What a miserable day weather-wise!! We had gorgeous sun yesterday, I got out in the yard in the morning to do some tidying up - I had mown the lawn on Friday afternoon, and wanted to finish off the edges. But a fight with the whipper snipper ensued, and I've only been able to complete about 1/4 of the job. We have 3 whipper snippers. One is battery powered, and cuts about 3 blades of grass before it's out of juice. One is electric, and once the line that cuts the grass has gone it won't come out again and you've got the take the whole thing apart, feed it through manually and then keep snipping. The third one is petrol powered, but can't be started because my Dad wrenched the rip cord out once when he was feuding with it. To be fair, the electric and petrol ones were both given to us by my parents because when they break one, they simply buy another. Mark is very handy and plans to fix the broken rip cord, and we're going out today to buy something to fix the feeding problem too. Then hopefully we can do the edges together and complete the job in half the time.
When I was doing my 3 minutes of edging, Jeff took a dislike to the whipper snipper (battery powered). He decided firstly to try and bite it. Obviously it came as quite an offensive shock to him to almost have his nose removed by this noisy apparatus. So then, much to my delight, he decided to bark at it! Jeff almost NEVER barks. He can bark, as we discovered on a puppy-play date with my brother's pooches a few weeks ago. He just chooses not to - nothing really excites him enough to warrant a woof. But he barked and barked and barked at the whipper snipper!! I like it when he woofs because I feel like he's expressing himself. I think Mark thinks I'm a bit mental for thinking this.
I've revived my garden! Check out some pics and details about it here. I'm really happy, gardening makes me feel calm and I love being amongst all the green. I'm excited about possibly growing with my own hands food that we can eat!! I grew a million tomatoes about 2 years ago, and I've got those in again and some other stuff - chilli, capsicum, lettuce etc.
Because it's such a horrid rainy day, we've let the dogs be inside since this morning. Jeff curled himself up into a little ball so I covered them with a blanket. They are such big babies, I love them!! Arnie hasn't moved since I covered them over, he's all snuggled in the blankie and lovin' it.
I'm going to retry the ill-fated Moussaka today. Wish me luck.
- B xxx
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