January Round Up

 It's the very last day of January - thankfully with a cooler change - we are down to just 30 C today (86f) which is such a relief after the week of high temps ranging from the mid 40s to 48 c 2 days ago (118.4f ) - its been a burning heat.  

Dog walks have been very early and you could see the colour in the Sun as it rose that it was going to be a scorcher ..... and a very pink sun when we had some of the smoke from the fires blown in which made it very eery.   

The council kept the sport field watered and it has been a lovely green reprieve for the doggos in the morning with the rest of the park area brown!

The animals and birds have been struggling ...... we had a young kookaburra dive too deep into our
pool and got stuck - luckily I happened to see the ripples in the pool as it struggled and I was able to scoop it out - it was totally drenched and obviously very tired from thrashing around in the pool.  Pete was able to lift the scoop up to the roof of the shed so it could dry off - meantime, its mates were flying over to keep a check and sat up in the gum tree waiting for it to dry out and join them - which it did eventually!  Poor Guy ...... we have a few bird baths and dishes of water in both the front and back yard that most of the other birds visit.

Soooooo - Finished projects for January - the 2 cushion pad covers for Miss Lucy; the bag for the boat safety equip for the van ...... and Gnombelberry (still need to get his backpack completed).

WIPs which were started in January include a sock with self patterning yarn,

 the Temperature Tree Cross Stitch (first week completed) and the branch for January

And I've started the 2nd Gnome for this year ....... Gnock from the pattern Someone to write Gnome about - which works well with my love of snail mail (although that has certainly dwindled over the past 10 years) ........ It's a very long hat!

And on other January news ......... my Run Down Under medal arrived showing my annual amount of kms I walked (and recorded) - I no longer am able to run - I need to pick up the pace if I'm to ever make it around Australia lol

And we had an overnight visit from Stace and John (and bunnies and birdies) - it was lovely to have them come and spend some time up here with us.

It's hard to believe that January has come to an end already and tomorrow we head into February - a short month - no doubt it will be over before we can blink - until then, Hugs Sharm xo