Pano of the house and grounds, click for the big picture.
Hi Folks,
A nice warm day here today with the mercury tipping a heady 24 degrees before the summer rain washed in from the north.
Today Susan continued with her painting plus some digging of garden beds. I fired up the new toy the Toro self propelled rotary mower. After an initial familiarisation it was all systems go. I have to say it works pretty darn well. Much more comfortable working on slopes than the ride on and you get the walking exercise. I tidied the steep and previously inaccessible areas as well as the vegetable garden previously mowed with the brush cutter.
I have been trying to take some bird photos without much success. I have some long shots of pacific gulls, some tiny specks of blue wrens and I haven't clicked the shutter at all in the sea eagles direction. I saw a bird of prey plummet downwards, wings to its side, out of the corner of my eye yesterday and disappear. It returned today being harried by the other birds. It plunged in the same area as yesterday and into a small tree. It didn't catch anything and beat a retreat. It is still unidentified. Possibly a sparrowhawk.
After tea tonight Susan gave Ann a manicure. It must have been relaxing since she nodded off (Ann not Susan). Something that I did briefly when Susan was cutting my toenails the other day. Ann and I also nod off at the dentist. Anyway that's today's trivia.
Ann had a good day at the market today. Susan tells me next week we are running the cheese stall so that the "kids" can have the day off it being new years eve. Should be an interesting day trying to show we know something about cheese!
Night folks
Cheers Simon
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