Wow can you believe it they have completed both years of our taxes so they have finally caught up...we got less than we thought but thats okay...we will see what they changed when we get the letters in from them...we did ask that the money be deposited into our US acct but so far nothing has been put in...not sure how long it takes...just hoping they don't send cheques as they don't cash them over here anymore...and I had it written 3 times in bold letters all over our paperwork...so fingers crossed...or we will have to try send them to our bank which will be hard as we will have to sign them before we send them and if they don't get them and someone else does then we lose it and that would be frustrating to lose $2000....so fingers crossed..they do the right thing...can't believe that they are done and it is only feb...it is a big relief!

We have all been unwell here as we had a week of bad heat 103-110 for a week...it has finally cooled off to 77and it is so nice to the house open and cooled off...we have 1 aircon in our house (we rent) so not much we can do about it...but this year we just aren't coping with the heat..it's weird it use to be my favorite time of year...the garden doesn't know what to do..we had a prolonged winter...then we had a few weeks of spring and things started to grow then it turned cold again...things stopped growing...then a couple weeks nice weather...they started growing again...then really hot weather so nothing has died but never really got much out of the garden this year...hopefully we can improve on that next year....or start looking at winter vegetables...not sure yet...should the prices are ridiculous here for food.

Not much else going on here...next week is pay week and we will pay all the bills and then do a monthly shop so this weekend will be doing a menu, and our shopping lists for the month for groceries/butcher etc...then we just pick up the essentials each week and makes it easier...I can't believe we are almost in march..this year is going by fast