Friday 20 January 2017

Raining scones and jam

It's raining today.  About time too.  There is a heavy cloud all around us that's a bit like fog but we don't mind at all as it's bringing some steady falls.  The garden was staring to look a little deep fried.  It's not the heat, but the wind. The hydrangeas faint and the fruit trees start to look like satay sticks.  It's like taking your hair dryer out into the garden, plugging it in and blowing hot air on your veggie patch, for a couple of days.  So hooray for rain.  Being a Friday there's not much happening on the gardening front but we could always take shelter in the glasshouse.  We've been known to muster up a decent mug of tea and scones with some homemade jam to discuss new plantings, or in some cases post mortems.  Of course being jam makers now (note the tone of righteousness) we must have scones to showcase the jam, in the words of Scone Master Sally Wise.  And the beauty of the scone making exercise is that the leftovers go in the freezer to be reincarnated as breadcrumbs for tonight's Flathead.  Gotta love a bit of frugal every now and then. 

3 comments:

  1. Love reading about your farm and move to Tassie!

    The hot days (and nights) here in Sydney fried my balcony pots... our tiny peach tree has decided to shed all it's leaves in heat shock! One year I'm sure it'll completely give up on us :)

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    1. Thanks for dropping by Dani. Yeah we're a bit the same here. The heat stress on the plants seems so unfair. Even our cats our draping themselves around the place, a bit over dramatic but that's cats!!

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    2. haha my cat has been doing the same, so dramatic :)

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