Doing: ... Listening to the gutters overflowing and wishing we had the room for more water tanks. After receiving no significant rain for over 5 weeks, we've had 74mm (3 inches) of rain in the last two days and it's still raining on and off today.


Making: ...Starting a Superhero cape for a end-of-term dress-up party on Saturday, and yet another apron for another birthday party, also on Saturday.


... I've also accepted a last-minute invitation to a double Christening on Sunday (eek!) - suggestions for any quick and easy sewing projects for presents for them will be gratefully accepted! They are both girls, one is 6 months, the other is 2 1/2.


Baking: ... Roasting butternut pumpkins to puree and freeze (to be used later in soups and pumpkin lasagne). I'm saving the seeds of the largest one for next year's plantings.

... Apple pies using the last of the apple pie filling I froze last year (and made from my Mum's Granny Smith's). Recipe to come on Friday ;-)

Preserving: ... Eggplants, via Gavin's Brinjal Pickles.

In The Garden: ... Harvesting my first lemon of the season. But check it out - my lemon has a navel.

It's a Meyer lemon, which is technically a cross between a lemon and an orange, but it is also planted next to a Washington Navel orange tree, so I'm unsure if it's a genetic throwback, or if it cross-pollinated with an orange blossom? I'm sure it tastes good, either way :-)

Dinner: ... Organic chicken and vegetable soup with crusty bread rolls.

Reading: ... Simple Prosperity, David Wann.

Contemplating: ... How it got to be April 1 already!