20.12.2024
We have had a very hot week and it has been hard keeping the vegetables from wilting. Last weekend we got the hay in thanks to our grandsons and their friends who did all the carting. It is the first time for years that baling precedes Xmas. We are so grateful for the help. Throwing bales around is getting to be beyond our abilities!
Today it has been 35 degrees and tonight the sky is a horrid colour from the bush fires in our state that are still out of control. There is a program on the TV with lots of thoroughly inappropriate songs about snow, holly and that sort of thing as the vocalists try to stir everyone into a Xmas state of mind by force of effort. It is not working on me. I did spent the afternoon at Bo,s house stuffing chocolates and jokes into crackers. By the end the heat made the cholates difficult to handle but we got most of them done.
Stevo, our builder friend shot himself in the leg with his nail gun and had to go to hospital to get the nail pulled out. We have all been working together for months but at last it looks as if the end is near. It is a good thing as we are all tired. Last week the plumbing was done but we are still waiting for Josh to finish the wiring.
The loquats are covered with fruit but the raspberries can not cope with the heat. The yellow plum tree has fruit that will be ready soon but the mulberry supply is drying up. Tomatoes are forming and we have eaten the first of the cucumbers. It is midseason for zucchinis and we still have some silver beet and Tuscan black kale. We had a really interesting time a week ago when we visited Mary Coles farm to see how her regenerative agricultural practices were working. We have had some success but our compost and compost tea making needs more work.
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