Hunt the Pic - Day 1

Here are the first 4 pics in Hunt the Pic week. Please visit the blogs of the other contributors who, hopefully will leave their link in the comments below.

1. Dream

We may dream of a perfect garden but the reality is that weeds grow, grass gets long, slugs eat plants and gardening can be back breaking work. I like a place in the garden just to dream about - oh, having a gardener, I wish I had my book out here, when's sherry time?

2. Possession

He will always be in my possession - my first teddy. He's called Panda (very original) and he's mumble, mumble years old. Threadbare and no squeak but still in the bedroom at night.

3. Passion

We had a passion flower climber for many years but it did not survive one winter. DH, however has managed to grow some from seed so we'll have these beautiful flowers in the garden again soon.

4. Wonder

The earth and its beauty.

More tomorrow.

xx

Hunt the Pic ...

… photo hunt starts tomorrow.

1. There is no need to set up any pictures as participants may submit from 1 picture up to 20, so no stress is involved to complete the lot. This opens up the challenge to anyone who doesn't want to tackle finding all the pictures.

2. Pictures may be taken from personal collections and personal blogs so hunts in computer picture galleries are encouraged. Doing this may help to 'tidy up' the 100s of pictures that many of us store on our computers.

3. There will be plenty of time to collect pictures as 'The Hunt' will run until the week of September 19th to 25th and during that week I shall post my finds and links to other Hunters can be made via the comments. There's no need to post pictures before the 19th. Posts can run throughout the week.

Here's the list. The connection between the picture and word can be explained or left to the imagination of the reader and I have deliberately not put the indefinite article (a) in front of each word to allow for more interpretation. 

e.g. Sight could have a picture of eyes or a view (or perhaps a messy bedroom)!
Mistake could be a DIY gone wrong or a spelling mistake on the high street.

1. dream

2. possession

3. passion

4. wonder

5. source

6. tune or song

7. wink

8. comfort

9. thought

10. glance

11. spectacle

12. inspiration

13. sight

14. beauty

15. arrangement
16. grace
17. weakness
18. elegance
19. smell or aroma
20. happiness

Here is a list of the participants but, as always, please join in with the odd photo or two if you wish to join the party this week. I am posting 4 pictures each day so my contributions will run until Friday.

Joy

Thrift Deluxe

Carol

KC's Court

Tracy - Your blog does not seem to be active at the moment. Hope you're still able to join in.

Rachelradiostar

Jackie

See you all tomorrow.

xx

PS I am here in person, having escaped the hospital for the next few weeks. Dropping apart is such fun!

Soup

Cheat's tomato soup.

1 tin of tomato soup

1 onion

1 very, very large courgette

1 small potato

1 stock cube

Fry onion in butter or oil, add soup, courgette, diced potato and stock. Boil until cooked and blitz.

Eat.

Wing it soup

Left over Cheat's tomato soup

Left over broccoli from roast dinner

Left over gravy from roast dinner

Chuck in a pan, heat up and blitz.

Eat

xx

Spot the marker

Why have a marker in the garden? This particular marker is tied round a corn cob which will eventually be harvested and saved for seed for next year. Our corn kernels germinated much better than bought ones this year so we decided to save more seed. The cob is marked with a bright orange bow. Spotted it yet?

Here it is tied around the largest corn cob.

These two will be eaten for tea.

The Lidl cut and come again lettuce that was planted a while ago has now matured into large lettuce plants.

It saves on trying to sew fiddly seeds. The small lettuce plants for 60 something pence grow really well.

So does Lidl mint.

Our potatoes have stayed in the ground long enough and have grown really large. All the top leaves have died down and it's quite difficult to spot where the potatoes are. Perhaps I need some more markers!

xx

Must do

I must polish the brass every week. Grandma used to come and do it every week and so I must - I feel that Grandma is watching and making sure I do!

Shiny knobs are very satisfying. The brass looks like new once polished. :}

I must recycle the string that holds up the tomatoes. I very carefully take everything down and knot the various bits of string together to make a new ball ready for next year.

Each year most of our toms are held up with very knotted string. My large cone of string has been going for many years because of this re-using.

I must take down all the tomato plants whether finished or not because of ...

… DRY ROT. Both window frames and the roof have parts eaten away like this. This frame has been taken out and is currently being made to look like new. DH has been working non-stop in order to make the greenhouse safe. Large bits of machinery are making much din in the garage.

I must finish now and take the cobs off the corn, put them in bags and freeze them.

xx

Hunt the Pic reminder

Here's the final reminder about the Hunt the Pic which will take place in the week 19th to the 25th of September. The following people have said they would like to take part.

Joy

Thrift Deluxe

Carol

KC's Court

Tracy

Rachelradiostar

Jackie
Debbie

Here's a link to the rules of this hunt.

If you wish to join in just leave a comment on the first of my Hunt the Pic posts on the 19th September. I have decided to post my pics from the Monday to the Friday but pictures can be posted everyday, just on one day or on a variety of days. It's up to individuals. When you post your pictures just leave a comment on my post so that readers can jump to your blogs. I've scheduled my posts as I maybe in hospital that week.

xx

New Rug from Old

I've had this part worked rug in my cupboard for a couple of years. It was an unwanted item from the CS so I said I'd give it a home.

A further purchase from the CS landed me with these balls of chunky King Cole wool. I can't pass on wool so they came home with me too.

Marry the two purchases together and I hope to end up with a creamy, browny rug for one of the bedrooms. I cut the length of each piece of wool by eye - vaguely all the same length and rug hook them into position.

It's quite relaxing to hook and there's no dead-line for finishing.

xx