Making the most of things

 Im a tad excited , I think I have almonds on my almond tree, I love wandering around the garden and looking for new growth. My gardening adventure is only a couple of years old so these fruit trees I have are only fairly young. Im still learning what works and what doesnt. Im still putting my little allotment together. I really want to make my piece of land as productive as it can be. I dont want it to be just where we eat and sleep.

 I want to be able to walk into the garden and be able to whip up a meal. I have a lot to learn but love the journey. This lettuce I picked last night and it was straight to the table. Even Dad grabbed some bok choy of my. I may have converted him yet he told me it was the best he had ever tasted, you just cant get fresher than that. Garden to table.

 I also love bright flowers to attract bees for pollination and eventually keep some bees myself. To me flowers are just simply amazing and so beautiful.

 I even think I have some apricots forming

 Hopefully some pears, we just have blossoms at the moment.

 I know one thing for sure I certainly can grow broad beans so Im sure this will fill my freezer and Dads. I will also save some to plant again next year as this lot was saved from last years pods, pretty good experiment. Im thinking about buying a fowlers preserving kit so I can preserve a lot of my produce.

 Not sure about this broccoli its mainly just leaves and only a couple of heads, Im hoping they start to pop up soon or not sure what went wrong here, any suggestions would be great.

 The grape vine is starting to bud again this vine was a cutting from my Aunties house and last year it had abundance of beautiful sweet red grapes

 I get excited when I go into the laundry and it isnt because Im about to wash clothes thats for sure, its where I start of all my seedlings and the benches are always covered in pots.

 I am extra excited as look what arrived in the mail, my new bicycle yay. I havnt rode a bike since high school and let me tell you, watching me riding this has been very entertaining for the kids, mind you I havnt been out on it yet, this morning I tried it out in the lounge room. I was joking and said to Tyler Im going to ride this to the shower,oh dear he informed me to stop trying to ride it in the house as there wasnt enough room for me to balance. Later I tried on balcony India informed me I may need training wheels I cant wait to take it out for a real ride its lots of fun, a bit of a novelty for me, Dad has been ringing to say dont you go out on that bike alone in case you fall off. lol. Its a machine just look at it, it has a bell and all.

 This is my favorite tulip I just love the colors

 These lillies appear every year around the same time my Mother passed away

 This little flower has just bloomed it was given to me the week my Mum passed as I like these flowers as I used to see them outiside Mums window when I sat with her in the nursing home

 Fresh eggs are in abundance here and we are making all sorts of things. This is our standard breakfast at the moment

I have made the decision to sell of all my guinea pigs and concentrate on gardening and chickens, the part I didnt like was when I had to sell the babies and know what sort of homes they went to and also waiting for people to pick them up and they didnt show up. Today a lovely lady travelled from Bendigo to pick up a couple of them and I gave her a extra few as I knew they were going to a good home. I have only one Mummy and three babies to sell but they wont be ready for a few weeks. That will be the end of the piggies for me.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend xx