Spring is in the air

The days are getting warmer and longer, though the evenings and mornings are still quite cold.

The daffodils in my garden are even alluding to spring

I planted some more strawberries… there are never enough strawberries for Boo!

 Now I am waiting for everything else in the garden to burst back in to colour.

The roses are transplanted, pruned and beginning to shoot.

The camellia is full of buds and one or two giant red blooms are already there.

Bring on spring time!

Time Out and an Egg

In a 3 minute 'time out' at our house, this is just one of the many things that may emerge when the timer rings signalling 'you can come out now'



The urchin with the inside out jacket then deems to ask in a caring way "Did I make you happy now"?

This was a post for during the week (before the Slide)! I could have used it another time but would have to edit the school sores out!

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Would you like to hazard a guess as to what happened here? Note - sunglasses inside the mower.




I was mowing the lawn under the trampoline (picture trampoline standing on its side), the Fremantle Doctor pays a visit, and wham the trampoline upends the industrial model lawn mower (thanks J for speeding up my gardening time), and just about knocks me unconscious.

Lucky for me, the lawn mower was off (it drives itself and weighs at least 100kg), and I was bending down emptying the catcher. I hate to think, what would have happened if I was standing and the mower was on??? The catcher is already very dented from all the collisions I've had!!!

I am nursing a very big egg on the back of my head, and a bruised shoulder but I'll live to fight another day!

Where did it go???

I'm talking about the past week. Where exactly it went I have no idea??? But its gone, disappeared, vanished!

I concede Monday and Tuesday were dedicated to work, Wednesday was used for housework, Thursday was designated to the termite man, and Friday was given to cleaning up after the termite man!

As well as giving the termite man a lot of money, a lot of time was spent cleaning the dust he left, and wiping away his dirty hand prints!!! Hopefully we won't need to worry about termites again for the next 10 years.

Tuesday evening I went to a parenting class. I have been doing the Three Choices Parent Course the last two weeks and have one more session this week. Its been very interesting, and even more interesting implementing this at home! Boo's daycare use these methods so she is used to these techniques already but wasn't overly thrilled to have this carried over at home. I thought she'd be quite resistant but as the instructor mentioned its usually the kids you expect to resist are less resistant. I must say though there has been less arguments, and no shouting (not that we do a lot anyway)!

On Wednesday my computer was hit by a host of trojans and spyware, and was in major go slow mode and was not keen on connecting to the net. Hopefully I have removed all the evil beings now!

This morning Boo and I spent in the garden mowing, and fixing the reticulation. Until Boo decided we needed a tea break - she really meant we aren't doing any more at the moment!

I also applied for a new job overseas on a bit of a whim. It's an idea I've been toying with for awhile, so will have to wait until the end of October to see if I even get shortlisted

Blossoms

Remember that dwarf peach tree from last month? Yes, the one that looked like a stick in the ground. Well this is what it looks like today. Even after the wind and rain of yesterday knocked a fair few of the petals off.




The apricot tree is just starting to bud now but still looks like a large stick at this stage!

Fruit Trees

Miss Boo loves to work in the garden and seems to have a tiny green thumb! Of course Boo loves it when her plants provide her with things to eat, though she's very happy with her pansies that are beginning to flower at the moment as well.

When we moved to our new house in April, Boo was promised an apricot tree (apricots and strawberries are her very favourite foods). Last month we removed a tree to create a spot for the apricot tree, however we had to wait until this week before stone fruit trees arrived from over east. So yesterday we went to buy our Boo's apricot tree, we Boo also decided to get a dwarf peach tree as our Boo's dwarf nectarine from last year is doing so well and provided us with one extremely yummy nectarine!

They don't look very impressive at the moment, but roll on spring when they start blossoming