The reason I've been quiet. I had a stupid fall on the 1st of October on the footpath in front of next door, hurting my chest/rib area and taking a chunk out of the heel of my hand. Lucky I didn't smack my face into the path. Turns out I had 3 cracked ribs & severe bruising too. I'm OK now & although we still got to do a few things during late October, the weather has been utterly vile. It's rained all day here today with quite a gusty wind. Although we've not had the amount that has hit some parts of N.S.W., it's still nothing like a normal late Spring. When it has warmed a little, the humidity has been extreme. Enough of my moaning and let's see some photos I've snapped when we did manage to get outside.
The Garden.
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The azaleas flowered well, but then smashed by the rain. |
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The wisteria and wonga vine both looked lovely but left a frightful mess on the steps. |
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My snowball bush was gorgeous with some of the biggest balls, but with the heavy rain, the weight of the sodden flowers nearly broke a couple of branches. They survived intact luckily. |
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Dutch iris were lovely. |
Walking.
We have decided to tackle The Great Southern Rail Trail & have done 2 small legs so far. I'll just post what we did for the first part.
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One of the signs with some information. We started from Leongatha and headed towards Koonwarra, but only went as far as Gwyther Siding.
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At the start of the trail, we passed a Tyre Service with the hugest pile of tyres I've ever seen. |
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Further along we passed this row of columns, but no information was available to say what it had been. |
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Farming countryside. |
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We didn't have to give way to any stock, though we saw plenty of cattle. |
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As far as we went on the first day. We think after we turned and went back, we'd done about 8kms. |
WATER.......
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A small court near to ours, where a creek runs under the road and as you can see, it had other ideas one day and this is what it looked like. It's definitely been "wet" of late.
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Quilting.
I have kept busy, although it's been slow going. I managed to do a small wall hanging for a bit of a challenge for myself & something someone mentioned I might like to join in with, though everyone else had started long before me, so I did simple, small & fun.
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The challenge was a Churn Dash quilt, but I played with a block I'd seen "somewhere" & done a quick sketch and ended up with my Churn Dash Twist. This photo was taken at the community garden in Braeside Park. |
I had one on the machine when I took the tumble and finally managed to finish it a few weeks later. I have shown it unquilted.
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I've still not really named this, but had called the pattern when I designed it Gee Whiz. (silly) |
Lastly I popped this one below on the machine yesterday & had it off by lunch today. The blocks were made many years ago from a Judy Martin pattern, but I just couldn't get it quite right, so only made a few, then cobbled them together and came up with this. No binding as yet.
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Empire Stars. |
OK, that's enough from me today as it coming onto near teatime and I've other things I need to do.
Hope somebody may read this, as I'm wondering how many people still want to follow along after my absence. I hope to pop back on with some more rail trail walking soon, especially if weather clears up a bit.
Until next time, take care all and hugs to all.