On My Mind

Today I am getting ready to go down to my shack for the weekend. Some of you may know, that is where my DH and I intend to move to in a year or two when we get ourselves established.  We are setting it up in a permaculture fashion, give or take.  We have been building and renovating, putting in water tanks as we wont be connected to town water just relying on the rain (it is Tassie but one of the drier parts), and building fences. Very soon we will have the carport and the driveway finished and we can spend time getting the garden established. 

Well sometimes things pop up that make you prioritise your list of jobs and that happened this week.  My husband regularly looks on Gumtree (classifieds online) just to see if there is anything useful being offered, when he came upon an ad for 2 three year old column apple trees for $10 each. He is addicted to apples and seeing that they were situated 500mtrs from our house we had to have them. They are being planted this weekend. I have another 7 espalier apples arriving in the next month or so. 

                                    pic from Google images


Also I have just been pruning all my roses here at home and after having my hands and arms ripped to shred by thorns I vowed that ONLY smooth roses would be planted at the beach house. So I will be planting 14 of them over the weekend.

Pic from Google Images

I culled 2 of my old hens tonight and they are coming as well to be buried in the apple tree holes.    

I hope I don't get too distracted as last weekend there were 2 whales in the bay so maybe some whale watching might be in order if we get another visit. 

                           From Rhonda's blog: http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com

Have a lovely weekend everyone :-}