Head in the Clouds – Feet in the Dirt
Traipsing through life in NW Tasmania
How did it get to be May already? Really!
Still lucky to have tomatoes in the last month of autumn coming along.
I picked some fresh herbs that went into a spaghetti bolognese tonight – turned out pretty nice (with the added advantage of leftovers!)
Fingers crossed for some nice weather tomorrow!
Cheers!
Hello! Doesn’t this look like great weather? Funny – it went through stages of perfect sun and skies, then in typical Tassie fashion, poured!
Not a great day for getting into gardening, but enough dry spots to get out and do a few things… Like take Pip for a wheelbarrow ride
Seriously – the best 15 minutes wasted of the day!
Apparently this new wheelbarrow doesn’t hold the terrors of the old one! (Which he wouldn’t go near if it was in motion!) We went all around the yard and when I stopped he thought he was going to settle in for a snooze!
However, the purpose of me being outside with the wheelbarrow was to stock up the wood at the back door – so eventually I had to evict him and get on with my work
Then a few minutes to appreciate some autumn flowers
I got back down into town to post a couple of things – notably my Mothers slightly late b’day present that I finished off.
She did tell me not to post it and just give it to her in November when we meet and go to Japan – but I am all excited I finished it and its too difficult to wait that long. So I accidentally put it in the post. In a few days I will get a phone call with a small lecture about not taking notice of my Mum 😀
It took me a while to find the colour wool I wanted. Mum had asked for something with pink in it, but it was hard to find anything that was not ‘teenage girl’ pink. I think this is rather lovely – Hopefully I have chosen right!
I started this one with no good reason – and I KNOW I am going to regret the ambitious colour changes. Its going to take an eon to sew in all the threads!!!
Other things I have been working on are face washers. I plan to take them to Texas as presents. I just have to weave in the ends and they are done. A friend is doing me another two. Â I figured Texas was too hot to knit my friends scarves, gloves and beanies, so face washers are useful. Its just the time it takes to do these!!! Forever!!! (Small needles and thin cotton!)
There is a big yarn sale on at a local shop – just acrylic, but its a nice soft one. I couldn’t resist getting some new colours!! Just making some cozy cuffs! The one pictured above is nearly finished as of tonight. They grow a lot more quickly than the face washers!
Most of these projects are worked on in the evenings when Jeff and I have finished dinner and are watching a movie. (Got to multi-task!)
Hope your day is fabulous!
Cheers
Hello! This was my late lunch. Hot chocolate, cheese, bikkies with a dollop of sweet chilli sauce on top!
It was a fiddly kind of day. The weather wasn’t much – not inspiring to work outside. But I did have to go into town and fix up several bank-like tasks – depositing car money, ordering US dollars, cancelling car insurance, dropping off the car disposal notice… blah blah… shopping… That kind of thing.
I discovered something about myself today – why every now and again I get totally titchy about running a house/yard etc. Its the little things. Not hard jobs, just seemingly mountains of five minute jobs that have to be attended to that stops me from spending all day or even half a day being able to concentrate on a single project.
They are just so pesty to my mind! Some I enjoy, some not so much, but all of them are small tasks that pull you from here to there and by the end of the day it really doesn’t look like you have done much at all! Does anyone else get that or does no-one actually have any idea what I am rabbiting on about?? haha
One of my unfinished projects – compiling a little housekeeping book with recipes and budget ideas for the Texan Bride to Be.
I finally spent a couple of hours yesterday making a start on it – and grabbed a few more minutes today to add a couple more recipes.
I guess its all the other jobs that seem to eat my day away run along the lines of – Washing up, water the hothouse, feed & water the chickens, put the bread on, clean the kitty litter, empty the compost, find scraps and return to chickens, washing up, top up firewood, put shopping away, and a heap of other non-noteworthy five minute tasks that never seem to end!
It doesn’t help I am NOT naturally organised and tidy – but I would rather get my teeth into one big all-day project than all these (essential) small tasks.  (Really – how do people with CHILDREN survive????) 🙂
Oh well… its a first-world problem isn’t it? I need to work on more strategies to keep the house and those tasks under control rather than stringing them out all through the day with no time left to work on the fun stuff.
I did gather some change that was floating about the house to donate to Connie’s Big Heart Project Love Your Sister is an amazing family who are throwing themselves into raising money for cancer research. Cancer seems to effect all of us in some way or another – no family seems immune these days.
Hopefully tomorrow I will get to spend a little time in my much neglected garden – just have to wait and see what the weather decides!
Cheers
