A Bit Around The Garden

I love the apple blossoms!
Hello! I am having a day of panic organising, since we are a week out of flying off to Japan.
Every task over the past month that should have been simple/straightforward has given me the runaround, so I am feeling slightly twitchy right now!!
Today I popped into the bank to order some Japanese Yen in cash to start us off. Normally that’s about a 2 day thing. Nope. New suppliers to the bank mean “It’ll be in Monday or Tuesday”
Arrrgh! We LEAVE Tuesday. Since the bank also gave me the wrong information about the reissuing of my travel cards for the bulk of our funds I am also still waiting for those to turn up. This is NOT a relaxing thought.

So I ordered the cash from the post office who promise Monday, but seem to think it will be in earlier.
I started packing my bag today. Put aside most of the clothes I think I will take, but probably over half the contents will be things I am taking for friends. But it felt good to make a start on that side of things, then I can check the weight and balance it all out between the checked luggage and the carry on.

Yesterday after our friends left, I buzzed on down to Ruby’s and planted some things for her – more lettuce, some replacement cucumbers as a few of her existing ones got eaten. A capsicum and four butternut pumpkins.
That left me enough daylight to get home and plant my butternut pumpkins out.
The herb garden extension is not doing anything at the moment, so I weeded it up and put the remaining 8 seedlings that I had left in there.

I always have a bit of company when I do anything out here

This is Murgatroid. He is a bad tempered head-butter with a baa that sounds broken. But I think I am winning him over.
I don’t actually think he has a name but he just looked like a Murgatroid to me.
He was bought for the sheep but he knocks them over so he is stuck in solitary.
I think he is lonely, so I have told him its all in the attitude. He lets me kinda poke him in the nose and almost scratch his head at times.
I feed him grass which he loves, but then he forgets himself and tries to butt me through the fence! Its pretty funny. I am sure he is just misunderstood.

Murgatroid overseeing my work.
I am hoping to be able to train these pumpkins into areas where they won’t smother other plants.
Another gardening task ticked off the list.

I think seeds explode rather than emerge. These watermelon seeds were non existent in the morning, but all there in the afternoon!

Finally some of my basil looks positive!

A few sunflowers popping up. I am still hoping to squeeze in a whole patch of these somewhere!

Yesterday a couple of the iris looked like this. Today they bloomed! I am sure I will get out there with the camera tomorrow.

Apple blossom tree has also sprung into action (just an ornamental)

Hope everyone has had a lovely day!

Cheers