Attacking Weeds

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The plum blossoms look better in the blue skies!

Finally! A super stonkingly gorgeous day here today! So, on with the gardening clothes and into the vegie patch!

We got about 3/4 of the way through before bailing out because it was getting chilly working in the shade

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Improvements!
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Little clumps of beautiful parsley everywhere
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A few short leeks remain
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These little fellows self seeding around the place – will transplant soon
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Winter garden haul!! The two larger potatoes were undiscovered from last season – only just put out a shoot each so they may be ok to eat. The others are actually new potatoes from self seeded plants that didn’t die over winter!!

Jeff got to chopping some wood with his new axe! Cousin Jeff showed him a better technique and now we have small wood and kindling all over the place!

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We filled the veranda wood box – always a good thing to do when the weather is good!

To warm up we also decided to head down the back paddock to stock up on pine cones! Pallets make a great temp. ladder for barbed wire fences!

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Note our filthy grotty gardening clothes!! It may be better to just burn them!!

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No show without the curious cows!
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At least the ones fresh from the tree are not covered in cow poo
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Taking our haul home!

As usual… we had a bunch of curious followers on our walk back up the paddock

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Cow faces crack me up

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He had to lick me – honestly after all the work we did today I couldn’t have tasted nice!

Much to Pip’s disgust, I went and dragged him out of bed, where he was buried under a doona and two blankets, for a refreshing paddock walk

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A man and his cat…

We had a slight ‘Oopsie’ moment when somebody stepped in cow poo…

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OK – we stepped in our share too, but we had gumboots on! Poor Pip!!

Hope your day was as fabulous as ours (minus the cow poo)

Cheers!

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Spring is on our doorstep!

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.

2 thoughts on “Attacking Weeds”

  1. You probably tasted salty…cows need salt and that’s why you see the funny salt lick in their pastures.
    Did you get any laundry hung out to dry?
    Hope Pip didn’t get ill cleaning his feet!

    1. haha – I forgot about salt licks and cows!! Would you believe I wasted that amazing day with NO laundry?? Shocking!
      Happily Pip seems quite fine – his usually annoying self. He had been a bit off colour before the cow-pat incident… wondering if cats get hay fever? I figured everyone has low days, so I didn’t panic and sprint down to the vets (that would have distressed him more) He wasn’t eating much, but since he was still drinking we thought we would wait and see. All good now!

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