Thursday week 5

Back to Newtown Park before breakfast. We started on the perimeter anticlockwise then did out normal run, total 3.7k. Mornings are cooler and ideal for running. The trees still have leaves and there were more people out walking than usual - maybe 6 or so couples and dogs.
We had toasted fruit buns for breakfast.
Another warm sunny day 24 degrees is a bit better than earlier this week. I have pruned the leucaena on the neighbour's fence another neglected garden bed.

Wednesday week 5

Liz's birthday. We had a chat on the phone.
After breakfast we went for a ride on our bikes. 7 km and slightly faster than last Friday. We are putting it on Strava.
Today I made fruit buns and we had hot ones for afternoon tea.
I finished sieving the mulch from the tip and will go out for more but no more sieving as it is dusty and we have enough fine stuff now.
My book In the Shadow of the Sword arrived at last. It took a month.
Em is coming up sometime so I have replanted her herb trough with oregano, parsley and thyme in fresh potting mix, and the other one has lettuce, kale and silver beet.
I planted out another Clerodendrum near the letterbox.

Tuesday 21 April week 5

It is week 5 since we locked down at Cotswold Hills.
This morning we walked at Mt Peel after breakfast. We found a new and interesting route on the NW part of the reserve. On the way home we dropped a Tuesday Walks photobook off at Francis' house. He was out walking.
After coffee at home we went to the Council Depot and filled the boot with bags of mulch. They are working down the last pile as they redesign their area and there will be no free mulch days [loaded for you] until July. I am completing the last and lowest bay of the vegie garden today by filling it up with mulch. It will be higher than previously and I will rest it from sweet potatoes for a while.
On the way home I had the bright idea to sieve the hard lumps out so it is basically soil going in and the coarse stuff can go on the garden beds where I have been weeding.

Monday 20 April week 5

It has taken a few weeks to get on to the diary of the 2020 lockdown because we are so busy.
Monday morning started with a run at sunrise. Dick is pacing me and improving my speed and has come on Monday around Cotswold Hills twice now. We start the week at the top of our Highfields parkrun virtual Strava group, then Emily comes on, Marty in the afternoon.
I got another bed of the vegie garden sown with some broad beans and pea seeds I had saved in the fridge, then I got the sleeper for the last bed in position. It was nice to resolve the design with existing materials and it all looks much more tidy after the neglect of the past couple, or few, years.
I went around watering all the small trees I have planted lately.
I am still working through Asterix noting the interesting words and meanings, and getting a bit more knowledge of the Roman invasion of Gaul in 56 BC. Also reading Karl Kruselnicki's book which I have listed on Gumtree.
We are watching a thriller on TV called Capture, catching up on 6 episodes.

Sunday 19 April week 4

I planted out the cauliflower seedlings I germinated and also sowed radish and beetroot in the third garden bed, then prepared the fourth.

In the afternoon we had a zoom meeting with the Covs and Tavs, all with glasses of red wine. Toby also joined in. It worked out well.
We also had a long phone chat with Jim and later with Em.

Saturday 18 April week 4

Our 5k run on Gowrie Tilgonda road went well. We passed Ann Marie Lyons with another woman and a girl with two dogs, a car and a delivery van. Nice quiet road to run on, starting and finishing on some corrugated gravel this time but it worked out well.
Planted out the pumpkin seedlings in the second bed of the vegie garden and prepared the third bed. I got the seedlings out of the worm farm a few weeks ago and put them in tubes. They were yellow at first and quickly turned green but in recent days they were starting to wilt and die in the tubes. They like being in the garden. I also put in some unknown pumpkin seeds off the kitchen bench.
I sold the red Dunlop pushbike in the afternoon for $20. I had spent $15 on new tubes in order to sell it but it is good to be gone and hopefully the young girl who got it will enjoy it.
I  listed the polystyrene wine racks on Gumtree.
We had a zoom meeting with Em and Lee at Happy Hour.

Friday 17 April week 4

Bike ride to Ryan road is 7km. It was good to get back on the bike. I listed the red Dunlop Lakeside bike on Gumtree for $20 to cover the $15 I spent on new tubes.

Wednesday 15 April

Easter is over and has been very quiet it seems. 25 of the 43 cases on Darling Downs have recovered.
I posted a textbook to a girl in Melbourne today. I also listed Margaret Viiney's writing course books on Gumtree and Natural Medicine for Women a library cast off from Burnie.
We went to Aldi to do our shopping list which we have collated for a couple of weeks and got nearly everything. Over $100 again but they have raised the limit for pay wave to $200 so we don't have to remember a pin number.
We put the tubes in the red bike and went for a ride. It has been quite a while since I last rode a bike.

Easter Sunday

We went shopping at Woolworths as we were running out of flour and breadmix. There was a queue waiting for it to open but quite orderly. No breadmix but I got 2 x 2kg packs of flour, 2 tins of beer mix, oats, corned beef, an apple for the Italian Apple cake recipe to complement my solitary one, and they had a bag of potting mix - very expensive, as was the pasta. I was able to use Em's $20 voucher from Qantas points before the next one arrives. Aldi is a much better shopping experience because the shelves are not so high and the range of brands for groceries seems unnecessary.
But it did take the pressure off our shopping needs as we have been trying to last 2 weeks and past Easter.