10.7. 2021
Sunday today, and the sun is shining. It is warm enough to be outdoors without a coat. There have been a couple of frosty mornings this week, but we always expect July to be the coldest month here. I have seedlings to plant into the vegetable beds but the slugs are very active so I am waiting for the seedlings to grow more first. We have broccoli, snow peas, silver beet, celery and lettuce available from the garden and pumpkins, round beans and runner beans stored from last summer.
The virus is now a problem in NSW. They delayed calling a lockdown until too late and even after two weeks of partial lockdown the case numbers are still rising. It is the more infectious, Delta strain, so I suppose it will be a miracle if we manage to stop it spreading into Victoria. There are still some restrictions here but none affect us too much. Long may this last.
We were very busy last week helping Indi move house. She has found a companion with a child Alice’s age and they plan to share the rental of a huge mud brick house with enough land that Indi can get her horse back from the lady who had her on free lease for the last few years. On Friday Edd, Indi and I loaded her stuff and furniture onto Edd’s ute and trailer and moved things to the new place. We were all totally exhausted when Bo arrived after work to help unload the last trailer full.
The house is built like an 80’s muddy, with a split level and high ceilings. There did not seem to be a good heating system but when we got there a man was installing a new dish washer. There is a pool at the back but luckily the maintenance is included in the rent. We just hope it all works out for them. On Saturday, josh and other relatives moved the heavy stuff like Alice’s cubby. I think Indi’s mother has offered to organise cleaners for the old house. It is so difficult for Indi to do much with Alice into everything.
I did manage to get my own house thoroughly cleaned because some clients that Al is designing a house for wanted to look at our set up. I needed something to get me motivated on deep cleaning. I usually do it before we have the midwinter feast but of course covid has stopped us doing all our usual events
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