Summer season is over, the primary month of autumn is completed and dusted, and identical to {that a} quarter of the yr is gone! Time goes so shortly doesn’t it. I don’t find out about you, however generally I look again and surprise what I’ve really performed. One of many good issues about being eager on scrapbooking is that I’m at all times taking pictures. Images are such an excellent reminder of the issues which have occurred. Right here’s a abstract of the primary quarter of my yr.
Rain and flooding
We’ve been handled to some superb skies previous to some very fierce thunderstorms. This yr I’m really remembering to document the rainfall, and we’ve already acquired 634 mls. In the future we acquired 130 mls, which is nearly unprecedented on this space. Our entry roads to city have all flooded twice this yr to this point, and have been impassable. Our street sustained some horrible injury, and it was a couple of of weeks earlier than it was repaired.
Kokedama and soap-making
I’ve needed to study kokedama and in addition soap-making for years now. In between rain occasions, I bought to attend each of those workshops, and beloved each actions!
Gardening and cooking
The beauty of rain is that it makes the backyard a complete lot extra productive. Our backyard is just 3 years in the making, and eventually beginning to do fairly properly. I’ve been digging up candy potatoes each couple of weeks, and just lately made this scrumptious sweet potato and mixed seed damper. The small rosella bush retains producing, and I had 2 goes at rosella jam. The primary was too thick, the second was too runny! My jam-making expertise want additional improvement.
We’ve had a great provide of figs, passionfruit, and extra just lately paw paw. An enormous Jarrahdale pumpkin appeared to seem from nowhere, we’ve had a couple of wonky carrots, a couple of beetroot and many tomatoes and eggs.
Repotting and terrace tidy up
I had mock orange in 3 pots on the entrance terrace. They have been affected by the warmth and wind and weren’t doing properly. I changed them with succulents, a way more smart choice for our circumstances. I’ve repotted another vegetation that had additionally suffered from the warmth and wind. Tucked into the nook the place there’s a bit extra safety, they’re doing so significantly better. I repotted different succulents as properly, and so they look so fairly in and round my refurbished bicycle. Within the 3 years since we moved into our house, pot vegetation have been moved round constantly. It actually does take some time to work out the place issues do greatest.
I do know life just isn’t at all times about being tremendous productive, however I at all times appear to have plenty of issues I need or must do. A plan, an inventory, and a routine may help be certain that life doesn’t go us by and that we get to do the issues that we each want and wish to do. I hope that you simply’ve additionally loved the primary 3 months of the yr!
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