Happy New Year!

Hello and Seasons Greetings!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas/Festive season and that 2023 is completely amazing 🙂
Later today I am expecting the first of my family to turn up.
They all should be here by the 4th

Lots of beach and walking and talking time coming up!

We’ve spent time getting stuff done around the yard and this last week… proper housework
(ie moving furniture to clean. Um… I’ve spent a lot of time saying ‘Yuck’)

Jeff made this path look way better!

I continued in on the back garden

One of our chooks (Nihon) got out and dug up my newly planted lettuce within 12 hours

And apparently its the bed of choice at the moment for Pip!!

I do have backup seedlings that are going along nicely actually…

The long pots are giving them time to happily establish then I will be able to plant with minimal root disturbance. (They look a lot better today than a week ago which is when I took this photo)

Jeff also weeded the garden path and put down new sawdust. I weeded the blueberries. We’re getting fruit! But it gets eaten pretty quickly so haven’t taken snaps

Despite the appearance, the mulching on this plot has made the clean up mostly painless.. although I just haven’t had time to get in and finish it.
I want to plant my corn here

Some self sown potatoes provided a nice feed and I grabbed some little carrots.
The garlic is ready for proper harvest… Maybe my nieces and nephew might like to help out there?

Emma and her boyfriend are vegan so I was practicing some muffins…

Wrote the recipe wrong and forgot sugar (shudder)
Chooks happy

Spoiled…

The second batch was much better… although there was an aftertaste which I’ve since learned is due to the bicarb.
SO… will make them next time without that and just the baking powder!

Anyway, I have a few things to fuss over today before heading down to the airport so I better get a wriggle on!

Thanks for hanging in there with my sporadic blog posting in 2022.
Maybe this year I’ll be a bit more focused?
I’ll let you know if I come up with any real goals haha (the pressure!)

Cheers!