Saturday, 11 May 2013

Changes are afoot!



The heart is a garden where thought flowers grow;
The thoughts that we think are the seeds that we sow.
Every kind, loving thought bears a kind, loving deed;
While a thought that is selfish is just like a weed.
We must watch what we think, each minute, all day;
And pull out the weed thoughts and throw them away;
And plant loving seed thoughts so thick in a row
That there will not be room for weed thoughts to grow.
By Katherine Merrill


Hi All,

Well, we've done a really bad job of updating the blog lately, but, to be honest, we were all pretty ready for taking the new big step in our lives.  So, we've bought ourselves our very first house, and move in about 28 days.  Desperately looking forward to the extra space in the house itself and to everyone having their own bedrooms.

It's going to be a bittersweet experience...  Having built up so much history here, in only three and a half years, to suddenly have to start with a clean slate.  But we move on with all of the experience we've built up while living here.

From two lonely souls, each with their own fold of scared and insecure children, we've turned into a strong family, with a good support network and a whole menagerie of pets that we all adore.

We've baked, preserved, dug, planted, harvested...  It's been an amazing learning experience.
 





























So here's to old friends, and to our old home within whom we loved, shared and grew together.  And here's to new adventures and experiences ahead!

Love to all,
Mama Fern


Thursday, 14 February 2013

Papa Sam & baby bear's birthdays

Hi All,


Mama Fern here, just posting a couple of quick pics of the cakes made for our youngest, and for Papa Sam this year (neither made by me, either.  Our youngest got a German Panzer tank, courtesy of Papa Sam's amazing cake making skills, while our little Druichi made Papa Sam a bookworm cake.




Love to all,

Mama Fern

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

What we did over the christmas break

We've been so busy on these holidays so I've managed to snap a whole bunch of pictures of some of the stuff we've accomplished around the house.

Weeding

More weeding

Pruning

Staking apple tree and even more pruning.

Tire wall and Natives to prop up the bank

Neighbours and us removed fallen tree and cleaned out next to the avacados.

Small row planted alongside steps to backyard.

Free seedlings planted out in back backyard.

More free seedlings in 3rd raised tire garden in top backyard.
Evie's room done. Aquatealish colour.

Ashely's room done. Bright GREEN

Entrance to girl's dual bedrooms.

Evei's wall above bed,

Sore room behind gril's dual bedroom with door so girl's have more privacy.

Boys hall triple bedroom.

Jonathan's room done. White (he would have chose black otherwise...so not black)

Max's room. Picton Blue


Max and Jonathan's wall.

Aidan and Max's Wall, Tree Frog Green.


Green Rhubarb out the back is flourishing. The chickens had decimated this before I built the fence next to the shed.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Bike Rack, Weed Eater, Puffins and Pumice towers.


Stage 1 of cleaning up the garage. I made a bike rack, all the bikes are nice and neat.

Didn't look at all strange riding down the street with this on the back.

Fern made some Puffins.Nom.

Decorations for the Garden: Pumice Towers from one of our friends up the road.