Sunday Selections # 591

 

Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to them and have a look.

We'll start today in my back porch, where things have been moved, cleaned, packed away

Mr Karrett now occupies the space where I had a beach set up and he requested a fence to keep the rabbits away from his carrots

further along, much of what was there is now in boxes in the shed, it was all getting so covered in dust and taking too long to clean each time, plus the air out there is often too stinky from the drug smell wafting across from another unit, I just couldn't stay out there too long without coughing my lungs out.

opposite, this is the chest of drawers where Mr Karrett used to live,  the board with fake grass that he sits on jutted out from the front edge by about four inches, now I have that much more space to walk in.

I cleared some rubbishy bits from out of those drawers and found my fisherman, I remember him being one of the very first things I ever bought for my garden about 25 years ago.

a closer look shows you his fist is broken and his fishing pole long gone, it was a very thin bamboo pole with a nylon line attached but I never got around to buying him a pond to fish from, so he was packed away I think almost nine years ago now.

I rolled over in my sleep and landed on a sleeping Lola who retaliated as cats do, this is the morning after, I stood in the freezing cold bathroom pouring on the Dettol, slapping on the bandaids and being thankful it was my arm and not my face.

a couple of days later the bandaids came off, you may notice the bottom left puncture is still oozing blood, so I put a fresh bandaid on that one, but the rest were okay and now there is nothing left to see, all healed just ten days later.

somebody wandered through and dropped heart shaped cutouts into gardens and along the paths.

Notice anything different about the statue?

it's acquiring a patina of green which I quite like

It makes it feel more like it belongs, somehow.

this is the tallest of the jades, covered in flowers now,

and a close up of the flowers just in case you forgot what they look like.

the greenery is looking a little yellow, so I should feed it, but it has thickened enough that the golden bunny is barely visible

there she is, peeping through the leaves

the first-planted batch of Caribbean Lilies is making decent progress, with a surprise fourth one making an appearance, that's it right in the front centre.

one of my self-sown tomatoes ripening,

fell off into my hand when I was checking it for bugs, you can see here something has been nibbling at it. I don't expect it to have much flavour, not being fully ripened.

and here are the babies, making terrific progress, in this photo taken last Thursday they are four weeks old and already smiling! Look closer, Ana on the right is definitely smiling. After raising four babies and watching the other grandchildren, I know a proper smile when I see one 😀