Death Pledge

It was a lovely winter day in Canberra today with a top of 15 so i worked until a little after 2pm, then came home, played in the garden for an hour and a half and then logged on remotely to work and did another 3 1/2 hours in the evening. Was a fabulous idea. I was quite invigorated by when I started on the second lot of work.

I reinstalled the newly sharpened blades in the mulcher and also fixed the other bit that I broke when i knocked it over. I'm not sure how long my jury rigged repair will last but it is servicable so long as I take a little bit of care with it.

I also got into some of the saplings that had sprung up randomly in the back corner of the garden. So I have increased the mulching pile somewhat and cleaned out the sapling forest a bit. Still a few more of the saplings to dig out yet. Here is a picture of what it looked like before I started. I'll take another shot on the weekend when I have finished it all.



Looks like a rates rise in on the horizon which as any of you with mortgages know is something to be less than thrilled about. Rather tellingly the word mortgage is french in origin and means....you're gonna love this.....death (mort) pledge (gage). Death pledge....strangely appropriate.

I also finally got hold of Lyndal, Ossie and Ben's email address so hopefully they will be reading the blog soon!

Interestingly Jacko mentioned his arcade machine in a comment yesterday. Funnily enough I have also been thinking about that project again lately. I am planning on dragging that out of the shed this summer and doing some more owrk on it. I even printed out the plans again about a week ago.

I also looked up fruit tree pruning in the good old Yates garden guide so that little job will go on the weekend garden jobs list too. Neaten the fruit trees up a bit for summer. I might even get a usable crop of plums from them this summer.

Ok thats it for today.