November is here

Welcome to November. We are having a cold snap at the same time as Sandy was visitting new york. Let us hope the rest of the month has better weather.

I have been creating photobooks so my dear jane has slowed down a bit, I will update numbers later. The photobook is of my grandmother and it is just a little bit depressing doing research on all of these dead people. But yesterday was halloween so why not.


later
Have a good one

Another Friday

Yay yay it is Friday and yet this morning was buggered up by some idiot having stolen our beautiful gate motor. After having been robbed only 2 and a half weeks ago it is really bringing into question the enjoyment of the deepest darkest continent. The sense of decency and honourability is sadly lacking in almost all the citizens, with even the ones professing a religion not seeming to be able to understand right from wrong! Oh well, this too I will have to get over.

On a more amusing angle, I had to renew my drivers licence this week and this being the deepest darkest continent, our finger prints need to be taken for the re-issuing of said licence. Well due to my excessive hand stitching I have so many crags and fissures on my thumb that the machine could not discern my print. All the buggers had better take up stitching as it would allow them to destroy their finger prints.

Well have a good day and may your posessions still be yours until such time as you wish to give them away. Have a happy day.

Dear Jane Progress

October oh yay.

October oh yay.

If we lived in Germany then October would be amazing with lashings of beer and sour kraut.

Nummy. Though due to my ancestors being a bit dumbass and leaving Germany, here I sit in the deepest darkest continent on this planet. Though with them coming over to a new continent I have within my genetic make-up a mish mash of German, French, Irish, British and Scottish ancestors. So if biodiversity is good for the selection of stronger genes to carry forward in my gene pool then my children are extremely lucky even though they will never be entered in any pedigree show. Yay being a European pavement special. The other thing is that people that came to the wilds of Africa were either brave or scoundrels running away from their past so either way that does make us interesting..

We still have not everything replaced that the idiots who broke into our house stole. Today we are having the trellidoor reinstalled. Trellidoors are cages we keep our selves in, to protect us from the thieving bastards who roam our streets. I will be less cross when I have everything back as it was. This is about the 7th time that we have had our possessions redistributed against our wishes. It makes me cross due to the fact that we freely give people stuff on a continuous and never hoard items. aaargh.

Though once I had seen that they had destroyed our front entrance, I went into the study where they had stolen my husbands beautiful screen and thankfully left the tub with my dear Jane blocks in. Even though we have a horrid week or two, I managed to get up to 106 blocks which is 63% of the middle blocks and once again almost made it a block a day.

The weather has been vacillating between hot and cold. I never look forward to summer as it really gets too hot. The trees are getting all their new leaves and are looking amazing. I can't as yet take pictures as this is something else the shmucks stole. (Not the trees, but the camera)

Work is being annoying with them wanting me to fly to Bloemfontein as some piece of work, decided to redistribute the companies assets. I think this sucks as the plane is a turbo-prop and not even a real plane. Let see if my butt fits into the seats of this thing, if not I will climb off and the stupid lawyers can come up to civilisation.

We made suet blocks for the wild birds in the garden and they make an amazing noise with them competing for the food. I am still sad that we don't have squirrels in Gauteng.

OK keep cool and keep on.

Happy spring equinox

The spring equinox is here and with it the bright mornings and waking up at amazingly early times.

 


Spring equinox is also my husband and my wedding anniversary. We met on the winter solstice and married 3 months later. We probably would have got married sooner but it was cute to do it with reference to where the sun was.

This week has however been a bit of a stressful time with us experiencing a robbery at our house. The pieces of nonsense that broke it broke our 3 metre by 3 metre sliding door in our lounge and then used a crowbar to pop our security doors that where there to keep people like them out of our house.
They only had 3 minutes in our property before our security company was there, but in that time they managed to steal screens and destroy a whole lot of stuff. The other thing they stole was my camera and this makes me especially sad due to the fact that I have just recently got over my fear of damaging it and have started taking photos on a regular basis. Oh well this can be added to the challenge of living in the darkest continent on the planet.

My dear jane is coming along nicely. I am currently doing my yellow ring of blocks. I also finished the 4 heart block which was worrying me as I am not appliquing any of the blocks. One of the sides of one of the blocks is not perfect, but, otherwise it is ok. This quilt is a great leveler of perfectionists. I have come to realise that the original wasn't perfect so my version of it doesn't have to be perfect either. (It is either that or I will never finish it).

Everybody have an amazing spring equinox.