Happy Happy Joy Joy

After a long and crappy week I had a lovely little surprise waiting for me in the garden today!

It has been raining a lot and I had been worrying that my little poppy seeds may be getting too much rain and not enough sun and therefore won't sprout. I have been checking them every day or so with nothing to be seen, and was starting to lose hope.

Then suddenly today - we have tiny little sprouts! Very exciting.

Another little project

The HTC, Monkey and I ventured out to the markets on Saturday which was lovely. We even happened to meet some friends there and had breakfast with them which was fun! Anyway, I had a look at a little shop while we were there and came upon some organic poppy seeds.

Now I am sure I have mentioned that my gardening skills are less than none, but I have decided to give it a shot nevertheless. I was happy to see that they can be sown between autumn and spring so we will see how we go. I have planted them in a planter box and left them on the table in the middle of our yard, as I think that is where they will get the most sun. It's a bit hard to be sure in our yard as we have these towering gum trees pretty much sheltering everything, but hopefully they will be okay. But of course the problem with this is putting them in a place with maximum sun exposure also puts them in a place with maximum rain exposure! We will see what happens soon enough I suppose. The plan (as given to me by the packet!!) is to grow them to about 4cm and then sow them in the garden. I am hopeful it will work out.

I was showing them to the Monkey the other day and telling her all about them. She looked fascinated I must say, if only she understood a word I was saying!

Poppies in full bloom

I definitately have a new favourite flower, they are just gorgeous!

Blog daily? hmmmmmm

I thought a good way to get my blog started would be to have 'blog daily' as one of my challenges for the month. but as I sat here this morning, I realised that the small pleasures I am wanting to keep up with aren't necessarily the big things I can keep up with everyday. I had an absolutely shocking day yesterday with the Monkey, and it was all I could do not to lose it by the end of the day, so of course the small pleasure for yesterday ended up being not going totally insane ;)

But even so, this whole thing is a work in progress, and realistically I do not have time to be doing some huge crafty project every day, but there are always other small pleasures to be writing about.

So my small pleasure for today, is that after a day from hell yesterday, last night the HTC brought home my first bunch of poppies ever! I had been dying to get a bunch ever since the Monkey was born actually, but we had never quite worked out when they were in season, and they are just beautiful. And even better - he actually bought them early in the morning before he realised what a shocker of a day I was having, which I think even makes them more special. Flowers because things are crap are lovely, but I think I like 'just because' flowers even more.

There are only two buds out right now but I know they will look amazing once they are all out. I will try to take another photo then.

But for the moment here they are, my first gorgeous bunch of poppies!

(yes, photography is not great but that's one of the things I want to work on soon)

Oh and two more SPs for today:

The HTC has taken Monkey out to the markets to give me a break - much needed!
We are having friends over for tea which I am really excited about, we should do it more often!