using my camera more often
When at the local shop yesterday, I purchased some fuel for the lawnmower. Decided to mow the lawn today, being Saturday, typical thing to do on the weekend. But forgot I hadn’t taken the hayfever tablet this morning. Now I am sneezing, coughing and runny nose, while the lawn is only half cut.
Half cut, forgot the hayfever tablet
Keeping to the theme of my previous picture, should I eat these raw or cooked? I decided to do both today as some of the apricots were getting extremely juicy just sitting in my fridge.
Raw or cooked, that is the question?
If there is one thing I love at this time of year, it is the amount of fresh fruit available. Go and pick apricots off the tree yourself, pick strawberries and raspberries at the fruit farm.
But me, I love eating the raspberries with icing sugar and cream. Fattening I know, so maybe then a bit of a walk on the treadmill might cancel out the extra calories.
Yummy, raspberries and cream
One thing I hope to do better now that I have retired is to get a vegetable patch growing well.
While I was away on holidays for 11 weeks in USA/Canada, my parents started a vegetable garden for me, by planting carrots, three types of beans, two types of tomatoes and corn. This morning I went out to water them after the hot day yesterday and pulled out some carrots to thin the area out and allow the carrots to grow larger.
Vegetable patch
With it being bushfire season at the moment in Australia, one thing recommended to keep your house safer, is to have your guttering cleaned out. Now I haven’t done this in probably 5 years, so today, a helpful young chap came around with his ladder, bucket and blower, then climbed on the roof to clean out my gutters.
I knew there was quite a bit of grass up there but according to him, most of it was dirt and dust blown up there by the wind.
Gutter clean out
While cleaning the inside of the house, I have also started cleaning up the outside. This included having 12 tree stumps removed and ground down to lawn level. Here is the result of the largest stump behind the shed.
Sawdust after tree stump removed
I think all this sawdust flying around is now causing some sore eyes at my place.
OK, so I didn’t do too well in 2011 at taking and publishing a photo each day. In fact, I lasted 32 days only, just over a month.
Well it is now 2012 and I have retired from 35 years of teaching. It is now time to sort out the resources and start cleaning rooms. How long will it take me to do this I wonder?
Time to clean