Serving WOW

If you visit our house you might be served something yummy on a small wombat tray....perhaps it might even be chocolate so as to co-ordinate with the colour of these wombats?
Some more golden gloriousness, or glorious goldenness, at the local botanic garden last weekend. The taller wattle on the right is Silver Wattle named for its silver-grey trunk, and I'm sorry but I don't remember the name of the other. As you can see, not all wattles are the same colour - Silver Wattle flowers are deep gold, the other is lemon yellow, and they don't all grow the same way either as some are trees and some are bushes. Others are ground covers. This was taken on a dull rainy day (much like today) and you can see how bright the wattle is.

Speaking of dull rainy days, we have had more than our share since moving here. According to the local paper this is the best year for rainfall in this area for 15 years....the drought in some parts of Australia has been bad........perhaps we brought the rain with us!

Some good news: EQ7 is now working! Seems the problem was the interaction between our mouse and keyboard, which is why it would work in the computer shop but not here at home. One new mouse and keyboard later, and everything is going along beautifully. It has also sorted out a couple of other issues, so the mouse must have been a bit of a problem for a while but we didn't realise it. So if you have EQ7 and were concerned by my experience that you might have problems too, fear not. All will be well. Many thanks to young Kieran at the computer shop for his help, and to the lovely folk at Electric Quilt who were also trying to sort it out for me. Now I can have some fun playing!

Some not-so-good news this morning, a folkie friend died recently but we only just found out. We were not surprised as we knew of a bad diagnosis, but it is still very sad. Our annual trip to the big folk festival at Easter will be poorer without his good cheer and music. When we moved here we were only an hour from his home and had hoped to get together occasionally, but it was not to be. Farewell, friend.

Lately my mind has been turning to knitting, goodness knows why as the weather is heading for summer......definitely not knitting time here, and definitely not weather for wearing knitted garments! Perhaps it's all those lovely blogs and sites from Canada and the US, because they are going into autumn and some of the designs are so lovely. Perhaps I should give in to it and knit a scarf.

"The saddest of all ceremonies is that attendant upon the death of relatives and friends, and it becomes us to show, in every possible way, the utmost consideration for the feelings of the bereaved, and the deepest respect for the melancholy occasion."

Now I think it's time for a play with EQ7. Enjoy your days!

Jennifer