Dawn - calm seas not a breath of wind, promise of warmth
Sunset - calm seas not a breath of wind, looks like it could snow any moment
Hi Folks,
A warm day in the Apple Isle. The thermometer indicated a solid 28 degrees this morning.
Susan was up early taking pictures of the dawn at 530. After breakfast I journeyed to the garden. First job was building a fire to consume some of the prunings, Good weather for burning, sun and a "just right" breeze. I then continued tidying the terraced beds with the hand tools and the brush cutter.
Susan meantime had been in the preserve kitchen packaging relish and then moved into the house proper to do some tidying and spring cleaning.
After lunch some ominous rumbles of thunder followed by rain. A short break gave me enough time to whip around a couple of beds on the ride on. The temperature had only fallen to 25. However the break was short and substantial amounts of rain fell dropping the temperature further and curtailing the outdoor activities.
Late afternoon we packed the van with the produce etc. for the market tomorrow. Tess and Halsey from Bruny Island cheese bought several trays of cheese to go in the cool room for us to take for them in the morning.
We popped to Peppermint Bay Resort in the township for tea. After a good meal we returned home for coffee and to consume some dessert treats purchased at the resort.
Unfortunately the salted caramel sucked one of my larger fillings out so I shall be on the phone on Monday to the dentist.
Now today's trivia,
When I was tidying the bottom bed yesterday I found a gooseberry laying on the ground. It took me back to a story from my childhood my dad tells about the time a gooseberry fell off one of his bushes when "I was just looking at it".
The other trivia comes from today's Mercury from a letter to the editor. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched 34 years ago are now 18 and 15 billion kilometres from earth. A radio signal takes 27 hours to do the round trip. Makes our travels look pretty insignificant.
Night folks, the alarms are set for 0500! Big day at Salamanca tomorrow.
cheers Simon
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