Hike in the Sea Mist

Hello!
The other day my parents spent a couple of nights over at a cousins place, so Jeff and I went for a bit of a hike up in the Sisters Hills.

Funny gloomy old day… hard to see where the sky met the ocean.
What at first looked like smoke was just a sea mist clinging to the hills

A few little flowers out here and there… think my lens or something was smudged tho !!

Its more of a challenging hike – some good ups and downs over the span of about 10kms (slightly less) over three hours

We didn’t do a loop, just kept hiking until we estimated we had enough light to get back to the car

Cute little flowers

Heading back…

The rain didn’t really get going until later that night

Small banksia flowers

Little pink blooms

Back home… time to pick a bucket or two of tomatoes

So many!

Well, A bucket and a box

I raided some other areas of the garden too… those little lettuce seedlings are a good size now

The apple cucumbers that I put in insanely late have actually produced a few fruits!!

(With apples and eggs)
Oh and of course the nightly corn

Mum helped me with the tomatoes today.. washed them as I cut them. I’ve got another lot sitting there with onion which I will make into another batch of relish in the next day or so.

There are others to cut and cook… and pick. Would love to make up a lot of BBQ sauce soon too.

And on the soap front!!! Experiment. Cut the side out of a plastic tray and used it to pull through the soap mix – nifty effect.

Hilariously not beetroot coloured, but beetroot soap.
The purple water went brown in the lye then as the soap cured in the first day… to white! (Poppyseeds mixed in)
I’ll have to try a different approach for getting more of a beetroot colour.

And an attempt at a new technique… I was aiming for teadrop…
Someone has suggested wizards hat or Aladdin’s Lamp

I do love this design… keen to have another go

Quite a variance between the bars.

I did a market yesterday at Elliot… was a cold day, cold wind, rain etc. So had my table inside this time. Did quite well for a more quiet day again… (About $230 in sales, so worth getting out of bed despite my misgivings as it was SO warm and cosy under my blankets)

Anyways, thats a bit of whats been happening here.
Parents are booked to head home tomorrow 🙁
Seems like the two weeks has flown by!
Good news, Rosemary AND Emma are looking to come down to visit end of May if all goes well on the Covid front! So yay!!!

Hope you are all doing well!
Cheers!

(May we all be able to sleep this soundly!!)