I'm In Love

No, I don't have a boyfriend on the side, and no I'm not talking about my dear hubby James (although I most definitely do love him!) - no, I'm in love with my ipod nano. It seems to have even taken place of my beloved books, for now at least. Today I watched an episode of McLeod's Daughters, played a few games of monopoly and yahtzee, and also watched What Happens In Vegas. Add that to sleeping in until 10am, and I haven't really done much today! Oh, I haven't sat around on my butt all day, I did do some dancing. I think I might go for a run tomorrow. Not sure.

We have 15 trees planted so far and I think I might go and buy a few more tomorrow. It'll be hard work on the crowbar to dig holes for them, but that will be good for me. Its hard work for James in a few spots - bloody limestone! Limestone has been both a blessing and a curse for us - if Rocy Glen didn't have limestone, it wouldn't have its name, but it probably would have also been sold off as viable farming land a long time ago. But its still painful for us - having the septic trench dug wasn't pretty! But its part of our home.

We have 2 dwarf sugar gums (eucalyptus cladocalyx nana), 4 eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum), 1 eucalyptus lansdowneana subsp. albo purpurea (crimson mallee), 2 eucalyptus torwood, apparently 3 eucalyptus sideroxylon rosea (pink flowering ironbark) - one looks completely different from the other two so I think one may have been mislabelled, 1 eucalyptus leucoxylon (rosea), 1 eucalyptus forrestiana (fuschia gum) and 1 eucalyptus caesia (silver princess - or as James calls it, our "Sarah" tree).

Tonight I ate my first ever home grown cherry tomato, and god it was good! No pesticides or chemicals or even fertiliser - just straight dirt and regular watering! There are so many tomatoes waiting to redden up - its great! My other veggies are growing as well and all have flowers - lebanese cucumber, mixed capsicum, and butternut pumpkins. I love it!

Our old house is still up for sale after over a year on the market, and someone suggested that I make a memory box of the house, and shut the lid on it (physically and metophorically) to resolve any outstanding attachment to the house that may be subconsciously warding off potential buyers. May sound like mumbo jumbo, but hell, I'll give anything a shot. So, earlier in the week, I completed my memory box and shut the lid. We had someone look though the house on Thursday and we apparently talking to their bank yesterday, so I hope its done the trick. If not, I've still got a lovely memory box that I'll treasure for years to come.

Sheryn and Rob are going to buy me a fruit tree for my birthday which will be absolutely lovely. Sheryn and I went to the garden centre earlier in the week to see what they had in stock, and I left her with the choice of an apricot or a lemon tree. Their apricot tree went absolutely berserk this year - it was fantastic! So many apricots, all for free, and so much better quality than the crappy cardboard supermaret ones (that cost around $12 a kilo!!). Now I just have to plan where I'm going to have an orchard. People have given me advice about having them near the eucalypts we've already planted so I'm not gallavanting across the countryside all the time to water trees, but I was thinking of the area behing the shed (sort of between the shed and the motorbike track). Will see what James thinks.

Last time he was away at work, our windmill came loose. We'd had it tied up because its very old and disconnected from a pump, so to leave it going will quickly wear out its parts and render it useless. Well, its kind of useless at the moment, but I just love it to bits. James knows stacks about windmills after working on sheep stations (he regularly did maintenance on their windmills) and I asked him if it was worth getting parts for ours, not necessarily to pump the bore with, but just to be able to have the windmill spin around, but he said it wouldn't be worth it because it would only end up wearing the old thing out. So, for those few days where it flapped and spun around in the wind, I just loved it. Not sure exactly why, I just did.