I did some baking. Its been some time since I’ve made cake. That is my date loaf recipe however not with dates as I did not have any, so I added raisins as an alternative. I’ve made one other one since utilizing combined fruit. They’re simply as scrumptious because the date loaf.
Late within the day.
Pickings…
We bartered eggs and honey for these fire-king dishes.
The jade bush is flowering and these little bugs love them. I’m not certain if they’re native bees or hover flies, and the bush was lined in them.
The Kurrajong tree is a favorite with our bees. Its all abuzz after we stroll previous.
Star jasmine.
Yesterday we went to an public sale in Wilmington. My Dad had instructed me about it as a result of he helped the actual property folks put together for it. There have been lots of goodies, however I had my eye on a tiny classic mandolin and a banjo. I did not find yourself getting the mandolin however I did get the banjo.
I additionally noticed these previous bowls I preferred in a field, so Phil bid on them. Solely factor was, they mixed three containers collectively, all up it price $2.00 for all of those. The bowls had been a bit grubby however just a little soak and scrub and so they got here up alright. The remainder of the goodies are in fairly good nick.
Additionally with the bowls was this plastic one. It has no model identify and cleaned up okay too.
This Pyrex casserole was grubby, however soak in a single day and it has come up like new. No chips and it has a lid. Bonus!
This massive plate is flawless, retro and I adore it! Now I’ve one other serving dish for Christmas.
I in all probability wont preserve these retro trays, however we’ll see. All in nice situation.
This mixture was in a single field.
As had been these beautiful dinner plates.
A glass saucepan that I’ll in all probability donate.
Two previous Johnson pie dishes, and fairly aspect plates. Just one has a small chip.
In one other field…
That is an enamel serving tray It’s a bit tattered however very fairly.
It is a actually fairly bowl.
I really like this and it’s positively made in Australia.
And this little piggy was sitting on the highest.
My banjo. Now to study to play it ~ smiles
After which there was this. An Omnichord. Now I did not even know what this was, however I’m going to learn how to play utilizing youtube as a information. Apparently its an costly instrument to purchase, so I hope I can study to play it effectively. Anybody have certainly one of these, or know something about them? The music sounds beautiful.
Picked contemporary from the backyard this morning. Numerous inexperienced goodness. I’ll make a imply inexperienced juice utilizing the silver-beet, cucumber, apples, celery, lemon, ginger. A pleasant increase for my immune system. Yum!
The parsley is dried.
And the perfect information of the day/week. We had an enormous thunderstorm undergo earlier in the present day. It dumped 8.5mm {34points} on us, however got here with actually sturdy wind, thunder, lightening and hail amongst it. It’s so good to see all of the water, the crops will probably be refreshed as soon as once more.
This highway goes previous our place.
In order that was my week. Please excuse all of the pictures, they do assist inform an enormous a part of the story.
How was your week? Did you rise up to something particular?
See you all quickly.
xTania
