Quick Break From Hiking

Ground-soaking day of rain yesterday

Hello!
I didn’t get to sit and play with the last days hiking photos, so here is just a short random wrap up of things happening around Norwich House.
Yesterday was gloomy and soggy – today cloudy but only spits of rain.
We have been for three hikes around Anniversary Bay since returning from Cradle – we are much faster at this hike as, of course we are a lot fitter than before and not carrying 20kgs makes the world of difference!

Today – threatening skies

Always nice to stop and have a lamington break 😀

We dropped in to see Ruby the day before yesterday with the intention of me gardening while Jeff mowed the lawn. Unfortunately the mower wasn’t going – battery dead and the jump starting thingy was also out of charge!
So we had cake and coffee instead!

Ruby also had a new fence made – so we picked up all the old palings and brought them home

I have this vague plan to cut and split most of it, tie them in bundles and see if I can sell some for kindling. We already have tons at the moment from the last lot of fences Ruby had replaced, so thinking to make a few extra $$ that way. It burns like a demon 😀

The tomatoes keep on coming! The stall out the front brings in a steady amount of money – every little bit helps.

Quick pick for dinner

Just loving our home grown meals every night. Still a lot of corn out there. It took me an hour and a half to cut and de-seed the last lot of chillies – and there is a bunch more in the hothouse to pick again!
Have made another batch of tomato relish and sold 10kgs of tomatoes to cousins/friends so they can make sauces too! And I am STILL swimming in tomatoes!

Random self seeded tomato plant producing well!

Its just a lovely time of year – plenty of fresh food and reasonable amounts of sunshine!

Cheers!

Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

2 thoughts on “Quick Break From Hiking”

    1. Hi Linda! Lamingtons are one of my favourite cakes. Its a square of sponge cake, dipped in a chocolate sauce then rolled in coconut. Quite simple, but gooooood!! 😀
      In Australia, often school groups – or sports groups etc have what is called a Lamington Drive. So you order your lamingtons by the dozen and the group will hold a big lamington making day then deliver. Quite the popular fund raiser!
      Glad you are enjoying the posts! 🙂

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