well a 2 week break from school and lots of spring cleaning.... in Autumn.
Our plans were to take lots of loads of green waste to the recycling centre. After checking the fees, picking myself up off the floor, we will take one load that is ready then hire a mulcher. $32 a load! We could borrow the work truck, holds 3 times as much and only $30 a load. But l'm thinking of piles of mulch rotting down for the garden.
The garden beds are starting to look very bare. I'm replacing most of the plants within 10m of the house with ground covers and very low shrubs. Also edible plants, have a couple of logan berry vines and an Apricot tree ready to plant, must pot up more strawberry runners too.
Ground cover on top of my list is pigface. Mainly because l have some growing already and l have been successful at growing cuttings from it.
My last 3 issues of the Art of knitting arrived this week, l have 4 squares to knit, then all 90 to join and edge.
I've almost finished joining my 1st bushfire blanket, tunisian crochet to join the squares is easier than l expected.
Our camping trailer is taking shape! Waiting on the axles and wheels, then it can be painted and registered. Early May we will buy the tent, then lots of testing. I'm thinking a night at Tidal river, one at Bear gully, and maybe Lakes Entrance for starters. One weekend a month is my aim. Can only bring my little family closer.... right?
Walking in the bush yesterday the girls had a good learning experience. We saw smoke so went to check if it was something we could deal with. A pile of dirt and debris piled up by a bulldozer on Monday 9th Feb was smoking. Its quite a big pile, size of a small car. We could see that roots in the soil had flared up when dirt fell away giving the embers some air. We showed the girls and explained that fire needs to breathe etc. Also how to check if something is hot by holding your hand close but not touching.
Kelly went to walk back to the track and the ground collapsed. She was ankle deep in hot ash. Another talk about proper footwear, she and Dad were wearing leather boots, a good choice. Zoe and myself were wearing sneakers, not so good.
The girls are still coping ok. Kelly was very upset Friday after getting off the school bus, she had kept it together until she got off. Lots of rain and high winds reminded her of the day we had trees coming down around the house a few weeks back. She was worried our house would get 'hurt' or a tree would land on the bus. Hugs, reassurance washed down with hot milo seemed to help.
Going away for two nights to visit Nan and Pop, both girls insist they are taking a 'gobag' in case something happens to the house while we are away. Can't refuse when l'm thinking of doing the same...
Our plans were to take lots of loads of green waste to the recycling centre. After checking the fees, picking myself up off the floor, we will take one load that is ready then hire a mulcher. $32 a load! We could borrow the work truck, holds 3 times as much and only $30 a load. But l'm thinking of piles of mulch rotting down for the garden.
The garden beds are starting to look very bare. I'm replacing most of the plants within 10m of the house with ground covers and very low shrubs. Also edible plants, have a couple of logan berry vines and an Apricot tree ready to plant, must pot up more strawberry runners too.
Ground cover on top of my list is pigface. Mainly because l have some growing already and l have been successful at growing cuttings from it.
My last 3 issues of the Art of knitting arrived this week, l have 4 squares to knit, then all 90 to join and edge.
I've almost finished joining my 1st bushfire blanket, tunisian crochet to join the squares is easier than l expected.
Our camping trailer is taking shape! Waiting on the axles and wheels, then it can be painted and registered. Early May we will buy the tent, then lots of testing. I'm thinking a night at Tidal river, one at Bear gully, and maybe Lakes Entrance for starters. One weekend a month is my aim. Can only bring my little family closer.... right?
Walking in the bush yesterday the girls had a good learning experience. We saw smoke so went to check if it was something we could deal with. A pile of dirt and debris piled up by a bulldozer on Monday 9th Feb was smoking. Its quite a big pile, size of a small car. We could see that roots in the soil had flared up when dirt fell away giving the embers some air. We showed the girls and explained that fire needs to breathe etc. Also how to check if something is hot by holding your hand close but not touching.
Kelly went to walk back to the track and the ground collapsed. She was ankle deep in hot ash. Another talk about proper footwear, she and Dad were wearing leather boots, a good choice. Zoe and myself were wearing sneakers, not so good.
The girls are still coping ok. Kelly was very upset Friday after getting off the school bus, she had kept it together until she got off. Lots of rain and high winds reminded her of the day we had trees coming down around the house a few weeks back. She was worried our house would get 'hurt' or a tree would land on the bus. Hugs, reassurance washed down with hot milo seemed to help.
Going away for two nights to visit Nan and Pop, both girls insist they are taking a 'gobag' in case something happens to the house while we are away. Can't refuse when l'm thinking of doing the same...
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