Saturday Bits n Pieces ~ birding,meditating,de-bogging,knitting,autumning

Just finished restoring deleted comments and other after-effects (as I'm sure every other blogger has too) from Mr Blogger's recent troubles. Hope I've covered everything.  
Thought I'd do an all-in-together sort of post today.  

[As always, clicking on each photo will enlarge them]

~ Capturing a Bower Bird (My Brilliant Plan): It’s been over 2 years since I'd captured a Bower Bird on film (‘digital’ doesn’t sound so dramatic).  
The gorgeous olive green, blue-eyed females who visit our yard, announce their presence with that weird little throat clearing sound and the heavy ‘plop’ in the branches or on the ground.  
Since I didn’t re-grow any more red chillies (their absolute favourites), they head straight for our neighbour’s Pineapple Feijoa tree.  They tuck themselves right inside the branches and I have such a hard time getting the camera to focus.  
Enter My Brilliant Plan…. I pegged some cherry tomatoes to an outer,  more exposed,  branch and waited. 

Come and get it Lady Bower Bird 

The view from our loungeroom window.
The red arrow shows the pegged tomato lure.
All I have to do now is keep watch.... wait!

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~ Meditation: The steady chopping, dicing and slicing of vegies is another way I meditate. Sounds silly? Ah well, it works for me.
Oniony eyes are no problem - we keep them in the frig (a great hint from our daughter) .... um, the onions are kept in the frig, not the ... oh get on with it!!
Invariably, I prepare too much, but I don't think there's such a thing as eating too many vegies!

Stir Fry tonight

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~ Rude Awakening: The other morning we were woken quite early by what sounded like a truck  - right under our bedroom window.  Ha! that's because it was!  
A concrete pump, aiming for the building site across the road, was positioning itself but became bogged in our verge. A heavy fall of rain the previous evening didn't help.


 Many hours were spent trying to chock and drive out.  Of course, I seized the photo opportunity;  well, we were up anyway!

I like this picture on the left.  The two fellows - who'd been working hard all morning to de-bog the concrete pump, now had the job of restoring our verge.
Beyond them, two neighbouhood dogs chose that moment to square off at each other.
The fellow in the background obviously wanted to join in and share with the shovel work, but he just had to take another phone call.
Doesn't take a lot to keep us amused!

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~ Knitting: Way back nearly to the dawn of time, I started knitting aimlessly.  I would cast on some stitches and just knit.  Bright colours really appealed.  Made quite a few cushions, not all square ones; MD worked out a pattern for round cushions, but I only ever made one - for our son, lucky man!! ;-). His lounge needed a bit of comfying-up, so an assortment  went to live with him – as well as a throw rug, also brightly coloured. 

When our granddaughters were only littlies,  I made them bejeweled cushions – sewed on everything that glittered.  Not your comfiest type of cushion, however, as with our son, they still have them today much to my delight! 

With the weather getting cooler, I’m thinking it’s time to bring the needles and wool out and pop them next to my lounge chair again.  

Ah ha! Surprise! There's something on the
needles already .... hmmmm, now,
wonder who's next on the list for a cushion?

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~ Autumnal: A little vision of Autumn on the ground in our garden. 

  An Autumn scene from over our fence. Thank you neighbour!

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~ Gotcha!: Sucess! Lady Bower Bird took the bait (er.. tomatoes).  

I had a lot of fun taking these shots too.  Still learning on the zoom lens, and am thrilled to have got these.  

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Have a relaxing weekend everyone

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