Beautiful sunny day today

This morning I checked my emails and saw Chooky was having a zoom for an hour so quickly got my things together and joined in.

It was lovely to catch up with everyone.

 Summer has returned again today and it is quite hot. I did some gardening this morning and came in for lunch looking like tomato face!! 

I cleaned off the table on the front deck and sandwiched two quilts out there, it was a bit breezy but not too bad

I can hear many boats and jet skis out on the water.

Yesterday I went to the quilt shop in Gisborne and did a class with Irene Blanck, she is a wizz with applique. I have had a project of hers for many years so decided it was time to relearn applique and get it made.

Irene helped me with the curved seams and did the beak as a demo, there are a few more circles to add before this part is finished.

I have also finished the binding on two quilts

Such a good feeling to have them finished.

Last weekend we went to David's niece's 30th at her place in Wonthaggi. We stayed in a cabin at the campground at Kilcunda. Sometimes, well most times, this is a very windy place as the southerly wind hurls straight of the ocean, but we struck a beautiful weekend.

Friday evening I had a beach walk

Saturday morning we went for a bike ride along the rail trail

me following hubby

we stopped to look for a cache and found some kangaroos watching us

and I finally found the cache, thank goodness!

I had another ride, early afternoon before we went out, the trail went inland away from the coast, I was looking for caches but saw a snake so that changed my mind pretty quickly!

View to the ocean heading back.

The figs are ripening on the tree and I can't do much with them, but I did see a recipe for fig vodka, which was a bottle of vodka put into a large glass container, then you add three cups of washed, chopped figs, give it a swirl around and put it in a dark place. I was supposed to swirl it each day, but often didn't remember. It was in a  cupboard for 7 days, then I took it out and strained it off. I had a taste the other day and it is pretty good!

I think that is enough from me for now 😄, it is fish and chip night at Adam and Beth place, hopefully by the time I get there the footie will be nearly finished 👍.

Happy stitching and have a wonderful week.

Heading home

We headed home Monday late morning and stopped at Kilcunda to have a walk along the rail trail and look for caches, it was a beautiful morning, no wind to speak of.

Views from the rail trail.

I was  under the trestle bridge looking for a cache, was one of the few I found 

Back at Sorrento the ferry was coming in, we were home by about 4.30. I have sewn on some more hexies but no photo yet.

Off swimming this morning. 

Happy stitching.

Weekend away

We have been at Harmers Haven for the weekend visiting family,  they have had a large amount of rain here do plans I had for geocaching have been put on hold as in some places there is too much water and muddy ground.  I should have brought my gumboots! 

On the way here we stopped briefly at Kilcunda 

the Ocean was rolling in and it was pretty windy.

we found evidence if wombats while looking for caches

the wind farm was operating in the distance 

I had a look at Williamson's beach, fishing was happening, this young boy had just caught a fish, he was so excited 

from here I went to Wreck Beach, a ship went onto the rocks here back in the 1800's, luckily everyone survived

I looked in the sandhills fir a cache here for ages but could not find it! 🙄!

one cache I did manage to find! 

I had a chat to the animals here for a while,  had my dog fix

Basil thought he was in trouble because I asked him to sit and stay! I got to meet the cat

She usually lives in the big shed, she has to keep rodent population down!

A little more stitching happened late afternoon and evening. 

I am off to start the day, we are heading home today but are stopping at Kilcunda to try and find a few caches on the rail trail and to look at the trestle bridge.

Happy trails.