Happy Mother's Day

To all you beautiful, caring, loving Mother's - thank you for being caring, loving and beautiful. My wish is for you to know that you are loved!

Sharing a gorgeous lily from a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my dear Derrick!
Figs!
I have a large number of figs - some are small-ish because we haven't had much rain to plump them up, but the tree seems to have grown higher and wider in the last 2 months and as a consequence there is a lot of fruit:

Too many to eat fresh, so I made some fresh fig chutney for the first time. The initial tasting was delicious, but I do have to wait for a month for the flavours to develop. I found a couple of recipes on the internet and did a little bit of adjustment to add spices which I like.
I think I'll be making some more :)

Too Many Things To Do!

I've been pretty quiet in blogland, but feel that I've been running around like a chook with it's head cut off!
Trying to chip away at the final Roosters/Hens quilt - I have the central block to work on and it has over 300 pieces to applique. It didn't help that I couldn't find all the fabric for the vines and flowers, but I have since decided that it doesn't matter too much, so I am now cutting out all the pieces of the Vliesofix and ironing them onto the various fabrics. I think that quilting group will be a good time to cut the pieces out and arrange them on the baking sheet.
There are still heaps of apples, but then they are good to give to friends and family, as well filling up the freezer.
Monday, my friend and mentor, Nolan, and I took 4 wether hoggets to the sale and I received a very good price for them - thank goodness the $$ received make it more viable to have sheep now, than in the last 20 years! Today we (well actually Nolan) dagged the lambs - they need to be shorn which will help them to grow (don't ask me how, but that is what he said!). I think I will be selling most of them as I have mostly wethers.
Anyway, it was a nice morning to be on the mower. I found that the figs are starting to ripen (keep those birds away, please!) and one of our two walnuts, is getting close to dropping:

Tomorrow is my Dad's 80th birthday - it will be a great celebration and good to see him again.