Last weekend our place, Garra Garra, in
Lady’s Pass hosted the third episode in this season’s MBM (or, for the
uninitiated, My Breakfast Mole). MBM is the brain child of three devious minds
belonging to Ward, Tracy & Bron—friends of ours who came up with the
original idea to run a breakfast-hosting competition at each of our homes. The real
idea behind which was to ensure we made the effort to keep in touch.
The game has been successful—so successful
that it has returned for a third season (that’s way better than Firefly!). But it has also evolved to
now include a working bee. Each of us in the group owns a home and we figured there is always plenty to do & while we had the group together we
could get some jobs around the house done.
Our big job of the weekend was to get some decking done but every time anyone thought about deck-building, it started to rain again. They were, instead, confined to the house where they started on lime washing the rendered walls.
Lime wash for the strawbale walls.
Ward preparing the job by taping up the the picture rail...
...and the window.
I thought I should check on the progress...
And have a go...
Well for the camera anyway....
There, that's enough now.
The boys, hard at work.
Tracy’s big job of the day was to clear out the vegie gardens so that I can start again in Spring (I’m hoping I’ll be up to gardening again by then). There were a few more leeks left than I thought so I blanched them today & put them into freezer bags for use later—they are the last of the 113 I planted last year.
Blanched leek ready for the freezer.
Bron (who usually manages to escape being on the photo side of the camera by being on the photographer side) managed to scrape the oil off from around the edges of the window as well as clear rocks out of the mowing areas with Tracy and the girls.
In the morning we enjoyed breakfast which included the challenging compulsory ingredient of beetroot in the form of beetroot and chocolate muffins which went down well. As did the breakfast casseroles made to order as per each person’s tastes. Tracy was particularly impressed with the stringy cheese.
Beetroot & chocolate muffins.
"Is there really beetroot in here?"
"Yep."
"We don't care what's in the muffins!"
Preparing the breakfast casseroles.
The breakfast table, complete with decorations.
Nic at the stove.
Deb hard at work in the kitchen!
OK, I can manage delivering the food to the table.
Breakfast casserole - scrambled egg topped with onion, tomato, mushroom, hash brown & cheese.
Tracy & her stringy cheese.
Thanks for all your help, MBM folks!
