Ginger beer, yum.

Doing: ...Watching DH dig out more turf out in the backyard and replace it with gravel. Less mowing to be done, it won't get boggy under the clothesline in winter any more and unlike hard paving, it drains rain through it.

...Gratefully accepting a dozen fresh backyard chook eggs in payment for the turf from a mate of DH's. I still find the bright yellow of free-ranging chook egg-yolks startling, LOL, despite being raised on my grandmother's free-range eggs.

Planting: Mignonette lettuce seedlings, Green Globe zucchini, coriander/cilantro (ever the optimist, I might get some leaves out of it before it bolts) and the heritage variety low-chill raspberry. I've stuck in right behind my front fence (facing south-east) where it will get very little direct sun in winter - and most of what it does get should be in early morning - so hopefully it *should* get more chill hours than elsewhere in my garden. Fingers crossed!

Picking: My first capsicum of the season :-) Whilst I have been patiently waiting for my green capsicums (peppers) to ripen to red ('cause I love roasted red capsicum!), I couldn't wait so we had a green one on our pizza tonight. Not bad! I have two big green ones just starting to blush with red (they're brown right now actually, they look rather odd), yum yum.

Making: Ginger beer. The batches are most definitely improving as the plant gets older. It's almost as good as real beer on a hot summer's afternoon, but with the added benefit of not dehydrating you ;-) Yum.



Dinner: Homemade pizza.

Reading: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan.

Contemplating: What I'm going to cook in the solar cooker trial-run tomorrow. Hmmm, so many options :-) Bread rolls for lunch perhaps?