Annual Cockatoo visit, Fall Welcome and The Moor's Head....

Every year these Sulphur Cockatoos come to visit our Cedar Pine Tree and eat the pine cones.

They descend as a flock, make lots of noise and lots of mess on the garden below.

My autumn garden.

Last night we went out for dinner with my very dearest friend, Kim for her birthday.  We went to The Moor's Head in Thornbury where you can have "inauthentic pizza". Their little joke, as it is Middle Eastern pizza as opposed to Italian. Below you can see the remnants of some Manoushe and Pide plus our dessert of turkish delight and Persian fairy floss.  The fairy floss is like skeins of wool.  Kim and I speculated that I could knit a jumper out of it but you would have to stay out of the rain!  I also tried Pear Cider for the first time and it was delicious!

Lastly,  I finally got back to my Saturday SAL with Linda and Debbie - Diane Arthur's Fall Welcome!

 Yesterday, in the afternoon, I also spent some time visiting a friend who was hit by a car on her way home from work a few week's back.  Her leg was broken in two places so she is pretty much stuck at home at the moment.  I took her a nice lunch and we watched one of my favourite movies - Practical Magic - together.  She had never seen it before but she really liked it, too.

hugs,

IHSW and TUSAL update

I had a great weekend this past weekend.  I was really productive with my stitching goals and did some other fun things, too.  How did you all go?

These were my three stitching goals:

1. Stitch some more on Cinderella - DONE - See progress pics below (not sure why the photos look so green)
2. Finish three stitching gifts for my winners of the Packing Advice Giveaway so I can post them this week - DONE - but can't show photos because they have yet to be posted and received by my last Giveaway winners, so you will all have to just wait!
3. Work on my 12 Days of Christmas SAL - DONE - See progress pic below

Her dress is really taking shape now.

The frogging problem was solved!

This is really taking shape - I really like the little pear.

My Tusal jar is staring to fill up, mainly with all that green thread which I had to frog three times!

I just wanted to finish by showing you the cockatoos which visit us once a year.  In the front garden we have an enormous cedar tree and once a year, when the pinecones are ripe the cockatoos descend in great flocks, make a raucous noise and strip the pinecones from the tree.  I hope that you can see, I had to zoom right in to get any pictures of the birds.

Bye for now, 

hugs,