Karma ha!

Another beautifully scorching hot day (perhaps a bit too hot if I'm being honest). We had a pancake breakfast followed by two games of Pokemon Yahtzee and two games of proper Yahtzee.

Smallest and I harvested some of our homegrown basil leaves and set about making pesto. We haven't made it before and I added salt too early and plenty of it (the big rock salt too) and it ended up being too salty (surprise surprise) so we added rocket and spinach leaves and more pine nuts and more oil until it tasted much better. We had far too much for one jar though and so filled a jar for ClownRose too.

Garfunkel (our local artist and friend) was having a gallery opening today so we walked down to have a look. She wasn't around and it was too hot to stay so Huffle bought my birthday card from there (paintings are around the $2000 mark so a card is about all we can afford right now).

Not long after, we packed a bag full of things for the beach and headed off for dinner. Our first place was only doing a brunch buffet so we opted for another place, ate our dinner and went straight to the beach where we sat yesterday.

Unfortunately a family was there (just a lady and small boy at first) but the family grew and grew and ended up being three jet skis and a BBQ (though later the men cooking asked Huffle for a light because they couldn't get the BBQ going - we considered this as karma as they had forced us to move out of the shade of the only big tree on the beach and blasted us with petrol fumes from the jet skis).

Smallest wanted to swim but there was lake weed which put him off, so me and him paddled and then Huffle and him skimmed stones. We all sat and read and tried to enjoy the beach but in the end we moved away and further up where it was breezy but the other side of the noise and fumes. I had noticed a speed boat and made sure we were far enough not to have that park where we were sat. There was also no lake weed there so Smallest went in for a quick swim though it was too cold for me to go in further than my thighs.

What a silly billy I am. Of course the boaters parked their boat where we were, in fact almost where Smallest was swimming and they anchored it to the left of us slightly but it moved and ended up right in front of us and then slowly started to move away towards the pier. I don't know where they went but we happily watched it sail away by itself!

It was misty

We played Jackers and Whitby Rocks (a bit like Canada's got Stones and Whitby got Noses) and we settled upon a lovely stone that looked like a happy fish. Huffle Skyped Grandma and then we drove off to get ourselves an ice cream milkshake. We all had a vanilla one and sat in the air conditioned place to drink them before coming home and waiting for Small to get back from his adventure.

The lake where Small stayed

The first thing Smallest did when he got home was to make sure Small's bed was back to how it was, scruffily and messy but no sign of Smallest or his menagerie, then he and Smelly (his tiny elephant) had a bath. Huffle and I sat on the porch and listened to all the mowers mowing!

Eeugghh what is that?

Small came home. He had had a fabulous time and his friends' Mum said "can you train mine please?" He finished his homework, tried and liked Caesar salad and learned how to stay up on his fourth attempt at knee boarding. I think he chose the best weekend to go.

Tubing

Knee boarding

More tubing

More knee boarding

 

 

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