Plenty of rather cool events have meant the future looks brighter than it has been for some time... Mostly Work - it's a whole new world there now - I'm actually pleased to be there, 5 days a week. Strange.
Been riding to and from work on the bicycle - sometimes with Scoot from Work. It adds up to just under 40kms a day, not too bad for an old, unfit codger like me. I'm determined to ride every day the heat isn't baking us into the ground.
And hopefully I'll never run into, again, the brown snake I nearly rode over last Thursday. It was a scary little ordeal that involved me narrowly avoiding being bitten by a venomous snake as it leapt up at me while I rode within mm's of it. Long fucker, too.
It stretched across most of the path, and moved like a freight train through the hills as it buggered off into the scrub. Scrub, this was under Hackney Road Bridge for goodness sakes!
Bloody snakes in the city! What shit creek are we all paddling up to have snakes in the city?
It got me thinking that it's high time that I really knuckle into the backyard - it's a bit of a mess. We've finally ordered though, today, the mulch to cover over our sorry attempt for lawn... plus some pavers to make some nice new pathways thru the mulch.
Hopefully it will tie everything in together and make a year's effort pay off. Thinking of putting together two new beds, probably for more veg/fruit...
We've got 12 or so tomatoes (there's volunteers popping up all the time), 2 eggplants, a lone capsicum, 8 cayenne peppers, 100 or so spring onions, 50 or so brown onions, tonnes of silverbeet (still!) and barrow loads of herbs and lettuce. We're self sufficent in onions and greens, we'll see how it goes with the tomatoes... Hoping to make tomato sauce this year.
Did some freelance work recently that I've very much enjoyed... Got me thinking I should be spending WAY more time sketching and reading than I do.
Anyway, a shot to end off with...
My pride and joy. Let the sauce making begin!
