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A walk in the woods

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I spent the day cutting grass.
Especially my paths in my wee woods
The grass had grown so much after a couple of days of rain
I love to walk in the woods
I keep my paths cut
So that I can walk with not so much risk of picking up a dreaded tik!
The deer and other animals use these paths too although at this time of year it’s difficult to see the evidence but in the winter the snow covered paths show lots of different tracks
Going into the tunnel
It’s so much fun walking though the tunnel
Looking to towards the village
Looking up!
In the middle
Fallen down
Right across the path
Beautiful skies
A lovely place for a picnic
Nearly home
Fields of corn
Home again, the studio is looking great with all the poppies

Goings on around the place

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The beautiful weather continues, perfect with some rain showers in the morning.
The Ash trees are greening up.
Made a cake using the bread maker, It turned out lovely, peanut butter instead of butter, it’s tasty.
A spider plant giant.
A jacket made from a quilt I have for sale in my Etsy shop, QuiltedCloth.
My friend Vibeke modeling it for me, it’s looks fabulous on her.
Had a clear out upstairs, put lots to GoodWill and lots to recycle and organized everything else.
Tea-Cosy having her morning feed
One of the tiny chooks is broody, I swapped some eggs with my neighbor ( they have a cockerel, I don’t so they could have fertile eggs)
She accepted four of the six eggs and has been sitting on them keeping them cosy, I have given her a quiet place to herself with lots of food and water, maybe we will have chicks!
All the other chooks seem to be doing fine.
I give them curly kale leaves in the morning which they devour fast!
I have a fence outside the henhouse for more green food.
Pool temperature a balmy 20c!
Seedling of spinach,daisies,pumpkins, parsley and kale all doing OK.
Salad bed just about ready to start harvesting
Tatties doing amazing after a couple of days rain.
This little pheasant waits for her morning feed.
And finally a flower

Henhouse, chooks and eggs

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The hen house is slowly being covered in hops vines.
Hops.
Window.
Whitey through the window.
You can just about make out “Tea Cosy” through the old window.
Tea Cosy and Blackie who lays beautiful blue eggs.
Today is their first day outside the run, I have put up a fence around part of the garden for them to get lots of greens and bugs!
Delicious eggs large and small!

Early summer flowers

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Lots of red and green
Blue skies.
Peaceful morning.
Barn flowers.
Barn door. ( When it was a working farm this was the dairy door).
Barn with Fred😂
Poppies and Irises.
Thyme.
Lots more thyme.
Columbine
White double Columbine.
Columbine.
Shasta Daisy
Poppies and irises.
Poppies.
Pale pink.
So perfect.
And detailed.
Gorgeous lupins.
Sage.
The part of the house you see with windows was originally built in 1750 and later on in 1820 an extension in granite was added the part of the wall without windows.

Tatties, onions, salads and tomatoes

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Tatties in tubs.
In raised beds around the greenhouse,
I moved two raised beds up to the garden from the flooded area which used to be the vegetable garden. ( still flooded).
More tatties in raised beds in front of the greenhouse.
And at the other side too, more onions in tubs and to the back Sun Chokes.
Tatties onions and salads.
Salad bed.
Inside the greenhouse, tomatoes, kale, parsley and seedlings of salads, flowers and pumpkins.
Salad.
Spinach.
Parsley and kale, a random tattie plant which I have pulled up and put in the compost as it was getting too big and would mess with the parsley.
Kale.
Curly and flat leaf parsley.
Pumpkin seedling.
Tomato plant.

Breeze

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Hiding!
You can’t see me!
Can you?
Oh no you spotted me!
I’ll have to find a better binding place!
But this is my favorite place to stalk bugs!
And feathers!
And have a munch of grass!
And a nap 💤

Chamomile

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I had sown some Chamomile for soap making many years ago, it seeds itself easily and this year it’s prolific.
Close up outs beautiful.
Perfect petals.
Strongly scented.
I will harvest it for tea and also will make some soap later.
But for now I will enjoy the flowers and the scent when I hang out the washing on the line.

Rhubarb and flowers

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My rhubarb was drowning in the flood that has not drained away.
Thick smelly mud.
That filled with water as soon as I dug one of the roots out, thankfully the wellies my sister brought me when she visited we perfect for the job and my feet stayed dry.
I dug up all the roots and brought them to the top of the garden.
Planted them in a nice new bed with lots of compost.
First poppy.
Unopened poppy
Anemone Clematis
Daisies
My favorite flower
European Columbine, it seeds it’s self every where
In all different colours
And all different shapes
Lupin, another lovely flower that seeds it’s self all over the place.
The scent from it is lovely
Star-of-Bethlehem it’s glorious this year popping up all over the place
Perfect weather for line drying
Also perfect weather for a plunge in the pool, it’s a lovely way to end the mornings work in the garden

Up early making jam

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The very early morning sunrise wakes me up, it’s beautiful, the birds are singing in overdrive so what else can one do but get up and be productive, this morning I made Raspberry and bramble jame with the last of the frozen fruit in big freezer I have outside in the barn..
I made it with less sugar as this will get eaten up quickly with yogurt or scones.
I was pleased with the deep red colour of the jam.
The sun still low in the sky this early in the morning made it a little difficult to take photos but I couldn’t wait.
Dark and delicious
I thought the colours of the sun rays look fabulous.
There was enough in the bottom of the pot to fill the jam pot ready to use with some of the yoghurt I made yesterday.
Delicious on its own
But even better with homemade jam!

Busy weekend

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There is a shop in Rønde that sell bedding plants and a very good price.
So I treated myself to 200kr worth.
I planted them in pots around the studio.
I was given a gift of a Wisteria,I decided to plant it next to the studio, I have now planted Clematis (a gift from my sister) Russian vine and Virginia Creeper along the front and side of the studio in hopes that one day it will cover the walls, oh I also planted an Ivy I was given in a flower arrangement which has rooted and will hopefully grow.
My neighbors gave me a packed of wild flowers, I sowed them in a bare patch next to the studio, I’m super happy to see they have germinated.
I also planted a bag full of Dalias in amongst the sea of green that is my big flower border. Most of my flowers start to bloom late May and go on until the first frost in the fall, I have a lot of late flowering plants to brighten up later summer into the fall.
Curly Kale and parsley.
Tomato plant.
I als went twice to the recycle center for compost, most of I used in the garden and I then filled up a couple of tubs extra as I am sure I will need it.
Onions
I filled up all the water tubs and watered in all the plants.
My salad bed.
More onions.
My tatties ( potatoes) are coming through!
Lilac blooming
It is all around the house and looks fabulous this time of year.
Totally love the new vivid green shoots on the pine trees.
I’m having a “dook” in my wee pool every day, it’s so refreshing (still very cold) after a day in the garden. So much fun!
It’s tiny but perfect!
Fruit bushes are doing great!
Bluebells this used to be the only clump I had here, but I have found two more, I hope they keep spreading.

It was a busy weekend, I also had time to go for a delicious lunch with Alex at her place, she has a gorgeous house surrounded with an apple and pear orchard.

What a lovely weekend.

Quilts

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My quilts for sale in my Etsy shop “QuiltedCloth”.

Low volume colors.
Tumbler block charm quilt.
Bright and bold.
A fabulous bright and bold charm quilt, twin size.
Bright and bold Baby.

Bright and bold baby charm quilt.

Kitties

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Poppet
She likes to spent the spring and summer outside.
Breeze.
Don’t be waking me up.
It’s too bright, close the curtains and let me sleep 💤

Slim Pickings, he’s getting old so spends a lot of time sleeping 😴

Spring flowers

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Tulip
Ragged edge
Orange
Pink
Red
Bluebells
The apple tree just suddenly blossoms.
With such gusto.
A gorgeous place to sit in the morning.
Perfect white.
Hint of pink.
Cowslip
Weeds
Rhubarb.

Chooks

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Alex, a friend is moving back to France and has given me all her chickens!

New additions to the place.
I cleared out an old shed.
Built some perches and a place for laying eggs. I have still to add the straw.
Made them a ladder out of some posts and small branches from a fallen tree.
I was very happy to manage to fit a door to the hen house for night time safety.
Then cleared the rubble from the rest of the old shed and made it into a good sized run for them to use until they can roam free.
I used the cat travel boxes to pick them up.
First day eggs!!! So cute, omelette for supper tonight!

Sister

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My sister Susan came foe a visit.

We went on lots of walks.
The weather was fabulous.
Teal blue sea.
White sands.
But still chilly 🥶
Starfish
Beautiful skies.

Compost from the Kommune!Free!

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My friend Alex took me to the recycling centre and showed me where to get compost free!

At the recycling centre there is bundles of it.
I don’t have a trailer so used tubs and buckets!
Alex also gave me an old table made with an old pedal sewing machine legs, I’m going to give it a new top and paint the sides.
Buckets of compost
I will plant onions in this bed.
Onion bed and potato beds.
Lots of old straw from the chicken shed.
The last of the potatoes went in these tubs recycled from the pig farm.
Chooks eyeing up the beds!
More potatoes, pink fir apple in these beds.