Rain Continues

 

For the first time since winter last year, the tanks are overflowing! The rain gauge has refilled and it doesn’t look like stopping anytime soon.

My next post may be about how to build an ark… altho my ark only needs to fit two people, one cat, 12 chickens and 2,000 books. (Maybe a guest room so I can pick up the neighbours on the way past – hey Cindy?? 😀 )

No really – despite the gloom I am delighted we are finally getting some good ground soaking rain.

It is also Lisa-soaking

I was wearing a full length raincoat too! I had to get up the ladder and muck out the water tank sieve that had filled with leaves, sticks & possums.

(ok – I was kidding about the possums)

Seems like the only chooks that have any sense are the three younger new chickens. They stayed firmly in the coop all day, and were nice and fluffy dry. The rest were a pathetic bedraggled lot

The rain has been blowing in too… so pretty much everything on the back veranda is saturated. Only the wood tucked in the very back corner seems reasonably dry (lucky)

Pip’s attitude to the deafening rain today was simple. Enter sleeping bag & Do Not Leave.

Apart from housework (blah) I did get around to sorting and packaging up a lot of the seeds I have been collecting.

I saved three cobs of corn, but I have no idea if they were hybrids or not (threw away original seed packet) plus I have never collected corn seeds before. Will be interesting to see if they sprout

I have not the patience or time to separate the teeny tiny basil seeds, so just took the pods off the stalks and bagged them up. The smell was divine!

Chilli

A mountain of rainbow chard

The cos lettuce seed still needs a bit of drying out

I kept a sunflower – high hopes for a big pretty plot somewhere next season

Remember the tomato laterals I started? Looks like we have two successes and one fatality.

Mind you… the self seeded tomatoes that popped up at Ruby’s that she gave me weeks and weeks ago are going along really nicely – despite the fact I haven’t bothered taking them out of their ice cream container yet!

Can I call that hydroponics??

I was out of potatoes, so I nicked over to the garage and grabbed a new box! We had such a good potato harvest this season. I’ll have to knock off a few sprouts, but they all look really good. (I think there are 4 more boxes to go!!)

For about 10 minutes, just before the sun went down, we got a little colour in the sky.

Enjoy

Cheers

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