Hi – how has your weekend started?
We had a bit of a sad morning start as we had to dispatch our white matron chook. She’d been on the downward spiral the last week… and not eating the last couple of days. 🙁 Its the right thing to do but its the worst part about owning chooks.
The day was mostly spend putting gear together to drive south on Monday.
The pic above is a PLB – personal locator becon. We finally got one. We’ve been talking about it for a while. Seemed sensible to have one ourselves since we take off to remote places to hike etc.
Its a LOT lighter than the one I hired when I did my solo trek!
A workmate of Jeff’s dropped by the other day with her husband and some sour dough starter for me!!
The pressure!!!
I am a bit clueless on this whole sour dough thing… I didn’t really have time to research the whole thing, so I just followed the recipe she gave me and hoped for the best.
It didn’t rise a lot and the final product was a bit flat, but it sure tasted pretty good, albeit a bit heavy!!
I’ve got more starter to ‘feed’ so am keen to have another go.
Sharon and Paul do this a lot so I reckon they’ll give me some training!
After packing and doing general domestics today, I ventured outside to plant some seedlings I picked up the other day.
I got three tomatoes for the hothouse to get a head start there. Also some capsicum. There weren’t any chilli seedlings available which I would like to get too. They are slower to establish and I am not taking chances with a cold spring this time and seeds.
I dug through some of the cow poo straw and planted the tomatoes and one punnet of capsicum. I ran out of daylight before I could muck about with the second punnet
I also covered the capsicum with some bottles as they are a lot smaller and didn’t want them to be a slug feast.
The ‘Mad Hatter’ capsicum I decided to leave in – but gave it a good pruning
You can see its huge and leggy. I forgot to take a snap of the final look after its snipping.
There is a lot of new growth showing so will leave it and see what happens.
Speaking of snipping… when we get back I need to cut back all the bushes on the outside of the hothouse… they are so tall now and along with Tentacular the Spectacular passionfruit… its getting a bit dim in there!!
(Add to To Do List)
Anyway, thats about it!
Market tomorrow (I hope)(Just to look not to sell) and packing the car!
Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend
Cheers!
