Hot days make me grateful for our plentiful water

It's summer here .. bigtime!
The weather has been hitting 40 degrees and over every day this week ... yuck.  So ... when I can I'm doing officework in the air conditioning... homeschooling in the air conditioning ... or gardening in a VERY shady place.

This week we had to go into Julia Creek on Wednesday for an Activity Day and Bravehearts workshop and it hit 45 degrees... wow ... it was like walking around in an oven all day.

I've never been more thankful for having such a wonderful water supply at home as we do and as you can see it certainly looks cooler when you use the water to keep your garden going!

Our daily northern view {including the flying fox the kids play on}

southern view {nice dead tree huh?}

south west view {with the good old 'Hills Hoist}

northern view {old tennis court which is hard to see among the trees}

north western view

... and our 'no maintenance' pool ... which the kids love ... {me too}

and for some fun ... here's Tango playing in my old 'Louis Vuitton' knock off bag

awww... 'doggie bag' ... who couldn't love that face ???  gorgeous Tango - we love him! xxx

~ being grateful for the little things ~

thursday ... in the garden and the studio.

... so this is our 'driveway' ...

I did a walk around the garden this afternoon and am always surprised by what grows here ... pictured above - my stunning ginger plant ...

 

... i think we're in for more rain soon ...

... chillies growing in the vege garden ...

... yes... these are home grown pineapples!!! they take about 2 years to grow, but it's so exciting to watch them ...

... our mock orange tree is in full bloom and smells divine ...

... this is a little paw paw tree that's come up - so exciting ... I LOVE paw paw ...

... pretty creeper on the back fence ...

... pink alamanda near our 'butcher shop' ...

... i think this one is a weed... but I love it! ...

... I've got a succulent ivy growing in my newest favourite pot (Christmas Present) ...

... and after preparing dinner and organizing my homeschooling for tomorrow, I managed to get a few pieces of ribbon stamped!

... sepia French mules ... ooh la la ...

... and tea dyed green apple stamped fabric ... Paris Postmarks ... all in all - a productive day ...

Hope you had a good one...






 ~ find something beautiful every day  ~

garden day... sort of...

my plan this week is to attack the garden section by section, therefore, decreasing the chances of 'sore cutting hand' and aching back/neck from leaning over for too long.  we have quite a large garden and i tend to cut it up into north, south, east and west.

also since summer is pretty much upon us here, i'll be choosing the time of day to get out there depending on where the 'shady spots' are.   just finished my first productive hour cutting back lots of bouganvillea so should have my 'tuck shop lady arms' (the flappy bits ... aka.. triceps...) back into shape by next week.

stay tuned...


time for a cuppa and now to the the officework!   waahhh... where is Starbucks when you need one???

via Pinterest

~  find something beautiful every day  ~