Beer Garden WOW

This is a very large wombat! Our son bought it for a house warming gift at the weekend and decided where it would go, it is so heavy that it won't be moved in a hurry. I don't think you can really see the size in the pic, but take it from me.......it's not small. Looks like a puddle of melted chocolate (or something else not quite as nice.....but we won't go there, will we?) So it is sleeping while guarding the potted gardenia.
Have started quilting the table runner I wrote about in my last post, straight lines in the pieced section and some free-motion work in the pink setting triangles along the sides. The thread is a red and white variegated Auriful polyester, and the backing fabric (folded over in the top right corner) compliments the other fabrics very well. I have been a little neglectful of my sewing machines lately and that needs to be corrected, doesn't it?

We had a lovely long weekend with our son and his girlfriend visiting, we showed them our new little piece of paradise, and we chatted, and we ate. And we ate. They brought up a lovely passionfruit and coconut cake, and I had made a chocolate hedgehog slice (not made with real hedgehogs but with broken biscuits, or cookies as my American friends know them), and we ate beef in dark beer stew, and pasta with ocean trout. We certainly didn't go hungry. Even the horses came to visit over the back fence.

Don't know about the rest of you but I am already fed up with all the coverage given to the soccer carnival and there are a few more weeks to go.......I am trying to ignore it as best as possible, neither of us are soccer fanatics, I'm certainly not as you can tell.......I believe Australia lost its first game but you know what, I really don't care. Many sports people are way overpaid for doing not much, the money some of them receive is quite obscene in my humble (but honest) opinion just for wearing someone's logo on their shirt or shoes.

We feel very settled in this house, it is difficult to bring to mind the last house even though we lived there for 23 years and we have only lived here for six weeks, isn't that funny? We never tire of looking at the view either from the house or other places around town and I sometimes wonder how I lived in the city for so long. But I did, and it was the right decision at the time and for quite a long time afterwards.

What do you think of the new blog look? I'm not wonderfully computer savvy but I can cut and paste.

"You are at liberty to refuse a dish that you do not wish to eat. If any course is set down before you that you do not wish, do not touch it. Never play with food, nor mince your bread, nor handle the glass and silver near you unnecessarily."

Have a lovely week, may all your points match and your seams be straight!

Jennifer