The Journey Continues...: Back on The Blogging Track Again!

Hi All...long time between drinks this year, but hopefully all is set to get my weekly blogs out on time once more.

A very long and interesting few months of challenges for sure, a time in which I was introduced to someone I was hoping to catch up with one day.

I know I talk in riddles sometimes but please endure and you will understand.

My old camera was playing up, the battery cover kept popping open and the battery would drop out, then it would not close properly, then one day, it just went blank and would not do anything, so I tossed it in the bin in OZ, to force me to get a new one!

I hunted all over for new one, a Samsung, but they don't make them anymore, the type I was after...then I thought I'd try another brand, but they are all too complicated.

A guy then told me to look for an older model and suddenly it was May and I still had no camera!

I'd been using my phone camera, but somehow the pics don't unload easily, if at all, onto the computer from it, so all my blog memories are still in the phone!

Must learn to use that jolly phone this year too. Have had it for about 6 years and my total bill has been a little over $11 dollars I think...sigh...the joys of modern technology hey!!!

Anyways, my promise to myself for this year was to learn how to send text messages, how to upload images from the phone to my blogs and then to actually call people and receive calls over here on it.

I have just used it as a clock until this year, now a camera too...dohhh.

Anyways, as I am usually pretty bright at technical things once I set my mind to it, I was a bicycle mechanic in my younger days and actually built bikes, built entire wheels and hubs with all the ball bearings, rollers for back pedal brakes and all in them, so using a little old phone should be a piece of cake.

Then I was a designer and house builder, so I reckon I can conquer this phone thing in a shortish while and then eventually just take my phone with me on trips instead of lugging my poor computer everywhere to stay in contact with family and friends. My back pack will be so much lighter then too!

So, I eventually found a nice little camera that seems OK and ordered it...and it is now in Budapest, on its way to me!

Can hardly wait.

I find it easier to think, to plan to everything, with my camera and the subsequent pics I take...I don't know why, but it makes me more enthusiastic about everything around me.

Thinking this might be a fun idea!

Lovely Budapest...Never get tired of discovering different angles to shoot from...

April when all the Irises are in bloom...

Rose time again...these roses bloom from May right through to November...

Cherry time came and went in a 7 week time frame from blossom to picking! Amazing.

Ye olde jogging track has its usual harvest of goodies for me in May and June...

And of course the morning glory just grows while you look at it.

Had to get some screws in town and it never ceases to make me smile...they count them, one by one!

This is going to become a fly screen door. We took out the bottom wood panels and all the glass and put in real fly wire. A decent paint job...and, hey presto!

Sunflower time again, right now...

Storks are very plentiful this year. Each couple produced from 3 to 6 babies each this year...the nests are bulging. The young ones have all just learned to fly this week, so I guess they be off soon.

Awesome fly screens. I found some real aluminum fly wire...very costly here, but at least it looks invisible! Imre has done all the windows and only has to complete the gauze door and make the cellar window screen.

Gladi time again...

This became the pic below, once Imre got his hammer going!

Looking to put a heater under the mantle and use these antique doors to cover it up.You put vent holes in the top and make it look pretty!

My tomatoes are just ripening again...

A pretty sky...

Tomatoes everywhere last year. One days picking! Am just eating the last bottle from last year, before it starts all over again.

Another week and the elderberries will be ready to cook up and make into syrup and jams.

Last years pic again...but the harvest is the same. Have just bottled the last of the plums, tomatoes are coming on and the crab apples are ready to cook up by about next week too.

Almost a real house...at last!

Up in Eger again inside the massive church up there. Beautiful.

So pretty...

This is sort of what I'm putting on the big deck...without the lake in the background though!

This is the big deck...Flowers will go on the 3 levels, the pavilion on the top deck area, we chopped out the tree in the middle and the fire pit will be moved to a better area.