Today

 we are over at Boronia at Eves place helping her son clear out the house, he has done a lot,  but there is a huge lot still, to be done. There is a skip coming  tomorrow so we have stopped for today as we are really just moving things from one spot to another. Tomorrow things will go out the door. Eve had huge collections of things but also alot of just in case stuff.

This is the room I have been working in, all the cabinets in the centre of the room and book shelves and boxes need to be gone.

Eves craft room, quite a lot has gone but there is a heap  more to go. Chris is hoping to have the house on the market in two weeks! Big job for him. There is a man here now who is looking  at taking some of Eves books  there are over 2000 of them in various bookshelves. Eve loved her books, you can find books on any subject here.

I have spent the last few evenings filling the hexie box. The plan was to sew tonight but I am a bit tired now,  I am not sure if the needle will see the light of day!

The hearts are going ok,  I had to change the zig zag stitch size to a slightly larger one as I kept missing  bits, I will have to go back and do some patch up hand sewing later.

Artfully arranged on my sewing machine, not!! 😁😁😁 I have another seven rows to attach, the bottom border needs to go on and it will be nearly done.

I am off to enjoy a G& T outside in the cool now.

Happy stitching.

Life's ups and downs

A good friend of ours Eve, passed away just over a week ago, it was sudden and not expected but Eve did not suffer, had no long lingering illness or dementia, so for that we can be thankful!

Eve and Basil the Bad a few years ago when we were out and about finding garage sales.

I went for a long walk this morning, past the nesting galah, who had popped out to see what I was doing, while I was watching to see what it was doing!!

I tried to get a close up photo, but between extreme zoom lens, the wind and my shaky hand I nearly chopped the poor galah off!

These guys, I think they are oyster catchers, were down in the shallows are were being chased by another two oyster catchers, maybe these were the girls and the others the boys?? I have no idea!!

I went walking along the track on Edwards Point, have not been down here for a long time

stopped and read some of the signs

enjoyed the views and avoided the puddles left from last nights rain

crossed the salt marsh on the board walk.

and cam out on the beach.....the timed exposure didn't know where to focus!

the wind was waving up the water

Off I go along the beach heading back home.

on the way I stopped and picked another big bunch of freesias

back home they went into one of Mum's rose vases.

Some tidying has happened in the sewing room, mainly because we have been switched onto the National Broadband, it happened over a week ago we had internet but no land line. The tech came today and said we were operating on the wifi from the sim card in the new modem box...I was confused by this point!! He tried to connect the land line and then said we hadn't been connected properly, so off he headed down the road to a box under ground, back he came, yes her said we had not been connected properly. He said there are some right duffers working for the NBN, but thank goodness for that as they keep me in a job!! o now I can happily say we are really connected to the internet and we have the good old fashioned landline working!

Yesterday I did some free range quilting on this beautiful applique Ingrid gave me. I just have the squirrel to go...one of today's jobs!

Oops, the not so tidy side of the room...hee hee. The Supervisor has been following me from room to room...when are you going to settle woman he is saying!

a blurry photo of secret sewing, I need to finish it  and get it in the post. Can show more later.

The next Old Time Kaleidoscope is under way, kind of hard to see on the stable table, this one has been a challenge to sew together the right way, but I am slowly getting there.

Ok I am off to do the things I should have done two hours ago.

Happy stitching.