greetings from the Wet & wild Woodford!

there is a saying - 'it never rains but it pours'... or something along those lines and believe me... it is pouring here in gorgeous Woodford right now and has been really, for all of summer. A day or two, here and there of heat but mostly it has been wet. Joe and I went to Katoomba for a walk last night, but ended up having to walk up and down the main street (which is quite a long and strenuous walk as it is all up hill). The reason that we did this was because it was absolutely pouring when we got there and the temperature was 11deg.C !! After our walk, we came home and lit the fire...last week we had deluge rain and it washed alot of the mulch of my garden away.. so when the weather fines up, I will be busy putting it all back on...I cannot believe we are nearly to the end of summer and I haven't spent much time in the garden at all.. because of the rain. Just last June, our dam was 39% full and we are on water restrictions because of it.. now our dam is 65% full.. and I don't think I will be needing to water for awhile. Once the rain is finished I am going to buy quite a few bales of straw and lucerne and mulch the garden again.. to trap this gorgeous water into the ground. During a break from the rain, I wandered around my garden early this morning to snap a few photos.. I try to do this often, so i can keep a journal of life in Inglewood.

these tubs above were from my Nan's home.. they were her laundry tubs and were pulled out when 'modernising' the home.. I sometimes plant flowers in them but after the rain, I think a water garden is in the making! My Nasturtiums are coming to the end of their cycle.. oneday, I must try them in a salad.. something my grandparents did often.. This winter I hope to use some 'weeds' from my garden to make soups and frittatas..weeds like dandelion and sorrel and warrigal greens as well.

with all this rain, it is a wonder my roses aren't severely affected by black spot.. hopefully the humidity will stay away .. and my poor dear girls.. they don't like the rain at all.. sodden little things right now.. I think they are beginning to wonder if they should be looking for the Ark!! They will soon start to quack!

and just as the rain came down again.. I snapped a photo of the front of my home. I love my home.. it has a real soul.

so not much more about my life today... I am cleaning around the kitchen and maybe we will go out for lunch. I also need to make a visit to our co-op to buy my vegies and other organic foods.. Blue Mountains food Co-op our Co-op is run by local people and we join for $8 a year.. to buy products, we take our own jars or paper bags and help our selves from big bins of cereals, flours, rice, sugar, herbs, teas and many more products - they have a large range of locally grown organic fruit and vegetables as well as a fridge section. It is fun! today i need to buy some slippery elm bark powder, rolled oats, buckwheat pasta and some raw sugar.. and I might even buy myself a small block of sheep's milk cheese. Tonight we are taking our grandson Thomas to Chinese New year banquet.. oh and the Goddess blog is open - there is a link at the top of my blog - way to wisdom... I need desperately to do some crafting stuff.. I haven't made alot at all lately. I am thinking of making a collage of all the words of wisdom that Daisy sent me over the years and maybe try to paint her as well... I am gathering bits for my faery swap and that will be in the beak of the little sparrow who is patiently waiting in my ancient apple tree. Very wet and bedraggled but so excited to be making a trip over the ocean.. so he will be on his way next week...