Lately...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lately we've been spending most of our time either at home or at the farm. The cold weather is still hanging around and Chris has been kept busy carting wood for the fire. It's never ending, and we seem to go through a lot!

Chris has been working on the boundary fence with our neigbour for the last month. They've almost finished, and the front section across the front paddock, closest to the road, is almost done too. The kids have had a lot of fun playing in a pine tree across the road while Chris works on the fence. Lucky it's a quiet road.

 

Lately Milly will not let me take pictures of her. She runs away and it's become a bit of a game with me hiding and trying to snap a picture when she's not looking. Cheeky thing.

 

Lately Emmett has been pretty cheeky too, testing the waters a lot actually. I think he's going tobe ready for school next year after all, I did have my doubts a few months ago but he has really grown in that time. He's become more active than ever and gets bored so easily. He's loving animal games, where he pretends to be all sorts of animals, mainly aggressive growling ones!

 

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately, can't seem to stop. I just love seeing a project come together, and the excitement of finishing a project and choosing another. I've made a start on christmas gifts, my goal this year is to make as many presents as I can, so I'm starting early. Usually I leave it to the last minute and don't get much done and then get very frustrated with myself!

 

Lately the kids have been picking me lots of flowers, the orange gazanias that grow everywhere here in our yard and along the road.

 

Lately the days have been getting longer and you can feel that winter is almost at it's end.  Only a couple more weeks and it will be spring!

 

 

 

Weekly Stills ~ Winter Holidays

~One week of school holidays down, one to go. The weather's been pretty bleak here, with clear sunny days peppered between lots of cold, wet foggy and cloudy days. It is winter after all.
Despite the weather, the kids have been spending a lot of time riding their bikes around the driveway, Max even joins in with his scooter.
The girls had been asking to do some craft, so I pulled out the embroidery hoops and taught them them how to do back stitch and now they're hooked on stitcheries! I had tryed to teach them to knit the weeek before, Milly found it too hard, but Leah picked it up fairly easily, a lot easier than crochet anyway. I just have to help her control the yarn while she manouvres the needles. I'm glad they both have a little crafty hobby of their own now that they enjoy, that doesn't involve glue and the entire craft box.
Carting wood seems to occupy a lot of Chris's time lately, but he must like it because I went out the back to find him, just in time to see a tree falling down that he had just cut. Apparently it had to be done right then and there, at that moment, even though it was nearly dark.
I've been doing more knitting than anything else lately, finishing some projects and starting new ones. I can't help but have a few projects on the go all the time! I've been thinking about christmas presents and motivating myself to start making gifts now to avoid extra stress in December. Sounds early, but starting in September last year wasn't early enough! I've done our family christmas present draw for my siblings and all our children and partners, I'm planning on making a lot more gifts this year. I think I'll get started after school holidays...~

1. The wood pile
2.& 3. Leah and Milly working on their stitchery
4. Emmett's gumboots
5. Rosemary in my newly planted little herb garden in an old wheelbarrow
6. Cutting up the fallen tree
7. Milly's 'caravan'
8. I finished the Boat neck Sweater

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Weekly Stills ~ On Rainy Winter Weekends

 

 

 

 

 

On rainy winter weekends we like to stay at home and potter about. Chris will always brave the rain and cold for at least a little while and do some jobs around the yard. This weekend he chopped wood and started building a house for the ducks. He's picking up two new ones on Thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

On rainy winter weekends I like to sit and knit or do some sort of crafty work. I like to sit in the recliner in front of the fire and listen to the rain on the tin roof amongst children's voices.

I like to step outside now and again and breathe in the crisp air and stare out at the mist and fog. There's something a bit magical about fog, especially when it doesn't lift all day.

 

 

 

On rainy winter weekends the kids like to ride their bikes and scooters around and around the deck. The noise drives Chris and me crazy but it's worth enduring for the energy burn that the children desperately need when they've been inside for hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On rainy winter weekends the girls like to do craft, on this occasion water paints were the go. Lots and lots of water painted paper all over the table.

 

Rainy winter weekends are when our little house truly feels like a family home.

 

1 & 2. Early morning fog spread across our yard.

3. Raindrops on the rose bush

4. Still knitting the Boatneck Baby Sweater

5. Burning my 'Pomegranate' candle

6. The rogue scooter rider

7. Milly riding her bike on the deck.

8. The vine on the arbor leading up to the deck is in full winter mode

9 & 10. Water painting

11. I've moved the book shelf back out to the loungeroom. Max loves playing with the bead frame.

 

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Weekly Stills Collection ~ Shearing

 

1. Shearing the sheep

2. 'Riding' the sheep waiting to be shorn. This one's quiet because it was a poddy lamb.

3. Emmett in the yards

4. Leah watching on in the shed

5. The ram. Emmett asked me to take a photo of him so he can show the kids at creche.

6. Max found the whole shearing shed experience amusing.

7. Squashing the wool into the press

8. Max having a ride on the wool table

9. Kevin waiting patiently to chase the sheep. Thank god he's turning out to be a good sheep dog 'cause he's a pain in the butt as a house dog!

10. Leah, stopped to pose for me while helping to move the sheep into the next pen

11. Milly sweeping up the wool, she was pretty handy on the broom and was a great help.

12. Chris throwing a fleece onto the wool table.

 

~ We had glorious weather last week, so shearing went to plan for the 3 days it took to shear all the sheep at the farm. Emmett was beside himself with excitement, he was counting down for a good week leading up to the first day. He spent 2 of the three days out there, and heading up to the house with Chris's mum when he was tired. The girls had a couple of days out there too, then on the third day I took Max out for a look. He was so funny, trying to climb on the sheep and running around the yards, not a bit of fear until Andy the shearer started shearing. Then he was a bit unsure of the noise.

Now that the shearing's over, Emmett is already counting down to next time, such is our farm boy. This week will see Chris cutting a few loads of fire wood, the weather has turned cold and we've lit the fire the last 2 nights. Winter is just around the corner...~

 

How are your easter holidays going?

 

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