Totally Useless SAL Update - New Moon 29 August 2011

Oh dear, late again!!  But as they say better late than never....

So hear we go, the latest TUSAL update from me.

As I didn't get to take my photo until today, and the sun was shining for a very brief time through the black clouds after a wet, thundery night, I thought that maybe I would take the photo outside today, and of course "Spring has also sprung" so what a better way to celebrate Spring than a photo with the Nasturtiums!

TUSAL Update - New Moon 29 August 2011
Daisy and the ORt's Jar

The ORT's this month have lots of lovely colours with a spattering of greys from Culinary Cat #2.  The reds on top are from the latest quilt square that I am stitching for "Quilts 4 Kids". 

The Never-Fail Nastartium patch -
dies off every summer and comes back every winter. 
This is the best they have ever been... all that lovely rain!!

Last night we had a significant amount of very heavy rain.  We were woken up around 11.30pm by the sound of heavy rain and the rain went on til about midnight when the thunderstorm hit and there was even more heavy rain.    Around 1am I dozed off and it was still raining... not sure how much rain we got but the forecasters predicted around 20mm (or almost an 1" in the old money)... I reckon we probably got at least that much...  Good start to our Spring rainfall!

The heavy rain did unfortunately batter my beautiful pansy pots around, but they will perk back up again soon (I hope).

One of the pansy pots after last night's rain looking very bedraggled!
Oh, and there is a geranium in that pot somewhere.....

 When Daisy Dog and I went for a very quick walk this morning (the sky looked very threatening so we didn't stay out too long), we wandered past the park down the street.  This park is like a big soakwell / catchment area for all the stormwater drains in the area.  Last week this park was dry.... today it is like a lake!  Even the ducks were there this morning....

If you look closely enough you can actually see the rings of where the water came up to.  It is now receeding and will probably be gone by tomorrow.  It takes quite a signifcant amount of rainfall for there to be this much water in the park - all very good news for our dams and catchment areas.

"Lake" in the park at the end of the street

Looking across the "lake"

So that's it for this ORT report.  I will be back in the next few days with a stitching update and a look at what I did last weekend.....

For more info on the TUSAL pop over to Daffycat's blog.

Til the next new moon on 27th September 2011, happy stitching and may your collection of ORT's keep growing!

New Moons - 2011

27 September
26 October
25 November
24 December

Cats and Quilts...

Q:  What does a cat do when presented with a nice warm lap covered with a lovely snuggly quilt?

A:  He snuggles up and goes to sleep!

One happy cat!!
Daisy dog is snuggled up in the background on her bed!

Notice the dog does move!!!

Last night Hubby settled down to unpick the quilting on the quilt that he is making for his youngest son's 21st birthday.  After quilting about half he decided he didn't like the free-motion quilting that he did - so out it is coming....  Now, back to the story!  After Hubby made himself comfortable on the couch with unpicker and ORT's jar a certain young puddy tat decided it was time to have a sleep on the couch next to Dad, but when he discovered that Dad had a quilt on his lap... well, that was different - couch or Dad's lap with a quilt on it!!  Dad's lap won hands down!  So the evening passed with Oscar asleep on Hubby's lap while Hubby unpicked his quilting....

This week has been yet another busy week at work even with the boss away for the week!  We are now in winter's cold grasp and amazingly we are actually getting some decent rain.  The weekend, and most of next week, has more rain forecast too, so fingers crossed, and with a little bit of help from the Gods above we will actually see some of that precious rain start to flow into the dams....

I haven't done a lot of stitching this week - have been way too tired to do too much at night after work, but I do have a bit of stitching update for you.

Margaret Sherry Culinary Cat 2 - kitty is now almost half done, and he is now looking pretty cool!  Looking forward to finishing him off and starting number 3.

Flower Fairy - this cute little fairy is coming along quite nicely.  I have been alternating between the kitty and the flower fairy over the last week and they are now both on the home run.

Finally, one last little pic... on Saturday Hubby and I went to Spotlight to participant in the sale!  I was good... but Hubby found some nice new fabrics to add to his stash.  I did find this cute little box though.  It is a Gutermann thread box and was filled with 4 or 5 coloured sewing threads which Hubby has added to his stash and the box is in my stitching box.  Have no idea what I will use it for.. but I'm sure it will come in handy to store needles or scissors or even ORT's!!

With our weather forecast like this for today and the weekend

You will probably find me doing this....... albiet with stitching in one hand and a cuppa of tea in the other!!

Til next time, hope you have a wonderful weekend and get lots of stitching done!