized logs to burn Andrew has just bought himself a log splitter. This is going to be very useful as we have a few other trees that need to come down because they are dead or sick or in the way of the new driveway.

Whilst he has been busy building this Caitlin and I have been busy making the most of the abundance of fruit on our lemon tree.

This week we made Lemon Tea Cake which was really delicious.

I am so pleased the house extension wont be near the lemon tree. The little orange one is in the way and we will be moving it soon.  For a little tree it has had some very tasty oranges and i really hope it copes ok with the change.

I must admit that even when its really chilly, when the sun shines our garden and paddock really do look beautiful.  I love some of our winter flowers, they really do brighten up the place.