sun!!!

 Blue sky and sunshine all day today..and still the chilly breeze. Home is on top of a hill though....

Today was a day for this and that...outdoors!

Tidying a bit in the greenhouse, painting sheds, moving garden shelving, cleaning tbe studio floor, clearing space for a piece of timber to go..

I gave the 3m long timber to the glass artist, along with some matchboarding. He is building a new chook house. 

An almost clear corner!! the thing with castors is upsidedown...and is a wareboard rack. When I moved it had to be cut ..as the Oily one had welded it instead of bolting. 

Now, nearly 20 years after he made it he will be putting it back together again as soon as he can get up here !!

 

steps in the right direction

 Good in the greenhouse...shallots sprouting roots...they'll go out when they really start growing. cherry tomato and hot pepper seeds have been chitting...and we have roots! So they have been put in small pots.

The best of the kale plants got planted out and beetroot and radish sown.

Bad in the greenhouse. One pane properly broken. But it had been on the way out anyway. I have a spare.

On the studio front, I have brought in most of my small tools and stamps...and bits and bobs....fifty years of accumulation needs sorting!!

These are not all...

and relax...sort of!

 Four or five years ago on this day we were mowing the grass for the first time that year...wearing shorts, jandals, sunnies and hats!!

This morning I looked out....no way, too cold!!! 

But the grass did need a trim...and the clouds stopped hiding the sun....

A square of garden  was sorted, loosened and rows made for tatties....all are now planted.. I tried mowing the grass, but my mower has no catcher.  I'd forgotten that I was supposed to have been looking for one...What grass cuttings there were went on the tattie beds.

Then a weeding job, pulling the grass which had submerged the Alpine strawberry ground cover in the currant, blueberry snd goosegog beds.

A nice job in a fairly sheltered corner, sitting in the sun.   The sky stayed clear until sunset.

Another chilly night!

looks like spring

 It still doesn't feel much like spring most of the time!!

A day at the gallery today, and most of the time I had company as we battled to get different items of technology to speak to each other!! 

Success in the end. And enough sales.

The day was capped by the first bus home being four minutes late...enough to miss the connection which has been up to now at least five minutes late going out..but not today !! At least it was only half an hour to the next one (and the one after that is another hour later...) during which time one could observe people of all ages in their finery...and various states of inebriation...as it was Race Day in Ayr today..possibly the Scottish Grand National event. (horses)

I got these two shots on the way down to the gallery.    "tramlines"

and who remembers learning the name of these flowers as "wooden enemies"?!!

comment problems

 I'm getting the little sad face instead of a comments box...or it sits there saying Publishing. ...but it doesn't.

Sometimes copy, leave then return and paste works.

Sometimes going to the web version works, especially with Steve's blog.

Sometimes I just give up!! 

So, Tigger's Mum..I was intending to publish this comment...and it wouldn't even let me add it as a reply to another comment!

"replying here as I'm getting the sad face instead of comments box!

They are so quick and elusive. We saw fleeting glimpses when on group bike rides from Blenheim.

Have you seen the Kāhu or Swamp Hawk? We used to see that heading either south on the edge of town past the trading estate or. going towards Rarangi"

Normal service will probably return soon enough..this is Blogger after all!!

Anniversary

 Pirate left two years ago..it seems an age yet no time atall.

So not much done today. Being quiet.

I needed and wanted a walk..but the weather didn't agree until teatime!!

I didn't go the whole way round..it was muddy enough where I did go!!

Photo #5 is the classroom for the local school and groups. The last one is the hide with bird feeders to the left. A pity they didn't make it two sided as deer go across the space behind!

gothic?

 gallery duty today....good sales...including one of my bud vases!!