Hot weekend

Pic of Jonnie....this will make sense if you read the entire posting

It's been a bloody hot weekend! Not the kind of weather that you should be pushing lawn mowers around to cut 3 acres of lawn, but alas, Rita had decided she didn't want to play coupled with the rather long grass that had been growing with all the perfect growing conditions meant we had no choice but to mow. And mow. And mow. And mow some more. Because much of the grass was so long, we had to mow over the same spot a couple of times. We was a cursin' I can tell ya. Then back down this morning at 7a, to mow down there before the sun became too hot.

Vivien, our latest helper, and I then went around all our fruit trees and raked off the mulch, fertilized with pellets and fish emulsion, watered in, and remulched.

Hot.

We pick up our friend, Jonny, this arvie at Lismore station. Jonnie was the deputy British High Commish for PNG back in 2003 and I stayed with him in his lavish house for a few days back then. These days he is posted in the Middle East and gets around with a bullet proof vest on much of the time. Jonnie is staying till Wednesday.