Quarantine Entertainment
ME: Ummm Darling. What might you be doing?
HUSBAND: Trying to burn out the centre of a mini canoe in the way the Aboriginals did
ME: Er… they probs didn’t do it in a lounge room…
ME: That’s filling up with smoke…
ME: Fun as this is…
HUSBAND: I better take this out onto the back veranda
ME: Let me helpfully open doors for you…
Did I mention that life never really gets all that dull around here?
Anyway, remember that pile of wood?
I was needing some fresh air and exercise yesterday so thought I would make a start on stacking it up.
I totally got into it and finished the job!!
The overall look of the garden at the end of the season isn’t too bad. Plot by plot I’ll get it tidied up and bedded down.
Damn – I checked today and these carrots are gone 🙁 Hope its not too late to start again and will cover in plastic containers to thwart slugs 🙁
Support chook gets a bit flappy now at times when I pick her up! I like her increasing independent attitude!
Haha – that face!!
My leaf and coffee grounds compost going beautifully!
Yippee!! My awesome cousin Fiona dropping off our groceries!
Pretty much everything I ordered was in stock so that was surprising but excellent! Fiona said it was the easiest part of the shop! She was also shopping for herself and some elderly neighbours who are also out of town but didn’t quite manage the online order successfully!
Quite an effort! So thankful!
Once we are set free, I’ll continue with ordering online and just do a pick-up. Less time spent in the shop the better for me and better for staff.
Found a couple more cape gooseberries!! Its a slow thing but I am enjoying each little bite!
I stirred myself to go out and make a real effort to get what tomatoes were out there, ready and not slug eaten.
I think that was around 8kgs of tomatoes!
There are still more to forage – but my back was feeling it and it was getting chilly!
So… inside back to the kitchen where I did a lot of washings, sorting and chopping.
6lb along with 2lb of onions are sitting in a pot resting and will be turned into relish tomorrow. Cooked some – more will be added out of the freezer which I want to reduce to tomato paste.
2kg (Yes I use a variety of scales haha) I’ve left in the carport for a local lady who will swap for some butter.
A lot aside to ripen, reckon some will go to Sharon – she will swap butter too so we are set there!
So – a fair bit of cooking on the horizon for tomorrow.
We aren’t over doing the ‘busy’ bit at all really. As I said to Jeff, its a kind of an enforced rest so why not lap it up for a while? He spent a good part of the day on the back couch with a blanket and Pip curled up with him listening to a book!
I spent a lot of time on the facebook gardening pages sorting people out – questions, tips, answers and used my ‘powers’ to kick someone out lol.
And sigh. My friend and I who run his page decided with so many people flocking in we just weren’t going to wrangle annoying, argumentative or obnoxious people. Now its a simple goodbye.
Luckily most people are pretty good – just with the influx we’ve gotten a few nutters here and there and some not very nice ones. ‘Weeding’ them out so to speak, pretty smartly!
Hope you are keeping busy, happy and healthy!
Cheers!
I hope Jeff’s canoe got finished
Outside!! Your firewood stack looks GREAT I know that’s hard on the back!! Tomatoes look wonderful. Butter exchange is terrific. We do love our BUTTER. DONT KNIW IF YOU watch Paula Deen if so pull-up
Her quarantine cooking Cracker salad recipe. It is good. Hope you’ll are well. Love from Georgia
Hahaha – Its still a work in progress that canoe! Pretty funny though.
Thanks re firewood! Always so satisfying to do! Thanks for the nudge towards the salad recipe… will look up!
Going pretty fine down here… enjoying the fire at night 🙂
Stay healthy!
Oh Lisa, I giggled so hard at that snapshot of the canoe builder! Men really do think differently from women. I love looking at your garden and wood pile. I stacked cords of wood over the decades. My garden is just getting going. Today I mowed and replanted some sweet peas as something (birds?) keep nipping their tops off. After, I used netting to give them a fighting chance. The weather here has been unseasonably warm so I had to drag out the hose and water a few things. The pollen blowing is making me sneeze a lot. Still a small price to pay for gorgeous weather. It’s supposed to be 75° tomorrow !
😀 I am glad people got a laugh out of our ‘fire situation’
Yes, stacking wood is hard work but oh so satisfying!!
What a pain about the birds! We really struggled with them this last spring too!! Now something is eating the new snow peas in the hothouse!! Greedy things.
Fancy having to water so early in the season!! But nice to have the better weather coming back!! Enjoy! 🙂