Harvest

Finally took a couple of photos of some of my harvest. The yellow zucchinis have been growing so fast, that I have given away almost half of them. The other dozen or so onions are tied by their stalks in the corner of the kitchen. The silverbeet has been amazing - it just grew and grew and grew! We have been having lots of Spinach and Feta Pie for lunches here - Yummo!!!

Tonight I harvested my first ever crop of Peaches. 2 fell off last week and Andrew ate them before I could get to them, then I picked the other 5 tonight and put them in the fridge. I can't believe a little barely 2 foot high peach/nectarine mini tree could produce so many in it's first year??? Can't wait to see what it does next year.

It is so unreal to be able to grow your own fruit and veges. I have grown veges before but the fruit trees I planted in Queensland would only be baring fruit now for the lucky people that live in our old house. Hope the mangoes are yummy for them??

Thanks to Susan for her comments, you are one of my regular commenters!

Thank you to Kez for coming out of lurkdom - I have been to check out your blog, so I will comment on yours too soon!

QUOTE:
What lies behind us and what lies before us is insignificant compared to what lies within us.

And with that I am off to read some really cool scrapbooking books, my sweet friend Susy just popped in to lend me! Nighty night!

I wonder who you are??

Every time I log in to my blog I am amazed that the counter has gone up again. Yet there is often no comments. Who are you? Who are the people who read my little blog? Please take the time to tell me who you are. I really would like to know.

Thank you to Beverley for her words of wisdom regarding my to study or not problem? I think I will take another year to enjoy my boys and all that it entails before making any serious decisions.

QUOTE: Never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

And so on that note I am going to continue to do what I can do!!

Tonight is planning night for Cub Scouts. The lovely Di is coming for dinner - Tacos - everyone's favourite! After which we shall dig into the books and come up with hopefully lots of fun activities for the kids to enjoy.

I really must get some photos to share with you..... tomorrow is another day!!

Told you....

that the quiet times were over! I haven't blogged since Sunday and here it is Wednesday already - what happened to Monday and Tuesday???

All that pottering in the garden was great for the garden but not for me! I have hurt my back and every now and again it grabs and ouch it hurts! I did shovel a trailer load of soil all by myself - didn't hurt then but still hurts now! Ok enough whining - I'll live.

QUOTE : After you have worked hard to get what you want take the time to enjoy it.

This is what I am doing in the garden, just sitting and enjoying, although a bit warmer here today so I have looked out through the window!

QUOTE: Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.

I have some decisions I need to make at the moment. One is.... do I go back to Uni for some more study. If I want to keep my registration as a teacher in Qld, I have to do some teaching or some study I think? It is all a bit unclear at the moment. Well I really can't do any teaching at the moment and still be home to do the school thing with the kids. SO no decision really is there - more study!! What will I study though?? More education - early childhood, literacy, special ed??? Arrgh someone tell me what to do??

QUOTE: You are as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Ok I am happy and I am off to do some scrapbooking!!!

Still pottering..

Yep went out to the garden and have been there for 2 days. Those weeds sure do grow when there is a little rain!!! I have been picking zucchini, onions, strawberries, peaches, blueberries and silverbeet. Then there will be a lull in the picking as I haven't anything much in that is due to fruit soon. Gotta do so much at the moment becasue things will get busy again real soon!

About to start again with Cub Scouts and Homeschool Get Togethers, that always fills in a day or 2 a week.

In about 10 days we are off to our annual beach holiday at Middleton. We will have 2 weeks away so I need to find people to care for the animals and garden for then. While we are away we will duck into Adelaide to collect Mum from the airport. She usually comes to stay for about a month, so there will be another trip to Adelaide in the middle of next month to return her.

Yep the quiet times are over!

Here is my quote for today:
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. -- W.C. Fields

My Gorgeous Friend

Susy sent me some very fine quotes this morning so I am putting up one of them today.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

I know lots of friends who are doing extra sleeping at the moment. I think it is because of the school holidays - they can sleep in! Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could use that extra sleep to get you through the busy times!!!

Speaking of friends - it is my bestest friend's birthday today! She turns 1 today - well they say life begins at 40 - so this year she is 1!! I spent over 2 hours on the phone to her - it was just like old times - nattering away about anything and everything! Some days I miss her so much! If you get to read this Vicki (she isn't very computer literate!!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And on that note I am off to potter in the garden for an hour or so.

Community Service

I have done mine for this week. The Cancer Council Branch that I belong to, and am the Secretary for, does some catering. We are most often asked to cater for funerals. Today was one of those days. I was up early to bake some biscuits and then to the hall to set up the food, urns and tables. We served tea and coffee to over 130 people and then cleaned up the place after. All in all it was about 4 hours of work. The most amazing thing about the ladies that I do this with is that they are all busy women but go out of their way to do this for other people without a whinge. They would have to be the most selfless group of ladies I have ever known and I have been involved in a lot of organisations and volunteer groups. Anyway it was a sad occasion but cheerfully done!
This afternoon I have gotten the ball rolling to organise a school reunion for the class of 78. This is my Year 10 class from the little country school I went until I had to go to Boarding school for year 11 and 12. Some of these people I went to school with for 10 years and haven't seen since??? Won't that be interesting to meet up with them again? I am very much looking forward to it.
Found some very cool quotes on Ali Edwards' blog - hope she doesn't mind if I reproduce them? Heck she will never know will she?

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to be become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs

And for yesterday when I was too busy to blog.

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

Ok, I am off to potter in the vege patch - hooroo as Don Burke would say!!

Just a quote

50 years from now,
it will not matter what kind of car you drove,
what kind of house you lived in,
how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like.
But the world may be a little better
because you were important in the life of a child.

My younger son had the simple pleasure of going to the movies with a friend, complete with some lollies and a drink. Thank you to Joseph for going with Daniel, he really enjoyed it.

And what did I do while I was free from having a child to care for? I went grocery shopping - how dumb am I?? I honestly could not think of anything I wanted to do without him. He is my almost constant companion as the bigger one doesn't need me as much. What will I do with myself when this one doen't need me as much??

Ok gotta go watch some Spongebob! See ya later.