Meg and I went to town and ran into baby brother, Andrew. We all stood outside HN and ate sausage sandwiches (the Lions are there each week, raising money). We stood and talked for ages as we haven't seen each other in ages. We skyped Drewy so that the boys could say hello to each other. Meg and I had just been talking to him about the wedding and exchanging commentary about Pippa, Posh and the unfortunate fascinator that Beatrice, or was it Eugenie, wore). He also told us about the Biology exam that his teacher let him skip because he "looked tired" from getting up to watch the wedding. Hello??? His host family is still in Greece, home Monday. He got his report card and thankfully passed his three (yes, you heard right, three) subjects - Drama 80%; Biology 70% and Economics 63%. Not bad for a kid who doesn't believe in overdoing it in the study stakes.
Back to the story. Meg and I did a few jobs then came home and had a late lunch of:
We sat on the verandah in the beautiful Autumn sunshine. Meg caught up on the wedding gossip on Perez while I took the more traditional route and caught up on what the paper had to say.
This was our view.
We had friends of course. Poofy is obsessed with Chloe; he sometimes gets so over-excited that her head ends up in his mouth!
Some wanted to catch up on Perez as well.
Then we headed to my favourite place and found this. A red silkie chick....and no Coco in sight. After her appalling behaviour last weekend she keeps well away from the red silkies.
Farm Girl in Farm Hat with Farm Cat.
Fat Farm Goat and Fluffy Farm Dog.
Farm Girl with Farm Chicken Eater.
Farm Cuddles.
My efforts last weekend in planting punnets of lettuce, spinach and zucchini were all for nowt - the pesky little Mr. McB. Pants has managed to annihilate all the new seedlings....so I locked him up this morning. No more scratching in the permy garden for him. We called in at the nursery on our way home and purchased a whole new batch of veges - lettuce, silverbeet, cauli, celery, beetroot and capsicum. I went to work.
First the celery.
Then a wild tomato plant that Meg dug up out of the dirt pile for me.
Green mignonette lettuce.
The silverbeet.
Beetroot.
Capsicum.
The cauliflowers - photo taken right on dusk, getting a bit dark.
The two current tomato bushes are doing a bit of an average job; they look healthy enough but there's not a lot of fruit.
No potatoes yet!!!!! I'll be happy when I see their first shoots poking through.
The snow peas, slowly making their way to the trellis.
Chris came home from work, ready for a rest but Meg had other plans. She wants to build a vege garden on the patch where Millie used to live so she conned him in to collecting the logs that will form the perimeter of her garden. More on that project tomorrow.
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