Spring has Sprung

Spring is in the air at the Hippy Farm, the days are slowly getting longer and the garden is coming back to life Yay. BUT we are still living in the dodgy house, waiting on the insurance company to come to the party, its a long pathetic story!! We are looking at re-building because our policy expired at the end of august and the insurance company will not renew it, BECAUSE some of the house is over 70yrs old(2 1/2 rooms out of 10)  and its in an unrepaired state (our claim has been approved, so what a coincidence, they dont want us anymore!!)...we are in negotiations with them!!! what a joke!!
Hope to have some good news soon, we are looking at our options and i will be posting lot of pics the building progress...when it starts lol...lucky we are both soooo patient.

Ah the memories!!!

This $1 op shop find brought back some great memories from my child hood.  This is how i first remember learning how to sew.  There were six in the pack, thanks to blogger misbehaving i can only down load one photo....erm twice lol.  The prints are full of groovy retro happiness.

New Toy

All the vegetables seem to be ripening at the same time, we cant possible eat them all, so as well as giving them away, Ive been lucky enough to find one of these.

Straight from the groovy retro years this dehydrator is big enough to hold the veggies without me having to cut them into tiny pieces.

I had a few dehydrators to choose from, plastic ones that  have tiny little shelves, and start at $100.   She cost me $45 on ebay, I just lurveeee her.

Cherry tomatoes, just picked ready to go in for the first practice run.

Five hours later they were dried, sweet and chewy

Waving not drowning

our front yard looked like a river

we werent going anywhere,we were flooded
in by the silent water that came during the night

Great NOt water up past tje skirting boards.,

In my dumb morning state, I threw towels down, hoping they would soak up the water....Yeh right!

The shiny water carpet in the sewing room

Splash splash to the back door and bathroom

The back porch this is where the water came in from

Not happy!!

 The river that we woke up to, at the front of the house...you can see the tiny bit of the road.

You may have heard about the floods in N.S.W, well the hippy farm copped a beaut last monday morning.
The strange thing is we didnt hear the water coming in the house. Hippy man woke at 5.30am and noticed something sparkling on the road.  Ugh is that water? Nope it was a raging river streaming down our street that had come down silently during the night from the flooded main street of our closest town 12 kms away. I raced out towards the kitchen to see what was going on and found myself ankle deep in the water that had come through the house...........while we were sleeping.  Well it sure was an initiation for me, ive never been in a flood before, he went into OMG mode, while i disconnected the power and 'tried' to lift as much as i could out of the affected rooms.  Hippy man was still OMGing outside so i called him in to grab the camera.  TSK TSk Men!!!
Pics coming soon, our connection is soooooooooooo slow!!!

OOps! it been a while lol

I'm now the proud president of the new craft shop, which was opened two weeks before Christmas, its run as a co-op with members from around the district. My lead up to Christmas was hectic, here are a few snaps of the shop the day we opened.  Memberships have increased and we now have shelves and racks full of lovely, handcrafted items.

It was a hectic two weeks and then came christmas day!! I'm not much on Christmas, so the Christmas spirit was a bit "floppy" and the rain came and swept the day away lol

Well actually  we werent grounded by the rain, it came at the end of the day....thats my eco friendly xmas tree, washed out, but still intact.

My grandsons came to stay for two weeks , in the new year, the little city slickers had a ball.  They were determined to light the rubbish in the wood heater, even though it was a stinking hot night....what is it with boys and fire??/

OOps i lost them lol
Im still busy with the painting, another orange room bites the dust!! YAY!!

Mmm the carpets a worry!! But i do have dibs on a friends carpet, when she replaces it...oh the joy of measuring and laying

My next 'target" is painting the bedroom beyond
the door, its Bright Blue, so going to be great fun to cover...NOT!!

Todays Harvest, zucchini, tomatoes, squash caps, and chilli, and a basket of eggs.

and so thats me for now until next time take care and be Happy!!!

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