this and that........

Saturday's sewing on zoom was Miss Elizabeth again..............

Just joining hexies to add to the sides of my panels............

more stormy skies.......4 mm sat afternoon and 8mm yesterday afternoon.........more rain forecast this weekend into next week...........I will be gone on retreat by then so all good hopefully......

Hmmm  what projects to pack.........its not like I don't have a list a mile long..........

So what's your "must not forget" item when going on retreat?????

Or

"your favourite thing" to take on retreat????

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue.........

Early bird catches the worm..........

 Well if you live downunder you will need to be up bright and early............
I'm hoping the Chookshed Stitchers can gather on zoom from 6am-9am my time Sat morning....(sorry Maria) 
The times are better for UK Europe now to join at the start.........

but as the saying goes "the early bird catches the worm" so Aussie girls need to be up and on early or miss out.........

the town river decided it needs to have a big flood like most rivers in western NSW at present............so many places flooded or completely inundated with water.....lots of road closures.......some towns isolated let alone farms isolated.............this river powers along when in full flood.........

And once again the creek is giving me water views at home........Lucky I don't need to drive thru it..............

Just a reminder also.........if you want to get my posts via email please leave a comment here or click in the "contact form" on the right sidebar of my blog............I've had a couple of girls realise they were not getting my posts anymore via email and asked to be added this week............

I just have my own email list I send it too now.......that way the only failure is me forgetting...........
Still a million years behind........
Catch you later.............

Chookyblue...........

Bridget, Chookshed Stitchers and storms..........

Someone found her way into the garden..........and she brought her baby with her...........

Hippeastrums are looking gorgeous...........

great time catching up with the Chookshed Stitchers again.........it had been a little while since we met last............

numbers vary all day.............so many time zones its always interesting to ask what time it is.........some pop in and say good morning or good night........and others say the reverse back........lol

I worked on Miss Elizabeth..........

Slowly you can see there was progress.........

two rows of diamonds added and started to join two sections.........

Last night we had a phenomenal light show..........it was close to constant flashing..........

the gap of light below isn't a reflection (on water) it's underneath the clouds...........

I was going to upload a video but I cannot work out how to get it here and I am heading to bed...........

it was so still for ages I sat and watched it at my front window and you could hear the crickets and frogs..........went out several times and took some videos and photos............we got 20mm.........

The Churn Dash SAL is waiting in the wings.....to much other stuff happening and I could not get the other fabrics so pretty frustrated with that...........maybe i'll get it done by the end of November.........the weather situation better change as so many roads are closed in my part of the world due to flooding..........at present it would add minimum 1hr extra to go to my retreat next month.........some will be open soon but it would not take much for them to close again............and we are in laNina......and she sure is strutting her stuff at present...........

I did fix all my work shirts that have stupid button positions and added an extra button at the bottom..........they look so much better..........gosh people make crap clothes now days.......I managed to work out how to do a button hole again it's been years and I must say they look great.......Lucky Peta reminded me to pin across the end when cutting the button hole open.....I didn't stuff one up and cut it too far..............

Catch you all later.............

Chookyblue........

 

Storm and a bee......

Storms floating around the last few days..... We've managed to miss the heavy falls so far........

I captured the little buzzy friend below.... The bees love this succulent..... It only has tiny flowers but they must be good ones.....

I potted up a pile of pot plants today.... Some for work and repotting some for home.....One peace lily plant is now 5......

i have since trimmed the dead edges......

The skies been interesting with all the sudden cloud changes.......

Don't forget if you want to join the email list leave a comment here or drop onto the contact form on my right side bar to leave a message.....

Zoom zoom tomorrow so I'm just getting some sewing ready while a storm passes over.......

Extra long weekend with today off..... Nice to potter with the plants etc.....

Catch up on some emails......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Zoom zoom............

 Yes I know I've been quiet...........

I have emails to reply to........I have a pile of blog posts to read and lots of churn dash blocks to make.........

But I need a sewing fix so the Chookshed Stitchers will be meeting this Sat my time..........

If you have not joined us previously your very welcome to join us........

Just need to be a blogger........its not hard to get on zoom.......

Prepare yourself for a BIG session..............

It's going to be a long one.......

tell the husband, dog, kids your busy 

DO NOT DISTURB

Leave a comment if your keen to join in..........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue......

ADDED I'll send link close to the meeting time...........

weather for ducks..........

 LaNina sure is showing her stuff again.......3rd year in a row has officially kicked into gear.........another flood event over last weekend.......the only time I have waterfront views.............the creek sure has been gorgeous..........this was Monday afternoon its very slow to go down at present......... 

we have been pretty lucky so far........some of our region has coped it worse..........rural isolation is major......road closures, flood warnings, more rain forecast tomorrow, not too much but an inch is more like several at present..........big rain forecast again next week...........

We had a quick trip away for an engagement party.........we called in via Burrendong Dam on the way home..........this was about 139% when we called in..........I've not seen this dam full........its a bit off the road so you have to drive in specifically to see it...........before last weeks rain with constant releases they had got it down to 113% and with the rain + Windemere Dam spilled over after 20-30 years, it flows into the Cudgegong River which flows into Burrendong also....So quickly is was back up to 139%.....Burrendong spills into the Macquarie River...........the River near me is the Castlereagh............both the Macquarie and the Castlereagh (plus more) flow into the Barwon then into the Darling then Murray.........see map below.......and the top left of that maps shows you what part of Australia this covers..........it flows down near Jo.........

the floods get slowler and take months to move thru the system as the country is pretty flat.........given it is flat it all spreads out wide once out of the river banks.............lots of crops are currently standing in water.........

Big news.......Bridget has become a Mum.......just one baby..........I wished she had two..........

Delivered a quilt that I thought I was posting so that was wonderful..............

if you know you know...........but it did involve some crazy sewing and two binding lunches with Miss Jules my partner in all things quilty...........

So good to see these girls as the Chookshed got cancelled this year so it's been well over 12 months..........

Lifes been busy with lamb marking - I swear these lambs doubled in size as they went thru the next gate to where I picked them up.............OMG.........stock work is behind with all the wet weather..........

Gorgeous bottle brush flowers in the garden.............

OK best go.........life has just been hectic - you all know what that's like.......

sewing to deadlines, sheep work, town work, both the kids home at different times......no time to blog or read blogs............but thought I best pop in before you send the are you ok messages.........

busy weekend with a family event then i'll do a big shop again Monday in prep for being stuck at home for who knows how long if next weeks forecast comes off.............

Was going away for a couple nights next weekend sewing with some friends but thats been canned......partly due to the fact two if us may not get there with the farecast rain..........

the joy of dirt roads............the weather has a massive effect especially when its many km's not just a short driveway.........best go this turned into a much bigger post than I thought it would................

Catch you later........

Chookyblue...........

a find.....

Last zoom I was trying to work out the range Fairy Girl used in a quilt........

After some discussion I ended up using Google lens.....Who even knew what it was but it helped me find some similar fabric and that lead me to the range in the end....... But it's older than I thought so a quick Google didn't find any yardage for a border.....Kate Spain "Horizon"........ Susan @ Susan's Sewing Space then offers her services of a group she is part of or something like that anyway long story short a lady in Sydney had a piece the size I needed...... Quite frankly I would have nearly taken any of the fabrics but she happened to have some of the green.........Now to find the correct "white" I used to make a border then add this one.........

other then washing and office work I've been whipper snipping the weeds to tame them...... Having been sick and all the rain they got away.......I few times I went to poison then it's been too windy..... Anyway it's looking much tidier........Everything is better when the lawn is neat...........and even better when the weeds are tamed..........

So I still have some to go as my battery ran out...... OMG I love my battery whipper snipper......I could never start the old one with the pull cord....... Push two buttons and she is humming away....... And goes for a good length of time......I just have too much to do at present.......but normally the battery would last the whole time.......Once it's flat i've had enough too......

Once the battery died I moved onto mowing........ The house yard part done I moved onto the outer yard...... It's more like a small paddock...... Mr Chooky took over and finished that then finished inside....... Next I'll do the areas outside the garden fence but that will be tomorrow....... Or Tues early...... Before it rains again anyway........ I'll mow inside before the rain again as we fertalised and with the nice days it's going gang busters........

And exciting news of the weekend...... Chris (Canada) and Kylie a friend are also coming to Scrub Stitchin'....... OMG it's going to be so much fun......

It's going to be a full house but so much fun........

 Only 199 sleeps......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

Contrasts.......

Yesterday afternoon I went to the creek again..........

It was like a mirror almost..........gorgeous.........

Some of you long time followers have commented on the change here..........It sure is worlds away from the 3 years of drought (probably 10 years with little breaks) preceding these 3 years of La Nina.........I do appreciate that you noticed the changes......thankyou.....

I found this post here back in March 19.......

And looking at 19 and the start of 20 (beginning of the drought breaking) I didn't blog much at all............

Its more now I am realising the effects the prolonged drought had on me.......

Physical and mental scars.......

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Good news is I got a quilt top finished yesterday..........Except I found a fade line on the border......hmmm what to do now........It may stay as is......I'll look in better light today.........

Have a great weekend..........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue......