Well things have been a bit mad since my last blog I have been so busy - and feel like I have not done anything - as usual!!! The bad weather has turned into summer and temperatures have reached 28c all of a sudden - must really try and go to the beach one of these days if I get the time. Normally I would be working at the hotel at this time of year and all housework/gardening would have been forgotten - but not this year - I am home (and everyone probably wishes I wasn't) - too much to do - this year the garden is going to look its best!
It is amazing how quickly the weeds have grown (again) after the bad weather we had at Easter - coupled with the hot weather - the ground has become like cement - impossible to dig the weeds out - they all have to be hacked down or dug out with a pick axe!!! - good exercise for the arm muscles - who needs a gym. I have lost 4 kilos so far - only another 10 to go.... There are so many flowers out too now - just a few pictures above - I will have to update my Flora and Fauna page!!! I do not get the time because I am so busy "dead-heading" at the moment to encourage new growth and more flowers..... That is what they need to do with the politicians - there is nothing like a bit of dead-heading to encourage new growth!!!
We had a major breakthrough today - after 10 years our cherry tree is actually full of cherries - well it is supposed to be I hear you say - but I can assure you that this is the first year it has been full - last year we had 4 - 1 each!!!! Funny thing is though yesterday they were green and today they are red - really strange things plants/trees are - must be because I put dried bamboo shoots around its trunk as decoration - this probably kept it warm in the bad weather - hence all the cherries...... (that is my explanation anyway!). The walnut tree also has over 20 walnuts on it - we are lucky normally if we get 4 - more than enough for Christmas presents this year! I will be able to save the half-shells to turn into ladybirds for Easter Presents next year......
By the way the kittens came back - or rather I found where the mother had hidden them. She has now moved them again so I do not know where they are - probably thinks I am going to dead-head them aswell! The other cat also had another 4 kittens - one died (honestly) - so now the mother is nested in the cat box with them - until she decides to hide them too!!!
You may be wondering about the ghost - well I often listen to the night chorus of the birds - it is absolutely amazing - the singing is incredible at 1am in the morning. However, the other night there was definately a voice outside saying "go away, go away, go away" - it frightened the life out of me - I even went out onto the balcony and you could still here this voice in the field saying "go away" - I thought I must be hearing things and went to bed. I was quite pleased a couple of days later when Sue put on FB that a talking parrot had been lost from Zia - I thought that was what had been in my garden. Unfortunately it was not the parrot so it must have been the ghost.....
Well it is the Super Full Moon tonight and nothing has happened yet - the weather is weird though - extremely damp and quite chilly out there and there is a possibility of fog a bit later on. The birds are not singing - bit spooky really - they have "gone away"!!!
Nevermind, tomorrow is another day, might go to the beach - that is if I manage to get out of the garden......
It is amazing how quickly the weeds have grown (again) after the bad weather we had at Easter - coupled with the hot weather - the ground has become like cement - impossible to dig the weeds out - they all have to be hacked down or dug out with a pick axe!!! - good exercise for the arm muscles - who needs a gym. I have lost 4 kilos so far - only another 10 to go.... There are so many flowers out too now - just a few pictures above - I will have to update my Flora and Fauna page!!! I do not get the time because I am so busy "dead-heading" at the moment to encourage new growth and more flowers..... That is what they need to do with the politicians - there is nothing like a bit of dead-heading to encourage new growth!!!
We had a major breakthrough today - after 10 years our cherry tree is actually full of cherries - well it is supposed to be I hear you say - but I can assure you that this is the first year it has been full - last year we had 4 - 1 each!!!! Funny thing is though yesterday they were green and today they are red - really strange things plants/trees are - must be because I put dried bamboo shoots around its trunk as decoration - this probably kept it warm in the bad weather - hence all the cherries...... (that is my explanation anyway!). The walnut tree also has over 20 walnuts on it - we are lucky normally if we get 4 - more than enough for Christmas presents this year! I will be able to save the half-shells to turn into ladybirds for Easter Presents next year......
By the way the kittens came back - or rather I found where the mother had hidden them. She has now moved them again so I do not know where they are - probably thinks I am going to dead-head them aswell! The other cat also had another 4 kittens - one died (honestly) - so now the mother is nested in the cat box with them - until she decides to hide them too!!!
You may be wondering about the ghost - well I often listen to the night chorus of the birds - it is absolutely amazing - the singing is incredible at 1am in the morning. However, the other night there was definately a voice outside saying "go away, go away, go away" - it frightened the life out of me - I even went out onto the balcony and you could still here this voice in the field saying "go away" - I thought I must be hearing things and went to bed. I was quite pleased a couple of days later when Sue put on FB that a talking parrot had been lost from Zia - I thought that was what had been in my garden. Unfortunately it was not the parrot so it must have been the ghost.....
Well it is the Super Full Moon tonight and nothing has happened yet - the weather is weird though - extremely damp and quite chilly out there and there is a possibility of fog a bit later on. The birds are not singing - bit spooky really - they have "gone away"!!!
Nevermind, tomorrow is another day, might go to the beach - that is if I manage to get out of the garden......
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