Rain

A cyclone was predicted for the weekend, which turned out to be a bit of a fizzer.

Rather handidly though, it did rain a fair amount which filled our water tanks, and created ideal conditions for pulling out prickles and other weeds around our property.

Pulling out prickles when it’s dry generally means a lot of effort, and even then the roots tend to break off. In the wet it’s easy peasy and they come out with a gentle pull.

An hours worth of weed pulling

It may have been raining while I’m doing this, but the ducks and geese don’t care about rain, and they watched me with interest. (or perhaps they think I’ve bringing them food)

The last chore of the day is clearing the gutters…

these get blocked with leaves
leaf divertors help a lot
the culprits.

Our 22nd Wedding Anniversary

It’s that time of year again, when my wife and I exchange cards and a traditional gift. -This year it was copper.

Our anniversary has turned up this year amongst a whole lot of other stuff going on in our lives at the moment.

You see, I recently wrote how we were ‘minus one‘ when our youngest departed for university in another city.
It has meant that our other daughter now spends a lot less time at home since she’s effectively lost spending time with her sister.

For twenty years, those kids were the priority in our lives -everything else came a distant second.

But now that we are now rapidly becoming empty nesters, it means we need to adopt a whole new mindset and work out what we want to do without the kids constantly in our lives.

At this point, I’m sort of at the point of reverting back to some old hobbies that got put on hold when the kids were born. My wife’s taken to quilting in a big way.

I guess it’s a progressive thing.