Not Much Happening Here.

Where does the time go.  Once again it's been too long between posts and it's not helping me at all.  I haven't done a lot out there so that might be why I'm not posting.  I have nothing to say about the poor state our food supply is in.  And I don't want to mention that some chooks got out again and dug up the lettuce seedlings that me and the grandaughter planted last week! 

We're going away for a few days, when we get back the husband should be back at work for a bit so I'm hoping I'll get out there and get some things growing.  I will have to finish up outside in time to cook him an evening meal though so that will be a bummer.  I like to be outside early, in when it heats up and out again for a few hours in the evening.  Hopefully the weather will be cooler and I can stay out longer during the day.  I have a list and I will plant some things that will turn into food for us.  I'm pretty sure that I have now fixed the chooks getting out problem.  We'll see. 

We will have no power for most of the day today so will spend it getting the car ready for our camping trip, getting the chook sheds cleared out and new hay put in for them, tidying the house so it's nice to come home to, cooking some food to take, putting away yesterdays laundry...so much to do, so little computer time...Husband and son will spend the day cutting up a pig so we have meat for the next few months.  That somehow, at the moment, seems easier than my job of supplying the vegetables to go with it.  I can hear the chooks cackleing, at least I know how to get eggs on the table.

I'll see you all when we get back.

Sunday Mornin' All.

A big thankyou to all the well wishers yesterday.  I appreciate the thoughts.  I am feeling heaps better this morning, had an earlyish night and didn't get up until 4.45 this morning. 

The markets went well, I scored a few things but if I had little kids I could have furnished a big cubby house for them.  There was so much kids stuff!  The kids that were there all went home with armloads and big smiles. 
I ended up with some more net curtaining, this time for the *sunroom*/ front verandah, a couple of cool looking bicky/lolly tins that I will use for something, a small cooler bag for summer lunches away.  I think that's all. 

We have decided to let my painting job of the verandah ceiling and walls wait until the weather warms up or I know that I'll have 3 days of nothing else to do.  Husband says he will help me with it but I will need to wait until after Spring .  They are real busy during Spring with work so if I can't get it done I know there is help coming.  All good. 

The chook sheds should be done today, all the nesting boxes were cleaned and refreshed with new hay yesterday so less work for today now.

Main things for today will be:
Chook sheds, raked out and new hay put in.  Husband did for me.
Sweet talk Hubby into moving some sleepers into chook yard so I can contain the old stuff better until it's neded.  Done.
More seeds put in. 
Lounge from front verandah, cleaned and covers washed and replaced.  Put in position.  Done.
Put away everything that was taken off the verandah when it was painted.  Big job!!   Half done.


Plus the day to day stuff of course and anything else will be a bonus but I think I'll be lucky if the list gets finished.  It's forecast to rain...and I have a book to read...

Mornin' All.

Good morning People.  It is 4.30 AM here in WesternAustralia.  I am awake, tired but  hurting too much to sleep so I  decided to get up and have a coffee, maybe try again in a couple of hours if I want to.  It's dark, there is a bird chortling away out the front, the fire is going so it is nice and warm inside...

Hubby is still asleep so there is nothing for me to do except spend some time mucking around on here.

Really Really Free Markets are on this afternoon, I have more painting to do on the front verandah, chooks shed needs cleaning out...More seeds to be planted.  Heaps to do today but I have doubts that much will be done... I hurt too much, been having a lousy week with pain and have resorted to taking tablets!  They help but I hate having to take them. 

Off to see who Blogger will let me talk to.

Hope you all have a nice day.

Still Lovin' My Gardens.

I was whinging  mentioned last week about the Caulies taking so long to be ready...I was out there tonight and there are a few ready to pick.  We had some for tea along with the *nearly too far gone* Broccoli
Added to all the other stuff that I picked and dumped in a pot it made a healthy meal with enough left for the next few days.

I'm still lovin' that we can feed ourselves from the gardens and though it is a lot more effort than buying from the shops it is well worth it.

Green Is Good.

My gardens are green, the grass is green.  The hills are green.  The paddocks all around us are green
The little house we live in is an icky pale green that has to go and one day it will....

But me?  I don't think I'm as green as I want to be.  I am having trouble reconciling my saving the world ideals with wanting to drive the van and go off exploring...for no good reason 'cept I want to see a bit of the country side before I leave this mortal world...Not that I have any plans to leave this mortal world but sometimes it's not up to us is it.  And maybe I'll get to leave this mortal world sooner if I am out on the roads more....But the main issue is with the petrol usage.  In the vans case it is diesel but it's all the same thing really.

And I have been baking but then throwing the food to the chooks because hubby goes away and if it is left here I know I will eat it.  Most of the pastry from a rustic apple pie last week.  Wasting food isn't green.  I make it because sometimes he feels like something sweetish but then he goes off to work or he doesn't want it again.  And No! it's not that I am a lousy cook.  It's that he doesn't eat much and not just for the sake of it or because something is there like I do.

I am using more plastic because I am getting mighty peeved with cleaning up the glass things that I drop.  Plastic is not green.  It is recycled so that's a point in my favour...but  I think glass is better.

I am keeping the fire burning all day because it is easier for me than chopping chips and relighting it after a day outside.  If I would get more organised I could work this one out.  What I need to do is spend some time getting a weeks worth of small wood and chips/kindling chopped.  It's not like it is hard to light the fire more that I can't do the chopping thing sometimes so getting a supply when I can...that's what needs to be done. Daughter L offered to chop some for me the other day but I was feeling pretty good then so said no.  This morning...not so good.  It's going to be another nice day here though so I will spend some time wandering around out the back and pick up all the sticks that have fallen from the trees.  That will save chopping smaller stuff.  Hubby would do it if I asked but I'd rather not.  It makes me feel more useless when I need to rely on others for stuff that I can do if I time it right.

Some chooks are cackling...I am starting to get eggs again but we are still eating more meat.  Is that ungreen too?  We didn't buy the meat...but when he is home I think we do eat too much. 

I think, to make me feel all good and greeny-like that I will make a vegie filled quiche and have it with freshly picked greens for lunch and tea.  I'll give him some meat as well if he gets home.  Gotta keep 'em happy somehow, right?

Now I'll go and put a load of washing in the twin tub machine then hang it out in the sun to dry...Sit out there in the sun with a coffee and watch the chooks for a bit....That will make me feel better about using the petrol mower later on...

It's Raining So What To Do?

It's Friday, I'm home alone, it's raining, it is already half past 10 and I have done nothing. 

Because it's raining there will be snails out and about.  Because it is raining I don't want to go outside and hunt them down.
It is raining so I can't mow the grass but because it is raining the grass will grow more.

It's raining so I *should* be doing inside stuff.  And there is plenty that needs doing but...I dont want to! 
I could be reading, I have a book due back real soon, but it's raining so it's kinda dark inside and I *don't do* lights.

The fire is going so I could bake.  But then I would eat what I baked.
I could make a big pot of vegie soup.  But the vegies are still out in the garden waiting to be picked and it's raining...

Am I a whinger or what?

OK, I've talked myself into it.  I will don a raincoat and go get some stuff to put in a pot.  While out there I will pick up any snails and slugs that I see.   I will try not to trip over the long grass as I plod through it while wearing Hubby's workboots.  Like I did a couple of days ago.   I will use the chicken stock from the fridge, before it gets too old and manky, as the base. 

Sounds like I have a plan.  Best be off and adoing.