What a bloomin garden!!!

 I took 20 pics of the flag before finally getting the right shot!
 The cannas are going balistic around the pond, and the fish survived the winter and doubled in size

 We've been eating from the spud patch

 The orchard, full of nectarine and peach trees is looking great yum

 Our wild world

 Some of our new babies, my favorites are the grey ones.

 This was taken a few weeks ago, we are now eating crook neck zucchini

 The path to the rose garden

Happy chickens and happy me!!.....Merry Christmas everyone, stay safe and enjoy!!!

More painting!!

We've had a few hot days at the Hippy Farm, the seedlings have all been planted, garden hayed, and weeded, the garden is coming back to life after hibernating for the winter...and so have i .
I had lots of paint left after painting the sewing room, so i added some white paint to lighten the turquoise, so i could paint the outside of the house.

I'm rapt with it, the spouting and window frames were mission brown before i painted them white.
Much better and then............
when i was standing on the crate finishing off the windowframes, the stupid crate flipped sideways (i cant use a ladder, the crate is as high as i can go...im shit scared of heights lol), i fell off the damn thing straight onto my tail bone....so thats the end of painting for a few weeks, until that little hiccup is out of the way lolol

the orange room

 The neighbour was throwing this old pantry out.....i saw potential!!!

 Now that the weather has warmed up i have a choice paint or garden...today i chose painting.
This is the stash room before...orange!!!  UGH!!

 Heres the after shot of the pantry...lots of room for material...YAY

 I painted the walls turquoise and white....the old cd rack has a new job as my lace holder.

and some new curtains to finish the room....ahhhh all done.

The bike

My new bike, was given to me, she needed new tubes and tyres, dang they cost me $70!!

The last time i rode a bike was with my daughter on the back in her baby seat. She is now 23!!

Can I still do it?  Oh boy i was  wobbly to start with but made it up the road followed by  a magpie...great!! lol it was hard going, and yes im very sore, so the bike now sits under the verandah, waiting for my next ride, who knows when lolol

More new babies at the Hippy Farm , meet Jack and Jill, nicknamed wombat, shes a little fatty

Bindi and Bob...hes the boss!

Mother duck said...................

the new additions to the hippy farm...13 gorgeous, bright sunny  yellow ducklings, out for a waddle with Bubbles

                                                          Wait for me mum!!!

Ah Foxs Lane you've done it again!!

We've just gone through the biggest mouse plague known to man, woman and erm ME!
Ive never had to deal with this being the city slicker that i was!
All hell broke loose when i found they had been having a parteee in my stash room, what a nightmare, everything had to be washed.  Ten loads of washing and still counting..Not happy!!
Time to cull and pack into plastic tubs UGH!!
I couldnt part with anything, so thanks to http://foxslane.blogspot.com/ (yep i did copy your idea sorry, hope you dont mind)...the sewing room is now spotless full of "loverly" plastic tubs not! and ive managed to cull quite a bit by making the doona cover.
As if the ric rac wasnt enough!!....thanks for the motivation...I hope you have an awesome trip full of beautiful memories...Di

The ugly dresser

 Life is bliss at the Hippy Farm. This old girl needed a makeover, so after i painted the ceiling and one wall i tackled her. She was originally brown YUK!!

                                            What a nightmare, it took 3 coats.

          And i covered the two shelves and inside the cupboards with black and white tiles.

This lady was an original part of the  kitchen... at least 50 years old.....she will be good for another 50 now!!

our house

 Our Hippy Farm when it was the post office, it had 3 rooms, we now have 8, which have been added during the years.

Kerbside rubbish day was yesterday....Hippy Man you are such a hoarder, tsk tsk,, lucky we have a big nature strip lololol...and lucky the council sent 5 guys to do the job.

Sweet sweet love

 Heres the new addition to our family, grandson number 5, Harlem Koa-Sydney,arrived 10 days late, April 7th............ just gorgeous!!!!!

 Gentle Big Brother!!!

Ahhh thats better..............

Finding time to sew

This summer was a very busy time, I finally managed to get on the machine and get a bit of sewing done. This was a $2 dress from the scab trolley at Kmart.

 Just one cut and a bit of embellishing and a new skirt for layering during the winter.

But i have been busy on the knitting front, lots of beanies and gloves and this vest and hat, great now that the weather has cooled down and i can snuggle by the fire.

The meter box

All on schedule for market day, I only have one more block of red to paint.
Today i finished the meter box, which was originally mission brown

Looked great until..............

I plugged it in, now it looks like its got a breathing tube in it !!!

the pressure is on!!!

All is still amazing at the Hippy Farm, but gee we have been busy. Only four weeks to go until the big market & garage sale in our town, so im frantically trying to finish painting the farm shop, im about two thirds done, only one oopsie so far (well actually two) yes two broken windows while painting ....ooops! Never mind for now we have covered them with purple boards and it doesnt look too shabby lol

The old selling cart has had a revamp and is looking great. The warm autumn weather has been a bonus. So fingers crossed we finish on time!!!

Just fun

This is how my saturday was spent on this glorious autumn day at the hippy farm..played with the pups, sugar, boofhead, maggie, dotty and molly...and then ZZZZz

hippy man is so proud of the watermelons, 

watched the butterflies

maggie and hippyman

did somemore painting

i didnt think an artichoke had such a pretty flower

 my first fire at the hippy farm.

What an awesome day!!! 

My new second life!!

After living in the 'burbs' all my life, the last few years threw me many stones.....but from now on I have only diamonds....
The move to the hippy farm was one of the best choices i have ever made.
Its been two months since i arrived here and its been awesome if i dont count the heat, flies, mozzies, spiders, wasps, crickets, ants and mice.ha ha
The hippy man has been patient with me, i freak at almost any bug that comes near me, he is so used to it he usually just laughs me off.

The flag that i gave hippy man for xmas takes pride of place in front of the farm.
The verandah(which also doubles as our food shop) is having a face lift when im done with it will be the 6 colors of the flag. Ive already done blue, green and purple will post pics of soon.

getting ready for the market UGH 6am

                                         Our market stall

                                         What i see when i open the back door

Yummo watermelon almost ready

                                        

                                          doesnt every farm have an old bomb in the back paddock??