Friday feeling like Saturday

I woke up early and it was a lovely day (no curtains yet) and I didn't get up but couldn't go back to sleep - normally I can - should have seen it as a sign because just as I got up the power went off.

I fed the pussycats and looked out to see this.... cute!

So - back to the no power - Well in the country that means no water, no loo, no power. So neither of us could have a shower. Shelley arrived at work and said the whole power station at Otahuhu (pr. O-ta-who for those non maori speakers lol) had blown, and the whole of Auckland to Whangarei (Wong-ah-ray) was out. So I sent her home, the cleaner arrived and we sent her home too.

Well then we thought we would look up the news story on George's iPhone and it said that the line from Otahuhu to Henderson and should be fixed by 9.30am! Slightly different version of events!

We had some muesli I cooked last night for breakfast - yum.

So we decided to fill up the rest of the veggie garden with soil - I had already half filled it will compost - well not quite half.

Then in the afternoon I got;

• A Robinia Frisia tree
• another garden bed
• some expandable trellis
• loads of veggies (see below)

all for $156! Mitre 10 had a no GST sale on. Cool.

So I planted (all organic);

• chilli
• beetroot
• spinach
• silverbeet
• broccolli
• pumpkin
• sage
• basil
• russian red tomatoes
• sugar snap peas
• cleome (flower to catch the dreaded shield bugs off the tomatoes)
• nasturtium
• and spring onions

The white things are broken up eggshells for the snails.

The boys were watching me plant them - making sure I was doing it right.

Then I made pizza with caramelized onions, veggie sausage, sundried tomatoes, olives and fresh oregano and thyme form the garden pots.