Fishpond Update

Well three days later the poor fish are still in their temporary home, they will be for quite a few days yet.

Their real home has been waterproofed three times so far with this special "stuff" which is fish friendly etc etc.  Then it needs to be cured for a few days before adding the water and then getting it prepared for the fish kids to go home.

So this is how the area is looking now:

Right now I think the fish will never forgive us, though they will be happy in their fixed house I'm sure. Eventually. Hopefully!

Saturday Snapshots

Welcome back to Saturday Snapshots. Glad to see you!

Well, we have had a very exciting day today - the fishpond has been leaking, so we finally got around to removing all the bits, and our friend lifted out all fountain, and we will paint it with waterproof paint, hopefully tomorrow.

the tank/fountain all taken apart.   What fun it was catching all the fish!

This is where our poor babies have to live until their home is repaired.   Have to protect them against birds, hence the cover.

They were in shock for so long! They finally venture out to eat

Tommy has always been frightened of the fish, he can't work out how they survive and jumps backwards each time they move

Priscilla and Tommy got bored, so went cane toad hunting.

join in with your snapshots for the week, and lets make it a happening thing!

PS - Who can see what is wrong with the quilt from yesterday??

Quilt Tops Finished

Yesterday was our Thursday Sewing group, and the girls came over and we all sewed and chatted and laughed for a few hours!

I finished these two:

 A close up of the blocks -

It turned out so pretty

The batik pack produced this

And a close up of some of the pretty batiks.

Both will be single bed size, once they are backed and bound.

Do you like them?

Saturday Snapshots on Monday

We have just had the busiest weekend, and I'm sorry  was unable to find the time to drop by!

But here I am again with Snapshots, even if they are late!

Here are some close ups of the trees in the front garden - the branches are hanging down now, with the weight of all the flowers:

Here are some more photoes of the back garden, we still have been unable to mow the lawn properly, because the ground is waterlogged, and Alan sinks up to his ankles when he walks over the grass! So excuse the weeds:

and of course, a piccie of our gorgeous little girl sunning herself!

Bird Tree

We have this beautiful tree flowering in our front garden at the moment.

I'm sorry I've forgotten the name of it, all I can remember is that it is a rain forest tree! For all the good that does!!

Anyhow, it is covered in the most beautiful yellow flower bunches:

It is looking beautiful alongside the purple flowering bush

This blue headed Supreme Honey Eater loves it also!

Just click on the pictures and you will be able to see them better.

Haircut Day

Today was haircut day for Tommy and Priscilla.

The sun was shining a bit (for a short while!) so off we went down to Linda's house.

Poor Tommy was first - he was being a problem child!

But of course, now he is a handsome boy again!

Priscilla had decided it was time to leave when her turn came, I  had no chance to photograph her afterwards, she was straight into the car and ready to come home!

Linda always does a great job with their haircuts.

Saturday's Snapshots

I'll continue with my Saturday Snapshots and show you what is happening at my place.

 It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring

 Poor old Penelope loves her cat house ( known by us humans as the Bali hut)

He bumped his head on the back of the bed

and he couldn't get up in the morning!!

Rain, rain everywhere!

The garden is inundated

You can see the water lying around everywhere - it can't get away

You can also see that the garden still needs weeding - desperately now

We haven't been able to work over the grass for so long now - the weeds are really taking over, though it should be easy to remove them once we can get to them!