Pics from the Past & Present - Bricking It in Avonside!

Younger Days

Its becoming apparent
Im going to need a new phone soon.
My old one, according to my 18yr old is *Beyond It* and needs replacing soon. This one has a camera, and today Ive finally worked out (after 4 years!) how to send myself the pics to my email. Safe to say, I ll never be up with the Techno stuff. Im an old-fashun gal!

Car Ride

Swinging at the Park

Big Eyes

Pjs and All

So after fiddling around, Ive got some of the older photos of times long gone-by.
Its amazing how quickly the children grow and change. Dont mind me whilst I reminsce and plaster my page with photos of my babies... Theres others too, theyre not all cutesy and kidlike...

Oven Project - Build Two



 ...Like Todays Project.
Ive been reading up about making my own pizza oven. Im fascinated by adobe bricks, clay cob ovens, pizza ovens and the like. I wish I had my own piece of land to make a fire pit on, or some kind of oven... but I havent, and I cant make anything permanent... So Im improvising.
I tried the 16 brick rocket oven ( see it on Youtube) I liked it, I appreciate its place, and the value it has... but I wanted something a little bigger...
So here it is. My second version, very rough at this stage...and it will need some work, a bit of a mortar mix is in store, but Im pleased, and it passed its first little *fire-up* this afternoon, despite the drizzle and the lack of decent firewood.

This wonderful structure is created from red bricks, ex-chimney. Theres lots of those available around Christchurch at the moment, and they make good borders for vegetable gardens. There are also slate floor tiles in there, they were being given away on Freecycle, and I just happened to live around the corner. It beats them being thrown into a landfill, eh?

Toms, Zucchini and Green Beans a-plenty!

So thats our Friday. The Week That Was has Been and Gone!
Weve had both kids getting immunizations this week, and its been intermittent good weather. Today is totally bailed on us, and we have whizzly wet drizzle and a strong breeze that makes us wonder if the tomatoes will ever ripen!!

Jaune De Coeur Du Pigeon



Comfrey Tea Mixed for Garden


We have some on show though (see above) - and we love the little yellow pear-shaped ones.
We also have a bucket of wonderful big juicy plums that are ear-marked for plum jam.
Thanks for those Mr Next Door Neighbour :)

Hope all is happy and well at Your Place,
Love and Blessings
E BUTTERFLY
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Somewhere... Over the Rainbow... Photo time!

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dream of, dreams really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star, wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops is where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dare to, oh why, oh why can't I?
Well I see trees of green and red roses too,

I'll watch then bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white and the brightness of day

I like the dark and I think to myself, what a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands saying, How do you do?

 

They're really saying, I, I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more than we'll know

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Someday I'll wish upon a star, wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops is where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high

And the dreams that you dare to, oh why, oh why can't I?
 

Woodham Park

Christchurch

New Zealand

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Peace!
Love
EB
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Life on the Avon River... Christchurch, New Zealand - Spring!

Our first sighting of Ducklings!

<--- One of the larger Swans, so inquistive but rather haughty!
They are so elegant on the water, and rather clumsy on land...

Miss three is quite keen to sit on the edge and watch the ducklings... The tide brings the water line up quite high at this time of the year, and the white-bait fishermen are dotted along the rivers edge. Here is Arlais sitting watching the first clutch of ducklings we have seen - six in total. She is fascinated because they are not scared of her at all, and the mother is teaching them how to catch food, she welcomed a few crumbs from Arlais' scone! ----->

Beautiful waxy Camellia flower - one of the very tender flowers, such a shame that they dont last long, and bruise so easily...

<--- An olde-worlde favourite, Wisteria vine.
It grows beautifully at the top of a neighbours fence.
I love
purple, but this is purple at Natures utmost best!

The Maori word for YELLOW is Kowhai (Ko-fy) ----> What a beautiful specimen! The native birds love the flowers, and it has showy seed pods most of the year long. They incase hard yellow seeds that at their best need scarification before use... Very pretty and well worth the preparation!

Morning Tea with our Feathered Friends... Ungainly on land, beautiful and elegant gliders on the waters surface... They are much taller than they look once on the riverbank! Quite intimidating when they stretch to their full height :) I wouldnt steal their bread, would you?

<--- A gorgeous Green blossom from an Elm tree.
Just lovely. The tortured roots and branches belie the fact that this old gnarled tree has in store such beautiful GREEN blossoms. Extraordinary - again, Nature is so full of surprises...







Thats it from the Avon River til next time...
Thanks for Looking ...
Blessings

EButterfly
Thats E for Earth :-)