Not last night but the night before we had a huge storm the wreaked havoc throughout the country. There were 170km an hour winds and some areas got a month load of rain in a day. It was pretty wild and a lot of damage has been done. I missed it. I was so tired I slept through it all. Which was probably just as … Continue reading You could say we had a bit of rain…
Typical! With less than a handful of summer days left – today’s weather was awesome. One of those lovely blue sky days we have been dreaming about for months. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and the cicadas were cicading. I’m not sure if it was a one off or if it will be like it again tomorrow. To be honest I’m too … Continue reading Only four days left.
Phew. Now all they need to do is grow, so that in six month’s time I will be able to harvest them at my leisure, instead of during the hurly burly of the Christmas Holiday season. Either I have been very smart or completely misguided. Check back in six months… mark it on your calendar. The first task was to sort out the bed. It … Continue reading Breathe a sigh of relief …. The onions and garlic are in.
I am going to jump over task number four on the list in favour of task five. I can justify it like this – Number four is to enrich the onion bed and get it all ready for them to move into, but I have to face facts – they aren’t ready for it yet they are still too little. Besides I have weeded the … Continue reading I have made an executive decision.
Good intentions of a day well spent in the garden have come to nothing yet again. Even my grand plans to go garden shopping and trawl up and down the aisles of the hardware store looking for mouse proof bits and bobs for my “anti-mouse seed protector device” version 2 had to be postponed. Life inside was the soft and warm option for me today. … Continue reading Foiled again!
Those pesky mice, I am sick to death of them and their meddling ways. Well they have messed with me one too many times. I seem to have almost eradicated them from my shed as only one of my bait stations needed refilling today, but they seem to have withdrawn from what was once their safe haven and have retreated to the greenhouse for a … Continue reading THAT’S IT – I’VE HAD ENOUGH!
Tuesdays are almost always never fun. It is when I have to stay inside, whatever the weather and crunch numbers until they are all crunchy and make sense and balance books to get them so perfect you could measure them with a spirit level. I really don’t know how this became my responsibility as I am really not that good at maths. I think it … Continue reading Business as usual – just not the right kind of business.
But it took a lot of hard work and I’m pretty knackered. So it’s now safe to say I am fully over my melodramatic outburst of the other day. In fact let’s just pretend the whole sorry episode never happened. After a mow and some hard work the garden is now looking like something to be proud of. I’ve pruned and tied in my wayward … Continue reading Good news, I have fallen back in love with my garden
My poor raspberries… Oh how I neglect you. Last year I moved my raspberries from the orchard, to the veggie patch as you really need to keep a constant watch over them, especially at harvest time, when you really need to pick every day. At the moment it takes all my greatest efforts to get to the orchard as there are two paddocks with the … Continue reading I feel like I have been dragged through a raspberry bush backwards!
The change of season happens with the back end of August, so I have five days left dwell in the dying days of winter. The weather is supposed to be a mixed bag of rain, sun, and cold and then unsurprisingly the forecast for the first few days of spring are almost identical to the last days of winter so I don’t imagine there will … Continue reading This time next week we will officially be in the season of spring.
