Hello from Paradise at present.
Out my kitchen window this morning around 8.30am
Today I have a friend coming at 10am. My after-noon is planned some time in the garden with DGD. She and I are extending her free roam area from the Patio to include part of the garden area; yes she has to help all 18 months of her LOL. Then I want to do make some boiled fruit cakes and date loaves for the Church stall on Saturday.
Well I thought I was going to make cakes and loaves but the gas oven is making a funny noise so will have to wait to see if Hubby can fix it ?????
Our days are picture perfect day after day finally the rain has stopped after 8 months> It is so lovely to be able to wake up each morning and know there will be no rain for a few months and I will be able to clean up the garden which is so over grown now; some of the trees are over 1 1/2 metres high and have grown that high in the last 5 months they need to be cut out before they cover us over and we disappear in to the rain forest. Seedlings in the rainforest sprout constantly and are usually pulled at around 4inches high to keep them under control but we have had an unusually long wet this year, our wet is officially from Nov till April but it just stopped second week in Aug this year so it has been to wet to try and work our in the grounds as the place was water logged which means masses of mosses and leeches????? It does NOT pay to assume in appliqué or quilting??????? My 4th vase pinned in the same spot as vase number 3 but the flower stems are way to short when I went to draw them what had I done wrong????? It does not do to assume????? I assumed the vases for 3 and 4 were the same but NO they are not, one is much deeper than the other at the top. I made both vases at the same time as I only had the one small piece of silk fabric and I did not want to miss place or use the fabric accidentally for some thing else. So I was assuming they were the same and made just the one template. Now I will have to make my stems longer for vase number 4 and add some more leaves and berries I guess!!!!!!
Don’t assume > LOL You can see the difference here???????
I was recently sent a lovely wee card made in the shape of a teapot and cup; I enjoyed it so much I made some up my self to give to two of the ladies who work with me; last week they had their birthdays.
Loved working in wool felt again
Hmm
Back in March I showed you the start of the new swimming pool deck that was been built, but the rain started again and never stopped till a month ago finally the ground has dried out enough to carry on the building.
In March New wooden deck is to be installed but the rain came and then Hubby hit one of the filter pipes and there was more water???????
Best part about the delay is we have a few changes, first been the entrance gate has been moved to the side of the fence making it a lot easier to enter and now no one will fall. Secondly the deck is going to be much longer and wide than first planned?????? This will make it a lot easier to keep clean in the wet season and now the Grandchildren will have some where to lie and sun dry after swimming. 
Yippee decking starting to go down.
Our wild local orchid and a import
Our wild local orchid sadly it only lasts a few days so you have to watch for it or you miss it.
poinsettia poinsettia
Gates removed from around the pavers here so DGD can now venture out in to part of the garden now when she comes to play.
Indi and I uncovered the secret path in the garden today, in the middle of the photo you can see a steps leading up. Look in above photo it is completely over grown!!!!
I built this path for Sai when he was 2 years old he is now 6 and Indi is 20 months old but works really hard helping me garden?????
Sai having fun running around and around the secret paths I uncovered with Indi this after-noon.
Will try and add some more photo’s of the flowers later today when the sun is on them. Off to link with Esther now.http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com thanks so much for dropping in Cheers Glenda