LOTS TO DO TODAY

 Our next market is on Saturday, it's supposed to be a very big one.  It's here in Hamilton, not far from our home in fact.

Today, and every day this week I will be sewing Bowl Cosy's... and maybe another couple of those fabric plants.

But for now, I have 'Before and After' photos from yesterday:

ABOVE:  I hope the little Plum tree survives being uprooted and moved.

It hadn't been there too long, so we might be lucky.

There are two pittosporums behind the chairs now.

The Pittosporums are fairly quick growing, so fingers crossed in a couple of years they will fill that damn gap.  It's that gap that is the main problem. 

In winter, the maple will lose all it's leaves, so it will be a glaring BIG gap.

The expert at the garden center said our Maple might die now that the trees protecting it from the wind are gone.  I'll be really pissed off if that happens.  I noticed our neighbour pruned our maple back to the fence line too.  Again, his right, but he better not have killed my tree.

Interestingly, there is a maple overhanging his property over to the right (large red one), and he's not touched it.

Am I sounding bitchy?  Yeah, I know.  😖😞

ABOVE:  Our little plum tree, and the new fruit tree are now down the grass strip.  The new tree is a 'Peach/Apricot' hybrid.  Amazing how they can alter the genetics of a tree to make new fruits.

A year ago that area was just an overgrown, unsightly grape vine/pergola and rubbish dump!

I smile every time I look at it now.

It was a lot of hard work to transform it, but so worth it.

Right, that's enough from me for now.  I am off to get the washing on, tidy up the bedroom etc.

Catch ya later.

10.20 am:  And my back is killing me!

I had to cut out masses of cotton wadding for the bowl cosy's before I could start sewing.

ABOVE: That job took well over an hour.

ABOVE:  I have just finished the first cosy of the day.  And it's gorgeous.

Now... on to the next one.

FIVE.  HOURS.  LATER:

ABOVE:  Look at that.  Not a bad run.  All blues/Kiwi type fabrics.  That's what sold predominantly at the last couple of markets, so I needed to fill those blue gaps.

Now I am going to take a little break for a very late lunch.

It is another dreary, wet day here too.  Expecting yet again, to have this weather all week.

ABOVE:  6.30 pm.

When Stew arrived home from work he suggested we go for a short walk before dinner.

We had talked about doing that over the weekend.

I wasn't that keen to be honest, as I was rather tired after sewing all day.

But I said yes... and off we went.

In the rain.  Hence the crappy photo.

We walked for almost 25 minutes, at a nice brisk pace.

Now... feel quite good.

Cooking dinner now.  Beef rissoles, smashed potato and salad.

Whoops!  Fell asleep on the couch.  Might just be time for bed.

Catch ya tomorrow.