Mandarins!

The first of the mandarins are ready to eat and we harvested a bag full the other day - wow - so sweet and juicy and a little tangy - yum! Still loads more coming along too.

We actually had a few days where things dried out a little - just goes to show how quick everything will dry out once we get into Spring properly. The track as you can see is 'beaten' to say the least. Once it dries out a little I am going to harrow it and re-seed - saving the middle as you can see....
I made some chocolate cupcakes and ANZAC biscuits this weekend - yum - these cupcakes are so easy - really needed some fancy sprinkles for the top though don't you think?

Ah - yes - the MUD... Jean can you imagine trying to fill all these pogs in? I gave up quite some time ago!
The middle paddock is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment.... the boys are not allowed in there till it dries out.

Oh - and we have two lemons now too!! Mum you'll remember when I planted this... a year ago.

Ipad, Dante and mud

This photo was taken this afternoon as the sun set. It's turned out quite a nice day after an horrendous amount of rain so far this month. Plus we've had higher than previous couple of years rainfall for May, June, July too.

You can see the boys have been turning grass into mud successfully in the track - they are not allowed in the middle until it dries out - it looks too nice!!

I just bought some more Cape Cod Chairs since these ones are now just paint chips on wood.... and I'm going to sell these on Trade Me - cheeky huh since they were free. I had to get Taupe as they didn't have any red left.

Like I said... a lovely night now....

Frost - first one for the year

It wasn't a very bad one... but I took these two amazing photos...

How beautiful is that.

If you look closely you can see our mandarins ripening up just nicely....

And now - about the mud.... I have left the boys in the track for nearly a month now - giving the middle paddock some decent rest and recovery after the drought then the rain.... so the track is looking a bit worse for wear....
You can see the track round the outside of the bright green grass middle paddock that is almost neon!
Icky
Anyway - it's August now - one month of winter to go then it's Spring - yay.