Its been an interesting day - as Arkwright used to say in Open all hours. It probably started way back at field days but today we got to test out some zero turn mowers suitable for macadamia nut farming. Very tempted by the bigger one - there goes $15,000 and its not even morning tea time! We hope to try another one before making the final decision. We got our voting enrollment forms and I am wondering whether to change my occupation from teacher to farmer or even nutter.
While we were testing the worm farm arrived. This is so we can get a head start on organic fertiliser. It was a very blokey thing with no instructions - just an allen key. I'm sure I didn't put it together the most efficient way.
Well we finally got it functioning - after one disaster when we put the compost in and the bottom fell out. These 2,000 worms will take a few weeks to untangle and get into the serious business of producing compost.
Other activities have included clearing out the pantry- this is a little bevvy of spices which are dated earlier than 2015. (OK I do know that its 2016). The cinnamon sticks are the winner with BB2003 date!! Also lots of old wine books and university texts which are now out of date helped us fill up our second skip of rubbish. We probably have one more skip to go.
On Sunday disaster struck - Duncan saw a trip to the Galapagos Islands where one person pays full fare and the second person pays 25%!!!!! We had thought this trip - although on both our bucket lists - was out of our price range. Today we have our cabin number - 337 and the bill for about $15,000!!! We were scraping the bottom of the barrel by afternoon tea time. However we will just have to cash in an investment due next month. Such fun spending the kids inheritance.
All this and more - at least I have booked by balloon flight - also on the bucket list for when we go to Perth next month. I think tomorrow might seem dull by comparison.
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