Thursday, June 17, 2010

Rain, sun, rain

A typical Flinders day - it should have been blowing a gale and raining. It alternated between all 4 seasons. Bucketing this morning - then 11 o'clock I was stuck so I went and planted out a punnet of red onions that have been waiting a week - in a t-shirt. It was windless and hot enough for the local gecko to put his head out and ask if it was my shout. By 12 the onions and the gecko were getting a good soaking. Then the sun was out enough for B to put the washing out again. I needed some veggies for the stirfry tonight, and went out in the gooti (new word especially for Dirk Flinthart)(thin sticky, mizzly rain - it's Shona, I think. Like sussuration it sounds like what it is.) and picked some spinach, a jalapeno, carrots, and some fresh Italian Parsley and thyme. This is the first of our Jalepenos (we used the ones Lisa gave us up to now - which were so mild.) These - having planted late and struggled along since January and ripening very slowly and temp stressed are toilet roll in the freezer stuff - which may be just as well as Pads is down with flu/cold and B and I are feeling Inge's 'crook'. Chili could burn it out. Anyway, we still wait. The boys for exam results, B for her test result. Me for my brain to tie up the last threads. It's not going easy, but we'll get there.

9 comments:

  1. I have a strange mental picture of red onions hanging around in t-shirts.

    "Hey guys let's go the Mall, should bring tears to their eyes".

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  2. It's only 4 seasons if there is solid water - otherwise it's 3 and a bit... :)

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  3. I believe there has been some frost in the far south... Lady Barron.

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  4. Tantalus, you deserve one of my chilis ;-)

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  5. You had sun today? And... you've got a gecko? You swine! I haven't got a gecko! I love geckoes. I really miss 'em: they're about the only aspect of the tropics (okay, that and pythons) that I enjoyed.

    Today, all the way down here in Springfield (we're what... sixty km as the Lesser Shearwater flies?) it was wet. A lot. It got less wet in the afternoon, true, but mostly it was wet.

    As opposed to last night, which was epically wet, lightningy, and windy enough to blow the spots off a dog. I have to admit, a bit of warmth and sunshine wouldn't have gone astray today.

    PS: I'm impressed you've gotten away with jalapenos. Best I've done so far is capsicums. I'll have to try a more serious chili-bush when things thaw out.

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  6. Drew with Mexico, thumped by Uruguay, so now it's down to France - last chance Bafana Bafana. It's possible I might hold my breath for the entire match, but unlikely.

    I was born in Ireland so you will not be surprised to hear that I have deleted Thierry Henry from my Christmas card list.

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  7. Well, Mexico beat France... so I reckon you should go and 'talk' to the bookies.

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  8. Flinthart - i get a fair number of these long-tailed geckos - including several stuck in the bath. What is it about that bath? Are they trying to tell me something? We use wood not coal these winters. I think we're just generally milder (on a clear day BTW we can see that mucking great mountain across from you - from here) but I gave the jalapenos a mini-greenhouse of plastic tube.

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  9. Hiya Dave. Oh yeah, Mexico put 2 goals past France, in soccer terms that is a thrashing.

    There is a God.

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