Mostly garden

 A busy time in the garden the early part of last week, then a couple of slowed down days with headaches.

Here's what has been happening...

I've been working on redoing the brick edging in my front garden.  Standing the bricks on their sides (left edging) rather than as they had been - on their flat (right edging)...

And also redesigning the new bed I made recently.  You can see how big it had been by where the new grass is growing in, but I didn't want that much garden, so made it into a narrower, rectangular bed, two bricks high.  It didn't look right as the other edgings were curved, and single brick, so I re-did it, curving the edge, and making it one brick high.  Now all I need to do is plant something in it...

An unfinished project is this side garden...

overgrown garden bed, brick paving and gravel bed

I'm moving the bricks...

And hope to eventually put it all back to grass so I can just mow it...

But then I had to find somewhere to put the bricks...

in front of the woodshed

And in my spare time?!?

Two of the Christmas blankets are finished...

And the third one is well underway...

Doing some Christmas shopping...

with The Leprosy Mission and Mission without Borders

Making tomato relish with the last of the tomatoes in the freezer...

And banana, blackberry and white choc chip muffins...

Reading An Untamed Heart...

it's the prequel to the Red River of the North series, some of which I read years ago

And on my walks...

these poppies were growing under a power pole by the side of the road 

Peace and calm at the river...

The sky is looking black, and there are ominous thunder rumblings (glad I mowed the grass this morning!).  I doubt we will get much rain, but I'm hoping enough so I don't need to water the garden.

Catch'ya next time!

xx