Roadtrip

Myself and Uisce just came back from a week's galavanting around the country. We've visited friends in Mayo, Leitrim and Limerick. It was lovely to get away and get out of my head and life and just observe other people for a while. Like a mental holiday:) I mean when the mind is off on holidays:) Anyhow, after about 1000kms (well done Mr. G, you're the best little car ever), I can say Uisce is a super dog tp travel with, she really got into the groove of it all, the ever changing scenery and company of dogs, kids and big people. Car, forests, lakes, rivers, houses of all sorts, etc etc, I claim she even learnt to go to pee when I tell her before getting into the car and stuff (handy...:)
Anyways, funnily enough the few pictures I took along the way all have Uisce on them, no sign of a car or anything else we've seen on the way.... Ah well... Here's to obsessions;-)

Uisce and Jack in action

Niamh with Cosmo, Thea and Uisce in Leitrim

Uisce, Maggie the goat and Luke in Mayo

New addition to the house, the all window bathroom and hallway, Mayo

I love socks....

....and Oliver, but a bit afraid of the little car:)

It is time to have a pic of the 2 of us, don't have the facial similarity just yet;-)

The long dog

This has been a busy week, lots of work, rehearsals, visitors, etc... Heading up the country for a roadtrip with Uisce tomorrow, can't wait! (Wouldn't mind if she shared the driving but probably won't happen...;-)
Here's a photograph I took the other day, that's how long Uisce is when she really streches out:)

Painting, jam and the mouse found!

Had a couple of busy indoors days - the weather has been so Irish, that the backyard is full of cats and dogs ;-) Well, anyhow, way too much rain has fallen, so I took to the shelter of my little tin box and performed some chores long planned - painted the bedroom! Or I should say turned the dark hole of doom into a warm beautiful room:) Pictures below to prove what madness comes to life when you add me, paintbrushes and some outcast old paints I found in the deep pockets of my place. I'm very happy with it anyways, it is great when something long planned gets done:)
There's a few other pics just to say something about Uisce as well, who's been in her element the last week or so, and finally found the mouse which has been living within her reach all this time. She also has been subjected to hours of loud good rain music, there's a pic below of the rare moment when she didn't try to catch the percussionist's hands in action or wasn't trying to play the guitar:)
Anyhow, I better go off to the garen before the next lot of rain arrives!:)

May camping, squeeky pig and flower essences

Here's a few new photos of our little camping trip to Castlefreke woods near Roscarbery with Naomi and Vicky and Uisce, and a couple other little things. Enjoy!

Castlefreke woods full of amazingly scented bluebells!

All the girls after a 6* camping breakfast


Vicky's home under the trees

A happy Naomi ready to put up the tent.

Our little campsite

Uisce found a squeeky pig, hilariously got acquainted with the world of squeeks, and shortly after chewed the legs off.... even then, it remained her favourite toy for the trip

Love moving around furniture, even in small spaces:) The new living room in the tin box

With the musical corner for inspiration

Uisce in embryo pose

The first fruits of an exciting yet quiet journey in flowerland. Here's to hope and joy!

Uisce updates

Here's a few new pics of the cutest dog in the world and the cutest cat in the world:)

Easter Eggs and the likes

I had a sudden urge yesterday to decorate some Easter eggs the good old traditional Hungarian way. Spent a few hours drawing them with wax (the patterns are based on traditional Easter egg patterns from various places around Hungary), dyeing them with some Easter egg dye I had from years ago (I love when I finally get to use something I held onto for years...;-), drying them, melting and wipeing the wax off with paper, giving them a shine with some olive oil. Here's a few photos of the end product and the process. HAPPY EASTER!!! :)

Springing up from sleep:)

It has been a long time since my last post, October I suppose it was, just after I moved into my new mobile home... Being April I can say I have survived a winter in a tin box:) Actually, it was more than survive, since as far as I remember the places I've resided in since leaving the family nest, this one had the most potential to be warm, once the stove was going, everything was fine and toasty.Minus a good bit of draft from the floor, but I'll sort that for next winter:)
I slowly made the place more and more comfortable, and once I accepted the fact that it'll never be perfectly finished, I'm happy:)
Painted the place nice and green so it'll blend in, startes some vegetable beds (well, amazingly the weeds already have taken over...), the place at the moment is a little vegetable nursery. The winter also brought broken chimneys, broken shower, gas leak, waking up at 4am by a carbon monoxide alarm, driving on ice, water freezing inside overnight,tipsyly fixing disconnected pipes flooding the place after the thaw-out on christmas night at 3am, cosy fires, and other random events.
Had a short trip to Hungary in January, and a few little ones up the country.
The days on the farm have turned from playing cards into planting hundreds of globe artichoke plants out to the fields and the likes, exciting times!
I've also started to do a bit of home help work nearby, and in the midst of it all, have a temporary housemate for a few months, a lovely pup called Uisce.
I might as well fill the rest of the space with pictures, they're so much more exciting than words!
They're kind of in an opposite order, newest to oldest.

Uisce guarding the door

The green mobile home, note the little propagator under big window

Climbers getting ready. They'll be covering the tin box with their lovely flowers

Apple mint revival: I thought I chucked some dead plants into the ditch last autumn....

Welcome at the door by lavender and forget-me-not

Runner beans and mangetout ready to go into the ground

Uisce resting after a day's work

The creche

Paws getting closer and closer. They have a very special friendship!

The coolest dog in the coolest dog basket

Oisin with Squeek and Uisce

Snowy Sligo mountaintops

Hungarian style stove in Mayo

When Uisce was little

Dusk in the woods, Koszeg mountains, Hungary

My little brother and me

Pantry

After Christmas Eve dinner....

Making Mezeskalacs

Guest couch, Vicky waking with the cats

Blackbird on the hawthorn

Cosy cat by the fire

Snow at Gort na Nain

Full moon rising

When you can't decide who shall sit on the rocking chair...