A job well done and Falalalala Lalalala

After 67 days, our workers have gone.

The buildings have been completed and their job is done.

 The rest is up to us now.

Yesterday our lovely building man gave us a lemon tree to plant in our orchard.

The Garden Room building is finished......

........but I will probably keep moving things around in there until the cows come home!  

We have moved the Xmas tree in there now so it is already different.  

Ohh that looks nice.......

Nahhhh...let's try this.....

Just can't help myself.

( Plates from my new favourite shop.)

There is still dirt to be moved into garden beds or anywhere in the bare patch for that matter. I expect that load won't go far.

And the paving man is coming on Monday to start our brick path around the Garden Room.

So still some garden and dirt related things to do.

But it was definitely cause for celebration.

Thanks Amy. Very yummy. 

We are ready now little boy......

This may be my last post for a little while.

 Sam, Kiann and Flynn arrive on Monday for 10 days.

I'll probably be too busy doing what grandmas do!

In fact now I come to think of it, I guess the re-build is finished now too, which was the original purpose of this blog.

Oh well, I'll see how I go.

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Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for reading along for so long about what's been going on here at Frog Pond Farm.

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( Don't be surprised if I post a few photos of you know who!~)

Peace and goodwill to all

If only it were that simple.
Like many of you, we are finding it difficult to comprehend the events of yesterday and last night in a Sydney cafe.
No words ..............


 Anything that follows seems quite trivial now but I'll post it anyway.

Tree time
I was unsure whether or not our Christmas decorations were burnt.

 The tree was in its box in the shed and usually the boxed decorations were stored there too. Not sure how they came to be inside but we were happy to find them in the cupboard. Only because we have gathered quite a collection now and many of them have been given to us and I adore them.  I'm sure some of you will recognise them. 
And yes, I love a bit of tinsel and shiny stuff!

A picture drawn by Sam at Kinder.

A wall hanging made with Sam and Amy's help. Sam 11 and Amy 9.

A gift for being a reading Mum in Sam's prep year.!!

The year I went crazy about making Balls!!! Too bad if you didn't like them...chances are you got one anyway!

The cross stitched linen centre piece bought from the op shop for $4 that I made into a cushion. Couldn't believe my eyes when I found this...... someone has probably gone blind trying to sew those tiny stitches.

Garden sightings
I'm so glad I took these garden photos yesterday.
It is blowing a gale of dust out there right now.
Beautiful lillium arachon.  

This one has creamy lemon trumpets. Not completely out.... could have even blown right off this afternoon!

One of the new achilleas ( new in our garden) described as having "glistening, bright cherry red flower heads."
Perfect for Christmas.

Some people bits

Bill and Jo discussing all things garden. Thanks for your ideas Jo!

Amy calls this little boy "Flynny Long Lashes."

Getting close now!
Next Monday he arrives......same day as our paving man!