#Doneanddusted

Wednesday 1st October... how the year flies...5.59, 14.2dg, 3.7 ml rain yesterday late afternoon, forecasting a drizzly wet patchy sort of day today and tomorrow foggy, sunny, cloudy sort of day, not that we generally get fog here in our valley thankfully. Yesterday was a day that was supposed to start with me being caddy for my good buddy on the golf course... she bailed as her game the day before had left her with aching muscles... really !!.. I say get fit under my breath, but in all reality it was a blessing in disguise as I went out early and finished cutting back and preparing the garden for winter. Three large garden sacks of green waste to be taken up to the re-cycling courtesy of my neighbour, thank goodness for fabulously helpful neighbours. Inside for an early lunch of slow roasted pork belly that I had put on to cook at 8am, and I had that with a fresh fennel and orange salad... it was seriously good, seriously seriously good. I had to wait until 13.00 before I could go back outside and start the wood splitter as the lunch hour here is a little like the Sundays... best not to do work that makes noise while people are having their lunch break and rest. I then spent the afternoon mowing the lawn, trimming the edges, and then onto the wood splitter to reduce the size of some of the monster pieces in the wood stack. I then attacked the longer pieces of the plum tree that I had cut down last year and not got around to cutting up into proper lengths. The back area where I do my firewood has been swept down and packed up for another year... I will still have pieces of wood that are in the stacks that will be too big to fit into the firebox but they can be sorted next year. Lawn mower and weed trimmer washed down and packed away for the season, garden sacks packed away and vegetable garden soil covered to minimise weed growth... Sorted, and all just in time before the rain came. Today I have tuition with littles and then my Wednesday conversation girls, but today with a bit of a twist. We normally meet here at the house at 16.00 but today we meet at one of the group's houses at 17.00 for an hour of conversation and then dinner and drinks... my contribution, as I am not sure of the makeup of the evening, is a batch of pistachio and apricot chocolate that I made last night so I hope that will please the sweet tooth among the girls.  Tomorrow I have an appointment to dismantle an exsisting garden, and completely re design and re plant it for him. I am hoping for happy gardening weather. I am, at this present time, considering the upgrade of my iPhone... reading all the articles about the good and bad of the new phone I am not so sure I want to do it. Problem is I have always had an iPhone and am not inclined to change to any other brand or model... hmmm decisions decisions.