Hot,Hot,Hot...

Wow , what a week....6 hideous days of Hades (more about that later) ...too hot for leaving the house let alone thrifting. ( these are words I never thought I would write) Luckily I still have a couple of cuties I bought  a couple of weeks ago in the tiny country town of Palmer in their General Store which is also full of farm antiques

 

A cute little pill bottle for $2

 

 

 

 

 

A small green Vaseline glass jar $2 - probably held some sort of cream

 

 

 

 

 

We have had 6 days in a row over 43 degrees, the top being almost 46 on Thursday giving Adelaide the dubious status of the hottest major city in the world that day - uh huh....GREAT! (between 110 - 114)

As I write this the change arrived with a big electrical storm and there are still bushfires raging in the Barossa Valley

It was too scorching hot for my husband to have any customers in the garden Nursery so we decided to paint some more of our rooms (which have hideous light absorbing colours) in white

We have now finished 3 bedrooms, laundry, bathrooms and passage. Thank heavens for airconditioning

 

 

 The passage was a ghastly shade of peach. This white is the same we used in our last house although we are not going to do the woodwork like last time

 

 

 

The laundry and bedrooms had already had all new wardrobes and cupboards in the same white installed

 

 

 

 

We still have all the big rooms to do - family , dining, entry, formal sitting and formal dining which are  yukky cocoa brown ..

 

The garden survival has been a mixed bag. We lost the lettuces, beans, heaps of seedlings ,pots of flowers. We put sheets on the tomatoes and the fruit trees are ok.

 

 

 

My girls were sprayed with water every couple of hours

 

This weekend the hundreds of white Meilland roses will have to be cut back as they were very scorched

 

 

 

 

The first day of heat and still fresh

 

 

 

 

 

This was taken at 7am and already a century

 

 

I had already harvested my David Austin roses and hung them up to dry

 

 

 

 

And these little sweeties " Crepescule " just made it before they scorched

 

 

 

 

 

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