August 2020 Photo Hunt

Once again I'm joining in with Hawthorn and trying not to leave it to the end of the month to prepare this post!

1   Moving

When we moved here just over 5 years ago, there were the usual boxes of stuff to move and then there were Beloved's engineering machines.....  

1  Bring the tractor with an iron pipe slipped over the bale spike to the house.

2   Drive the tractor carefully up to the front door so that the iron pipe is inside the house.

3  Use ratchet straps to attach the lathe to the iron pipe.

4  Lift it up (just a little way!), reverse out carefully and put it in the road trailer.

Then use the car to take the trailer to the new house.  Later bring the tractor and iron pipe to

the new house to unload the lathe and get it into the garage.

Not your normal house moving stuff!

2   Boxes

A plastic box containing 11 drawers, containing some of my yarn stash.....

I love boxes.....

3   Starts with D

Dry stone walling.  I do like stones, I do like stone walls....

We went on a day's dry stone walling course, helping to build this with about 10 other people.

Andy Goldsworthy has created some amazing stone features.

I've done a bit myself over the years....

1   The earth walls either side of the drive up to the chicken pen needed retaining so I made a start.

2  Slowly working my way up the right hand side, with the chickens watching me.

3  At the top of the drive, looking down the left hand side, deciding how to tackle it all.

4  All done and wide enough so Beloved can get a tractor up there!

What fun I had doing this over many months.  Our garden used to have stone properties on it, so I had plenty of stone to use and no need to buy any.

4  Breakfast

Mrs P with 4 youngsters coming for their breakfast.  They arrive most days.

Lately one has come by itself and all of them are learning to come to the kitchen

patio doors and not to run away when they open!

5   Making

I am generally always making something, it can be a mess but other times it is something tidy!

I decided to crochet jackets for lots of stones which will provide a 'support wall' to stop the 

wood log falling over.

We like to buy a pizza base and add lots of toppings!  My hand is for scale.

6   Own choice

The awful, wet, windy weather has prevented me sharing my planned Own Choice with you so I've had to go to Plan B!

I saw this on the web earlier this year (Pinterest?) and I 

decided to make my own version.  There was no

pattern so I made my own ...

Here it is.  I'm making it for Project Linus so this is big enough.

I used what plain fabrics I had in my stash and did not have to buy any

fabrics!  I'll back it with fleece soon.

Well, another month over, how the time flies these days.  Time to go and see all your lovely photos and read about your interesting stories.

Bye!