The Moon, She Hid

Our attempt at losing weight continues.  We are trying to walk as much as we can, heading down to Cosy Corner at the crack of dawn some mornings.  This was last week, very early with rain clouds gathering, so beautiful.

 It brightened briefly as the morning progressed, the oyster catchers were scurrying around, waiting to see what the wave wash brought them.

 Then when we were at the furthest point of our walk, the heavens opened.  We got absolutely drenched.  It was rather fun actually although we had to take care with climbing back over the rocks....we laid bets as to which one of us would have to be airlifted with a broken leg, but fortunately we both remained unscathed.  Here we are back at home with Steve putting on his best unimpressed face ha ha

 A few days later it was the night of the super/blue/blood/eclipsing moon so we toddled off back to Cosy Corner about 7pm, admittedly with a generous lack of excitement as the whole day was really cloudy.  As expected there was a massive cloud bank completely covering any sign of the moon rising, but instead we were blessed with the beautiful sunset colours on the rain clouds.  We admired the photos of Perth people's view of the moon on the news the next day, you had a great view up there in the capital!

 Our garden continues to bring forth its harvest.  The runner beans are starting to tail off now, the tomatoes are just revving up, the rhubarb is a constant glut, the Bramley cooking apples were the first off the little tree, and our chickens continue to be marvelous girls and reliably give us 3 or 4 eggs a day.  The peaches came to an end last week, 10 kilos is nothing to be sneezed at!  The next tree with ripening fruit is the Italian Sugar plum...they are small, oval, purple fruit that are often dried to make prunes.  This is the first year we've had these so we are rather impatient for them to ripen!

 A big pot of rhubarb and Bramley apple stewing, yum!  Our diet dessert is a blob of this with a blog of home-made yogurt, very nice.

 For our records, photo of the water tank level at 1st February, just over half full.  It's going according to plan. 
Which is just as well as the *&%$# bore pump shat itself AGAIN, this time it wasn't iron bacteria like last year....we had just done a $200 water treatment to eradicate that.  No, this time a tiny piece of something that looked like fibrous root had got inside the submersible pump 50 metres underground, jammed in the impellers and wrecked a couple of them, causing the stupid thing to cease up.  It's just come back from the repair shop and is now behaving itself thank goodness. 

 The garden has coped with minimal watering whilst the stupid pump was away, the more delicate things got a sprinkle from the hose with rainwater.  I thought I'd take a photo of these lovely flowers.  Mum, do you remember giving me this plant as a gift about three years ago?  It's a dwarf Canna with beautiful, bright, orange flowers.  It sulked for the first two years and I thought it was going to die, but this year its roots must have found a nice spot underground as it has grown massively.  It's such a cheerful looking plant.

 I was messing around on Google Earth today, first time for a couple of years, and I was thrilled to see that our area has really up to date imagery.  We reckon this was only 3 months ago and we are mega impressed with all our bits and bobs around the place.  I told Steve he should be well proud of himself with all his construction and fencing, it looks great hey!

Until next time.... xx