Quiltingorchardist

Our young friend Camara , who comes from Guinea in Western Africa but has been working in NZ for a couple of years, came to visit. He had ...

Plenty has been getting done; everything but blogging. The top photo is one of the 2 end borders (folded up), showing the...

Progress has been made on my Recycled Denim Mock Cathedral Windows Quilt. ( I'll have to thi...

Feijoas , friends and fabric - all good F words. This week; a short one; has been much...

Yesterday R was going down the main highway to deliver a load of firewood, so I went part way an...

Intermittent light rain has meant it is too damp to do orchard work, SO I have achieved many things inside.Yesterday mor...

Since the big rain ( 18.5" )that caused us such havoc there hasn't been another drop since the 7 th March. Plants are stressing...

Gudrun here are some Avocado photos. The first is a small tree about 4 years old ( has a few fruit set )...

We had a very pleasant 2 days sewing. 7 ladies took a class by TS a very good tutor. One new lady began making her first quilt...

*** A fine day . *** Autumn Equinox. ***** Avocado picking! *** As it is very late in the season for Avocad...

This morning yet again it rained between 7 and 8 am. So everything is wet out side. The hydraladdas to pick Avos have been wait...

Some fine days. Some like this morning, wet. Our hearts are in our mouths now every time it rains....what more might happen. Luckily so...

We have to move on and take this blow in our stride - we don't have an option.The mud is drying out and the stream has found a new cou...

Things look a little different this morning - not better just different. The water level has gone down and the stream is now c...

9" of rain since it started this time.That's on top of the 7" last weekend. We used to ha...