Ouch

Chris hurt his bum the other day and couldn't even sit on it - he literally burnt it by skidding on it playing baseball! OUCH!!! It isn't often Chris lets me photograph his butt!!!

My blog is going private!

Don't forget my blog is going private! If you would like to continue to read it, please email me: JaneThorpe@syban.net Or leave me a comment with your email address and let me know who you are.

Thanks. My blog is normally private as it has a lot of personal information in it, but it has been made public for one week to allow me to take part in a self portrait project at Flickr called '7days'. However this weekend my blog will return to being private again.

Thanks everyone :)

Bws
Jane

In bud!

My Coreopsis is in bud! This is my Double Coreopsis - I also have another kind that isn't doing as well and I forget the name of it but the foliage is a different colour.....it isn't doing nearly as well though for some reason. It's doing ok but not as big or fast as this one - I don't know, maybe it just isn't supposed to......But this one seems to be doing great! I can't wait for the buds to open and to see what they look like! Watch this space everyone and I will take pictures of the flowers and post them when they open :)

I'm envious of a certain bloggers Lupines by the way!!!! They are stunning!!!!! My Lupine doesn't look as though its going to flower at all this year! Well actually it's Susannahs - she chose it!!! But it doesn't look as though it will flower at all this year - so hopefully it will next year!

None of my seeds came up that I planted so next year I am not going to bother with seeds AT ALL I am just going to buy plants - or maybe I should be more patient - Lloyd said I should start them all indoors but I can't be bothered with all the hassle to be honest! I think why bother - I'd rather pay a little extra and just buy the plants ready to go in the ground! You get what you see and they do great - ALL the plants I buy do fine.....te Lupine will do fine I'm sure....but all the seeds were waste of time....maybe they'll surprise me next year....who knows! but all the perennials I bought this year as plants are doing brilliantly :)

Cooling off the dogs!

Abigail and Sam helped the dogs cool off today - although then Rosie found her own way to cool off :) Amber won't swim in the pond though - she has never liked swimming!! She is more than happy to get in the paddling pool though and enjoy the hose! Much to Sams enjoyment!

Jasper in the blooms...

Flowers from my garden....

False Sunflower

This is my False Sunflower. I wasn't sure how it would do as I've never had one before. It's an annual so it won't come back next year, but I love it! the petals are soooo papery! I might cut one off and dry it :) they are stunning :)

Daisy, Daisy.....give me your answer do.....

My Shasta Daisies are flowering again :)

Iris...

Sharon!!!!!!

These are the trees!!! I think they are Birch! They grow FAST have narrow silver trunks and shimmery small leaves that look gorgeous in the breeze. In groups they look lovely! You could have teeny ones or big ones - and Lloyd is getting a tree mover in the Spring so can dig up whatever size you want if you decide these are what you want! I took three pictures - an individual tree (top) a row of them (middle) and a group of them (bottom). Hope that helps you show Terry what they look like. But don't worry if they are no good. Spring is definitely the best time to plant trees as it gives them the whole Summer to get their roots nice and strong before the frost. The good thing about these Birch is that they grow fast - these grow several feet a year. But if you wanted mature trees we could dig those up and move them too - not like we have a shortage of them ;)

Todays lunch!

Thank you Sharon!!! Yummy scones baked by Sharon with FAR too much butter and yummy raspberry jam :) And we ran out yesterday so I made Lloyd drive me to the garage last night to get some more :) JUST for these scones :) Yes I shared ol - Laurie came home for lunch today as he has finished school for Summer and is only in for exams now so he was home for lunch today....so he thanks you too :) Oh and Sam had some too :)

YUM :)

Chris T's war

After yesterday I think Charlie gets all she deserves ;)

Picnic with friends...

Yesterday we had some wonderful friends come and join us for a picnic lunch and to play outside. We had so much fun - the weather stayed perfect - not too hot and not too windy and the rain stayed away so it was ideal! Now if only Charlie had stayed away it would have been perfect but that fat piggy could smell all the great food and just wouldn't leave us alone - she even managed to push her way through three heavy wooden boards to get out of the workshop!

Anyway, I think the children had great fun and I know I had a great time with some wonderful company, so thank you Charlynn, Sharon and Val (alphabetical order and not in favourite order lol) for coming over and spending a few hours with us! And thank you Sharon for the treats your brought the children - and for the magazines and scones you brought for me! The scones were delicious and I sat in bed until 10am this morning reading People magazine :) Wow I can't believe how skinny and horrible that girl from third rock looks - she was so pretty before but now she looks so thin and ill! She seems to think she looks great! She had real character before!!!! She needs you to bake her some scones!!!!

Val I smudged out your little guys face - so I hope these pics are ok......It breaks my heart to do it but at least it means I can have you in my pictures! Wish I could blog your little guy though! To me he's your little guy ;) He sure liked Charlynn ;) I had great fun yesterday - the bee swarm kind of tok over yesterday but I did have a great time the rest of the time too :) I hope the children enjoyed themselves :)

Oh by the way the second picture of you 'Moms' I picked because its a funny one of all of you :) lol!

7days - day 6 - Bug eyed!!

Here is my portrait for day 6 of the 7 days portrait project that I'm taking part in!! I called it 'Bug Eyed'!! Sharon brought these fabby shades over for Sam yesterday and I couldn't resist wearing them for todays portrait! I couldn't wear them for yesterdays as it was a themed day (water) but today was a general day so I could! Cool huh?

You can check out all the other great pictures in the project at:
www.flickr.com/groups/sevendays

Bee Blog updates

Just to let you know my Bee Blog has been updated with some exciting updates from yesterday.....and although I've had a busy few days with lots of fun things happening for me and the children - Abigails concert, Sams last day at preschool, Abigail and Laurence ice skating, Good friends over for a picnic here yesterday - meeting up with Sharon for the first time in FOUR years :)

Well, sorry guys but the bee thing has just kind of kept me busy ever since and I haven't had much time to think about anything else ever since. As soon as the bees are properly settled in their new hive out by the vegetable garden I can think straight and focus properly and get caught up again and update you all with all the rest of the news and pictures and updates :) But for now head over to the bee blog for the latest info ;)

Although I will do my 7days piccy later ;)