And the rain came down.
And the rain came down.

Then the heavens opened and blasted forth.
My world was lit so bright I had to close my eyes.

And the rain came down.





But after all the wild weather we have been having lately I was so happy to find this flower bent over in my garden. Out of such storm comes natures beauty. I also saw one of the largest leopard slugs eating a snail. I think they are so cute, as slimmy animals go.
I must admit I was not really feeling like going for my walk today but the dogs dragged me outside and the smell of fresh soil and leaves really made the walk worthwhile. I think that if I did not have the dogs it would be so easy to just stay inside and miss out on all that nature has to offer us each day.
I hope you all get the chance to see something new each day and be amazed by nature at its work.

I have been working on this jumper lately. I decided I need to stop spinning and try to finish this jumper. It is from the first skeins I spun. It will be for number three child. Ever since he saw the sheep shawn he has wanted me to make him a jumper so I need to get cracking on it. It is knitted all in one and I am just starting on the arm holes. I hope he will like it since he chose the pattern and colours.

festelavn

I headed off with the kids the other day to celebrate festelavn. For those who do not know , it is a scandinavian celebration. In the old days they used to ride through the villages and break barrels that were strung up from an arch. It has something to do with the start of lent and scaring away evil spirits. You can always send me a message if you know more about it. These days the children dress up and go from door to door singing a song asking for the festelavn boller(buns). You can see these above. They are cinnamon buns filled with cream and marzipan(yummmy). The children then bash open a barrel filled with lollies.

Then number one child and I went for a walk along the beach??? well the water anyway. The tide was so far out that it only left a small channel of rushing water. There were so many crabs and still a few clear jellyfish. I am sure I have never seen jelly fish here before, there must be something in the water as they say, for all these jellyfish to be around. Not forgetting the giant one. But I also found two hiking boots, a black volley shoe and a sock and a pair of red reading glasses still in their case. It always amazes me what you can find on a beach, even a small one like this.

Well this is the magic work of the drum carder I have borroweed. It makes all that carding so easy and I love it. These are the remaining bats left over from my little go at dyeing at home. I had lots of fun adding some colour to Jacks fleece. I was getting a little bored with all that white.And as I plyed it up this is what I ended up with. Very nice I think.

But of course I still have some more on the bobbin and will slowely work my way through the rest of those bats.

giant jelly fish

Today we found this giant jellyfish on a small cove near our place. I was totally amazed by the size of this thing. I had to check the net to see that this is most likely a lions mane jelly fish and is found around here, but in such a sheltered cove. I am stunned.

Just to give it some perspective this is my number 1 child next to the jelly fish. It is huge. But also very beautiful in so many ways. I had hoped that the tide would turn while we were there so we could see it float away but alas it did not happen. I have no idea if it can possibly survive after being washed up on a beach but we can only hope.

But what is this? There were a few of these on the top of the jelly fish and they were still moving indipendently from the jellyfish while still being attached to it. Can you help me?

This was my favourite jellyfish. It is a clear one with four purple circles in it. Just stunning. I now love jellyfish.

latest spinning

This is a pastel food dyed wool a friend - phezzit- gave to me. It was really nice to spin and I have plied it with my Jacks wool.

This is a varigated wool that I spun to see what it would look like. I have had fun spinning this.

This isViolet vibe which Ilove. the colour is so nice. But with all this spinning and not enough knitting I need to start selling my yarn.

Australia day

I love a bit of Australia day festivity. There is nothing better than to celebrate our great country and life style at the beach. The kids played beach soccer(football) and built this cool sand castle. I was not sure how to take the photo of Neptune here without standing on him.

This was the first beach day that seemed to set the mood for the whole week. We spent tues at a friends pool, wed at another beach, thur at the water hole, fri at another beach. Sat was a rest day then today we headed off to a little dog beach where we ran into friends and the dogs ran into some of their friends. I must say the dogs were not too keen for a swim if there was no stick to chase. Maybe the thought of a swim for funs sake does not enter a dogs mind. The water was really nice, and that is unusual for the sea down here. You have to be tough to grow up swimming in the waters down here. I was just talking about this with a friend from long ago who I used to go swimming with at our local beach as we grew up. We were mad and some times the water was so cold it would take our breath away and we had to jog up and down the beach to get any feeling back when we had finished. But it was fun.