Christmas Lights and Clean ups.

The clean up process is still in place.... but boy does it feel good to get rid of a lot of the rubbish that has been sitting around here for way too long. Proud of my man.... he normally finds it hard to part with stuff..... you know, you never know when you might need it.... but he has had an enormous purge this Christmas and I am sure he is feeling good for it too. Pictures to come.

First, last night we did the annual drive around looking at Christmas lights. This time last year we were checking out the Christmas lights in Mount Gamier with our good friend Ali. We left it a little late last night to start so missed a few of the good ones, but this is some of what we saw.

This is the first year we have checked out the Christmas lights using the GPS... How much easier did that make it. Might have to go again tomorrow night and check out a few that we missed, one of them being the winning one.

Now this is what the guys have been busy doing the last few days. Pete gave us the most wonderful Christmas present. He took a few days off work to come up and give his Dad a hand with the yard. He has been a HUGE help, and a definate motivation for Steve. Huge thank you to my boy. Here they are hard at work....

I have to say too I am so proud of my man. He has always been a bit of a hoarder... (You never know when you might need it) and in fairness to him, usually he has whatever we need when we need it but he has been ruthless these holidays.

This has made his week though....
As most of you know. Steve lost all of his bee hives earlier in the year when Rockhampton was flooded. He had bought the remaining bee boxes home to sort out and they had just been left up in the back yard. Steve had resigned himself to the fact that he probably wouldn't keep bees again now until he retired as he is pretty busy and doesn't really have the time to put into them. Well a week or so ago, he went out to find bees hovering around one of the hives. He checked it again that evening and sure enough there were still bees there. A swamp of bees have made their home in one of his hives. He is now convinced that it was God sent and he is still meant to keep a hive or two. How can you argue with that....

This has now been done too....We have two wonderful bowen mango trees in our backyard, so we are normally guaranteed of a feed of mangoes around Christmas. One of our jobs at the end of the year is to pick them. We had to get in a bit earlier this year, as not only did we have competition from the bats at night, but the cockatoos found them through the day and have had a feast as well.

We have also been busy in the house...
The last of the cleaning.... windows and Chloe cleaning the fish tank... It all feels so good... and I love how our room is looking at the moment.
Can I keep it this way all year?????

And a few more shots of Christmas around our place...
My little silver tree has some new Christmas decorations on it.
I picked up these new word Christmas decorations, Joy and Noel. I actually went back today to get a few more, but all the JOY ones were gone. Sad face showing here.
Just some of the sights in our Lounge room this Christmas
And finally before I leave just wanted to share these couple of pictures which really do help to remind us why we celebrate Christmas