Our first fire

Unfortunately the flash has washed out the colour of the flames but you get the picture. It's been quite cool up here today, and the rain looks like it has set in (about time, so far this month we have only had 15.5mm), so we decided that it was cool enough to light the fire. I've ben gathering pinecones for a while now, which are terrific 'natural' firestarters, and we also have some firewood that the previous owners left us, so the fire has been crackling away, warming the lower part of the house quite nicely. Here's Steve realizing he'd forgotten to place a marshmallow on the end of his poker.
Shane had made some delicious pesto using our basil and it was waiting for us when we got home, so we snacked on that for a while. Yummo.

We did quite a bit this weekend: Steve painted the entry area, I made a new garden, our new leather sofa which we'd impulsively bought up at Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast a couple of months ago was delivered, our friends, Stewart and Matt (yes we do have other friends than Glen and Shane) came around for a roast pork dinner on Saturday night and on Friday night we hung a lot of our art on the walls, which has really made the place feel much more like home.