lzilulu's stuff......

....a Sunday well spent....

'morning chickadees.....this weekend just gone, four local gardens were open as part of the australian open garden scheme....some friends and i went on a daytrip and visited them...the eye/nose candy was to die for and i easily picked my favourite.....a real oasis in the scrub.....i drooled for hours and took a few photos (!!!!!)....came home and showed mr lzilulu the slide show.....we had a healthy discussion about our "garden" and he agreed that i too could have a similar pretty vista surrounding mary alice cottage......*gulp*....he even said i could use the cheque book *double gulp*...he could live to regret this statement *!!!*....he tentaively offered himself as some manual labour help "time permitting"....hmmm....think that may be a challenge....well, he did "fence off" an area of some self sown veges last week, so i just might be able to borrow him for short spurts of labour intensive jobs!!

.....enjoy the following photos of my dream house/garden....

...the front entrance...

.....behind me was a wide walkway of climbing iceberg roses....

....the "backyard".....

  ...the water is a permanent creek...the ducks are fat and content....

...some more photos of the back, sides and front.....drool.....

   

 

 

 

 

 

...this water feature was on land that was once a tennis court....

 

...these old majestic trees hold court in front of the house.... 

 

...well chickadees, i hope you enjoyed your stroll through the garden.....i heard from a reliable source that my "second from baby" sister spent some happy hours at this house in the scrub when she was a young girl....do you recognise it???

...i am now going to turn off this waste of time, seek out the chequebook and hit the garden centres ;>).....

...oh, one more promise from mr lzilulu....he promises he will move the sprinklers instead of turning off the taps when he suspects i am overwatering!!!....that will be a hard habit for him to break, so i hope he is up to the challenge!!

'til next time, take care and be kind to each other

sloppystuff from lzilulu  xox

time spent with bernie.....

'morning chickadees.....one of our "special to us" girls is having a birthday tomorrow, so bernie bernina and i spent some quality time together yesterday and between us we managed to start and finish her birthday gift.......

...a pair of summer pyjama pants...

  

.....with a co-ordinating top....

    

...a bag to store them....

 

....and gift tag..

   

..i have also been making some summer jarmie bottoms for myself and managing to get a couple of bibs out of the scraps....

   

......well, the tax paperwork now beckons, so better put the kettle on and settle down to some hair-tearing-out bookwork......will really appreciate the lunch date i have today.....

until next time, keep well and be kind to each other

lotsofsloppystuff from lzilulu xox

...introducing charlotte.....

remember chook chook???...well...her idyllic life came to a brutal end a few weeks ago....the neighbour's dog chased her down, plucked her and left her to die....very tragic, and a very unpleasant sight when mr lzilulu and myself arrived home to a scattered pile of feathers.....

the shed ladies were appalled and extremely sympathetic...well, she was a part of their lives too, spending at least some of MOST thursdays sharing their lives....

....and making herself quite at home in the shed amongst the power leads.....

to cut a long story short, one of the shed ladies remembered my chookless situation when she heard the story of a chook in a neighbouring town....it seems that this chook belonged to a little girl and she was very spoilt and had ABSOLUTELY no idea that she was a chook *!!!*...the little girl and her family left town.....and charlotte s.t.a.y.e.d. b.e.h.i.n.d.......she boarded with a family who had lots of chooks and for some reason they didn't like her and chooks can be very mean to other chooks who "just don't fit in"....for some reason they thought she had a superior attitude and tried to point out exactly where she was in the pecking order...of course charlotte couldn't understand this behaviour...remember...she didn't KNOW she was a chook.....

fast forward to yesterday...the phone rang...would i like to adopt charlotte??? it took all of a milli,milli second to say YES!PLEASE!....and another 15mins for Frances to deliver charlotte to her new home....oh!chickadees! she is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and we at lzilulu's place are smiling again!! much to her disgust i have put her in the chookhouse....only for a couple of days until she gets used to things....trust me, i have been spending lots of time in there with her...reassuring her that all is well with the world and i am sure that she will thrive....she is so quiet and friendly....still in the training stages of how to get up on the roost....i actually lifted her onto the roost last night..and how to get down from it...she obviously likes a sleep in...it was well after daylight when i went out and LIFTED her off the roost *!!!*...hope she  is a quick learner 'cause i'm not sure that i could factor that sort of duty into my daily "to do" list!!!

.....she happily posed for the following photos.....

 

  ...as you can see, she has a perfectly good ladder to access the roost.....hmmm.....

....and well you may ask...what is THIS???...a bracelet??...surely not!! OH! YES! it is a beautiful beaded bracelet....made by her little friend....so cute...and apparently she painted her toenails too *smile*....not sure that she has come to the right place for such fluffing!!

 

....well chickadees, must away..have lots of monday jobs to do and time is slipping away....but firstly, will i use red, purple or pink??????

 

...and what's this i see?? flo and rae choosing their colours??...must be...

 

....and this was their reaction when i told them i was only doing charlotte's nails.....hmph!!

 

....until next time, take care and be kind to each other

lotsofsloppystuff  lzilulu  xox

it must be......

.....spring!! here in lzilulu's part of the world, spring is bursting out all over, and to prove it, i'll show you some photos!

....firstly, one from last year.....

....aren't they cute?? one had just flown off before i grabbed the camera....how on earth did they all fit in that little home?? willy wagtails seem to like it here and build a nest somewhere most years...haven't found this year's nest....yet....

....i love the "bursting" of the grapevine leaves/fruit....i swear that last year i actually HEARD one pop....true!!

    ....isn't the sky crystal clear and ever so blue....hard to believe that we had two inches of rain only a few hours after these photos were taken...not a cloud in the sky at the time...then...woosh, down it poured....gotta love spring showers....

........a few photos from around the garden......

         

.....i picked the first bunch of roses this morning.......

 

...i love all of these springtime visions but my all time favourite has to be this.....

....yep, gotta love it when mr lzilulu cranks up the mower!!

STOP PRESS....we have just found this year's willy wagtail nest...or at least the beginnings of it....on top of a light fitting IN mr lzilulu's workshop *smile*...at least it will be weatherproof!!

...two posts in one day...has to be a record for me!!

will be back soon...still have news/photos of a wedding and a workshop to share...and other stuff too!!

'til then...take care and be kind to each other

sloppystuff  lzilulu  xox

it's time.....

....to turn over a new leaf....have lots of "posts" in my mind, so now it is time to put those words into action...if typepad co-operates, there could be lots of posts in the next few days!!

let's start with some photos i found on my camera this morning...i hadn't seen them for awhile ;>)........

flo is, by nature, a cuddly sort of creature and likes to find cosy spots to rest and she likes to be close to me...most of the time....

...this is what i found one day when things went very quiet....

...yes, i know...it took me a while to find her too!!....but then she "fiddled around" and evicted her bedmates...

 

.....she likes to keep an eye on me while i am sitting at the computer....

 

....when she tires of this, she seeks out places to rest.....like this one....

 

....or this one...... 

....and sometimes she does a little exploring.....

 ......yep, she is precious!! and brings me lots of joy....

will be back soon...until then, take care and be kind to each other..

sloppystuff lzilulu xox

confession time.........

'morning chickadees....OK...it's confession time here in blogland.....who was the person who STOLE SEPTEMBER??? if i offer a R.E.A.L.L.Y BIG reward will you "come clean"?????? putting all jokes aside, september has certainly gone and i can't remember a thing about it :>(

will be back shortly with another post.....P.R.O.M.I.S.E......as soon as i get over the jetlag of the start of daylight saving...oh dear, that could be april 2009! i sooooo hate daylight saving....the morning is half over before it begins...and even my almost brand new computer KNEW that it started three weeks earlier....grr...i thought she was my very best friend...hmph!!

'til next time, take care and be kind to each other

sloppystuff lzilulu xox