We made it to our favourite Mullaloo beach this week, for the first walk on the beach of summer. I get such joy from walking right down near the water's edge on the wet sand in bare feet. There is something so relaxing about it! We always smile at the young families bringing their babies down for their first beach experience- the babies are often quite overwhelmed. When they come back as toddlers they run straight towards the water!
We are so lucky to live close to the beach! The weather is certainly heating up here -we had 40C the other day.
There is a eucalypt in flower on the way to the shops. Look at how pretty the pink gum caps are -and that flower with the deep green centre is a stunner. The flowers are low enough for me to see as I walk. I would like to use this colour palette some time for a quilt - I think it could be spectacular with the right pattern.
I have got the top of my quilt sewn up this week. Yesterday I took it outside so that I could pin it together. It fitted the table, and was such an enjoyable experience -so much easier than doing it on the floor. I am going to start the quilting this week coming. This will be a wall hanging.
We are picking blueberries and watching the tomatoes ripen.
My current Nanowrimo word count: 18000. On track at this stage to finish the goal of 50,000 words by November 29.
DH and I have sorted our clothes and discarded a huge pile. The good ones we have sent to an op shop (charity shop) nearby. We had this sudden realisation that if we had less clothes, we could get away with fewer chests of drawers when we get around to re-modelling our bedroom. Up till now we have been stuck with wanting to have lovely wooden chests of drawers -part of our commitment to buy second hand and good quality -but they all seemed small. Well, maybe we just had too much stuff! I am now more confident we can get what we need this way.
DH finished blow-torching the weeds in the paving -was it last Christmas or the one before I bought him a special gardening tool which uses a flame to burn weeds? Anyway, it is, while quite slow and a bit stinky (just the smell of burning leaves) it does work very well and gradually the weeds are becoming less and less out there.
That is my week. How is yours going?
1 comment:
We are in the throes of Autumn here so colder temperatures, lots of rain, frosts and very little growing in the garden. We are off to a Martinmas celebration with friends we were hoping to do a lantern walk but it looks to be too wet for that! We have a birthday to celebrate here this week so we are hoping for a break in the rain to allow for some birthday mountain biking with friends.
The colour combinations of those flowers are beautiful and would make a great quilt.
I would love to live near the beach, especially one as beautiful as yours.
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