Hello!
So far, I reckon Autumn weather has been much nicer than most of summer! Another lovely day today.
I put the stall up out the front before I had breakfast (no, don’t ask what time that was)
I got to talk to some really nice people – travelling workers. They were cherry picking, now moving on to apples.
Then found a couple of random European people wandering down the highway on their way to Wynyard! They had not long arrived in Tasmania and had work up at a nearby farm. So I ran them into town. (Safer)(And quicker)
Anyway, grand total of $42 today!
Well – its a week away… the big hiking adventure! I have succumbed to list writing again to make sure I have everything sorted.
I dehydrated more curried beef & rice (well… its still going)
I did another half hour on the bike (Bottom much less sore now, thank-you for asking 🙂 )
Cleaned the dining room. (yawn – very slowly because I kept finding other distracting shiny things to look at/do)
Then I thought I would feel good about myself if I pulled some weeds out.
The weeds in the duck yard garden where there is no seaweed mulch have gone crazy
Jeff said there is a LOT of seaweed down at our usual collecting beach right now. Deciding if I can fit in a trip to get a couple of loads before we leave…
I did a fair bit but was conscious of not over doing things as the last thing I need before heading up a mountain is a sore back!
Still – it was nice to see a couple of big weed-piles!
The pallet fence garden is going nicely. I relocated quite a few self seeded tomatoes in there – just because I could. They now have lots of little cherry tomatoes happening.
Not sure if we will get any apples this season. They might disappear like the plums did, which would be sad. Lots of windfalls… lots of codling moth… late ripening.
Still… we have very happy neighbour-sheep!
So – get to the end of the day, ready to finish off cooking dinner and the power goes out for over an hour. Handy. Sigh… was looking forward to that shower too!
Anyway, so we sat out in the sunroom and amused ourselves with hobbies and chatting.
Jeff has taken to carving and whittling. (and a much higher use-time on the vacuum cleaner)
He got some knives to help make spoons.
We have plenty of firewood… he practices on all different sorts
Yes that’s blood!! Sigh. More practice with his new sharp tools needed!
Jeff was telling me about a current patient who all the staff have been smitten with.
A sweet elderly lady (in her 90’s). Sadly its possible she will be with them until the end.
I asked if he wanted to take her in a bunny. (Of course yes!)
So I got one that I had nearly completed and finished him off
We have called him ‘Raaffie”
Hope everyones day has been lovely!
Cheers!
Jeff’s carved spoon just reminded me of one of my favourite DIY-type books – One Man’s Wilderness by Richard Proenneke, who hand-built a cabin in Alaska.
Have you read it? It’s a beautiful, gentle, uplifting read. Do a search on his name and you’ll find a heap of info and a Youtube vid or 2 … even though you probably don’t need the distraction this close to going for your Long Walk. xx
Hi Judy! Thank-you, I’ll take a look. It might be something suitable for Jeff’s b’day! (I wrote the info down so I can remember to come back to it after the hike if I don’t get to it beforehand!) 🙂
Good book!! Loved reading “One man’s Wilderness.” Such a lovely, peaceful read. My husband enjoyed it too.
I did google it today and it looks like the sort of story we would both really enjoy! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it too!
There are really cool chain mail gloves you can get for wood carvers, Lee Valley Tools has them. Chad’s has saved his hand more than once. And mine too when I tried to make a spoon for myself, ha ha! I used a scrap of super hard wood and never really made any progress.
Thank you for sending Raafie off to Jeff’s patient 🙂 that is super sweet of you two to do that for her.
I’ll look into those gloves for Jeff! They sound ideal! Thank-you for mentioning them
Re Raafie – Apparently she was thrilled and cuddled him all night! <3 Made my day!
Love Lee Valley Tools! They have some of the neatest things. Have their compost frame and it makes wonderful compost rather quickly without my help. Their Christmas catalog is fun to peruse, as their toys are wonderful.
Hope you have a wonderful time on your hike.
I am not much of a shopper but I confess I am a bit keen to poke my nose into some different shops to check things out while I am in Texas!
I like the idea of quick compost without me having to do very much 🙂
Only a few days left before hiking start date. Excited. Nervous. Wondering what the weather will do!! Yesterday was summer-hot. Today gloomy grey. 🙂
FYI: Lee Valley is a Canadian company. Check them out via the web and their catalogs.
Thanks! I’ll have a bit of a snoop on them at some point!! 🙂