30/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for...

 The rain that started at 5PM yesterday and is still going ,our dam Ben Chifley is still at 30% full and we still have extreme water restrictions.

Bathurst Ag Past 5 Days

this month

	Minimum	Maximum	Rainfall
Thu Apr 30	10°C	-	38mm
Wed Apr 29	11.5°C	22°C	0.0mm
Tue Apr 28	5.4°C	22.0°C	0.0mm
Mon Apr 27	3.5°C	20.9°C	0.2mm
Sun Apr 26	4.1°C	20.7°C	0.0mm

29/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

 my computer and the internet which gives me the opportunity to remember happier parts of my childhood, the above photo is the kitchen of a $3m unit in Neutral Bay but until I was 12 it was the bedroom I shared with my brother and sister.It certainly has changed a lot but the sandstone walls are still there.
The internet also helps me stay in touch with family and friends all over Australia and New Zealand as well as giving me many ideas for making yet another quilt.

28/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for...

   Having a companion who like having her photo taken

27/04/2020   Photo a Day I'm Grateful for.....

  The fact I have had the opportunity to visit most of this wide brown land of ours.

26/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for......

 

 Not as many wreaths as normal but at least there was some

Lest we Forget

   I have made three of these wall hangings Michael and Steven both have one and the third one hangs in the Clubrooms of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club , Townsville Chapter.

25/04/2020  Photo a Day I'm Grateful for....

All the members of my family past and present who served in the Australian Army,Navy and Air Force from WW1 to the present day.

   My Maternal Grandfather James Oswald Doyle who received a guns shot wound to the left shoulder in the trenches at Ypres Belgium in 1917.

Both my parents were in the Army during WW11 my father was injured at Tobruk and repatriated home in 1942, my Mother was in the signal Corps and served in Towsnville and Brisbane until she was demobbed two weeks before their wedding.
His Grand daughter Jayne is married to an Air Force  Veteran and one of his Great Grandsons served in Timor,Iraq and Afghanistan.

Another Great Grandson Michael  is currently serving in the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf.

24/04/2020  Photo a Day I'm Grateful for....

   This group of men and woman who taught Trish and Tim when they were in Infants and Primary school at West Bathurst

23/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

  Another surprise in the garden yet another hydrangea flowering when it shouldn't

Sheila Maura

    This photo of my Mother on her 25th birthday in 1948 holding her week old daughter .

Sheila born 22/4/1923  died 16/03/2001

22/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for.....

                                 My six "new" chairs that my friend Di has given me

Isolation work

   This quilt I stripped pieced and then embroidered across the seams before cutting them up and joining them in the rail fence pattern.

This quilt I started a couple of weeks ago but it is now a completed quilt top, a design by Pam and Nikki Lintott in the UK I enjoyed the process of this design. I have another one of these in a totally different colourway half completed.

  I made these two pillowcases for my Gandkids over the weekend and posted them on Sunday.Luke is obsessed with dinosaurs and I had thew owl fabric so used it for Zoe.They should receive their parcel today according to Australia Post tracking.

21/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for.....

I almost finished the cutting yesterday but I'm so tired that I'm going to have a day of rest today which started with a big sleep in (something I rarely do)

20/04/2020   Photo a Day I'm Grateful for......

   I worked very hard today cutting out a new project and almost got finshed

19/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

  that my Variegated Daphne has survived the summer as at one stage I thought it had died.My friend Helena gave this to me when my mother died in March 2001

18/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for.....

 the fact most of my hydrangeas have survived the hot summer and the severe water restrictions but they have started flowering again which is not normal so not sure what will happen next summer.

17/04/2020  Photo a Day I'm Grateful for....

  The memories this clock holds for me , My father bought it for Mum the day I was born ,it doesn't work any more unfortunately but when it does it plays music on the hour  and the doll rotates.Apparently I used to say Make the dolly dance when I was young.

16/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

  All the gifts and flowers I received yesterday for my birthday

15/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

 another birthday (72) with all my marbles and mostly good health I think I was 12 months old when this photo was taken.

It is also this doll's birthday today she is 64 and she sits on the mantelpiece in my bedroom

14/04/2020   Photo a Day I'm Grateful for.....

  My cousin Jayne's husband who drives us around in the Caravan but also cooks meals for Jayne and I

13/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

   The food I cook and eat , last night I cooked myself the most delicious Roast Lamb and vegies

12/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

My Paternal Grandparents Herbert and Kathleen , he died 4months before I was born but Gan died in 1985 at Nazareth House in Turramurra.
He was seventh generation  Australian and she was an English girl who had migrated with her family to New Zealand when she was seventeen.After they married they lived in Christchurch where their three children were born but came back to Australia in 1932.
As I am the oldest Grandchild in the family he died not knowing any of us (only five) , their only daughter Joan (who owned this locket) died in Sydney in 1942 after being hit by a tram, my Uncle died in Brisbane in the 70's and my Father Iain Donald Hay McDougall died in Townsville in 2000.

11/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

This lovely salmon pir which my friend Dianne made for me yesterday , one for lunch and another one for dinner how lucky am I.

10/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

My friend Judy who dropped me in an early birthday present , don't you just love the wrapping paper and card which she made herself.

9/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for....

                                                          My constant companions

8/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm grateful for....

   Molly she is such a loving loyal dog but I just wish she would grow a bit more adult!

7/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm grateful for ......

   A nice hot cup of tea

6/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm grateful for.....

My sewing machine which is keeping me occupied whilst I ma isolating at home

5/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for.....

 

 It was sunny and windy yesterday so my washing got dry !

4/04/2020  Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for.....

  

  My new  pincushion that I made last month

3/04/2020   Photo a Day I'm grateful for......

     My telephone which is enabling me to have some human contact in this isolating life we have at present

2/04/2020   Photo a Day  I'm Grateful for........

    It's raining and we need it so badly as our water supply the Chifley Dam is only 29% full, therefore we are on very strict water restrictions.

  

April Photo A Day 2020 | A month of gratitude

 This the challenge for  April  so my thinking cap is on because right now there's not much to be thankful for, the social isolation is hard especially when my eyesight is making reading and hand sewing even harder.I had Christmas alone because of the bushfires and now I will have my birthday alone because of the Virus.I haven't seen my family since early December and I miss them and now I can't even have a friend come over for a while but anyway I'll stop my self pity and start the challenge.

1/04/2020  Photo a Day I'm Grateful for .....

My sister Louise who lives in Brisbane as she is keeping in touch much more than she used to, I was to spend 10 days with her later this month but that has been called off now.