How exciting that it's spring! Given that we've just experienced what we hope will be The Crappest Winter Ever, the springtime this year is more welcome than ever - bring on the new growth, both literal and metaphorical, I say! My hair's growing back (it feels like a little baby lamb!), we're slowly recovering our energies after the exhaustion-inducing chemo regime, and everything is looking extra sunshiny and new given the deepened gratitude we're experiencing as a result of the last 6 months or so. We've been absolutely revelling in the warm sunny days, picking early raspberries, resting, enjoying spring rains, watching our chickens loving the new shoots of grass, smiling at rosellas in the kennedia, and working working working on the garden - weeding, mulching, harvesting and spring planting yay!
We've also been...
Crocheting veggie tea cozies for lovely gardening sisters,
Crocheting around jar-lid-rings to make bangles for the Mumbulla School Spring Fair,
your bangles are so brilliant! I hope the fair is a great success. So pleased Spring has arrived - I hope the summer ahead brings you such strength, wellness and many beautiful days. Looking forward to watching your next little straw bale house rising - I've just re-read your article in the Owner Builder - such a great story.
ReplyDeleteYou sound in very fine fettle indeed Annie dear. Very excited by the prospect of you building another slightly larger abode. Looking at that clay makes me wonder why you don't go for a mud bricker/pise perhaps. It looks so good. Anyway whatever you both decide will surely be the best. Enjoy the springtime. We certainly are as the thermometer in the back yard climbs above 4C in the mornings and the native plants planted a year or so ago burst into bloom. Your farm looks terrific in the photos. Love to all. Matt xxxx
ReplyDeleteYes indeed Matty, we do have some fantastic soil, though this site is actually more decomposed granite than the clay we came to know and love a few years ago...
DeleteI love the crocheted veggies. So adorable. I look forward to hearing more about your new building shenanigans.
ReplyDeleteSpring sunshine is lovely. It feels like such a treat after the winter doldrums.
Warmer days means t-shirt weather, getting excited about summer veg, wishing the seeds sown would grow faster, laying down more manure and mulch than I could imagine possible, enjoying enough light to pick dinner when I get home from work and generally counting down the days until the first homegrown tomato of the year. Can't come soon enough.
Yes! Aren't the longer days just wonderful!? I was thrilled to discover some little tomato plants that had over-wintered under the shelter of our rampant nasturtiums, that already had some flowers. That first tomato is just the best, isn't it?
DeleteIt is warming up here too at last and we are getting ready to plant and start the garden. Sitting outside way more and PLAYING outside way more. This is how we are heralding spring. Enjoying the amazing sunshine, walking more, going to markets and watching as my brother in law starts to clean the pool. Like you we have been eating outside. Happy Days!
ReplyDeleteWow Jersey milkshakes, I can't imagine a more creamier, buttery milkshake.
ReplyDeleteI miss the goats milk coffees that were sold back on the coast, they were delicious.
I'm glad you are feeling much better, it's amazing what the longer days and the beautiful sunshine can do for your mood. x
Ohhh i absolutely love my kettle and crocheted veggie cosy. It is THE BEST 😚😚
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