Quiltingorchardist

I'll be a bit quiet this week as we are having a holiday. Today we fly from Tauranga airport ( above ) via Auckland to Nelson at the t...

 This is a tray of  big kiwifruit which all weigh between 151 to 180 grams. There are 22 in the tray.  Here's how the process goes....

The weather on Friday for our Kiwifruit picking was clear and bright. Here forklift driver Josh unloads empty bins to put the fruit in. ...

  My little blocks for a baby quilt are now a quilt top at the flimsy stage. It is lying on the table over a rectangle of batting and als...

I haven't send the male Blue moon butterfly again but I did get to track down a female nearby and some other NZ butterflies.  I foun...

Our Luculia tree lures many different insect visitors, every year around this time and for the next few months, when it is in flower. Never ...

I didn't pick up fallen walnuts over the long weekend so yesterday it took a lot of bending to collect these. 2275 Leanne! ( that...