A Walking Tour At Beaver Moon

Hello and I'm finally here to greet you with your visit here in the Atlantic NE village that we live in and love so much! The weather has been warm to hot & humid and summer has just begun.

Bill is out every morning to water the gardens & new transplants that have been put in. It looks so lovely when you do a walk about, let's go!

This is the view from the dining area at the beginning of June.

This is a close-up view from the front porch. Thank you Nick & Leslie for the cement fixtures. It's so had to keep seasonal things nice with the harshness that comes from living next to the Atlantic saltwater.

The limelight hydrangeas are now past the railings! It's amazing haw fast things grow once the earth warms up from the ice/snow from the winter season.

The Anniversary Garden has taken on a life of its own and the weeds sure do follow suit with them too!

Mowing of the back lawn has been a weekly chore for Bill but he is loving the zero-turn lawn mower for that!

I'm surprised at how these two trees that Mitchell & I planted over a decade ago have grown and at different speeds and both are healthy!

The back deck is now enjoyable and the sun can be a bit like an oven heating you if you stay out too long!

The daylilies from the Thames River area in London ON are doing well outside the dining window and are late blooms.

One of my favourite blooming flowers is the lily-of-the-valley, Bill planted some right where I hang the laundry & the fragrance is heavenly! They have come & gone now for another year, summer does move fast with the blooming succession. 

Bill put up an arbour next to the small laundry porch, it's the same as the one in the Anniversary Garden, one on each side of the house giving it wings that both view the water in the Miramichi Bay!

Namama (Bill's Hungarian Grandma) had this tree in her backyard & we wanted two in ours! Thanks to Lynn for harvesting them for us, they too are growing strong.

This is our garden area, we are not very good but will give it a try with zucchini, tomatoes, and a pepper. This was 2 weeks ago, I'll post more pics when they really start to grow!

This is the climbing hydrangea from Heather the avid grower, she said it takes time for them to grow their roots and now it has finally taken off & has begun to flower for the first time! 

And the wooly moss that Heather gave me has also taken to flowering this year!!

Here is the wooly moss next to the boulder, how exciting to see these first time blooms!

The lilac tree next to the roses on each side of the arbour have given a strong wonderfully sweet smell to the salt air! Here is the other arbour at the other side of the house.

The lilac tree will have more room since the pom- pom bush was moved to the apartment & has since flowered when the lilac tree there flowered.

Iris, lupine, bleeding hearts, peonies, hydrangea & other flowering plants are are doing their show in the garden that has the best sun!

The Gnome Home garden of tulips have come & gone & this area has not been put back together, next post I'll show you how it gets dressed up!

I brought in some of the tulips & when they opened they looked more like poppies!

The new additions! More Reba aka Rhode Island Red hens!

These girls were 19 weeks old on June 20th when we got them.

They stay together from Henny & the Reba's as they're top in the pecking order & let them know it!

They still don't settle in properly in the evening without Bill going into the coop to settle them, soon I hope it will be like they were always here.

The back deck evening sunsets are back & beautiful! You know what the next day will be looking at it, another line drying laundry day! lol

The Parkade Garage has started...

The foundation for the frost wall has been dug out, now just waiting on the cement contractor to begin.

It look odd to see a square with a ditch around it but it will make the garage walls stable & ground solid.

Bill making the laneway neat again to get the width back. Next week I'll take photos of the townhomes area, goodness that's going to be spectacular, when finished! But right now it's just been cleared & getting the ground ready for its very large foundation.

Sewing is going slow...life does have a way of getting into our hobbies. lol

Christopher Robin is now done!

And the quilt assembly has begun with nine more clouds to make, three more honey pot, some bees, & the fillers that will bring them all together! This truly has been a labour of love for Liam.

Liam is now pulling himself up to stand, I'm so grateful to see these moment via Facebook, he's so precious to us.

Liam is so familiar to us too. lol He is learning to feel the outside for the first time & has now gotten use to the feel of grass. lol

Just to do something different, I did the 4 installment blocks from Buttermilk Design that were done in a 4th of July USA style & made mine Canadian. I added some bees instead of the black crow & put a lace tablemat down for the pot.

It makes a great Canada Day pillow on the woodland bench in the dining area.

Wishing you a happy and safe, Canada Day! 

Well, I have Bridget wanting my attention and I really must get busy as today is sunny & it will be raining all day tomorrow, making it a 'sew day'. I think I will take to the 100 Acre Woods & begin to put it together, I'll take pics to share with you!

Thank you for stopping in & so hope you enjoyed your tour around the property of Beaver Moon.

Cynthia xXx

Rainy May!

 It has been raining so much this month, and the outside is looking so good for it!

The bulbs are in full bloom, and the finches & hummingbirds have returned!

This was taken several days ago, & it has not stopped raining, so the grass is very green & long now.

Every time you look out the window, it seems like the daffodils are smiling at you!

The orange daylilies are making their way through the earth, too!

The lamb's ear needs to have a raking to remove the old growth from last year. This is one of the bees' happy places when the soft lavender coloured flowers are in bloom.

The climbing hydrangea has come to life & Bill's making another trellis under my sewing room as it's spreading outward on the ground in that area.

Mother's Day was made special by a handmade card by Nick, so special I have framed it & added a little figure of Rexton the Manx with it! 

With that special card, Nick & Leslie also gifted this mom with these books! 

This book is a 10-year chronicle of the gardens here at Beaver Moon, started on Mother's Day. xXx

This handmade rooster was made 25 years ago for my Mother's Day, by Nick. I mod-podged it to keep the clay from drying out & Bill is making me a custom frame for it. As someone who makes things for others, I truly appreciate these thoughtful gift-giving labours of love. As my father would say, "It tickles the cockles of my heart."

The grass is green and will need mowing when the sun starts to dry everything up. Bill is working on getting the mowers out of storage today. In about 2-3 days, this rainy patch will turn to sunny skies again! Oh, how happy to see spring and all the snow gone!!

With Rusty gone, the yard seems quiet. Henny & The Rebas appear to be happy with the warmer weather, and the soft rain doesn't bother them at all.

I made saddles for them in pure cotton to stop any pecking happening & it has worked. Before putting the saddles on them, Bag Balm with an antiseptic was rubbed into the red areas to help keep any infection at bay.

It's a free downloadable pattern with a tutorial by HelloSewing.com. I went through my stash of fabric & looked for a colour that was not red/orange/pink in it, as that will trigger pecking. I used one from Lori Holt's Calico collection for the red Reba's.

And here is a Reba modelling it!

It was hard to get a good photo as this little T-Rex can run up to 9mph! They can do everything in them, including dust bathing, as they are nowhere near this clean now! lol

I've been working on my 'zippy bags'.

These are from the Calico Garden collection. It's a panel mixer of  Lori Holt's collections. It will make 4 large bags & 4 small bags. I've made the large quilt from that collection in a SAL I did.

I made a plastic holder on the back to hold seeds that I could see at a glance. We're going to try cucumbers this year, a first for us!

Here's the large quilt I made from the Calico Garden collection. Notice how I put in 3 dark hens, well, two turned out to be roosters!! 

With the scrap fabric, I made this bag, a real scrappy bag! lol

Complete with the instructions on the back! With the cost of fabric these days it is a waste not, want not.

This is a crochet and knitting bag that I made from Lori's other panel. I lined it with a different fabric to use as the lining for another bag. All my bags are sturdy with batting lining added between the two cotton decor  & cotton fabric. I like to have something in my hands in the evening to work on.

There was also a pencil case-type bag to make, too! And from the cutout corners, I made little needle books & stitch holder pockets for my yarn goods. All fit neatly into their bags!

Bill was at work in England this month & brought me home four William Morris napkins of the Strawberry Thief. I took two of them & made them into a standing bag!

And from those four cutout corners, I made a mug rug!

The fabric napkins were the same decor-weight fabric that Lori Holt's panels were made from.

Let's go into the 100 Acre Woods to see the quilt blocks!

Eeyore is such a character, it was a joy making this block!

Tigger is a wonderful thing, with his top made of rubber & his bottom made out of springs!

     

The cutting out of Christopher Robin will be this week. I'll take photos to share with you!

The Pig & Turnips are finished for the Sew Fresh Sampler quilt. I'm working on the Sheep & Sprouts right now. Many more blocks with this two colour quilt.

Thank you for visiting me here at Beaver Moon. It's still raining & the high tide is in the Miramichi Bay. Time to start a warm lunch for Bill, he has been out working in this wet windy weather this morning.

Thanks again, see you next blog & hopefully that will be sooner than the last few!!

Where does time go?!

Hugs, Cynthia xXx