新玩意兒 Buns.

謝謝Leighton老闆送的麵包機
開始做麵包嘍
Travis and Maggie were kind enough to buy us a bread maker. I've never had one before but the whole concept of them is awesome. It has a timer, so you (read: Ivy) just drop all the ingredients in at night and set the timer for what time you want fresh bread in the morning. It mixes and kneads the dough and then starts baking about an hour before you want it. Genius. 

材料全部丟進去

按鈕按一按

開始!!!

揉麵團

Apparently you are allowed to open it mid knead to see how it is going.

加入五穀雜糧

= =不好意思，我忘了拍成品

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Nuts can get added too.

新餐桌^^

品東西買的
Last weekend while at the ETA book show we made some time to go to Ikea and Pinn to buy some new furniture. I was installing speaker plugs today and thought it was a cool pot. Can't really get an idea of the table but you can see how the kitchen looks now.

客房的沙發床

IKEA買的
We also got a sofa bed. It came with a 24 page manual. I remember, not that long ago, when on a Saturday night we used to go out and see friends and have a drink. Now we stay in and assemble furniture. WTF happened? Kick arse sofa bed though. Those little tags poking out get pulled to turn this into a full queen sized bed (read dog house). 

最近 Recent Stuff

We were in Taipei for a few days at a book show so weren't able to post much about what was going on at the house. Mini Lee finished the front fence. I think it looks great and am wondering why we don't do this style of fence the whole way round.

No. that is not the final colour for the gate.

Some more work done on the garage. The plywood here will be covered with cement boards next week.  We had hoped it would be done today but the rain prevented any work getting done.

上次申請的植物，領回來啦

100棵耶

We got our 100 free trees this week. I have no idea what the local government is thinking but am not questioning it at all. We got 80  七里香 trees. We have no idea how to say that in English but they make a nice hedge. We'll plant them tomorrow. And we also got a bunch of other trees that will go in somewhere around the yard tomorrow too.

袋子裡裝的是七里香

party~

謝謝朋友們合送的禮物
有夠適合我們的啦
讚!!!
We have some pretty sweet friends. This was a gift from Jo, Joe, Sarah, Cobus, Jenny, and Mason. It's friggin' awesome. The back folds up to make a chairs or it can be flat like this to lie down. Thanks so much folks!

Small dinner party for JP today. We always miss her birthday due to a bookshow in Taipei so thought we'd do something early this year.

搬新家後的第一個聚餐
幫超級好朋友辦生日趴
烤雞全餐x2
New couch arrived today. Comfy. 

Two birds, one oven.

新的沙發也來了^^

正在準備點心的Jo

蘋果酥餅超好吃

Jo made apple crumble. That was awesome too. 

 這是我們的壽星

烤雞剝好要開動啦

Fencing. Epees ready.

最近喜歡在週末做點不一樣的事情

一整天沒開電腦的感覺蠻不錯的ㄎㄎ

今天的工作是圍牆粉光

我來當小工，幫老爸hmmmmmm.遞水泥

中文不知道怎麼說

順便自己也來抹一下

哇~真的要功夫耶

沒技術，老爸不指導

粉光牆面整個被我抹一個洞==

老爸兩三下就抹平了

真是不簡單

Lots of work going on at the house today. I had to teach today so escaped most of the hard yakka. Mini Lee and Ivy were hard at it finishing the front fence. 

照片裡我應該要拿一隻長柄#$%

拿那個小鏟子

架式都沒了

The garage had a lot of progress today.

Though a lunch time nap on the roof wouldn't hurt. How bout that little blue truck Brad Jones?

Plenty of room in there for a Hilux/Amorak/Ranger when that day comes along.

菜園完工 Vege Garden Part 3

菜園完工了

走到好好看耶

Mini Lee finished the walking path through the vege garden yesterday. Had some camera computer issues today so couldn't quite get the pics up until now. Looks awesome!

碎掉的紅磚鋪上去也不錯

Madie

這裡以後當你家好嗎

The soil is yet to go in. Have some coming on Tuesday then we can start an organic garden. 

放上冬天備用的木材

該去買土，來種紅蘿蔔喔!

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Wood pile in the corner for cold winter nights when we get the fire pit cranked. Thanks to Rob for help with cutting firewood!

Vege Garden Part 2

The walls of the vege garden have been finished. Mini Lee has been working like a mad man. Clearly he loves some fresh vege. The little path down the middle will be laid with brick too and then the top corner will be used to store fire wood. I designed the layout and it took a lot of convincing Mini Lee to do it this way. A couple of times he put his foot down but was later persuaded.
這不是迷宮，也不是豬寮(我爸說以前豬寮就是這樣蓋)
這是我家的菜園啦
哈哈
老爸可是很用心的幫我們選磚、拉水平、量距離勒
做的有夠漂亮的啦
種菜給你吃嘿

Vege Garden

This is coming along nicely too.
除了圍牆，還有個任務要給我老爸(老爸辛苦了)
就是我們的菜園啦
哈哈
因為菜園的矮牆沒有要打底
所以~
紅磚要沏整齊喔ㄎㄎ

Kitchen Finished

First meal in the new oven.

期待很久的廚房終於可以開工啦

Leighton說第一餐想吃烤豬肉

那就來烤唄^^

中島+臨時餐桌

Yum!
新的旋風式烤箱真的很快
大約4~5人份的豬肉一小時就烤好了
開動嘍!!

Front Fence

 The front fence is coming along nicely. Mini Lee has been hard at work on this one.
老爸一直說門面是他的面子，所以很堅持工要做得很好
別看他頭髮都白了
手腳還是很利落的
刷刷的兩三下就磨好了
老爸~不要太累哈^^

Kitchen part 2

 The bench tops have all been put in now. We are still waiting for the gas stove but that should be here tomorrow.
從我們搬進來後，一直遇到一個問題
就是......因為我們窗戶家太多
變成我們在擺放傢俱時，會遮到窗戶的窘境
所以......
我們把流理臺的下櫃加長....應該有2百多公分吧==
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中島~有點小捏

We think we might've made the island a bit small......time will tell I guess.
中島的墊陶爐，以後煮湯可以在這煮
 啊~我等不急要用我的廚房了!!!

Kitchen Part 1

 Dishwasher
廚房~我的廚房!!
上圖是洗碗機，以後我家的碗盤都是乾淨的!!!

這位仁兄還蠻盡責的
很小心的幫我們組裝
還工作到7點多
謝謝你

 Oven
烤箱~
我的烤雞、烤豬肉、烤牛肉(流口水中....)

Built in wine rack conveniently facing the deck.
照片裡看到那菱形格，是我們的紅酒櫃
面對著木坪台
恩~喝酒Party很方便