The week that is...

In the pipeline this week...

Crocheted a tea cosy for my tea pot!

Knitting another vest (using the pattern above, minus the sleeves) in cream homespun type wool.

Reading The Strawberry Girl.  It's good!!!

Linking to Yarn Along for the above.


Some autumn colour in the garden...

 olives on the tree

 primrose

 more primrose

 lavender

 ? mint

 bottlebrush

 don't know what this is??

 

blueberries

 not so colourful fungi...

 but interesting...

 

among the leaves...

autumn...I love it!!!

 

And on the home front...

 

Bought a hall stand at the 2nd Hand Shed..

 

 

 

 

Wild and windy weather here. 

 

A good day to light the fire, read...knit...crochet...

 

 

Keep busy and be happy!!

 

xx

makings and doings

Linking in to Yarn Along for the makings bit...

Finished the vest (improvised from a tabard pattern) I've been knitting in Jo Sharp Aran tweed yarn...

And bought Knit The Sky yesterday when (grandson) Denver and I went to Agfest, so pondering a new project , either a sky blanket or an autumn (leaves) blanket, and whether to knit or crochet it??

And the doings...

After months of no rain, we have now had days of it, although today the sun is shining...

The other morning on my walk/run I took some photos of our first snowfall for the year on the Tiers...

a light dusting on the Great Western Tiers

and even lighter on Quamby Bluff...but it's not winter yet!!

the Meander River is up...

and flowing...

and the ducks are loving it!

as are the fungi

a patch of green in the garden...after the rain

 

Enjoy...sunshine or rain :))

 

xx

 

 

 

Getting my hands dirty...

Since I've been back from Stanley, I've harvested the pumpkins...

 Still have the tomatoes to go

And spread some of the seaweed on the vegie beds for winter...

 

Still two bags of seaweed for the beds...

 and the pumpkins enjoying the sunshine

 

My friend Hazel (who I visited when in Stanley) gave me a spider plant.  Actually, it may have been the one I gave her when I moved to Deloraine, but she was happy to give it back (she had two more), so I've potted up some of the 'babies', and will bring them inside for winter...

Also potted up some hare's foot (or rabbit's foot) fern (davillia) that was growing in the shade house to bring inside...

The greengage plum tree is all but bare...

But there is still some colour in the garden from the violas (or are they pansies?)...

And primrose (I think that's what they are?)...

I know this is a rose...

 

 

 

And some of the shade house plants...

Which seem to be thriving despite my lack of garden expertise...

I'm thankful winter is on the way and I can get in some gardening book reading (and knitting!!)

With that in mind, I'm joining Ginny for a late Yarn Along, reading this book, and knitting this pattern...with variation...

 

No time to be bored! :))

 

xx

Stanley

Last weekend I went to Stanley...

 The Nut

Got to walk on the beach Friday night...

Tatlows Beach/Sawyer Bay

And watch the sunset...

Sunset over Green Hills

Early Saturday morning before sunrise I took a walk around to the small fishing harbour on the other side of The Nut...

 

One of the boats was up on slips...

Some of the houses under the Nut that I walked past on my way back to the beach...

The tide was quite high...

And I got to watch the sun come up behind The Nut...

I encountered some locals...alive...

 seagulls

 plovers

And dead...

 crab

 fish (just in case your weren't sure :))

 fairy penguin

starfish

 

  

I collected 4 garbage  bags of seaweed to put on the garden from West Beach at Stanley...

Saw an eagle...

Wedge-tailed or Sea (wasn't close enough to tell)

On my way back from collecting the seaweed I drove past historic Highfield House...

And some of the resident sheep...

And took this shot from the lookout...

Bye Stanley!!!

 

I'll be back...

 

xx

Postscript:  check out the amazing similarities between Stanley and the Isle of Harris on Christine's blog.  (Her photos are so much better than mine!!)