Tuesday - again.

I had a giggle this morning as I roamed about the bush area down the back of our land. Mark was loading the wheelbarrow with wood to take up to the house and I was trailing through the bush with a big plastic container dragging behind me picking up small sticks for kindling. (We put the fire on last night and had it raging thanks to my little "chips".) It was lovely just wandering about in the sun. Mark confessed when he was watching me a few weeks ago doing the same he thought I was wasting my time as they wouldn't burn effectively, and the soft wood he had chopped would be much better. Haha - silly boy - I'm not just a pretty face you know!

There's something rather mellow about a warm autumn day and just wandering about; and being followed by some very excited chickens. They followed me down to the folly; a new place for them; and just had the best time scratching about in the mulch under the trees. When I left though they quickly followed me back up to their yard - they don't do brave. :)

Tuesday.

A lovely morning here today. Its so warm through the day  - hard to believe winter's just around the corner.

Monday.

Well I'm finally back. Life takes over completely on occasions and sitting at the computer for anything other than work just doesn't happen sometimes.

 It's awfully quiet in the garden at the moment. There's onions, beetroot and capsicums to get each day, and of course herbs and a few straggling strawberries. The fig tree is having its second and best flush of fruit. We just bought a lovely lilly pilly and I'm assured it will give us masses of fruit. After buying it I thought maybe we should have gotten 2 to be very sure so I'll pick another one up. The colours are lovely - and so is the fruit! I remember my friends neighbour had a huge lilly pilly in their side garden close to the fence. My friend and I use to eat handfuls of the berries every summer.

This crazy big toadstool is in the dog yard. I'll have to pull it out shortly but I quite like how big and silly looking it's become in a few short days so I might just leave it to see what happens and if it gets even bigger. Shame it's not edible - I'm a big fan of fungi.