Midweek already! I thought today was a beautiful day! Jeff, however, grumbled and thought that despite the sun, it was cold and windy and therefore not enjoyable!
Still… we got outside to get some stuff done.
I had to empty the trailer of my seaweed collection. We wanted to take our bins to the tip as they were pretty full – plus all our recyclables and other rubbish that needed to go.
I can’t even remember how long it is since we last went. Probably at least 4 months.
I even managed to distribute a bit of the seaweed into my weeded garden beds!
All beds got a bit of a ‘do over’ with the weeding before I smothered them
Hopefully that last lonely lettuce will produce a few more leaves
Even the lemon ‘tree’ got some. (one day it might grow. Its been the same size for five years!!)
I got side tracked into digging up a bunch of docks… oh how I hate them! They are so hard to get out – they have a long tap root and it holds on like nothing else!! I often break them in the effort of digging them out which is REALLY irritating… I do dig down quite deep too!
There are more in the garden I must get back to. If they are young I can get them out more easily.
And NEVER let them seed! Nightmare. (although seeds blow in from next doors paddock so its not something that will end soon!)
Since we are getting alarmingly low on wood, Jeff got out the chainsaw, axes and block splitter and got a lot of our rubbishy wood down to usable size. Its a good thing really… we really needed to make a start on cleaning up all this. Eventually we will do a bigger burn (sadly I wasn’t allowed to today… bit windy!!)
Some of the really big stumps are too big to handle or cut, so I might think about using them as seats here and there in the garden. Not sure yet.
Often I had a little fan club following me today. Its ok… I am not fooled into thinking they love me and want my company. Pretty sure they are after scraps!
Day lilies are poking through!
Random potatoes. Just self seeded plants that I left alone to do their thing
Still some nice chillies in the hothouse
These looked too nice to chop up and put into dinner, so I planted them
Then I figured I should get onto my extended herb patch again and work towards finishing what I started!
By that point I was getting chilled and called it a day – you know, to lock the chooks up, come inside, put the fire on, shower, do dinner, knit something, wash dishes & post process some wedding photos! (oh – and blog) 🙂
I like my cosy evenings very much!
Cheers!
