Spritely Austin Healeys

What a treat! To see several beautifully restored MGs and Austin Healey sprites parked out the front of the motel. From a previous visit from an MG car club group, we had a couple of memers deecide to bring the Austin Healey Sprite group along to our lovely spot.

Sadly the weather was a bit ho hum, particulalry for that type of open top car, but once the BBQ was due to start out the back, the weather cleared, and the waft of sizzling snags and steaks began to fill the air.

Sadly just an overnight stop, the travellers, all bar two who required a visit from the friendly RACT man, were on their way to Strahan to continue their tour of tassie. Kind of inspires me to start restoring my MGB roadster.....

Sunnyside Up Gardening

Well, after a fairly busy breakfast, I'm not sure what really possessed me, but I decided to tackle the spot that I had been eyeing off for some time as a new sunflower garden.

The poor unloved piece of earth, right behind room 12 and 11, was crying out for some lovin', and now that it was sporting a new fence as well, I felt it might be time to tackle that little garden area today.

What a day to tackle it! The sun was out and a cool breeze kept the sun from completely baking me. Never-the-less, the ever present collection of exoitic weeds required much digging and grunting effort from me, to yield the finished product. Mind you as I dug, I managed to produce several fully formed ready for cooking potatoes. Yes! You've never seen anyone as I excited as me as I pulled those spuds out. Not sure from whence they came, but happy to eat the results.

So today I tilled and toiled, tomorrow I will sow and hopefully in about 12-14 weeks I shall reap my rewards. Pretty sunflowers, and a plethora of free mint in the minty corner.

Sitting out in the cool, surveying the back lawn, I see a sea of dandelion tufts. Its funny how life's perspective on things changes. When I was a kid, nothing would give me greater pleasure that yanking one of those tufts up and blowing hard to release the seeds, and watching them ascend into the air. Now I look and them and think, aww crap, weeds!

Until next time

Stay Nice!

Cyndia

A new year, a new blog entry

Hello all

I know, its been a little time since the last entry- no excuses on my behalf apart from being a bit busy!! But definintely time for an update on events happenign at the waterfront.

Over Christmas and New year, we were lucky enough to be part of the Sabot Nationals held at the Wynyard Yacht Club. What a trully excellent event with young sailors and their families coming to Wynyard to race their little hearts out on the beutiful bass strait waters. The weather was excellent, and well times (Week before it was ouring and the week after) so the sailign God's were smiling ont he event.

The new year has started off well, with a brand spanking new garage at the rear of the property. Justin and Robbie our retired can do man, constructed the garage, and now we are busy filling it up with stuff- including my MG roadster which is in dire need of attention. The hope is to restore the roasdster and the boat this year!!

On Waterfront News, we will be redisignign the web site this year, so I know there are a couple of out of date notes on the site currently, these will be changing soon.

Justin and I will be off the Hobart Wooden Boat festival next week, to see if we can find any relatives of our boat Pixie. Huge festival in Hobart, and we are really looking forward to a night away.

That's it for the moment

Take care, and see you this way sometime!

Cyndia