I can only but laugh. Tomorrow Will and I are escaping for a holiday, just us, no kids, no noise, no demands, time to actually be with each other. There were just a few things left that I wanted to sort and do before we go, but of course it is now quarter past eight and our wonderful children who are always in bed by 7pm are still up and just unable to go to sleep..I think they are just really making sure that we are well and truly ready to leave them and go on holiday!
One of the things I did hope to achieve this evening was an update post of our past couple of weeks, which although I do try to live in the moment as much as possible has had an undercurrent of 'hey, this time in two weeks we will be getting on a plane, just us!'. We have had to-do lists coming out of our ears what with having to get the chalets ready for the start of the season and the homes we look after but we have been selfish too stealing time to get on with our own little projects. I think Will shocked me when he told me that he wanted to step back from the veg growing a bit and concentrate more on the landscape and structure of the garden this year. I am so excited by this, and seeing what we have done already (e.g. the shed), I can't wait to see what we can achieve, but it also got me in a panic, growing our own food is so much of what we are about that I just couldn't let it slip. Maybe it was a ploy by Will to get me to do more planting but it worked I have taken over a lot of the growing and I love it, I still get such a thrill about going to the greenhouse to grab the kale and rocket for my lunch and I am really grateful to Will for teaching me how over these years of living here.
It does feel like Spring is finally here. The ever changing weather is driving me nuts and it reminds me of Scotland, an hour of beautiful sunshine followed by torrential rain. Sunday we watched bags of cement being washed from the quay as the waves came roaring over and the rain battered against the window. Then today and yesterday we have had the patio door open with Amelia padding about on our newly laid pallet decking. Birds singing, no wind, you can just see the buds starting on our orchard trees. I am torn between opening all the windows in the house, getting the essential oils going and giving this place a good Spring clean, or getting stuck into projects in the garden.
We have a new found love of pallet wood ever since we landscaped around the new shed. We wanted to build a fence at the end mainly to close in the garden a bit to stop Amelia wandering off too much, so we tore apart some pallets and made one using the wood from them. Now we can't stop. The steps in front of our patio doors have always caused me so much stress; concrete, short, high steps just waiting for an accident. So the solution was to build wooden steps on top. I just love what Will has created, it looks amazing and the girls now spend so much time out there, as do we. And best of all the girls helped, in the loose sense of the word of course. Then around the greenhouse unfortunately the bamboo screen we put up last year was ripped apart by the wind over winter. Up goes another pallet fence. It is a slow process but we do just want to do more, maybe a decking area for seating next.
And as for my own projects well I have just finished my third knitted jumper for myself and this year as part of being organised I have actually been keeping a record of my knitting projects on ravelry (you will find me under the user name AutumnSkyes here). I haven't quite decided on my next project, however it will have to wait until we return home as I promised myself a real break from the usual this holiday, I just hope that I don't regret that decision half way through. I have also been painting a lot recently switching to acrylics, being able just to paint more with feeling and emotion, which I have really enjoyed. Hopefully once I am back I will be able to share more on this and update the website a bit.
There feels so many things left unsaid here. Life just feels really good at the moment with all the little details being as important as the overview I have given. However the need to pack and do my final checks (and maybe even spend some time with my mum who is definitely our favourite person at the moment) is calling to me. So I am afraid it is, see you in 3 weeks, perhaps more x
One of the things I did hope to achieve this evening was an update post of our past couple of weeks, which although I do try to live in the moment as much as possible has had an undercurrent of 'hey, this time in two weeks we will be getting on a plane, just us!'. We have had to-do lists coming out of our ears what with having to get the chalets ready for the start of the season and the homes we look after but we have been selfish too stealing time to get on with our own little projects. I think Will shocked me when he told me that he wanted to step back from the veg growing a bit and concentrate more on the landscape and structure of the garden this year. I am so excited by this, and seeing what we have done already (e.g. the shed), I can't wait to see what we can achieve, but it also got me in a panic, growing our own food is so much of what we are about that I just couldn't let it slip. Maybe it was a ploy by Will to get me to do more planting but it worked I have taken over a lot of the growing and I love it, I still get such a thrill about going to the greenhouse to grab the kale and rocket for my lunch and I am really grateful to Will for teaching me how over these years of living here.
It does feel like Spring is finally here. The ever changing weather is driving me nuts and it reminds me of Scotland, an hour of beautiful sunshine followed by torrential rain. Sunday we watched bags of cement being washed from the quay as the waves came roaring over and the rain battered against the window. Then today and yesterday we have had the patio door open with Amelia padding about on our newly laid pallet decking. Birds singing, no wind, you can just see the buds starting on our orchard trees. I am torn between opening all the windows in the house, getting the essential oils going and giving this place a good Spring clean, or getting stuck into projects in the garden.
We have a new found love of pallet wood ever since we landscaped around the new shed. We wanted to build a fence at the end mainly to close in the garden a bit to stop Amelia wandering off too much, so we tore apart some pallets and made one using the wood from them. Now we can't stop. The steps in front of our patio doors have always caused me so much stress; concrete, short, high steps just waiting for an accident. So the solution was to build wooden steps on top. I just love what Will has created, it looks amazing and the girls now spend so much time out there, as do we. And best of all the girls helped, in the loose sense of the word of course. Then around the greenhouse unfortunately the bamboo screen we put up last year was ripped apart by the wind over winter. Up goes another pallet fence. It is a slow process but we do just want to do more, maybe a decking area for seating next.
And as for my own projects well I have just finished my third knitted jumper for myself and this year as part of being organised I have actually been keeping a record of my knitting projects on ravelry (you will find me under the user name AutumnSkyes here). I haven't quite decided on my next project, however it will have to wait until we return home as I promised myself a real break from the usual this holiday, I just hope that I don't regret that decision half way through. I have also been painting a lot recently switching to acrylics, being able just to paint more with feeling and emotion, which I have really enjoyed. Hopefully once I am back I will be able to share more on this and update the website a bit.
There feels so many things left unsaid here. Life just feels really good at the moment with all the little details being as important as the overview I have given. However the need to pack and do my final checks (and maybe even spend some time with my mum who is definitely our favourite person at the moment) is calling to me. So I am afraid it is, see you in 3 weeks, perhaps more x