A Quick Hello........

Still enjoying the wonderful gardens that have been on display.

These first 3 photos were all taken at the Food and Wine festival...and yes you can get a little tipsy tasting different wines...and the cheeses and dips they had on offer mmmm... But I digress

Below is just one of the flower display at Saint Luke's Church....

We are still on spring break here for another week, so juggling children and work dosn't leave a lot of time for blogging.

I hope you all had a great week end...

Blessings

Mandy

Toowoomba Carnival Of Flowers...

Hello all.....What a beautiful summer week end we had here in Toowoomba, and what a lovely time we have had being tourists in our own city.

The floats in the parade where spectacular this year.

I will not bore you with all the photos that the children took (138 photos in all!)

Just a few of our favs.

The ladies above were so elegant as they swayed and walked along.

After the parade it was of to the side show for some fun William and Mandy fun that is.

The Ferris wheel........

I know we are so brave..While we were freaking out because we had stopped at THE VERY TOP (Will took good care of me) I thought I could hear Cassie screaming. OK so there were hundreds of girls screaming on the rides but I'm sure I heard Cass, looking across to one ride sure enough there is my girl looking just as I felt. sick...sick...sick. Believe me that girl can scream.

After doing the Ferris wheel ride and getting the show bag I managed to sit down and have a nice long cup of coffee....The bonus was Colin Campbell from ABC Gardening Australia was giving a talk...

Tomorrow I will share some amazing floral arrangements..

enjoy your day

Blessings

Mandy

Warm hellos to all on this wonderful sunny spring day.

I have been out and about playing in the garden. I dragged out one of the girls old push bikes from under the house, added a basket with flowers to the front and prettied up this corner of the back yard. Not exactly the old weathered bike I had in mind, but hey it works I think.

My Irises are out in bloom, as is the lavender. My roses are full of buds and it won't be long until I have a garden full of blooms.

There is colour in every corner of the garden.

Below is Oriental Lillie's. No these aren't from my garden but I planted a few that I ordered this year from Garden Express. I have ordered a lot through this on line nursery and I have had nothing but success with all I got. My lilies are about 10 inches high at the moment so have a way to go yet.

I never realized how many white flowering plants I have. I have snow in summer , fruit blossoms, walking orchid and jasmine in this arrangement.

I knew this little cane table would be good for something.

Yes another photo, just because it looks so pretty. O have I mentioned I love my new glass doors,

???? May I could do a post on them?

The sun is so bright, the family room stays warm all evening now. The mulberry tree out side got a hair cut yesterday as it was casting to much shade on the new solar panels.

Today is the beginning of our Spring break, the children get 2 weeks.. We are going to do the tourist thing here in our home town of Toowoomba as it is the Carnival Of Flowers week.

Every thing kicks of tomorrow, so if you are in town you might see me. I will be the one under the big hat dragging three bored children behind me looking at gardens and madly taking photos...

Blessings to all

Mandy

Recycling and veges.....

Hello all....

How has your week been? Busy I am sure. I thought it was time to update how the vege patch is going. I lost a lot of stuff to frost through the winter, but the carrots are doing so well. We are harvesting them daily for tea. Also we have so many potatoes they were a real success. The climbing beans got frosted but a couple survived as you can see on the trellis above. I have planted more seeds though.

At the entrance I have sweet peas growing, they are almost finished, in fact all my spring flowering bulbs and flowers are all but been and gone. I have planted a climbing as well on the week end, so it will soon cover this fence.

Above is the artichokes, lettuce, bok choy and asparagus growing well in the far bed. Closer are the red onions and new planting of potatoes comming through.

Now for some recycling

Try not to laugh to hard......

Yesterday when I got home from work I was told there was a surprise in the vege garden for me.

Boy was I surprised....my uncontrllable laughing may have been a bit mean I admit. Thankfully my Mother in-law was here and she was full of praise...Now this is recylcing at it's ultimite I think...Sink, from bins accross road.

Chairs( hahaha)also from bin accross road

pipe, taps and fittings all from shed.

One sink in vege garden for washing veges....

It gets better....

Look more chairs from bin across road...

This is going to be my potting bench, the bin has the potting mix in it, and the gate on top is used so that the potting mix can fall through to the bin and none is wasted. Now don't get me wrong great ideas....maybe you had to be there, but I really thought it was the funnist thing I had seen in a long time...Today I will get in and add my touch to it....

The wall of bottles is comming along as one and all drop there bottles of to me...

So what do you do with your old chairs???????????

Have a great day

and let me know what you think,

Truly what you think!!!!!!!!!

Blessing

Mandy

Out and About......

I hope every one had a great week-end, we had a busy week-end here but relaxing at the same time.

The table set for a spring time lunch, thought I would ditch the table cloth and go for place mats for a bit of a change.

Below is a big old tree that is right next to The Old Dairy. A lot of the wood is dead and it is dangerous.

So down she came..A friend from up the creek came down to do this. Ken has been pruning and chopping down trees here for a long time, and last time he was here he mentioned that this tree would need a good prune.

This is only half of the tree, the rest is OK to stay.

William found this hard hat and it didn't leave his head all week end.

As you can see it was a good size trunk to get through.

In the end it was two chain saws going, I am going to have plenty of wood next winter.

Robbie took all these photos and when he sat down I got one of him.

Sunday saw part of the Storey clan going on a picnic to Glen Rock.

Hmmmmm not much fishing as the creek was nearly dry, after all the flooding early on in the year there was lots to see and explore though.

Then time to sit and enjoy the view and a cuppa.

How was your week-end????

Have a great week.

Blessings

Mandy

Spring is nearly here, the days are getting longer and warmer.

Tomorrow she will be here aghhhh

Spring.

The hallway is all painted and the new glass doors installed. (above) is as you come into the the front door and looking down the hallway to my bedroom.

Above is taken from my bedroom door looking back to the front door. All is looking a little sterile at the moment though for my liking but once all the family photos go up again it will look so much better. I just can't bring myself to hammer nails into the new paintwork just yet though.

below is how the hallway looked before it got painted........so much nicer and brighter. With the new glass doors so much more light can get through to the bedrooms now.

Remember the blackboard paint?

Well I got in and painted the pantry door with it. We now have no excuse for forgetting anything as it all goes on the blackboard....

What do think?

Thanks for stopping by

I hope you have a great day

Blessings

Mandy

A Weekend away and some much needed RAIN....

Hello all on this wonderful wet Tuesday.

Waking up to a storm last night with lashings of lightning and pounding rain was a blessing. We are long over due for rain in our tanks and on our thirsty ground.

Guess where I went for a well needed long week end....the new tea towel is from there.

I have never stayed in Noosa before so we had a lovely time looking around. The we being Chloe Damien, Bruce and I . I must say that poor Chloe was sick of shopping by the end, but as it rained all week end there wasn't much else to do....

I did pick up some great bargins as every shop was having a sale. I got the new hanging baskets on the veranda from a junk shop there for only $12 each.. I filled them up with some plain old herring bone fern from the garden and they give the veranda a real lift.

I also got this cute bird cage for the dinning room table, it is not an old one but it is sweet. My favorite find was this photo frame below, it is quite large and made from old glass. I did pay $50 for it though, it was $79 so I did all right. The clock was $7 from the same shop as the hanging baskets.

Sunday the day we were coming home was sunny and perfect. We finely got out side and went to the the Noosa Farmers Markets.

This is Steve Waughs vege stand...Every stall at the markets was fresh food......I was in heaven, we got lots of goodies for a picnic for the way home.

After having sick choldren all week and then my self getting sick on Thursday, getting away child free was a blessing. All is well now and back to school and work...

Thank you for the kind comments and a big hello to my new followers, thanks for dropping by and saying hello...

Blessings

Mandy