What’s with this sudden flurry of posting activity on this blog? I have no idea, but I’ll go with the flow. Why is it, also, that I can lie awake int he morning for an hour before getting up, and compose long posts in my head that I completely forget once I’ve had breakfast and sit down at the computer? Instead, I think this is going to end up a bit more like a collection of random thoughts…
Things I am still waiting for right now
- the plumber to come and fix the issue that is preventing us from using the coffee machine
- two sigg bottles I ordered on line almost two weeks ago. One is for a friend’s birthday (don’t worry, that’s December, so I have plenty of time!) and one was to replace mine that went missing a month ago. I searched for a fortnight, then gave up and the day after I ordered a replacement, a woman in my painting class tells me she picked it up where I left it in class, and has it at home. Oh well. Now I’ll have two. If the package ever arrives.
- RAIN
- to plant the rest of my garlic. No excuses, just lazy.
- the imminent arrival of my brother’s second child, now days overdue. I want to send the gift off, goddammit, but I need to know the child’s name first!!
- sewing inspiration. Never did get that dress finished that began last time I was in Perth.
- results of a soil sample, so we can get on with preparing the soil for our new truffle trees, and then planting them. No hurry, I guess, since it isn’t even RAINING YET.
- to collect my annual revegetation plants from the community nursery (next Wednesday). Then I will be waiting to plant them all out. I hope I ordered less than 300 this year. I can’t remember.
- to go off the pill and have these horrible zits clear up and be less cranky.
- Season 4 of Dexter!!!
Things that have arrived
- the new filter for the pipe that feeds the coffee machine
- the ducks!!! I love early winter, when a group of four ducks (two breeding pairs) come back to roost at our place, staying high in the trees away from foxes, and rattling off their funny almost-kookaburra-laughing- kind of call. Last year they were absent and I feared the worst. Oh happy days!
- the coffee we ordered online from Rubra. They forgot the packet of decaf in our order, so we let them know, and then it arrived in the post yesterday along with a complimentary packet of hot chocolate. Now THAT is good customer service.
- Vegetarians, shut your eyes. Tonight is the night that I make (finally) roast kid (capretto, or aka baby goat).
- the final layer of my compost bays [DH began construction four years ago. He (finally) put the top row of (ex-railway) sleepers on last week. Now he just has to angle grind the tops off 23 steel poles. So, won’t be waiting for that much longer. Ha.]
- new batch of potting mix (trailer load) for my soil bay. Now I can get on with repotting a large amount of plant matter in my shadehouse. [What we were waiting for: DH to concretise the floor and sides of the bay, because the invasion from nearby poplar roots was making it impossible to use the soil. Unfortunately most of the things I wait for around here require DH manpower, of which there is a limited amount since he works at a real job most days, unlike myself…]
- the moment in which I get out of my pyjamas and off this computer and into the reality of the day: pump class; cleaning C’s house; shiatsu treatment at 3.15 and then roasting kid and homegrown potatoes (in goose fat) which I will be sharing with BFF and hubby as dinner guests. On on…
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