Autumn

Been a good while since my last post... I suppose it's been busy times. A 2-week long trip to Hungary at the start of september (to attend my little brother's wedding and visit family and friends), and since it's been work, more work, music (including a rather interesting short term african-vibe project), preparations for the winter around the place, and all sorts of other bits and bobs. I feel quite happy and balanced these days, with of course moments of lost equilibrium, but generally enjoying the learning of presence, awareness, surrender and openness. Etc.:) Continuously enjoying the delightful presence of Uisce dog, she's great craic and an amazing balancing element in life (wish ye could see her right now, stretching out on sofa in front of fire, one paw under her face in a very humanlike manner /camera's been lent to some friends so can't capture it right now, but can assure you its supercute/)
Anyhow, I give you pictures instead of words. Happy fireside evenings and delightful autumn-fallen-leaf kicking in the woods to ye all!!xx

Playdough

My sister...

My nice and nephew, cuties

The newly wed's moving in to their new place

Beautiful hungarian woods

Myself and my great friend Iza on our day of hillwalking

Horses

Pretty traditional hungarian cottage

The sign we followed for some of the way

Nostalgic kids railway in the woods

Found this old pic at mum's, me and our first dog, Fleti

A cockatiel found at mum's garden. Apparently still there after a month. Enjoying the freedom

Mum's old dog, Lili

Woodland path

Uisce pretending she's small

Tomato sauce yumm

Tomato sauce bubbling away in the pot

Look what I found in the compost!!!

Sleepy times

Warzone

Hormonal puppy in heat + confined to the mobile home for over 8 hours (whilst I'm at work) to prevent all the neighbourhood dogs having a go at her + stolen chocolate consumed off high enough shelf the day before by same puppy = what you see on the picture... imagine the towel in the middle soaked in something very stinky (I figured out later she got to a spray bottle which had garlic and chilli spray in it from last winter, and chewed it open....)

Summertime

come on lea, let's go to the field and throw stones for me, will ya!

beautiful mallow

green manure field on the farm. wish i could photograph scents!

flowery garden

there's a few veggies too, and uisce of course

the butterfly bush

on a rainy day, after running around on the mucky field

beautiful calendula

After walk in Courtmacsherry, Niall, Vicky, Uisce and Mr. G

Squeek camping in Uisce's bed

Uisce and her brother, Bodhi finally find a way to peacefully exist together

It's been quite busy the last while, well, calling it summertime may be a little too much, as it's been in fairness another shite irish summer... Anyways, I've been back to work the last month n a half or so, first it felt like another headbang at the end of another cul de sac, but then I convinced myself that I need money and it really isn't that horrible.... At least it's only 2 days a week, and another one on the farm, and the rest just flies by, sometimes a cleaning job comes up, or a felt course, or simply some rehearsals, recording, or whatever. Anyways, a bit more routine is doing me a world of good. And makes me appreciate the time I got more. I've been also working away with mr. Cello on our future carreer together as a loopy cello orchestra, and can't wait for DHL to deliver the tool I bought from Germany, which will make it all very possible and sophisticated.
Altogether I reckon we've got a pleasant flow going really, with the usual hiccups of being me;-)

The zoo is doing well, still lively as ever.
Here's a couple of pictures, they're more interesting than words ;-)

Thunder

It's been raining pretty much all day, and now I heard thunder. Wohoo. I like it. I've been having an angry week, which is something I haven't experienced in quite a while, but in some odd way I'm welcoming it:) So thunder goes well with it all. Anger is an interesting one, it can destroy but it can build, too. I like it for this latter, even with the initial destruction, It has the power to move things which have been stuck. Even if they are unrelated to the outbreak of anger (like today, Uisce chewed my phone charger and favourite sandals to bits, both unrepairable. Now there's nothing about that closely related to my personal development is there?;-)
Anyways, I'll leave the anger at that for now.
Other things that have happened the last few weeks included a bunch of dinner guests at various times, it is lovely to have great veggies around the garden again to feed people with:)
Mr. Cello has been a regular in my days too, I'll stick in a little video with a bit of a sample of what mischief we're up to together, now the video quality is shockingly bad, sorry.... ok, i just realized its too big of a size for blogger what i have, so will have to wait till next time....

What else.... the other day climbed a mountain, one of the Paps, near Killarney, stunning, (unfortunately left camera in car so can't show you), and a rather educational day.
Had another feltmaking course here a few days ago, all happy, except the one person who freaked out at my directions and got lost...Ah well.
Looking like there's a bit of work around the corner, which is fabulous, as my plans are flying faster than my purse at the moment;-)
Rightyo, that's it for now, I'm starving so better raid the vegetable gardens in the 3 minutes while the rain holds back;-)

Havin a pipe after dinner

Enthusiastic puppy nearly blinded me one morning, luckily only got me below the eye, nice purple;-)

The not so little not so innocent darling of a dog

Vicky and Levi jammin after dinner

Feltmaking, birthday and the likes

I love June. However the last few years it seems to be a bit of an emotionally manic month - maybe subconsciously I'm shocked by the fast passing of years marked by my birthday in June every year ;-)
Anyhow, I still love it. Longest days, exploding growth in the garden, beautiful scents in nature, restless energy whoch can be as good as I make it (or as destructive ;-)
Here's a few photos, including a drenched dog, a bunch of little and big people stuffed with cakes at a small birthday gathering, and one group photo of the happy felters who started their wooly adventure here at my cave the other day.

Oh them rainy days will never stop Uisce from a good ol' runaround in the garden

Tara taking a break from felting

Birthday celebrations

Birthday celebrations 2

3

4

The suprise fly-by visitor at the birthday party, Roisin

Happy felters proud of their first lot of creations

Early June Gardens

June has arrived swiftly out of the blue, and has brought a bit of warmth, hope it will be a regular visitor for the next while. Nice to get a bit sunburnt again:)
There's lots to do in the garden, but the reward started coming too, great to taste fresh veg from the grounds again. Here's a few pictures of the garden and the animals.