it rained all weekend. the forecast for the rest of the week has a little cloud, raindrop and sunshine icon for each day so who knows what will happen. i’d like to get the ground leveled out for that raised bed garden this week and get peter to help maneuver the timber sleepers onto the drop saw this weekend. i haven’t checked but it should be big enough to cut them. otherwise i’ll… oh, yeah. my chainsaw’s broken. um. i’m sure the drop saw will do it.
last friday peter and i made a start of clearing out the garden. most of the branches from the kiwifruit vine i pruned were still strewn about the place and it needed/needs a serious weeding. the old bugger almost burnt down the hay storage shed next door. he’d made a small pile of branches and set them on fire and then wandered off and, i think, forgotten about it. then the wind changed. the farm manager has driven past at some point and noticed a fire burning its way to his hay shed. the old bugger was laughing about it so they got it out in time. and there is a hose out there for watering. i spent somewhere around two hours weeding around the broad beans and digging some of them up and setting them back in a row while peter piled up those branches and the old runner bean stalks. then set them on fire. in the middle of the garden this time so nothing accidentally gets burned down and the ash can fertilize the ground. i mowed around the garden too since the old bugger had mowed his yard lawn.
the hospital’s delayed his valve surgery again. sometime after christmas now. maybe. i don’t know. they seem to keep delaying it and i wonder if they’ve decided it’s not worth it since he’s almost 90 and is that a person’s natural lifespan? either that or he’s just a stubborn old mule too proud to do anything but tell a doctor he’s fine so they keep delaying him for people in greater need.
my next infusion is the third of september, which is officially spring so i think after that infusion i’ll stop at a store and get some seeds. vegetables obviously and some natives. i’m going to have to sort out which trees i can grow, or at least which types of tree are frost or climate tender. i’ve moved those two pohutukawa trees three times trying to find a sheltered but sunny spot for them to grow but the winter frost keeps killing them off. and probably me digging them up and moving them isn’t helping. i dug up and potted a bunch of little cabbage tree seedlings that had sprouted all around the place last summer but some time back in june a rabbit has come along and chewed them down to stumps. it must have been hungry enough at the start of winter with no fresh plant shoots or grass growing that it decided these seedlings started to look tasty. which is fine. they’re not dead and the seedling stumps have started growing again. i bet they were chewy though.
whitebaiting season starts in a few days so i’ll probably get my net out later in the week and scoop through the water a few times but it’s going be too cold for them to hatch yet. and too cold to get your hands wet. no sign of jimmy yet either, i think they’ve got another week in hospital before they are allowed home. i can’t wait until they’re old enough to talk so i can send them home with pockets full of lollies and directions to ask their dad why he has one big eyebrow since he’s got a bit of a monobrow that he shaves and hates any mention of.
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