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Hello, hello! So Adam has been playing around with woodworking lately, building mini surfboards and ipod cases and things.. I knew it was going to happen someday soon, but today was the day he injured himself with the tools… He cut a pretty deep hole into into his palm.. We rushed to the hospital, but only got steri-strip put on it, because it’s in an awkward spot to get stitches… This means he can’t get his hand wet for the next 5 days. Which of course means I’m in charge of the cooking! Even though no one thinks I can cook because mister Chef Adam does all the cooking, well you’re mistaken. I can cook, and started my cooking at a very young age actually…baking cookies when I was 6 for my ‘Brownie’ friends… Anyways.. here is my post of food, that I made all by myself, zucchini chocolate cake! (with zucchini’s from the garden of course)

Today my husband Adam made some super delicious, fattening, bad for you, cinnamon buns.. Oh man they are yummm.. Here is a sneak peek; for the recipe go to his blog

Hola amigos y amigas! Adam and I have stopped our south island road trip and have been house sitting for an awesome family in a place called Staveley, in South Canterbury.  It’s beautiful around these parts, and especially beautiful on the farm we are staying at. However we are about an hour away from any good surf… But… a few days ago before the family left, the kids took us scurfing! The next best thing if you’re not near the ocean!!! Here are a few photos from the session:

The Moeraki Boulders are a group of very large spherical “stones” on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand’s Otago coast. These boulders are actually concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs that back the beach.They originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago. Pretty cool!!…

Baldwin Street in a suburban part of New Zealand’s southern city of Dunedin, is considered the world’s steepest residential street. A short straight street a little under 350 metres, an average slope of slightly more than 1:5. Its lower reaches are only moderately steep, and the surface is asphalt, but the upper reaches of this cul-de-sac are far steeper, and surfaced in concrete (200 m (660 ft) long), for ease of maintenance (bitumen—in either chip seal or asphalt—would flow down the slope on a warm day) and for safety in Dunedin’s frosty winters. At its maximum, the slope of Baldwin Street is about 1:2.86 (19° or 35%). That is, for every 2.86 metres travelled horizontally, the elevation changes by 1 metre.

Hello! We’ve been pretty busy road-tripping around the south island, and ended up camping right near Mount Cook a few days ago.. Mt Cook is the highest in NZ at 3,754 metres. We did a really amazing tramp through the Hooker Valley to get a better view of Mt Cook. It was sooooooo beautiful.

Hello! It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything… we left our favorite Kiwi family in Upper Hutt (it was really sad saying goodbye to Jo, Ian and Emare, as well as all the animals on the farm…) and have been exploring the South Island. The landscape down here is truly amazing and extremely photogenic!  After visiting Nelson and the Abel Tasman we surfed some awesome waves on the West Coast in Greymouth and then made our way to Wanaka, Queenstown and Central Otago. We spent 5 days in a town called Roxburgh earning a bit of fast cash picking cherries on a cherry farm. It was really hard work but so yummy!  We are now in Dunedin. I haven’t edited all my photos yet, but here is a preview of a few places we’ve seen. More to come.

So after a stormy Sunday, today was an amazing sunny summer day!!! We spent the day in the garden and tending to the animals. Adam found more baby chickens hidden away! They are adorable. The duckings are growing bigger, the plums are growing faster and the garden is out of control! We’re really hooked to this lifestyle and so excited for the day we can have our own farm…  A few random shots of the summer farm.

My friend Nathalie sent me a really great quote the other day that I just love:  ”It’s more interesting to have just a picture of a small detail- then you can dream all the rest around it. Because when you see the whole thing, what is there to imagine? ” Dries van noten – Here are a few photos of today.

For the past couple of days we’ve noticed that the plum tree in the orchard has suddenly grown juicy delicious plums! However there is alot of competition when it comes to getting to the plums first because the little wild colourful parrots (can’t remember their name right now..!) try to eat them all up. Got there first today!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!! So the poppy seeds from the poppies have dried up! I spent a bit of time today opening up the flowers to capture the awesomess inside. And to top it off my super chef husband made bagels with them!!! Oh man, i think bagels are one of my favorite most missed food from Montreal, and these just made my day, week and month. YUMMMM!!! Take that St-Viateur and Fairmont! (PS – to see how to make these bready bits of heaven check out adams blog www.adamfanson.wordpress.com)

Hi guys! This Christmas was spent on the playa in the hot sun, surfing!! It was awesome!!! We decided to leave the farm for a few days to drive towards Opunake in the Taranaki region. We went to that exact area because it was the only place where there was going to be some decent swell. Unfortunately xmas morning was spent in the nearby hospital, as Adam ripped the skin between his toes, on a tent peg. Even though he was supposed to keep it dry, that didn’t stop him from enjoying a xmas surf however… Instead of stitching him up they put some weird tissue glue and he was all better. Not too many photos as we were pretty busy ripping it up in the water!!! And no photos of the gross ripped toe (I almost passed out when seeing it!). I hope you all had a great holiday season!!!