I am having trouble with my photos today, but hopefully I will have sorted something out by the time I publish this.
I actually have very little to talk about this week. It is always the same when visitors go home. There were a lot of extra towels and bed linen to wash, but laundry was no problem this week. It has been baking hot all week with temperatures in the upper thirties most afternoons, and fierce winds that blow warm, and send furniture and garden debris all over the place. So the washing is dry half an hour after I hang it out. I just have to make sure I have double pegged everything.
This week my garden photos are focussing on the beautiful Hibiscus. They have a long flowering season but this is the month when they really shine. I have an orange one, a yellow one and a pink frilly one as well as the usual red ones, and a double pink one that is really next door but hangs lots of flowers on our side of the fence. I love their long stamens that entice the bees and other insects down into the flower to find the nectar and gather pollen.
When it is so hot - and it is only June so goodness knows what it will be like in July and August - I spend many afternoons sitting in a shady corner of the porch reading. But I have also done some work with the laser cutter, making small Christmas decorations while testing out various settings for the different types and thicknesses of wood I have got. This week a pack of 3mm mahogony plywood arrived. I love its colour and grain, but I have learned that it is not ideal for engraving pictures, but it does cut very nicely. Next I will be testing some basswood ply. Here are three completed decorations, which, while not perfect, did turn out okay. I have a couple of larger projects lined up to do, but I want to get the setting just right first, so for now I will keep trying the smaller ones.
Last night we almost had a nice sunset, and I almost got out in time to see it - but not quite. So here is what I did manage to catch before it all faded away.
And with that I will tidy this up to link with Annie's Friday Smiles and publish in the morning.
P.S. Thanks for all your kind enquiries. The hospital check-ups last Friday all went well, so now I am waiting for the hospital to phone with a date to go in.