Quick visit Friday 13 - Saturday 14 Jan 2017

Lightening fast visit this weekend in order for me to have a haircut and also water the garden etc.

And it was my first Friday off for my new job -so I went on Friday morning woo - hoo

Haircut looked very nice as per my selfie

Finished (cut and colour) around 4pm - so went and visited the Op Shop ladies and Denise

And then ended up on the veranda for a well deserved G&T, plus some (homebrand) cheezels (a guilty pleasure), and did the crossword, read the "paper"on the ipad

Also did some more bindi eye hunting.  Found a further 30 bindi eyes mostly near the fruit tree in the front, and this was after a good searching session at Christmas with Mum - where I found close to 50!

captured bindi eyes

There were also a heartbreaking number of mulberries on the ground all around one of the trees in particular.  I'm very surprised that the birds don't seem to be interested in them

wasted mulberries

more wasted mulberries

And the plum near the well is so full that a few of the branches have now broken from the weight of the ripe plums.  Small, but tasty.  I remember a few Summers ago when Xavier was eating them off the tree, and got a very plummy red mouth and surrounding face
  

groaning plum tree

And the pomegranates continue to grow...

woo hoo

Justin was also curious as to whether the weed killer that he's sprayed around on a lot of the weeds over Christmas had an effect. As it didn't seem to about 3 days after spraying

And yes, the weeds are dead, but not withered into dust yet

sprayed dead weeds #1

sprayed dead weeds #2

Had a casual dinner and a Monarch of the Glen - athon - which I like to watch when I'm up there by myself

Saturday morning dawned nice and sunny and bright - so breakfast under the tree with my usual morning classical music

breakfast

Watered the garden, and was surprised to see moss in the front right hand side of the garden near the fence.  Wonder if a pipe is leaking

inappropriate moss

Also picked some mulberries - and re-discovered those pesky little flies that we'd had at Christmas - all over the mulberries - you can see them on the lunch box below

mulberries plus bugs

Also picked a lot of plums, and rang up Terry and Arlene and invited them to pick some also - as I don't want to see them go to waste.