This morning we bid a fond farewell to Emma as we put her on a plane to go home. Its a lot quieter here tonight that’s for sure!! Apparently she is returning next holidays – not sure she has cleared that with her mum as yet!!
We managed to do a lot of bits and pieces today. The weather was again super-gorgeous, so I shoved a load of washing on
We ate lunch on the back veranda and soaked up what vitamin D we could…
Mana and I collected the rest of the silverbeet seeds while we were sitting out there.
I picked a few things from the garden/hothouse
And treated myself to a bunch of spikey dahlias.
Mana and Jeff took the bird netting off the strawberries and dug up all the weeds – it looks amazing now
I cleaned up the kitchen (surfaces in our place invite random ‘stuff’ to be plonked on top of them)
And prepared part of dinner –
Who keeps and reuses cereal packets?? I find them easy to recycle. The boxes are great for craft (or backing for signs at markets) and the bags are tough as nails – I bake our bread, so I keep my bread in cereal bags! I also store meat scraps/cooked bones etc in them in the freezer until either we take our rubbish to the tip (no collection here) or sometimes pop them in Ruby’s bin if I am really pushed for freezer space.
Mana came inside and put on another batch of apples to dry
Thought I better restock up on wood. So much better to do that job in this weather than wait until its cold, miserable and raining sideways!!
Jeff build us a couple of wood storage boxes for the back door out of pallets. It’s pretty easy around here to get hold of pallets to make various things. And the ones that don’t break apart nicely make beautiful kindling.
We store our main supply undercover next to the hothouse. We also use pallets to raise them off the ground, which saves a lot of muck & bugs when you get to the bottom layers!
We also have a foreman for this job
Dinner was a meatloaf (I tend to thaw enough mince to make hamburgers one night, then use the rest of the mix in a loaf tin the next day to make into meatloaf)(Its like leftovers you haven’t cooked yet!) along with home grown vegies and my fav. tomato/zucchini side dish. Easy (and probably healthy)
I finished the day by completing a ‘Cozy Cuff’
So a bits & pieces kind of day, but definitely productive!
Hope everyone’s weekends have started well!
Cheers
PS re the band aid.
Emma decided yesterday that she needed to take this old broken jar home that she found at Magnet Mine. (Who am I to argue? My souvenir was a three foot long chunk of driftwood!! 😀 )
Since I am a klutz and can injure myself on dangerous objects (like margarine containers)(Sadly not kidding) I shouldn’t have gone near the jar. Instead I picked it up and made quite a mess of my finger
As a friend kindly pointed out, I married a walking first aid kit, so I got sorted out by my personal nurse & got a kiss into the bargain! Awesome huh?
Emma helpfully ran about taking photos of all the blood splatters and made me the fabulous montage below!!
