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18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.23
The garden is being pretty intensively worked upon from my wife and I over these last few days and the coming few weeks. We are both home, and we have a relatively open schedule until the middle of Novemeber. That means that we can both dedicate...
15 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.29
We have started to plant herbs in one of our garden beds at home... but all of them are still too young and small to start ripping pieces off for cooking. This is especially true for the two rosemary fledglings, which would have enough leaves fo...
12 Oct 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy $0.19
Both my wife and I are in a bit of a lull period for the next month and a bit... no crazy amounts of music to learn and no travelling for me. That will all pick up again from mid November. That means that we both have a good amount of time durin...
30 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.25
Sigh... this is going to take ages to mix in the Gymsum and Soil Improver... I'm eventually going also add in the horse or sheep manure when we get it shipped in, but for the moment... it is going to be turning the top 10-20 centimetres of the h...
15 Sep 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy $0.23
Ahhhh... last night I had driven back home from Sydney immediately after the concert to be able to be back home with my family for a least a whole day! So, when the kids had gone to school.. my wife and I (and her father) ended up spending a lon...
7 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.08
Phew... this was a luxury! An entire day at home to try and get some backyard work done! Except... I had to go into get some other administration chores done in the morning, and so what I was hoping to be a full day of mucking around in the gard...
14 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.10
This was the last snatch of gardening that I was able to manage before I left on tour... I had a concert in this evening, and after that a flight to get away and on a chain of projects that would have me mostly away with little moments back at h...
11 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.11
I have little days here and there in my touring schedule where I am making an effort to return home to help out with the kids... and to do a bit more on the garden so that it starts to look less like a muddy bogpit and more like a home! This lit...
10 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments ddar1 $0.25
Ingredients as follows: SAUTEE: homemade seasoning saltsweet corn kernelsparmesean cheesebutter--1/2 stickchopped carrots--2 cupschopped red potatoes--3 whole potatoeschopped onion shallots----8 smallchopped garlic--- 10 cloves add 1.5 pints of t...
4 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.14
Today was a crazily wet and windy day in Canberra and the surrounds... as I've mentioned before in previous garden journals, we have recently had our stormwater and sewage redone after the trees decided to take up residence in the old pipes. Tod...
