You can all stop looking now.........

..........the sewing machine feet have turned up. While I knew they would eventually it is still a great relief, Bernina feet are expensive and I have several, and a walking foot too. The little tin was in a box marked "sewing rm bks". There were perhaps a dozen magazines in the bottom of the box but definitely - no books. Each new box we unpack is a great adventure because the contents inside often don't quite match the writing on the outside. You can tell the packing and labelling was done by blokes.........

I am greatly relieved.

Jennifer

Still haven't found that little tin of feet

This is our view from our back verandah/patio/whatever you like to call it.....we call it the beer garden. The outdoor area of Aussie pubs is called 'the beer garden', and the name appeals to us. So far I have drunk plain water or coffee in the beer garden, but come summertime it might be a different story. But whatever name it's given, it is a very pleasant place to sit and watch the view. These pics were also taken when we first viewed the house and the garden wore its summer colours.
Welcome......should have put the pics the other way round, shouldn't I? Never mind. As you can see the windows are fairly low to the ground, which pleases the cats no end. An inside window sill is a wonderful perch for a kitty to watch what is happening in the street. Not much happens actually, it's a quiet street, but occasionally a bus drives by, or the cat from next door strolls across the road, or the dog opposite says woof. No doubt that is interesting if you are a cat.

This morning we had 14 or 15 Rainbow Lorikeets in the small tree in our back yard. It is deciduous and has lost nearly all its leaves now, the ground underneath is a carpet of gold. Bianca the Beautiful has been watching the leaves fall, and finds it very exciting. I suppose if one is an inside cat one has to take one's pleasures where one can. After the lorikeets had chomped on the leaves for a few minutes one of them must have given a signal because they all flew up and off together. And I missed the mob of kangaroos this morning, Kevin said there were six or seven coming out of the mist (it was very foggy) and they came closer to the house than the last mob we saw. He turned away for a second and when he looked back they had hopped back into the mist again.

Today I called in at a local quilt group and was made very welcome, so next Thursday I shall go along. Don't know how I will find it as I'm a fairly solitary person, but I will give it a go. I used to be a member of a group and found the constant pressure to have work for 'show and tell' each month was too much, I didn't measure up to the expectation of exquisite applique and a prodigious output, so after several years I gradually fizzled away.

There are still several boxes marked "sewing rm" and I am sure that the little tin of sewing machine feet will be right at the bottom of the last one I open - what's the bet? I have sewn the top of a table runner together but need the walking and quilting feet to go further, so it will have to wait until I find them.

But the etiquette book has turned up! As we are heading into winter here, this may be timely.

"Coughing, sneezing, etc.
Coughing, sneezing, clearing the throat, etc., if done at all, must be done as quietly as possible. Snuffing, hawking and expectorating must never be done in society. A sneeze can be checked by pressing the thumb or finger firmly across the bridge of the nose. If not checked, the face should be buried in the handkerchief, during the act of sneezing, for obvious reasons."

The punctuation and spelling in these quotes are as they appear in the book. The folk of 1885 were fond of the comma, weren't they?

Enjoy your days!

Jennifer

The life is wild here

Another view over the back fence, just as the light was fading for the day. Just past the line of slightly longer grass in the distance is where we have occasionally seen a small mob of kangaroos.
An occasional visitor! This is an Eastern Rosella and, wish as I may, the little blighter would not turn side-on to the camera so I could photograph his/her glorious colours. So you will have to make do with a back view, but if you click on the pic to enlarge it you can see the colours a little closer. Red head, yellow and black back feathers, green under the wings, and a blue chest which you can't see.
I don't think these alpacas are wild, aren't they gorgeous? Mum and offspring I think, with a white friend just poking its nose in too. One of the pics I took on our visit to the alpaca farm a couple of weeks ago. They all had eyelashes to die for. I have never had lashes like theirs.......it's not fair, is it?

Today a wallaby visited the reserve in the middle of the day - just one on its own. I didn't take a picture because it was a bit far away for a clear photo, it would have looked like a rock in the grass.

The unpacking is continuing. All the furniture is in place in all the rooms, even the cupboards have been moved into my sewing room. Kevin found that, if he took off the doors and removed the shelves, that the outer shell wasn't very difficult to move, so he did. Then he reassembled the cupboards and I am slowly filling them. Eventually the wombats will be unpacked too, so we will be able to go back to having a wombat each week until all have had their turn on the blog. Unpacking is made more interesting by the fact that the written label on a box doesn't always bear any resemblance to what is actually in the box.

The table runner that I am making is also proceeding, all the blocks have been made and pinned into rows. It is looking very pretty! Hopefully tomorrow the rows may be constructed, in between going to the library and unpacking a little more. Perhaps I will find the little tin box of sewing machine feet........and my etiquette book........

Have a lovely week!

Jennifer