It’s the weekend

The weekend has arrived. 

I had Ana today while her mummy went to the dentist 

She was a good girl and wanted a bottle and sleep an hour after she got here 

The weather is raining and cool

Wouldn’t call it cold but the wind did kinda go through you if you know what I mean 

So this afternoon we lit the fire 

It’s still going now and it’s lovely and warm here making me very sleepy 

I decided I wanted to knit something rather than continue to crochet 

I love working on my blanket but my hand and wrist were starting to ache 

So I’ve switched to knitting and I’m making a in threes cardigan for Ana 

I’m using a ball of yarn from bendigo wool mills 

It’s 50% wool and 50% bamboo 

So soft and warm 

I hope Ana and her mum like it 

The rains have come so outside is fairly wet 

Not complaining as we needed the water 

My dam outside is filling fast 

Have a great weekend everyone 

I plant do be produced at home 

In other news

The fruit trees needed  a good haircut 

The one in the front of the pic is the apricot tree 

The two in the back are plum trees 

Hopefully we haven’t killed them and they burst into life next spring 

Hubby made this frame so we can put plastic over it and turn the garden bed into a hot house 

Extended the growing season. Hopefully 

Slowly we are getting ready for winter 

The days are still fairly warm but the nights are getting chilly 

Soon it will be time for fires, stews and lots of indoor crafting 

Winding down

The pumpkin harvest this year. We didn’t have much room so we opted for butternut in the end we had 17. It will shared with my children. Lots of pumpkin soup for winter 

Looking much better now. 

I’m having a little rest before I go out and finish cleaning up 



Due to weird weather we got some small unripe pumpkins and a  Couple of cucumbers we missed that had got too big. So I chopped them up and gave them to the chickens 

Along with some bizarre carrots 



The vines have gone to the calves 

Although the don’t seem hungry. I wonder why lol 

They have been munching on this and snuggle into it to sleep 



Gave the dill a hair cut and drying it for winter use 



It’s Anzac day day.  We remember all those that served our country. 

Always an emotional day. 

This afternoon my football, Collingwood, team plays in a traditional class against Essendon. 

They do a pregame mini service to our Anzac's. 

With particular emphasis on past players that served 

Always have to have tissues ready 

I’ll finish up all I want done today and settle down to watch the game. 

Part of my Anzac tradition 

LEST WE FORGET 

Greek Easter

Easter was at my sisters house. 

The traditional lamb on the spit 



Family all together 

There are so many little people now that she has to buy another table to fit us all 



Ana’s second Easter. She wax only two weeks old last year 



The great grandparents 

Watching all the kids play 



As the Greeks say 

Here’s to next year 

Vegetarian, vegans and city folk look away

Meet burger and brisket. 

Four month old calves.  

Their names should tell you why they are here. 

I totally understand why you would choose to not eat meat. But I like it. So the next best thing, in my opinion, is to make sure the animal has the best life and a humane end. 

Our animals do not see it coming and they Dont endure long trips in trucks cramped and without food or water 

With these two I’ll be able to feed my whole family with pure organic meat 

Not to mention saving money. Filling your freezer with meat is like money in the bank 

That has to be a good thing

Still here.

Last weekend was full on between minding Ana for two days and her party 

Inbetween I was a tad tired 

So this week has been one of go slow

I picked these this morning 

The spaghetti squash vine was totally dead so I brought them in. Not sure about the green 

Coloured one. If it’s not ripe I’ll cut it up and feed it to the chickens 

There are some big beetroots in the sink. 

I’ll roast some and boil some with the leaves and have them as a salad 

The eggplants and three chillies will also get roasted. So dinner tonight is all set 

The fire has now been going for three days. 

I have a besser brick home, and once the temps go down it can feel cold with all that concrete 

Around us 

I did have the ducted heating on once or twice but it’s just not the same heat 

Wood fires are so much cosier 

Been slowly working on the autumn harvest blanket 

It’s really wide so each row take a little while to complete 

It doesn’t matter. It’s for me. So no deadline to finish by 

Greek Easter is this weekend. 

I’ll make the pita, cheese pie on Sunday morning 

We are going to my sisters for the Easter feast 

I no longer fast or go to church. 

I wouldn’t be able to stay awake with the meds I take 

I’m sure Jesus doesn’t mind. He knows the pain I’m in 

He’s very forgiving I hear 

Sudden changes

The weather has suddenly turned cold and wet 

The Easter weekend, mostly, was warm and pleasant

But as always after the full moon the weather changed, and boy is it different today 

I woke up feeling ordinary, 

Pretty sure it’s just from a very busy weekend 

I looked out the window and saw it was raining pretty hard

So I made the instant decision to just go back to bed 

I wasn’t in the mood to swim 

So I’m now sitting on the couch working on my new blanket 

It’s called autumn harvest 

It’s a big blanket, I’ve added stitches and I’ve added a few extra repeats 

I’m hoping by the time it’s big enough to cover me it will be really cold and it

Will keep me snuggly and warm 

I hope the weather is nice where you are. If not. Stay inside and keep crafting 

For tigger

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Tigger asked about the borders  on my mosaic blanket 

Here is a very simple tutorial first you do a slip stitch border all around the blanket 

You can see both sides 

You then use this border to pick up the stitches and make one Double crochet (us) into every stitch 



Go all around and make sure you do two stitches with a Space  in the corners 

You then do the same on the other side 



As you can see you now have one border on each side and the ends are sandwiched between the two 



You then do a final round of single crochet(us) using only the two middle strands of the “v” 

It seals the ends between and finished off the blanket nicely 

There are clever people who will do mosaic in the round for each side of the borders, but I haven tried that as yet 

So there you have it. No more seeing in ends 

I do knot the ends and then trim them so they fit nicely into the envelope created by the twin borders

A simple and clever idea 

Hope this had helped 

Moving right along

Chris came over and started work on the path from the back gate to the chicken coop. 

I wasn’t fussed about a path  really. But the boys wanted me to have one. They are going all out to make it nice for me. 

Chris takes such pride in his work. This I think will help his business explode 

The soil was used to start building up this area 

We will enclose it and it will become my small orchard and veggie patch. I’ve got passion fruit vines to grow on the fence. I’ll but some dwarf trees during winters bare rooted sakes snd next year plant pumpkins 



The chickens ate setting in. And now come running when they see me. I’m the nice lady who feeds them 



I finished the baby blanket 

If you didn’t know the pattern you wouldn’t know the big boo-boo 

My masseuse’s niece is having a baby girl so I’ll gift this to her. I hope she likes it 



Hubby had gone out to finish weeding around the trees we will feed them and bed them down for the winter 

The birthday girl is being dropped off today so her parents can get the house ready for her party tomorrow 

Which means I need to get up and get going. I’m still in my pj’s 

The big one

Happy birthday to this little bundle of cuteness 

How are you one already  

Your little personality is already shining through 

Your so very cheeky, but so very loving 

Grandma and grandpa love you so very much 

We are so blessed to watch you grow. 

Changing climates

Those of us that grow plants have already seen the changes in our climate. 

The apricot tree was losing its leaves and I was planing a big hair cut for it 

  

But we’ve had unseasonably warm weather and the confused tree has begun to sprout new leaves 

The bulbs are dying back 

But the sweet pea is re-sprouting 



My chicken grazing pots are doing well  



The tamarillo are coming along nicely. I might try and take cuttings this year 



My poor pumpkins don’t know what’s going on. The vines were dying off but now have more green leaves and flowers 





The eggplants are still producing so I’ll keep harvesting until the stop 



The brassica that were planted first are doing very well kale and I think cauliflower are in these beds 



So definitely a confusing time for my plants 

So because they don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do. I won’t pull

Anything out until they have definitely gone to god 

I guess I’ll just be grateful that I’m

Still producing food for the table 

One thing

Leads to another. Have you ever noticed that 

I was given yet more grappa so off I went to get lemons 

My son suggested I trie to make some orange flavour orangecello 

So I did. Oranges are cheaper than lemons. They come in bigger bags so the bigger jar had the oranges 

After that I decided to make jam. I also was given some passion fruit so I added most of those to the jam. 



I had too many just for the jam so I made a passion fruit cake 



Right now cake is in the oven. Jam is bubbling away and the grappa has been put away to stew 

This is how it’s so very easy to overdo 

I promise I’ll rest once this is all done 

Until dinner time anyway 

Trixies post

Mummy is very tired and in lots of pain 

She has been very busy and is now paying for it. 

So to make her sit and rest I’m sitting on her so she can’t get up 

I take my job of looking after her very seriously, I even spent all last night cuddling her to help her

 with her pain And anxiety 

She will hopefully feel better and be back soon 

Making it pretty

We have some spoon bowl drains to help keep the paddocks dry. 

They’re not the most attractive so onto Pinterest i went and got a few ideas 

I showed hubby and he agreed so he got some  river rocks 

I got some  plants 



And turned boring old drains into 





River beds 







He did all the hard work. But I did bring two loads of rock over to him in the front end bucket of our tractor 

It looks so much nicer and will look even better when all the plants grow 

Still have lots of ideas so stay tuned 

You never know what will happen next around here