Foggity Fog Fog Fog

It seems that the south of WA has been very foggy lately.  We woke up to this pea souper this morning, it didn't clear until after 11am. 

 Eerie and beautiful

 It's rather chilly too

 Even a fog enshrouded Acacia fimbriata in flower is a beautiful thing

as is the Silvereye enjoying nectar from the flower of the Moonlight Grevillea behind the shed

 Our little Navel orange tree has surpassed itself this year, look at all that fruit!  It needs to stay on the tree for a while longer though, they are still a bit sour.

The garlic is starting to grow.

Here is Pawly watching what's going on.  He is so named as he was very very poorly as a joey, but he's okay now.  I think his growth was a bit stunted but he starting to fill out now as a five year old.

 This is the mess of the chook yard's nets, they were ripped to shreds by the recent storms and are full of huge holes.  We are going to take it all down and replace it with wire to make it a lot stronger and more permanent.

 We had a ripper hail storm a week ago

 The blueberry plants are appreciating the cold snap, and this variety has put on a magnificent show of colour with its foliage.  Interestingly, only one variety is doing this, the other has still got green leaves. 

 This is my African Violet that was grown from a cutting.  It is very happy sitting in the kitchen window and is rewarding me with lots of pretty, frilly flowers.

 This time of year is good for cooking and stocking up the freezer.  These are Steve's apple and rhubarb pies, it was hard to find space in the freezer amongst the containers of soup, curries and cottage pies that I'd been busy doing.  Nothing better than grabbing dinner out of the freezer for a quick meal.

 Neo is happy, he loves it once we start lighting our fire to keep the house warm.  Here he is atop the bookshelf, his Man Tower, and refusing to put on a cute face for the camera.  He is a very stubborn cat when it comes to photography! :-)

 We dashed up to Perth overnight as it was present giving time!  Happy Happy Birthday to Riley who is now eight!  Riley chose Timezone as her birthday outing so off we went, walking through the park to the shopping complex near Paul's house to  watch a frenzied hour of fun.  This is a basketball hoop shooting thing that the girls enjoyed.

There is another birthday coming up too, our darling baby boy Paul is turning the BIG 30 in a few weeks!  We feel old!  ha ha

I crocheted Paul a lap blanket, I was amazed to find a multicolour yarn that had all his favourite colours in it.  And it's gradient yarn that has lovely gradual colour changes, so it was very enjoyable watching the colour movements as I crocheted it.

 At the beginning of the year, Steve has a lump of sheoak timber and an idea in his head to make Paul a box.  This is the start of the many hours of routing to create the holes within.

 Lots and lot of smoothing, measuring and routing continued

 And this is the end result, isn't it beautiful. 

 Sheoak has the most magnificent grain, photos just don't do it justice.

 And this is what's within when the doors are opened.

 A nice bottle of Glayva - a whisky liqueur, two etched glasses from the Torbay Glass Studio near us, and a little piece of family history - one of Steve's father's pocket watches.

Happy Happy Birthday to you dear son xx

Until next time.... xx