February 14, 2013

Wednesday13th February

Garden...
Brent arrived home with a gift for us - the garden shop he drives past daily had a 30% off sale..

The tree is grafted with two fruits. A Moor Park apricot

And a Black boy peach
Home schooling....


I'm enjoying looking over James' shoulder at his art studies. In our homeschooling years we followed Charlotte Mason style and studied many artists but mainly the famous world artists eg Monet etc..
Jane Lambert from Five in a Row introduced many art techniques to the children when they were young - Art was always James' favourite study.

 For NCEA James is to choose two artists to study and one he has chosen is Jenny Dolezel. You can see more of her work here.
The years topic James has chosen is exterior and using our home as a subject matter for a haunted theme. We are all loving James' work. His style seems to be an eye spy in his paintings with humour more than horror.  I'm sure he will let me share one of his final paintings.



FarmStay Guests....


The boys are all doing really well, Milo is eating any wet food we put down (he is fussy at home) Milo is on the left licking the plate clean. Oliver and Muddy on the right. Charles ate last - but he is me mate and prefers a lap nurse before he eats.



Milo having a rattle up - Milo likes to be petted just like his mum Caro does.

4 comments:

  1. Your new tree looks interesting. It appears to be more peach than apricot. Can you see the graft mark on the stem? Is it a wedge shape that makes just one branch? ( clever that they got it to have one of each fruit as proof of what it could do.)
    That will be yummy if it does well.

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    1. I'm going to be interested in seeing it grow and produce. Seems a bit of a freak having two types of fruit on one tree.
      The fruit fell off yesterday not sure how that happened...
      I keep meaning to email you of what we should be putting on the avocado tree now that we have one avocado on our tree. Rather thrilling!
      Love Leanne

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  2. Lovely tree, and the boys so enjoy a fuss, Our ginger boys were the same, and the girls here now are not into that at all. Super video. Cheers from Jean.

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    1. Morning Jean - a cracker of a day down here - wood splitting beings tonight and tomorrow. We always find the cats enjoy a good strong pat. My video skills are slowly developing thanks for the encouragement.
      Love Leanne

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