I Bought A Camera...

Regardless of what the title suggests, this post has nothing to do with a camera, except that  I will  now have no excuse for not including pictures in my posts. I am really rapt in the camera, so it is a bit of a skite as well I guess.

My Beloved is not working this week nor is he helping anyone so that means I have my minion man all to myself. To celebrate this wonderful feat we went into town to visit my sister and pick up her old dining table ( she wanted it gone in that crazy, nesting pregnant lady kind of way and I was happy to buy it off her). We also made crazy plans for the backyard kitchen we are starting on tomorrow and when I say we I actually mean he, I have a HELL of a lot of washing to fold and am running out of reasons why it has not been done, although I did see this picture on Facebook today and it totally made sense to me!

When we were driving to my sister house something caught my eye in the local tip.

'Inspiration!' I said to My beloved who must have curled up into a ball on the inside when he heard it, because that always means I have had an awesome idea, that is totally doable, if you KNOW what you are doing... sadly I don't have that many skills I am more the 'Ideas Man'.

'What?' he asked me, but he had already seen it and knew what was going to be said next.

'Pull in. Come on pull in!' I said frantically waving toward the gates of the tip.

'I will just see if it is available.' I said to him opening the car door before he had come to a full stop and did a kind  of running jump out of the car.

'Be careful' he said.

A few minutes later I came out grinning. 

'Ten bucks.' 

'Oh yeah, don't you actually want to look at it first to make sure it is worth getting? And where the hell are you putting it? And what are you going to do with it?'

'Oh I am getting it! It will be our outdoor table in the backyard, it is perfect, it even has a hole in the middle for the umbrella.' 

By the time we had had that conversation I had jumped back into the car and we had driven one hundred metres and I was out of the car again, this time with my camera. 

'I am taking a picture!' I said. And I did.

As you can tell by My Beloved's  face when it was decided that this cable wheel was coming home with us (tomorrow)  it involved the use of a tape measure and some positive comments on my behalf at how it would fit in the trailer,  'No problem'. That, and my brother, who is at the time of hitting publish blissfully unaware that he is going to help us get in on the trailer. That is until tomorrow when I harass him mercilessly until he agrees ask him nicely to give us a hand.

'It might be too high to be a table love, it is too high for chairs...'

'Yes! But NOT bar stools! I said and then patted his hand and added 'It will be fine, don't worry!'

Once we finally got to my sisters house we talked about the 'Twinnies' and how I could not wait until her little identical twin boys were born and that five weeks was too far away. Then My Beloved and I loaded our 'new' dining table ( yes I KNOW I just finished making a new top for my old one but I have a new 'use' for it now) on to the trailer and then we set off home.

Tying the table down. 

Littlest Miss was enjoying the drive home.

On the way, we stopped at some lights and I saw this sign hanging from the top of a pub and naturally HAD to take a photo. It made me laugh and My Beloved said he would like to start attending...

My Beloved informed me that Husband Day Care was somewhere he might like to go once every few months. But I told him I don't have a husband so I can pay someone else to look after him and he was not going. ;)

Once we were home it was dining table arranging time. Until things change this is what we have decided on.
But things will change. :)

The top needs sanding and varnishing, but we are not too worried about that!

The kids christened it with the first Uno game and of course argument!