A Day of Sloth

 

Its a rare thing to actively plan to do nothing! I found myself thinking of all the things to do tomorrow that I was trying not to do today!

Really it was about moseying along and doing what took my fancy (And staying in my pjs for as long as possible)

I did eventually get outside and enjoyed picking  what was ready in the garden

I went into town and stocked up on a few containers as I plan to partly cook and freeze the tomatoes into smaller packs, convenient dinner sized, rather than the 6lb packs that I have frozen for relish and sauce batches!

I have a rogue jam melon plant or two growing a bit late in the season around the rose bushes… I was wondering if they would ripen in time before the weather turned. I have noticed they are expanding quite quickly

This was one week ago –

This was today –

Jam melons are funny things. I had never come across them until moving here. Seem an old fashioned fruit. They are not edible like rock melons or watermelons, but are cooked into jams. I haven’t had them for a couple of seasons, and not sure how the seeds ended up growing where they are!

I don’t mind the little garden mysteries! Like how this snap dragon appeared –

I had never planted them deliberately… but they popped up a couple of seasons ago, then disappeared. Nice to see at least one back!

OK – here is a little challenge for you, if you care to participate!

Guess the zucchini weight. I will send a small mystery prize to the person who gets closest. (Don’t get over-excited, it’ll probably be something quirky) 😀

In Kg/grams (google will be your friend here if you are used to imperial measurements.)

For example “1.436kgs” The clue is that it is more than 1.000kg and less than 10.000kgs 😀

Leave a reply in the comments section.

MARCH GROCERY ROUNDUP

I didn’t make my goal of bringing in more than spending at the supermarket, but still didn’t do too badly. There were some larger bulk purchases (like lamb for the Spoiled Siamese that was on sale) and I didn’t get to the market yesterday as it clashed with guests – not that that bothers me. I am way happier to be spending time with friends than getting up at Stupid O’clock to set up a stall in the cold! 🙂

Anyway – totals

Supermarket spending for March             – $331.93

Incoming from garden/chooks & jams     – $226.40

I can live with that! (But I still want to do better!)

Now I am just rounding off my day munching on a bit of sponge cake that Ruby made for me, with a cat on my lap and a fire crackling away keeping me cosy!

Cheers!

PS It was pretty cool out there today. I haven’t set up my outside thermometer so I can check the temps during the day – but I will get on to that. Daylight savings has now ended here so suddenly it seems to be dark before I am ready!

Right now it is 8.8C (47.8F) and apparently the local area reached 19C (66.2F) today. The small breeze was quite chilly I thought! Makes me wonder how long I will keep getting tomatoes ripening.

PSS Just as I was proof-reading the above, I could hear some loud thunking about on the back veranda. Heavy enough to sound like a person out there!

The offender was this little fellow –

A ring tailed possum! I haven’t seen one around here for ages – they are usually all brush tailed possums!

Didn’t mind me much at all

I think they are sweet!