Chips and apple blossom

Amy was hoping that the next foal born would be named Pistachio...... but no, this is Chips, with his very attentive Mum, Gimella ( ??? ).
Chips was born on Monday so he is just 4 days old.

That's Peanut in the background.
Peanut spends a lot of time lying down sleeping just like most babies except that he accidentally rolled out of the paddock yesterday and couldn't get back in!!!!
They are adorable.

The roof of our new room still looks like this.....

The roof arrived today and looks like this....

The roof men are going to work here at the weekend.
The roof will be the same as the house roof but over 27 years the colour has faded. 
You can see in the photo how much dis-colouration has taken place over that time.
The colour at the bottom is the original.
They match the new roof to the faded colour or as close as possible.

It was so beautiful out there tonight.
There is a mass of apple blossom on our tree that smells divine.
Not sure how the apple tree came to be there. I think it may have planted itself! 

The forsythia also looks beautiful.
 I would normally pick those branches of yellow and bring them inside but I'm not game to mess with it any more than we already have.
 We moved it from the middle garden bed a few months ago.
The burnt trees behind it are on our neighbour's  property. They are pines which will not recover. We hope they will eventually cut them down.
 Our borrowed landscape looks very ugly in that corner.

We bought four more young plants a few months ago when they were just sticks. They too, are looking great and are waiting to be planted.

The tag reads....Shrub which covers all its branches with canary yellow flowers in late Winter. A hardy shrub for full sun which needs hardly any watering. 
250cm by 250cm.
Perfect!


This pretty grey leafed plant is called snow- in- summer or at least that's what I call it. I really like it and it grows easily from bits. It's just coming into flower here now.

I bought these over-sized cups from the op shop for $3 each. I couldn't wait to get them home! They look perfect with the Summer quilts.

I've just finished putting away the Winter quilts and bringing out the Summer ones. The Summer ones usually have some white in them ( in case you're asking!!! ). Mmmmm, I know, but I can't help myself. That's just how it is!


Little rascally boy.....