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A couple of nice warm days and we were able to have dinner outside. Pretty excited to see some plums on our two trees. When we first bought our fruit trees we only bought one plum, only to read the label to say it needed another to cross pollinate. We bought a second tree, and already starting to see fruit. You can notice the difference with more trees and veggies and the number of bees flying around hopefully pollinating the flowers. 

Oh dear, I’ve missed a few weeks of blogging. So now I need to remember what’s been happening. One weekend was super busy with chores, running around, family and other bits and pieces. Last weekend was spent moping around with a cold, although I got all the dry food and clothes packed for our holiday. 

A couple of pictures from a viewing point on the way home. We loved our Blundstones. Oh but to top my Big W story off...we get home and unpack, and I find my other new undie purchases also have the security tag on them!! And I’ve thrown out the receipt out my now...so lucky I have a super handy husband who managed to manoveure them off with no damage.  We’ve both got a few more improvements and lists before the big trip but getting excited now.

We’re not sure who was more forgetful this camping trip. I’m blaming the lost hour of sleep as the clocks went forward for daylight savings. A funny weekend. We were going to Chowilla Game Reserve, campsite all booked on the River Murray up past Renmark. We got half way there and I realised I’d forgotten a running bra. I could have gone without but Tim felt like Hungry Jacks for lunch so we were going to stop in Renmark anyway. I ducked into Big W, found a bra and some undies that I love. Rushed through the self serve checkout, ran out to the car, we start driving to lunch and I saw that the bra had the anti-theft tags on it. Back to Big W (lucky I had the receipt) for them to disarm. Then lunch and off towards Wentworth to find the camping spot....only to find that I hadn’t really paid much attention to the map and we were in the wrong side of the river....back to Renmark, Paringa (and another stop for some extra beer - Tim’s miscount) and we found Border Cliffs Campground which was r...

Haven't been to Port Adelaide for ages and then twice in one weekend. Started Sun with a low key fun run there, then we headed to Glenelg to watch some of the Bay to Birdwood go by before a baptism at the Lutheran Church at Immanuel College.  Perfect viewing spot at a coffee shop. The rest of the day was spent gardening and pottering around. Just what I needed. I've done a small corner of the front yard, after tending to the trees out the back (and the compost). I went next door to speak to the neighbours about contributing to the side fence replacement. Found out they are just renting. Tim is beside himself now that they'll move out and take Kitty with them.  I'm wondering what we do when we go away. Usually you ask your neighbours to help you with the mail and pets. Ha, do we have to ask them to look after their own cat whilst we're gone 😉😲. Tim had to do a special Coles run on Sun arvo for more 65c sardines for it. 

On Sat I went to a "home composting" workshop held my Marion Council (Jarrod invited me). We'd started with a black bin at home under the lemon tree, throwing in our scraps, some lawn clippings and horse manure, but even after googling and borrowing a book from the library, we were still unsure if we were doing it right. The workshop was great, got all my questions answered and came home with a free kitchen caddy for the scraps. And found out it is okay to put citris in so Tim's daily grapefruit rind can go in there now. We got our camping chair situation sorted. I tested Tim's fishing chair out so we bought one for me. And a snake bite kit which I hope I never have to open. Tim serviced his car in the arvo and I took Giselle to the Maritime Museum at Port Adelaide. Although when relaying her afternoon back to Marianne the first thing she said was that she went to KFC! It was one noisy house in the evening, with dancing fun with Eloise and Giselle.  Eloise gets so...

Sun was the City to Bay fun run. Tim dropped me in the city on the scooter and then went for a coffee before watching at the bottom of Anzac Hwy.  I had a super run, very happy, just sub 47min and 12th female outright.  After pottering around home we went into church for a New Comers lunch, me as a representative of the Church and Tim as the new comer. Then it was off to collect the trailer from the Hawthornes, pick up some sandstone pavers, home to drop the pacers, then back to drop off the trailer, chores and bed. So excited about the pavers, will be perfect for my outdoor shower and around the pond.  The days are getting longer and the trees are starting to green up. Only a couple of weeks until daylight savings starts. Yippee!! A late late night at work last night (Board meeting and then back in the office until 10pm) blah!  We're trying to decide on what Solar to install and by whom. I knew we hadn't started down this path for a reason, where to start?!?! But I ...