Mowers Fire Up

I mowed the grass around the house yesterday, the first time in many weeks. There were plenty of neighbours' mowers going too.

I planted 6 white lilacs at the farm. These I'd had in pots for 12 months after digging them up as suckers at Huit's last winter. I made room for them by cutting out 5 big crabapples that we hadn't been able to use for the florists (the birds and black spot always ruined them) as part of my renovations.

Speaking of Huit, I saw him and Wilma as they were going in to church this morning. Wilma, looking lovely, ducked in out of the cold quickly. Huit and I had a chat about the onion weed in his shade house, and my beehive near his vegie garden. I told him I'd move it one day this week, while it was cold and I can lock it up in daylight. It's been a bit savage and got after him a few times last season when he mowed nearby. I saw George Hilder too, he asked would I prune the roses at the back of his house.

I noticed the 'CLOSED DOWN' sticker on the market sign has been removed. I read in the local paper that it's hoped the market will start again in late August. For a happy but brief time I thought I'd be spared the Sunday traffic jams and the dreadful sign, but it appears not so.

A young lady whose house I walk past daily asked me did I see anything out of the ordinary yesterday. Someone smashed both the passenger side windows of her car with large rocks between 11am and 3pm. I walked past well before 9am and didn't see anything unusual, but that's a strange thing to happen in the middle of the day, especially in a quiet place like Gembrook, with no apparent motive.

The good news is there are still no bellbirds to be seen or heard.