Quiet Day

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A few more strawberries

Well… Mum & Dad gone, Rachel gone, Jeff asleep & Pip snoozing somewhere – its a quiet household today.

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Pip’s snoozing spot

I eventually went and did some boring domestic things in town before pottering about the garden. I did get back to weeding the beetroot –

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They are not dead, but I wouldn’t call them flourishing! A few more days of sun and they might perk up a bit!

I made space for two of the zucchinis that have been in pots in the hothouse – they were doing so well… but needed space!

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The potatoes and snow peas are really looking good

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I am seeing more flowers on the little outside tomato plants

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I am going to need to cover the carrot seed heads soon too

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I picked a handful of lettuce for dinner too!

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Then I spent a fun hour dropping a strawberry into a glass of water (as one does in the afternoon)

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I have just started another photo challenge and with everything that has been happening I am not really prepared. I needed a ‘Splash’ photo

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You get a lot of failures, and make quite a mess, but I found the variety of ‘splashes’ quite mesmerising

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I found it hard to tear myself away and do responsible things like – make Jeff some dinner before he had to go to work kind of responsible.

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Anyway – maybe I will do some more tomorrow for the fun of it!
I think I have chosen the one I want to use (unless I get something better in the meantime)

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I was just finishing up this post when I heard a bit of a commotion outside. So I grabbed a torch to go out and investigate what all the crashing sounds were.
Eventually I spotted the culprits!
A brush tailed possum mother with baby on her back!

Have a great day

Cheers

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Amazing they stayed put while I went back inside to get my camera!

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.

9 thoughts on “Quiet Day”

    1. lol – they have funny little faces. And yes – quite a different creature. Even though they are both marsupials, they don’t belong in the same species (family genus or any other classification!) The brushtails can grow up to 90cm long and weigh in at 6kgs (13.2lb) if its a really fat one!
      Oh- and they sound they make is horrendous!! Like you have bigfoot going mad outside your kitchen window!! 🙂

    2. My thoughts exactly, USA possum are kinda scary looking. The possum pic is precious. I think I just have a soft spot for mother and baby. That being said if I were to see one of our possums in the USA with a baby on it’s back, I might think that to be cute also. Btw, is it possum or opossum? Why would they even add that weirdly placed “o” in the front of the word?

      1. They are cute aren’t they?? But lets hope they stay out of my vegetable garden!! Mostly they have been good here – but they can be a bit hungry, and are not that graceful when trampling about your seedlings.
        Here is a quick cut and paste explanation about possum vs opossum

        The American possums are actually called opossums, scientific name, Didelphimorphia. But for some reason, they are more commonly referred to as possums, just like our native Australian species. But our Australian possums are (scientific name) Phalangeridae. Both are marsupials, but that’s about it.

        There you go! 🙂

  1. I absolutely love all of your photos and garden stories. Up here in Canada it’s getting awfully chilly and the snow is falling. It’s so great to see garden pictures and blooming flowers when all you see outside is white!

    1. Thank-you! Glad you are enjoying. Wow… snow already! It has its own prettiness. But out there today the sun is shining – as it should when you are two days from summer!!! About time it pulled its socks up! 🙂

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