Daily Archives: 2012-07-09

SwimGym – got there before 8:00am, just.

After breakfast – a second breakfast of bacon and 1-egg omelette, Neville and his troupe arrived with digger and truck of gravel. They spent a couple of hours topping up the gravel on the low areas that pooled during the last two heavy rains last week. Pictures below.

When feeding the cat I noticed that the front door of the homestead was ajar. The back door was still locked and I hadn’t been inside for several days. It is just possible that, even though I recall checking carefully that the little inside bolt on the front door was firmly closed only last week, the wind rattling the front door eventually works the bolt loose. Anyway, curiouser and curiouser – the dining room lights were on, a packet of Whiskas food (a flavour from from the currently open carton I think) was by the downstairs bathroom hand basin, and there were crumbs as if someone had emptied the toaster in the kitchen sink. I couldn’t find any other signs of life so am puzzled as to what it was – nothing taken, nothing moved, no beds slept in as far as I could see.

I went back and watched some of the Wimbledon men’s final I’d recorded overnight – seeing it through to the second set.

Walked Bramble – she does look forward to that every day. Also, she thought it was getting a bit late for her grooming today so she brought me her brush!

My outside work for the day was to straighten up the strainer posts at either end of the Taupata hedge. Henere had moved that fence and it was all good except that the two end strainers leaned over a bit – well a lot – once the wires were tightened. As these two posts each form part of a small gateway they need to be pretty vertical. So I cut the wires in the middle of the fence, added an extra length to each wire, made wooden wedges and banged them in-between the ends of the stay posts and the stay block. All looked fine, then I strained up the wires and we were back where I started. Obviously the ground is so soft that the stay blocks themselves are just moving in the ground. I need to get new, longer stay posts, bigger stay blocks, and do it all again. Bramble watched all this from the passenger seat of of the Landrover.

No more lists of meals – listing the food was becoming almost as boring as the cooking and eating.

I am trying a slightly different regimen for Bramble’s food. In the morning I’m giving her 200gm dog sausage – a pure beef and rice sausage plus a small amount of the specially prepared mince/liver/rice stuff and a small handful of Nutrients pellets. In the evening it’s 100gm of the sausage but essentially the same mixture. No ill effects so far and she does eat it all up.

Quite mild this evening but forecast cold frost tomorrow.

Extra Gravel Laid This Morning

Oak Avenue Weather:7℃—13℃ no rain [81.2]