garden beds

The plants are sitting in their box ready to be planted into their new home .







The new mulch is so delicious it looks good enough to eat.

We now have new ......chives,leeks,parsley,salad mix,silver beet

and orange pansies.With water from our rainwater

to keep them happy ,the virtue is overwhelming...

and just to top it off I picked the last of my Summer produce

from the back garden So I can start using last years mulch

to add to the new garden. Black capsicum,green eggplant,green zucchini

and basil...

earth hour

We have had such a busy weekend.

First Lena and Adam have been doing her bottle top lamp for graphics at school.

Out under the studio there has been a hive of activity.

Lena has learnt to weld as she gets her lampshade off the ground.

then on Saturday night we waited for earth hour .No lights on for an hour to show we care about the carbon emmissions from our houses.

We went off to wells's for mussels and blue swimmer crab for dinner, by candle light .Delicious rissotto and a dark but candle lit game of yarniv!

Then today is Sunday and the garden is first on the agenda

The no dig garden beds are ready for the mulch and manure layers

and the excitement of planting.We have had about 50ml of rain in the last week

so the beds are ready and waiting.....

Easter Sunday

My how the week goes by .It is Easter now.We have managed to leave the burbs and go off camping .We have been to Murrindindi.Just on an hour from melb.With big big trees and a small racing river(the Murrindindi river).Icy cold but refreshingly so after a 7K walk and hot and sweaty.Also to wash the smokeyness from the cooking fire off.Babbling over rocks and stones with lyrebirds in the shy distance.the river kept us aware of being away from the sounds of traffic and the city.

The weather was much cooler this week so we planned more cool weather food.

Also as we were outside we always eat more and seem to be always hungry.

We cooked and cooked on the fire in our camp ovens......hot cross buns,

yeasty pitta breads cooked to perfection on a large flat granite rock from the river...

goulash and spetzla,big roast dinner with gravy and Yorkshire pud,

we did forget to bring any easter eggs at all !

So we had a healthy easter with our chocolate for Lena safely hidden at home...!

Bells and Sirens

WE have had another record breaking week. The weather is the main factor.We have had Twelve days straight with the temp. being over thirty five degrees. With over the weekend sitting on 38-40, both days .It sure makes it hard to keep on with the garden beds and stump fixing.

we have also had sirens and bells going past all this weekend .First there was an accident just up the road. with Lena and I out there directing traffic up Dalton street so the road wasnt blocked.Took one person off in the ambulence .Apparently they hit a plain tree on the side of the road and then spun around and swiped another car.Pretty scary.No.1

The yesterday a large house next to Montsalvat caught on fire.I think that at least ten fire trucks and other emergency vehicles screemed past as the weather was so hot .I am sure they were worried that the fire could spread.It wasnt too long before the smoke was no longer visible from our place. We went to visit Matcham in the afternoon and the fire was out but totally destroyed the house and two large pine trees... Well done to the fire men and women .......
Scary no.2

where in the world

We have been trying to picture where Amy might be and thanks to the world of the internet we may have found her or possibly where she might like to be.

This photo was titled ..."REAL FRUIT ?".....The photo was taken in Cartegena,which is where we last heard from Amy .We are keeping our fingers crossed that all is well and safe with her and Trent.May they keep having adventures...
Also the other members of the family are all good as well..
we saw August at the Vic market tempted by the draw of a birthday present.(a ring he had on layby of Matchams at montsalvat) he was thin but excited about going to Sydney next weekend to play at four separate gigs!

Lena is off to Warrnambool to a volleyball competition with the Falcons. armed with all her study books and a slight inclination to do homework!!She will be back Monday night ,as it is a public holiday for Labour Day..maybe she will have played well and come home fit and well .....,BUT hot ,as we are in the middle of another heatwave..

Adam and I have got ourselves very hot by trying to dig the garden bed out the front ..with one less elm tree root we have sore backs and blisters....Too hot to do more now so I am inside on the computer but getting ready to go back out when it cools down...

also looking at Easter camping at Murrindindi Scenic reserve ,

Quite close to Melbourne but we can have a fire and cook lots ...there could be water but only for paddling not really swimming...

My Own Sorry day

BIG BIG BIG SORRY.I have been gone and I havent written anything here for so long.November last year is ridiculous(is that how you even spell it?).But with Amy away it has made me think about what happens to our lives in Aus. while travellers fill their lives with adventures..
So my weekly antics start NOW...