Weekend with Justin - Friday 5 - Sunday 7 December 2025

A nice weekend with Justin - arrived on Friday night - and had our now customary lazy breakfast in bed on Saturday morning - doing our puzzles/reading the weekend Age etc

Once we got up - I put my overalls on - and filled up the rubbish bin with weeds again 

This time I concentrated on the right hand side of the outside garden

Before

After

And ended up with another wheelbarrow full of weeds for the next rubbish collection

 

The orchard was also coming along very nicely

I spied 2 nice looking green apricots - which probably won't be there the next time we come up (and they were a bit too high up to net)

And the cherries had suddenly ripened - no where near ripe last time

Which the birds were certainly abreast of 

I was able to pick maybe 1 kilo of untouched cherries - grr - they are probably my favourite stone fruit  - next time we net from mid November! 

As I was picking a pesky parrot flew into the tree and gave me an insouciant look

The medlar is also looking very promising - with fruit appearing to mature.  I have been keeping Susan and Mark in the medlar loop, as we had all admired a medlar in a heritage garden in Tasmania last year   

Strawberries are ripening also - I did score 2 that weren't nibbled on - nice and sweet

And the pomegranates were looking very healthy

Saturday itself was rainy/sunny/rainy/sunny etc 

The down pipe extension is still leaking which is a nuisance - as that means that the tank is being filled

During one of the rain periods we went up to Terry's place to say hello

And I went to the 1st Saturday get together in Kingower at 7.30pm

Sunday, more of the same - and Justin took some lovely photos

I also got things together to take back to Melbourne for Christmas ie glasses/plates/trestle tables etc