Morning every one, another week has slipped past and not a lot to show for it happening, quilting, garden or creepy crawlies, all though I had the biggest centipede in my bedroom at 2am this morning again my wee dog woke me up trying to catch it. I showed one she caught a few weeks ago this one was twice this size and I felt so sick when I was trying to catch it and contain it, I knew if it bite me I would be very very sick. Hubby could not believe it when he saw it in the jar this morning and took it to work to share???????? I did not even want to take a photo of it!!!! may be tonight if I have recovered LOL.
UPDATE 11.30pm for those of you who like the creepy crawlies?????
Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!
Not a pleasant sight he’s a good inch across!!!!!
This is who visited me at 2am last night in my bedroom, he is very much alive I have just gently lifted the lid to take this photo and then quickly closed it again. I will pass this fellow on tot he UNI.
I have only been plodding on hand quilting and repairing so very little to show quilting wise.
Not quiet finished but only a few more stitches.
Another one block quilted. This block had a couple of wee stains on it which would not wash out so added a couple of bullion roses????
We have had rain the last few days so the place is looking rather dismal and very little colour.
Close up of baby stag horn see how beautifully it wraps itself around this lemon tree
A very young stag horn plant self seeded from the bush I just noticed it this morning, things grow so quickly here one moment they are not there then they are and well developed????
DS put this path in a year ago now it is disappearing in to the bushes that tower above me in less than a year old all self grown local plants from the bush.
A small patch of mini helaconia’s that grow wild here.
It is drizzle ring out side so rather bleak looking in the front orchard
Slowly turning red
last week these were just buds????
Still flowering after 3 months
Off to link up with Esther http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/wow-pink-baby-wip.html
who is showing us how she makes a baby quilt coming up.
Thanks so much for dropping in Cheers Glenda
what a jungle of a yard you have – so many pretty plants that I can just dream off. I would have to be watering plants constantly to have them look like that – we have the heat but I think your humidity much be much, much higher than ours. Such nice old fashion quilt blocks – would hate to see your centipede 🙂 I have a feeling it would creep me out! We have our little lizards and things and get bugs in the house sometimes but most of the time I think they hide and I do not see many that scare me! thank goodness. We did have a hawk in the yard recently that I saw two times – one time it flew to the porch of the work shop and sat there a minute but I wasn’t able to grab the camera fast enough, the next day it came back and went under the work shop and came out quickly and flew away – it had something in it’s mouth – I think a squirrel but I am not sure.
Hi Karen yes our humidity is awful in the wet season especially it is around 80% to 99% and the temperature around 30C plus it feels like you are breathing moisture for the tourists that are not use to it. At present we are actually in the clouds; the whole top of the range where we live is covered in this huge cloud cap, has been like it one and off for the last 3 days, I will be glad when this front moves away and we get the sun back again. We also get many different kinds of hawks and kestrel’s flying above us, one year a pair of kestrel’s nested across the river and we were able to watch them build their nest, but it was to far away to see the chicks but we could see the parents constantly flying in to feed them. Every day we wake to the birds around Dawn till 7am then all is quiet for the rest of the day except for the odd birds coming in to feed depending on the time of the year and what berries are here. Cheers Glenda
You’re making progress on the quilt. I’m glad I don’t find creepies in our bedroom like what you have but it might be worth it to have the beautiful garden you have. We’ve had a lot of rain too. The peonies didn’t last at long as they should have because of it. I’m just thankful it came in rain not in snow! Have a good week.
Morning Gretchen thanks for dropping in. Quilting is slow but it slowly coming together, I made this quilt over 10 years ago and only quilted around the blocks thinking that would be enough, but it was very much loved and was used for a lot more than a bed cover so lots of wear and tear hence all the repair work and I’ve now decided to quilt it a lot more heavily so may be it will last another 10 years LOL Cheers Glenda
Your garden looks so lush and green with all that warmth and then the rain. It must be wonderful to see things grow so quickly and be surrounded by wildlife (although I don’t think I could manage with centipedes coming into the bedroom). Funny to see poinsettias flowering in the garden at this time of year. We just get them as pot plants at Christmas. Is helaconia what I would call a bird of paradise plant?
I was once in New Orleans with humidity as high as you have. I could hardly drag myself around and it did nothing for my fine hair- I looked a mess!
I love to see hand quilting and I am sure your quilt will be fine for many years now.
Yes Catherine it is very very draining the high humidity for those who are not use to it. When I first came to Australia I felt like I could not breath after a dry NZ climate but over the last 50 years of living in it it just seems normal to me and I find the dry climates hard to take????? Your bird-of-paradise plant is one of the helaconia’s we have them from 12inchs high to as high as a two story house. I will try and take a photo of our tall ones we have for next week. They come in all colours from deep red to soft pinks and all shapes and sizes. Cheers Glenda
Gosh – it looks wet and fertile in your photos, Glenda!
I guess that it’s lucky that your dog was trying to catch the caterpillar for your and woke you up, but I’m sure that’s not how you felt when it happened!
Those blocks are looking lovely. Good idea to repair and add more quilting!
HI Plum, at present it is very very wet, we are meant to be in our dry season when we normally or use to have no rain for around 5 months or more, but we have noticed a big change in our dry the last few years it has continued to rain on an off throughout the dry; while the rest of our state is in a drought we are still very very wet. SO every thing keeps growing as the temperatures are still in the 20Cs. Plants here grow up to 2 or 3 metres a year. If we did not constantly cut them back we would disappear in to the rainforest. Cheers Glenda
Oh my goodness I could never live with those monster centipedes we have tiny ones every now and then but having that monster in th bedroom would make me kave a heart attach. LOL love the lush flowers and your quilting is fantastic. Great work.
Hugs Bunny
Bunny when I first came to live in OZ I hated the flies they were every where and in the thousands, I could not even cope with the spiders but then I and babies and the mother protector kicked in, now I have grandees living with us I’m even more protective LOL. Hugs Glenda
My daughter is here for a visit from Arizona so I showed her your blog with all your beautiful flowers in the garden. I didn’t know you had added the picture of the creepy-crawler to the post. She thought your flowers were pretty but didn’t like the ‘bug’. She is just thrilled to see green grass since she is living a desert climate now. She’s also impressed because her ‘old’ mom can travel to other countries via internet!
Morning Gretchen and also a big welcome to your daughter; isn’t it lovely when they come HOME!. Sorry about the creepy crawly, Esther hates them to so from now on I will put them at the bottom of my blog LOL. Yes the Arizona is like our out back which is a HUGE desert too. I have lived out there and I learnt how to use water like liquid gold every drop counts, it was recycled and recycled, not a drop was wasted. No one had a bath out there unless it was out side and filled up when or if it rained LOL. Hugs Glenda
Glenda I might need a warning next time you present us with your creepy crawlies, my skin is crawling! Your garden is always an inspiration, it looks so lush and tropical..but I can’t deal with the creepies! You quilting looks great and I think the bullion roses are a superb touch! well done 😉
LOL. Next time I will put them at the bottom of the page just for you. To tell you the truth it still makes the hairs rise on the back of my neck when I think about it. It was so so big I was just lucky my wee dog woke me up. It has been raining up here since last Dec, I think we are the only area in QLD that is not in drought. But we are so tired of the rain. I want to feel the sun on my face again for weeks on end not just for a day here and there. Take Care Glenda
Oh Glenda, your centipede has just taken me back to Rarotonga and the ones we had there. Large sharp scissors were always at hand for those that ventured inside.
We had a period of severe cyclones – six in six weeks – during the worst one a large centipede climbed into our bed – obviously for safety, Lol.
It found me, two bites on my inner upper thigh later. Steve did say ” why didn’t you get out after the first bite” unfortunately I had jumped up with the first bite, but on top of it!!!
The following day before I could get antihystamines was agony with a thigh twice normal size. It was almost impossible to sit or walk but we were in lock down mode waiting for the worst to pass.
Your garden reminds me of the same time, plant a cutting and wait a year, it is massive – wish it happened here!!
Love your repair work on the blocks, fabulous labour of love.
Hugs Jenny
Oh Jenny what pain you must have been in. Yes Rarotonga has its share of them and cyclones and it is so exposed; we lived there for a while also but 6 in 6 weeks must have put you off living on a tropical Island for good LOL. Every thing does grow extremely fast here in the garden, I use to go out twice a year with a machete but my arms can not do it any more and I have to get the boys to do that when they come home. If we don’t we would disappear in to the jungle. Every now and then you see a place that has been left empty and within a couple of years you can see it slowly disappearing from the road. Hugs Glenda