Monday 13 July 2015

...and the wind just blew and blew!

What a day we had today! There was a wild wind all day long which really made it seem a lot colder than the forecasted temperature. It was a good day for drying the washing though despite the sun peeping in and out of the clouds for much of the day.


I had a chuckle when watching the news to see all the Queenslanders who had driven down to the border with New South Wales to see the snow. One person had even come down from Gladstone :-) There was a flurry of snowflakes near Eukey and just over the border in Tenterfield there was heavier snow. Check out the photos here . Of course our Northern Hemisphere friends would be laughing themselves silly to see all the Aussies get so excited about seeing snow for the first time but it doesn't snow all that often here apart from on the snowfields. We last had snow in Toowoomba in 1984 from memory when my children were very little and we had them rugged up in so many clothes they could hardly move. LOL! 

There was no snow around here though...just wind, wind and more wind! It really was too cold to work outside so I did some cooking and a little sewing. As we had soup planned for dinner tonight I cooked Chilli Cornbread based on this recipe in one of the Coles magazines. It turned out really well. I replaced the castor sugar with stevia.



 The addition of Feta cheese and corn was really nice.




I discarded the chilli seeds so the dish wasn't too hot. The CEO grows some really hot chillies. If you would like to find out how to test the hotness of your chillies watch 'How to test chillies with Curtis Stone' . 



I thought I would experiment with making a rag rug and this is my first attempt. I really don't have much of an idea how to do patchwork so half followed a tutorial I found on Pinterest. I had problems with the corners of the binding so gave that a miss. I am trying to use up the InsulBrite I bought a while back for potholders I made for a DTE swap. 




One of the Down to Earth forum members sent me this chookie one recently so I thought I would try my hand at making one too. Cute eh?


 

However one can only stay indoors for so long and when the sun came out in short bursts I would venture outside to see how the garden was faring. There are flowers on the passionfruit and I wondered if they will survive the expected frost on Wednesday. 



There are signs that spring isn't really all that far away as the mulberrries are forming already. I am not quite sure why I am looking forward to spring as the last couple have brought heatwave conditions followed by mild summers. Hopefully this year they will go back to normal and we will have a gradual warming up of temperature. That way our beautiful spring flowers are not ruined by the heat. 

However, at the moment any warmth and improvement in the weather would be appreciated :-) I hope all the Aussies out there are staying warm and our Northern Hemisphere friends are staying cool! 



13 comments:

  1. The last couple weeks have been hot and for the most part humid. The evenings cool off at least so that the house can get ready for another warm day. I will close up the front soon as the sun blazes through there and heats up the house way too much. Hoping for a nice rain to give the ground a soaking. Everything is starting to look a little thirsty outside.
    Thanks for posting. Enjoy your pictures everytime I come here.

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    1. Yes, I read how hot and humid it is in some places in the US and Canada. It is nice when there is rain just as long as it doesn't do any damage.

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  2. Pretty rug. Pretty flowers.

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    1. Thanks J. Hope you are feeling healthy once again.

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  3. mmmm...Feta cheese in the corn bread, I hope I can remember this by the time the winter is here as that just sounds delicious!! Stay warm!!

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    1. Kathy, I will remind you. Then again...who is going to remind me to remind you? LOL!

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  4. wind has been wicked around here, trees are going sideways & almost touching the ground! am bundled up & knitting inside, wish i had a wood heater/stove &/or a lovely sun-room!
    those mulberries already look delicious!
    thanx for sharing

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    1. I also look longingly at the smoking chimneys of our neighbours and wish we had a wood heater to sit by and crochet instead of being huddled under a blanket.

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  5. I had my DD in bed during the night because of the howling wind....I loved the breeze and my washing dried sooo fast!
    Great idea to stay inside! I wonder how people further south cope with cold weather and being in the garden.
    Hope your passionfruit stay on and turn to yummy fruits!

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    1. I will find out tomorrow morning if the passionfruit survived. We are going down to 1C but we apparently had zero last week and there was no frost so we will see.

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  6. Oh - Mulberries. I have memories of climbing the mulberry tree in my white school shirt as a kid....you can guess the rest!

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  7. Was a bit of wind, after lunch walked into a staff room and all I got was...what happened? The witches hair just could not stay contained any longer. Passionfruit fell to the ground I got them before the dogs and so sweet.

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  8. Passion fruit are definitely on my list for summer growing. Still shivering down here......

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