Yarnivorous

G'day all!  Well sorta g'day.  22 years have passed. It is too warm to grow good peonies in Melbourne. 22 years since Mum passed, but I prefer to say died.  Passed is too gentle a word, it sounds nothing like what she suffered through or we experienced secondhand. Oh dear, red/orange with purple. Shocking, totally shocking. And what a clashing colour combo! Mum would've liked the campanula and the rhodo planted in separate garden beds. Bit of a wussy colour but smelled ok. This rose would've gone down well. I think she would've liked these flowers, especially any she could cut and bring inside.  I've chosen ones that I know she liked to grow or would've liked. Viburnum, snowball tree. This was the closest we got to snowballs in Melbourne. Mollis azalea, like one of the three different colours we had. A stinky rose with stripes. It's weird - I still dream of her, we still go shopping and occasionally...

G'day all! (Dang, no wonder noone has commented on this post - I forgot to publish it!) Things proceed here at the Modest Manor. I am doing a series of pics of the progress on our house, though they really belong on the house blog, where they will duly show up! I have to share this pic with you. It was my Project 365 in 2011 pic* for yesterday. DH's dad has been coming around a LOT and helping with the renos. Here they are working on the deadlock on the new door. I think it gives them both a great deal of pleasure to work together. Today I helped out a bit and did some dyeing (and went to Bunnings and bought Even More Stuff for the house renos. We've spent at least $100 a day for the last week there...). I dyed up a couple of bathsheets for DH - I've tried tie dyeing them. I won't know if it has worked until tomorrow but it was sure fun making a mess (though I did manage to spot orange fibre-reactive dye down the front of my lovely NEW purple tshirt.... Arg...