For those of you who get a break this time of year, I hope you are having a resting or active time, whatever be your fancy.
Having recovered from the unknown ailment, with no sign of shingles for the last four days, I would say that I am out of the woods. Still taking aspirin as recommended by the GP, but no sign of any of the symptoms that I had on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.
Speaking of crossed, on Friday, Kim whipped up a batch of home made hot cross buns, which we have been snacking on with herbal tea all weekend. Here they are all cooling on the rack after Kim glazed them. The taste of all spice and cinnamon was delicious. Certainly beats the palm oil tainted buns that the big supermarkets were trying to flog!
After a solid days work of tidying up on the chook-house and pool parts of the garden, we had a simple dinner is steamed fish and veggies. Later, I made mozzarella for the family, who have been eating it as a snack with crackers whenever it takes their fancy.
I also harvested these beautiful eggplants (aubergines). The cultivar is called Listada di Gandia, and I have been saving the seeds for five years now. It is just a nice as the normal long purple cultivars, but far less susceptible to getting burnt in the extreme heat of summer.
In addition, I pruned the dead branches off the citrus trees, pruned the thornless loganberry, and trimmed and collected seed from the Warragul greens (NZ spinach).
Today, I worked two shifts at the local Bunnings BBQ run by the Melton Sustainable Living Group. Always good fun, but we didn’t raise as much funds as expected with the takings being over $600 down from normal. Looks like we will have to write a few grant applications for our projects this year instead of relying on our own fundraising. Not to worry. There are lots of organisations who throw grants at groups like ours.
There is a bit more work to do tomorrow afternoon, however we are going to Ballan to visit Jessie who writes at “rabbidlittlehippy“. Looking forward to the lovely gift of organic chocolate she offered me, and a look at her chooks and ducks!
So far, a very grounding and relaxing weekend.
How about you? Anything exciting happening in your garden or kitchen?
