Harvest

April 26 2016

The weather is
glorious.  Cold clear nights and
sunny warm days.  Bright blue skies
arch above the crystal clear forested hills.  It would be impossible not to be very happy.  I spend a lot of time in the garden.
Today I cleaned out the tomato bed by the swing and prepared the soil for new
crops.  Yesterday I raked up the
dead leaves along the fence and moved the waste from the bank.  I am always amazed at the volume of
stuff we relocate from the garden every year.

Edd has completed a
minor miracle and got Skiddy so he goes again.  I hated to see him stuck in the paddock but Edd had to find
new barings for the wheels that take the tracks and replace everything that was
won before he could put the tracks back on.   Skiddy was put to use heaping up the compost pile and
loading the ute before he was moved up to the sheds.

It really is the
season of harvest.  Yesterday I
stewed up a huge pan of tomatoes with herbs and some bay leaves so that I could
freeze portions for winter soups and sauces.  Today I have begun to salt the first pot of olives and
brought in a second pumpkin.  We
are in no rush for pumpkins because we still have some left from last year that
seem fine.

Edd fetched oats and a
young jersey cross Friesian calf to rear on the excess milk.   She was pretty sick after the trip
home and we had to give her a course of antibiotics for pneumonia but she
recovered quickly and is now drinking well.  Edd has called her Josie and she is dark brown with flashes
of white on her hind legs and tail.