A bit of a tidy up…

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Ready for a trim

With all the rain, followed by plenty of sun, the grass (and weeds) were shooting up at a rate you could almost watch!

And we were beginning to lose the cat –

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Pip

So we did a much needed tidy up of the things that the wind had scattered about the yard and Jeff got out on his mower and sorted it out (I laughed when I caught him driving up to the apple tree to pick a snack for a break!!)

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Drive through apples

I picked up all the windfall apples so he didn’t do a yard-size apple puree. Quite a lot of the windfall apples are ok for use –

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The good windfalls

But a lot have been nibbled on – probably by our local possums or the single rabbit that has also taken up recent residence –

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The not so good windfalls

The chickens had a perfectly lovely afternoon as they are not normally allowed up the ‘house side’ of the property (something about their insistence on digging up my strawberries and herb gardens) So they were thoroughly over-excited at this little extra freedom today.

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She thinks I have food
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Our beautiful Australorps

Its funny watching them zigzag all over the yard chasing bugs. But then finally they worked their way up into the strawberries and herbs so it was time to herd their little feathery butts back to the other side!

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Not a bad herding job! The usually scatter in 9 different directions!

I’m actually trying to “Speed-Blog” tonight as we have to be up at silly O’clock tomorrow morning to get down to the local market and set up. I’d just like to take this opportunity to explain I am not a morning person.  In fact “not a morning person” doesn’t even begin to explain how much of a morning person I am not!  So tonight I would prefer to be in bed while the clock still says pm for a change

So I picked a few tomatoes –

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I managed to separate a large crate of saleable cherry tomatoes out of these

All my jams/sauces are sorted out and other bits and bobs that I need are all in the car. We just have to (ok I am saying “We” here because Jeff still hasn’t fully decided if he is coming along with me tomorrow…) pick some parsley and silver-beet in the morning and shove the last boxes in the car before going. Early.

Goodnight all – fingers crossed that tomorrow the weather doesn’t do a nose dive back into the biblical-level rain of yesterday!

Cheers

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My feelings exactly!

 

 

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.

6 thoughts on “A bit of a tidy up…”

    1. Hi Sue! That made me smile! Its been awesome to get the positive feedback on what I have done so far! Thank-you!

  1. I am enjoying your blog very much!
    I first met you on OnehundredDollarsaMonth!

    I’m not familiar with silver-beet!
    Can you describe what it is and how it is used?

    1. Hi Mary! Thank-you for the message and glad you are enjoying so far! Mavis has been very inspiring – I have enjoyed writing posts for her blog every now and again!! She has been really kind to give me a boost like that!!
      Silverbeet!! This is going to be fun! Language barriers in English!! I looked it up and its called Swiss Chard up your way, so I am pretty sure you would be familiar with it! To be honest I am not a fan of eating it – but its good for the chickens and they love it!!
      Feel free to pull me up when I use weird words! 🙂 Thank-you for coming to check out my blog!

  2. Came here from Mavis’ site. I’m a big fan of your photography and daily life. So happy to see you starting a blog 🙂

    1. G’day Susan! Thank-you for coming across from Mavis to check out my first steps into this blog-thing! It will be fun finding my direction and its lovely having some extra readers from all over to join in! 🙂

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