I am certain you will find a solution.
I am certain you will find a solution.
Speaking of alarms, there is one that sounds off very often, at 7 am in the hood and is so loud, it wakes half the hood up. Annoying. I do not really know what it is. Used to think it was a car alarm, but as it sounds at the same time everytime, it might be a wake up alarm.
Wake up with a big W.
Luckily most of the times it gets shut off in under 10 seconds. Sometimes it takes over a minute...
Raspberries are budding here, thousands, looking like a good year this year.wife asked me to grow calendula plants they are up, planted out gerkins/pickles from my nursery .It's warm and muggy. we went to bed with it being 17°C outside, woke after thunderstorm had rattled around for hours to 15°C . It's 19°C outside now despite heavy cloud. It's due to rain heavily today but hasn't yet. I'm at a loose end... hubby's working (as in work, work) and I've done what I intended to do today (make 3 different vegan cheeses for Christmas ). I'm going to make a lemon polenta cake tomorrow.... that way I have a small something I can eat in hospital but it must wait until tomorrow because that way there will be some left to take to hospital with me. Luckily it needs to mature for 24hrs so...
So I'm bored. I know I could be doing all sorts including work on CB but I really don't feel like doing anything and I've done all of the gardening I could possibly do. Everything that needed planting has been planted. The veg plot has been dug over and planted out fully. The new border has been dug, plants dug up, divided, replanted, rescued, and even a wood border constructed to remind the grass where the lawn ends and the border starts.
I've sewn 5 types of potatoes, broad beans, Climbing red beans, runner beans, peas, New Zealand Yams, artichokes, tomatoes (2 lots), basil, coriander, aubergine, Okra, Orach (don't ask), sorrell, cabbage, beetroot, leeks, carrots, and so much more I can't remember. Raspberries have been transplanted, Strawberries divided, Red currants planted, parsley, thyme, rosemary, dill, winter savoury, and more thinned, moved or just given more space. the passion fruit relocated, the garlic weeded, then there's a few regional bushtucker leaves and some bushes for edible white berries. Then the Fruit trees have been cut back, topped off to restrict height and make it easier to put netting over them later in the season. and finally various areas have had flowers planted as well! And the lemontree
has been tamed... Did I include the fig trees? the rhubarb? the 4 olive trees? The apricot tree? And yes, It has taken weeks and weeks... and I'm sure I've missed things... Ah the grape vine...
Yep, all so I can be ready to go into hospital and now i'm almost there, I'm bored! I don't want to start another knitting project but will, but I also need to wind up several skeins of yarn... That's what I can do... Yepee I've found something to do...
Looks like your severe weather warning/tornado watch just expired a couple of minutes ago. You make it through ok?
given that it was 3°C this am and forecaste to be that every morning this week, I doubt we'll see much surfacing for a while. Much too cold yet. But the pear tree is in full flower and the apples are "considering" life ! The vine has just started to leaf and the figs are considering It as well. This week will peg them back a touch. So far today it has made it to a stunning 12°C with a UV index of 8... All We seem to do here is to trade one hat for another. In the early morning a woollen hat, by 9am or so over to the sun hat that must have a built in factor +50 rating.
No hail in my neighborhood. No storm sirens, either.
thanks. Still waiting for the dietician to ring me to discuss food. So far nothing despite them promising to ring me at some point last week !
We are fortunate in this area as our weather is pretty stable..we rarely get extreme weather in the summer..doesn't get hot enough..but, on one occasion we were getting hit by a pretty bad storm, I started to get a little scared and told my wife and daughter I to stay away from the windows and as I was hurrying into the kitchen I saw my neighbour's tin shed rolling through my back yard with him hanging on to it..he was being dragged along and eventually let go...the shed finally got hung up in the tree line on the other neighbour's yard...wasn't funny then, but I laugh about it now..Yep. Pretty strong winds, but not the worst I've seen. Something hit my house... probably a chair from somebody's patio. That happens on a somewhat regular basis. I've found several patio umbrellas in my yard over the years.
Good, soaking rain!
CD
A big piece of mature Pecorino Sardo cheese, Sardinian salame, Mirto liqueur, fresh bottarga from Cabras and Guttiau bread! This made my day 
