Hi folks,
The start of another week. Our last in Tasmania this time round. It is going to seem quite surreal back on the big island.
Today Susan was filling holes in the lawn while i carted two pallets up to the vegetable patch to construct another bay on the compost bins. Susan had already drawn up a plan of bins A, B & C with multiple arrows of what had to be shovelled where. I duly shovelled under the watchful eye of the Kommandant who was attending under the guise of wetting down the heap and doing some shovelling but was really checking for any deviation from THE PLAN. When we built the heaps on our last visit the middle bin was full of wet material,. This had matured quite nicely into some fairly decent looking compost and was shovelled into the right hand side bin. I then shovelled the bin currently filled to the brim and with fresh scraps on top into the middle bin. The material down the bottom was well on the way to compost and should be ready in 2 -3 weeks. I also took the opportunity to cut some old carpet to cover the tops of the bins. While i was shovelling a large grey rat hopped out and ran around the vegetable patch. Typically the cat was asleep under the verandah when required. He did however appear 5 minutes later and uncannily went to the last clump of weeds that i saw the rat in. However he meandered off to some old hay bales to perform his sadistic catch and release (generally inside the house) game with the mice.
Susan in the meantime was in the kitchen making kasundi. This took several hours. The final verdict will not be known for a couple of weeks.
One of my coaldust bricks made it into the fire tonight. It did start burning but i am not sure how it went. It did reduce to a pile of grey sandy ash which glowed red when poked a minute ago so i guess it is ok. The bricks don't seem to have much physical strength although i will be interested to see the one i cured in the mould.
Thats all for now.
cheers Simon
PS pictures to follow
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