Meanwhile in the garden...

Plants and fruit are growing good! The first tomatoes are starting to grow on our plants. In the picture is the big tomatoe we have, but the cherry tomatoes are doing very good as well. Lots of little flowers, and the first tiny green tomato babies. We were worried about them, because the potatoes were being kind of rude and hanging all over them. Tomatoes are apparently tough little buggers and grow right through them. The blue berries are already picked and eaten. Not as many as we hoped, but they were delicious! 

And beets girls and guys, just look at them with their pretty red and white circles.

The weather has been fabulous. Very warm, maybe a little too warm but the plants liked it, so it's all fine. We took our doggies to the local lake. Little Daisy didn't like it one bit. While she usually likes to play with other doggies, now she just got moody and chased them all off, growling, having little maltese tantrums because we were swimming and she didn't dare. I'm afraid we did have a little laugh over her. 

My sweet shepherd Sofie though, she was a hero! She has never swam before, didn't dare either, but now we were in the lake as well, she put on her brave hat and swam right to us. Such a brave puppy! After a few rounds of swimming she even seemed to enjoy it. And what's better than a normal cuddle? A wet cuddle :)

I think I already told you I got this pattern, and in between all the other things we did, I finished this little elephant. Isn't she adorable! This little elephant does have some balancing issues, her head is too heavy, but I guess that's just because she's so smart.

She has a dream of joining the circus..

And then, last but not least: My pretty Mollie sticking her nose in my business. Sweet thing.

Quiet Day

The chestnut trees behind our house are in bloom, so pretty. 

 GG is away all day, first a job interview and after he's visiting friends who live on the way back. I'm making myself pesto pasta and enjoying a well needed day alone.


I'm spending it admiring our potatoe plants, watching crime series, drinking tea and working on my blanket a little, and the second Happypotamus I just *had* to start. I have the African Flower Bear pattern as well, but I first need to buy some hooks, which I forgot to order with my last big wool order. Oh well, peanut butter, will get them next week. 

Sofie is keeping me company. Little miss doofy face.

This cutie came to live with us two weeks agao. She totally got here by accident, I just can't say no to a sweet bunny who needs a home. She doesn't have a proper name yet, right now we're calling her "Metal Headje" because of her lovely long black hair, it will probably stick. I'm hoping to match her to our other bunny, but so far, they're not really liking each other, bunnies are mean ladies.

Of tomatoes, fire places and nosey pets

The baby tomatoes needed a bigger pot, awww, they're growing up so fast. After repotting they also moved from the little room upstairs to the living room, for more sunlight, I'd like to be able to repot them in their final pots and put them outside as soon as possible. Cat Mollie had to poke her nose in of course, all our pets seem to have that little problem. More on that later.

I've given up on the pepper plants, they don't want to come up, I'm afraid I've killed the seeds, leaving them out in the shed all winter. Better luck next year, with all the other vegetables and fruits we have enough plants to take care of.

Dear GG built me a new fire place. A better one!

I haven't been dyeing lately because the tripod I used to put my kettle on, boke down on me a few weeks ago. Luckily no one was standing next to it when the boiling hot water came gushing down with the kettle. But having the new fire place means I can dye again, happy me! It's a good thing too, the onion peels are starting to take over our kitchen. 

I told you all our pets have to "help" us with whatever we're doing right? Here's Sofies ear with the heat resistant glue stuff GG used for the fire place.

She just -had- to see what he was doing!

Almost innocent <3

Hypnotised

My family and me

My family is mostly four-legged and furry. Except for me, of course, and my partner.  We live in a small house with a small garden, in a small town in the most eastern part of the Netherlands, 9km from the German border. We dream of moving to Sweden, but with the financial crisis going on at the moment, there is no way we will sell our current house, so we're just making the best of it, we do love our little home.

I love animals, I should've been born on a farm instead of in a big town, but alas, I was born in a town called Gouda, yes, from the cheese, and had parents who were not really loving my idea of a personal petting zoo. Now I've moved out and am proving that a small house with a small garden can be a small farm as well. Sofie is a Dutch Shepherd dog, my beautiful friend who I spent a lot of outdoorsy time with, I just love taking long walks with her. Her little doggy sister is Daisy, a maltese mix.

Lukas is a little street fighter, he's not home a lot, only when it's feeding time, or very cold. He likes to think of himself as a tough little man, but he is oh so camera shy. Mollie spends a lot of time sleeping on a sheeps skin, she's a princess kitty and likes to be treated that way.

And then the two bunny rabbits! Soofje and Lodewijk. They're both rescues and not tamable, believe me I tried! I don't know what happened tot hem before. They're agressive, grumpy and totally no fun at all, but what can I say.. I love their little moody ways. I risk my fingers to put them in their play pen every day, and back in their house, feed them yummy goodies and take pictures of them, and apart from that, just let them live their bunny lifes.

That's my family! You will probably see more of them every now and again. Because I just loooove them and can't help myself, I need to show them off.

First post

Welcome to my little space in "bloggerland".

My little space to talk about and show the things that I love. Enjoying my simple life in a simple house in a simple town in the Netherlands. Together with my partner and our platora of pets.

A proper introduction soon!