Lamb and Goat's Cheese Burger

Thursday is our quiet day business wise in that no customers come to pick up so there's no time clock pressure to have things ready by a certain time. I had run out of coconut oil (for cooking) and had planned to go to Narre Warren or Dandenong to get some. I had some chicken drumsticks in the freezer that were due for cooking and Lib suggested I make a curry and gave me a procedure so I was into it after she left for work and also preparing a week's supply of chook food (7 containers of mixed delicacies that we give the chooks each evening as we put them to bed). While this was happening I washed the sheets thinking they might dry before the forecast rain, and remade the bed with other ones from the linen cupboard when the rain came early.

I had planned to go to the farm and pick some dogwood before Gord and I went to 'Grill'd' for lunch in Narre Warren. Gord has been wanting to take me there for ages. It was raining lightly but steadily when we got to the farm. Nothing had been picked  and I was disappointed as Shane our main wholesaler had said he'd take 200 bunches of white dogwood on Friday. That's at $7.50 a bunch. My writing class resumes Friday and I do want to go, so I said to Gord, "Coat and all we'll get wet but let's go down the back and pick for an hour before we go off to Narre." To his credit he agreed and did not complain at getting wet, his coat did not have a hood. It's not easy work, especially in the rain, working off a ladder on a steep slope with a pole cutter. I cut while Gord gathered and trimmed, we bunched 25 and tied into bundles of five and left them on the track for Jod to pick up later with the quad bike. So it was a day off with an hours work to help for the next day. We'll never get 200 bunches tomorrow but at least we made a start.

The rain had worked its way through my coat and down my neck, my shirt and singlet was wet. My gumboots had splits in both so my socks were wet. I had dry leather boots in the van and a nice warm cardigan. I did a bit of banking business in Emerald, and paid my fees at the community house for this term's fees for writing class and computer class. Then we headed to Narre. With dry boots and cardigan over wet shirt I was starting to warm up.

The lamb burger was sensational. Gord had one too.We had a big bowl of fries each. Rarely am I so satiated. We moved on to Healthy Life Shop where I bought two big jars of coconut oil. Also to Aldi for a few of our standards.

It was a great day. By the time I got home I'd dried out. Lib had lit the fire. The cool change had come after 30C yesterday. I finished my column for Signpost to submit in the morning after a reread/ edit.I had struggled with this all week, just couldn't pull it together, and would start, then get sleepy like a zombie, no good. Who would think a 300-400 article could be so hard. But after 4 years of it, ideas are a bit thin and perhaps there's burn out.