Another Flood!!!

 I think this is the 5th time the Namoi River has broken it's banks since we moved here 17 months ago. There is so much water around, we have had over 80mms of rain since Friday the poor people down the end of our street and out beyond must be tired of the water. I heard one family have tresltles in the house to put the furniture onto.

We went up to the lookout yesterday to have a look, the last picture shows our house by the purple arrowso the flooding river is 2 blocks behind us.

I have finished my Churn Dash Quilt top, I'm very happy with it I used all Riley Blake fabrics and they are lovely to sew. Sewing the top up on point did my head in a bit but it's done. I thought I was alomost finished my Bronte's Star blocks until I looked at the original design (I lost my copy of the pattern when my computer died) and I saw that I had put the corner squares in the wrong plae. I was matching them with their star colour I could have left them but I would know it's wrong so I am unsewing them and fixing them up.

I joined Chooky Blue for a zoom on Saturday afternoon and continued my Smitten blocks and made the decision to go to Scrub Stitchin' next April. Yay now I just have to find a project or two, as I said to Chooky and we laughed and laughed, more like narrow it down to a project or two.

This pretty little Rose is going strong, the whole garden is thriving with the rain and then sun and then rain.

I'm hopefully off to Mudgee with Coolah Country Cottage for a sewing weekend so no more rain please. Have a wonderful week and stay safe

I Love My job!!!!!!

 Ok so over the last few months I have been doing Community Care work , the only clients I have want domestic help , so basically I'm a cleaner but the last two weeks and almost every Wednesday I'm assisting with a Men's group in Tamworth as a Diversional Therapist, this is what I was doing before we moved here and I love it. So far it's only a small group of gents that we pick up and take out for a few hours. Last week we went to a fire engine museum and yesterday it was a motorbike museum.

I took more photos than this but the men are in them so I can't publish them. The last bike is an old Harley Davidson postie bike the red box is the sidecar section where the postie kept the mail it was last in use in Walcha.

With all the rain and then sunshine the flowers have gone nuts the Irises are over 4 ft tall. The last pictures are of my new cutting table, I have a new sewing room the spare bedroom was a bit small so I have moved, I bought 2 pantry cupboards for my fabric and stuff and a bookcase for my books and stuff and this wonderful cutting table has my rulers and scraps at the moment but this could change.