I rather like the thought of running a blog but if the truth be known what I like and what I am willing to do is a different matter.
It is my 41st wedding anniversary so what better day to start something new.
I will be able to add blogger to my list of activities at the top of this blog.
My current passion is machine embroidery digitizing but I have two quilts in the background that really need attending to.
My aim, eventually, is to either have a quilting frame or a long-arm quilting machine. I have nurtured this desire since visiting the Houston Quilt show in September 2008.
My garden gives me lots of enjoyment especially in October when harvesting grapes plums, peaches and apples.
Sadly the black grapes have suffered this year and it is the first year I can't use the fruit from the vine. It has the dreaded lurgy and I have to find out what has gone wrong. I normally, by this time, have a huge swathe of beautiful grapes to either give away, make wine or juice for the year.
The plums I planted about ten years ago and have waited all this time for them to commence fruiting. Now I know why gardener's need a great deal of patience. The blossom was good this year but not many fruits survived.
The apple tree was planted by the previous owner of our house. I met her and became great friends with her and she mentioned that she had taken a pip out of an apple as a small child and planted it and the result today is the beautiful tree in our garden. My friend, Dorothy, never saw her apple tree grow to the heights it is now because when we moved into the house, the tree was being strangled by a Sycamore. We rescued the tree and ever since it has grown very vigorously and given us many edible and cookable fruits.
The peach tree came to my garden as a small whip that had been grown by a friend who had taken a kernal from the French region of Limoussin and she planted it in her garden. The peaches are red and a wild variety which spoil very easily so there is a panic when the whole fruited tree starts to ripen, as we have to work very fast to get them frozen, pureed or whatever else I may wish to do with them.
A la prochaine
Maureen Pinwill