Irene's Blog

JUST CALL ME FARMER IRENE I'm trying my hand at growing vegetables - first time ever.  I set up two raised garden beds and had veggie mix soil delivered which I had to cart from the front of the house around to the back.  It took me 2 hours to do it but it's done now and I had the aches and pains to prove it. I went to the garden centre this morning and picked up a variety of vegetables including tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, seed for carrots, onion and peas.  I also bought a few cantaloupe (rock melon) seedlings just to see if I could grow those plus a couple of strawberry plants. I got a bit carried away as I only have a small space to grow all of these but it'll be interesting to see what is successful and what isn't. I've put down snail bait, lots of it, to deter the hungry snails we have in the garden. Hopefully this will be a great success since I've put in so much work to get it started.

SHOPPING This afternoon I went shopping with my daughter as she wanted to buy a new bedroom suite.  We'd both seen a bedroom setting in a store's catalogue and fell in love with it, that was until we had a look at it in store.  Not as good as it looked in the photo but she found another suite, very similar but better quality, in the same store.  Somehow, this was meant to be as this other suite was on sale, the last day of the sale, saving a lot of money and they actually had one in the warehouse so she can get it delivered this coming week. Sometimes you have to go with the flow and you end up with what you're meant to have.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LACHLAN AND COREY As a birthday present from their mum, the boys got two new friends - Oscar and Charlie, two gorgeous chimps who they absolutely love.  What lucky boys they are but I guess that means their mum now has 4 cheeky monkeys to chase after.