Parent Visit!

Hello!
After some frantic cleaning and sorting, I was ready for the folks to drop in!
They were only here a week but it was really lovely to see them and hang out and catch up.

Tassie turned on some fabulous weather the first day or so…
It did go slowly downhill after the first day but at least we got a gorgeous day on the beach!

And another day of much more blustery weather!!

I was able to show and tell my amazing carrot growing skills!! (Don’t mind my glamorous look here haha)
This carrot actually went home with them and they’ve been showing it off around the village and getting some great comments and reactions!! So funny.

While they were here, I got my Dad to help me put in the hothouse watering system! Its been on my ‘gunna’ list forever and I thought it would be a good Dad-Daughter project!

Haha…Mum stepped in as occupational health and safety officer when it came to pouring boiling water down the pipe (helped to straighten it out.)
For some reason she insisted on a funnel and tongs.
Dad and I were ready to just be living on the edge.
Dad was probs happy… was his hands after all!

Bits and bobs ready to go… and more boiling water to soften ends to put in the elbow pieces etc

I am so excited to have this done

Its going to make life during summer so much easier!
And because the old hothouse has lots of holes, Dad found the right spot to poke the connecting piece out the side so the hose wont have to be dragged in through the door

I’ve already been using it. Trying to re hydrate the soil in there which will help as I need to plant pretty soon.

I am happy to report that our firewood lasted enough to mostly keep the parents warm during their visit. So lucky that Cousin Jeff dropped off a couple of loads.
Dad enjoyed reading in the lounge room with the fire all nice and cosy

When I was in Japan I bought some material for Jeff. I posted it up to Mum and she, being the brilliant seamstress she is, created three beautiful work scrubs for him, which she finished off and brought with her.

You’ll possibly recognise these favourite characters of ours from the Kyoto temple -originally drawn over 600 years ago!
The little bit of black on the sleeve was put in while Mum was here using a bit of black silk that was given to Jeff by a patient when she found out that he was interested in Japanese materials/silks!! Very special.

Super cool owls

And our ever favourite dragonflies!
He is definitely the snazziest nurse on the ward!

Their time went quickly but we really enjoyed a relaxing week of catching up, chatting lots, enjoying the fire (Every time I put a log on Mum would stay up later to enjoy the extra warmth haha)
We only did a couple of visits – when they return with a car in nicer weather and stay longer they’ll do the rounds of the cousins.
We were given some nice steaks and I also had the wallaby mince so we made some nice dinners too… and drank a lot of wine!!!!

Today the weather perked up again so I thought I should get into the raspberry patch and prune the canes and cut out the dead ones.
Such a tangle!

(Oh and chop down that tree!!!)

Of course the girls had to get involved!

The snap doesn’t really show the after effect that well but it is a lot less of a mess. I couldn’t restring it properly as the clothesline wire was snapping. Its clearly had its day so I’ll need new stuff to finish that off.
Plus I will need to net before mulching otherwise those feathery darlings will just kick it all out everywhere!

Here’s hoping for continued better weather so I can get more of the garden on its way!
xxx