jette arundal bowl, robins and roses

 Aren't robins magical? Every time I go outside this one is singing to me from a finial, he flies from finial to finial, definitely telling me something mystical.

 My Jette Arundal bowl Sar gave me for my birthday....I beyond love it, flash photo not the best shot of it.

New garden wall, we planted more roses.....

Ben Lomond

 I have a new camera but blogger doesn't like it, takes forever to upload photos.... Ben Lomond on my birthday, camera's first photos. And dear old Balf.

Baby hat, Coco, quilt and Mrs Delany

 Loved knitting this 'pea soup' baby hat...

 I am quilting away on this, my 'far far away'  quilt, hope to get it all done before Sar gets home in mid July but I probably won't.

 Tomorrow we are 'going away', that is flying off the island for a few days. I always feel a bit stressed out about leaving 'this' behind, she is already getting anxious. when I get the suitcases out she will really go to pieces.

 I had really hoped we would get the museum exhibition, Farming in the Furneaux, finíshed before we left but still a bit more to do.....

I have been finding this a very soporific read. I love it though, fascinating and inspiring. I would like to have a go at collaging flowers on a black background.

Gardening

We have been busy in the garden this afternoon. Pete is about to start building the second stone wall along the front. We want to have a good barrier against the kikuya grass which makes a good lawn but it hell to keep out of the garden beds. Once it gets amonst the plants it is impossible to eradicate.

I have been massacaring  pelagoniums and weeding my  weed vegie patch.

 a winter rose

 Happy wanderer wandering...

I love this plant, like a green critter...

Another baby cardi but will have to change the buttons, one short...

 Wonderful stone wall Pete has recently made.

 My dodder basket I made.

 Of course everybody has to come and 'help' me sandwich my quilt.....

I am in the throes of doing an exhibition for the Year of the Farmer at the local museum, taking the form of a history of farming in the Furneaux. I am finding it alot more time consuming and stressful than I thought I would, but it's almost finished now, thank goodness.

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Nostalgia

 Last week we went to Agfest in Tassie. I got all nostalgic for mud, dairy cows and calves... and the old tractors of my childhood on a dairy farm at West Pine, on the north west coast of Tas. I remember it as a fairytale place, the creeks, dams, ferns, platypus and beautiful garden and orchard, all very idyllic. And seeing fairies, pixies, elves with my grandfather, we really did!!!

 My friend's mare and foal on Pete's old family farm here on Flinders, that has just been sold again.

 This is the clutch in the farm's old Bedford truck. It is an old door hinge. The truck used to be on an outer island and necessity was  the mother of invention out there!

 My latest baby cardi, copied from Pea Soup! For my neice's baby due in September.

 Pillingers Peak, we painted yesterday.

Opposite Pillingers is Strezlecki.

Pumpkins!!

Pete's pumpkin crop. I don't think we or any of our friends are going to need to buy any pumpkins all winter!

 More things I've knitted this year.

Knitting

 Terrible over exposed photo of little cardi I knitted for baby William. I am learning to knit from the neck down on circular needles. And to follow American patterns, a challenge for me! I knitted the sleeves on 4 needles.

 A teeny tiny cardi for my  neice's baby who is expected in the Springtime. Copied from Pea  Soup, I love Ravelry! Made from neck down too although I didn't realise to begin with!

 A cowl for me...

 A cowl for Brita.

Paint Brush flowers or Elephant Ear bulbs, that are at the elephant ear stage now.