Bliss a walk along the beach

We had a cooler night last night and a bit cooler day out here, we got to 37 degrees, but Victor had a cooler day, about 29 but the humidity was high when we went in early to go to the market and get some olive oil and then walk, John complained he was getting burnt but I walked in the water. I wished I had taken my bathers as there was a slow and almost oily break and the water was quite warm for something that comes up from the antarctic.
There were people swimming horses, not sure if that is actually allowed, walking dogs and generally enjoying the morning.
I now have to make more of these wretched charms, so I have bonded some paper napkins to felt and this time I painted some acrylic wax over them, we will see how they turn out.
I spent all day cleaning up shelves and things, after a while I have to do something and I positioned a fan near me and off I went.
My poor lemon tree has been dropping all of its lemons so I squeezed a whole heap and put them into ice block trays and froze them, I think some of them literally cooked on the tree. I filled 4 ice block trays and I have a few more to do.
When it has been so hot we dont feel like eating much so sea food salads are great, lots of salad and a bit of smoked ocean trout and a few marinated mussels, enough flavour and just what you want.

I have been making charms

It is still overbearingly hot so I have been making charms, something to keep doing when you dont feel like doing anything.
I had to do the weekly shop today and as we went in in the red ute I didnt have my supermarket bags in that car, so, John dropped me off and I shopped and then he rang to say, I went home to get them and then I forgot them again!! Long story, I bought 2 new bags and with the one we had in the car only broke one plastic bag they had given me. Now the ute has bags in it too. I think the heat is addling all our brains.
The charms at the top are made of paper napkins on felt and the edges dipped in utee, the others are various styles done on the embellisher.
It is cooler outside but the house has warmed up and John wants to go fishing tomorrow, I suppose I can go and have a walk and put my aching feet in the sea. We could do with the fish.

Silk paper

It is nearly 7 pm and it is still 40 degrees, I thought it was better than yesterday and while the strong northerly was blowing it seemed to keep the air conditioner cooler but it is now still and very hot, still too hot to go and feed the chooks, if they are still alive, and hose things down. I cant believe how hot it is and we still have another week of it, the forecast for next Thursday for Adelaide 40 degrees, and we are going to Adelaide for our wedding anniversary!!
Any way I made this bit of silk paper, painted one side of a heap of paper clay ornaments with gesso and finished buttonholing around my charms, although I have counted them and still have about 7 to make.
I will have to start cleaning out cupboards next, just to take my mind off the heat, I keep hoping that we may get a bit of releif from a trough off the coast, maybe, just maybe, but that probably will affect Victor and not us, we are far enough inland not to get it.
I cant paint, I feel as if I am waisting days of my life. Still we were lucky as so far we have not had power cuts, some people in Adelaide have had a really awful time of it with no power, and you cant even sit under a shady tree with the hose on. I think tonight they said that the 43 Adelaide had was equivalent to 110 in the old money. Whew.

It is HOT 45 degrees

It has been so hot that I have not managed to do much as I just get sticky and sweaty and its revolting. We have a bit of cloud which means humidity and the air con is not making a lot of difference, well I suppose it is but its still over 30 degrees inside.
So these photos are to make me think I am cool.
The sun spots I have had burnt off my back have got to the itchy stage too and well nothing is madly comfortable.
I have sewn sequins on 31 charms, and I think I have a few more to do. then I have to edge them and I cant find my eyelet setter or the ordinary eyelets so I have been half heartedly searching for them in my over heated work room.
I had to go into Victor this morning and at 10 when I came home it was registering 45 degrees on the outside temp on the car. It has been terribly hot and the weather bureau is telling us it will be 40 until Sunday. One hardly bears to think about it and of course the radio which I have on to let me know if there is a fire any where just keeps carrying on about how hot it is and what the latest temperature is and I have no doubt they are in really cool air conditioned comfort.

Out to dinner and the catch of the day

Yesterday was Australia Day, and we went in early for the ceremony in Victor, then did various jobs, had a walk over at Normanville prior to collecting the liquid nitogen I took the picture of the red sailing yacht there, and then out to dinner at Tabby and John's, a beautiful night and brilliant food, Tabby's John had excelled himself.
Millie was having a lovely time wandering around outside and being given wizzy's by big sister Celina, the one of her looking up is after she had sat down about 4 times trying to get her legs back. Then sitting on Celina's back and sitting on Mum. Spot the dog is usually in attendance.
The fish John had caught on Sunday when he went fishing, a very colorful lot, the red mullet was for Oscar and so was the flat head as he was a bit small but the whiting and garfish were for us. Wonderful.
Last night there were a million stars out, amazingly clear. Today over 41 degrees and cloudy and hot and humid and horrid. We are about to have at least a week of this. I am so glad I have organised not to go any where.

Patchwork hearts

I have been making hearts, this one is for a friend with cancer in the hope of getting her through it. I have been having a lot of fun doing them, very simply, a base of fabric, I used tea dyed cotton, then torn strips laid over the top and sewn on with some fancy patterns from my machine. I made a template out of freezer paper and after a tiny bit of free motion sewing I folded the new cloth over right sides up and sewed almost all the way around the edge, placing a piece of folded ribbon in to make a hanger, left a tiny bit and stuffed it, sewed up the hole I stuffed through and then made a bow from some fancy threads, added a charm and some beads and that was it. Effective and fun and easy to make.
I made a tag from some rusted paper I had made.
Tomorrow is Australia Day and we will go to the ceremony in the morning in town and then a walk on the beach and we have to get something from Yankalilla then collect my dolls and go to John and Tabby's for dinner, sounds lovely.
What is not so lovely are the high temperatures they are focasting for next week, just hope some idiot doesnt light a fire.

Millie and Mason and the Tour Down Under

I am terribly tired, I have had a heap of sun things burnt off my back which are uncomfortable, last night I went into a Zonta gala opening of the needlecraft exhibition and although the hat parade was great it went on for far too long. I was up early this morning and went in to the market and then had a walk along the beach, all very fine then I raced home and made a salad and changed and over to Pt Willunga where we got onto the tail end of the peleton to get to where we were to have lunch and then went downto the esplanade and watched the last run through and as my camera was home took the race with my mobile phone. All very exciting for a couple of seconds. A lovely lunch. home and I now want a sleep!