January 20 2017
There was a thunderstorm
last night and today it is raining.
I should be thrilled because the plants have really been suffering
during the last few days of extreme heat. The snag is that I have a landcare
group due here tomorrow afternoon and I was relying on today to clean up the
ruins and around the veggie gardens so that things look good. Bother.
The house is quite
good for tidiness. Last week Edd put up more shelves in the cellar at the back
of the house and I sorted through all our stored stuff and loaded it on the
shelves in labelled boxes. We
brought a second hand bookcase too, so that now all the books that were
accumulating in piles on every flat surface have been marshalled into order out
of the way. All this has helped
restore order in the living areas of the house.
I work in the garden
for about 2 hours every night whilst I do the watering. I have hacked out weeds on the banks
and pruned back plants encroaching onto plants. Unfortunately I have not cleared away all the resulting
dead matter yet. Perhaps we will have time tomorrow. We were out a lot recently. Edd fetched a
load of straw one day and we picked up the new freezer we had ordered on another. Then we had to get the bookcase and do
the usual runs to the brewery for barley.
On the hottest day we did
the animals early and drove down to Phillip Island for a day at the
seaside. We had a glorious time with
a pile of kids leaping in and out of the surf and being bowled over by big
waves. I looked around, and I was
the only grandmother to be seen, but I did not let that spoil my fun. I had
discovered that our usual restaurant had closed down so we investigated other
options and settled for an evening meal in Harry’s at Cowes. This proved a good choice and we had a very relaxing evening.
It was a bit spoilt
because we had to drive home but Indi and Ben were doing the animals so at
least we avoided coming home to more work.
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