Living my dream

By Mima

Late starters

Small clumps of apricot blossom are appearing, between two and three weeks later than in the last three years. I have usually taken photos of trees full of blossom by now.

Still, I am hopeful that the late blooming will give the flowers a better chance of pollination: bumblebees and flies are around now. Also perhaps it will result in late fruit-set, which might mean they don't get blasted by any late frost. That happens more years than not.

I would simply love a bumper crop of apricots like we had two years ago.

As you can see from the extra it has been another of Bean's favourite kind of days: wall to wall sunshine. Mind you we had another -3C frost first. Brr. 

Today was the day to sow tomato seeds (8 varieties), capsicums (4 varieties), onions (red and brown), celery, sunflowers and beetroot. The beetroot seeds will germinate in the tunnelhouse, and the remainder are in the truck on the big shelf. 

The capsicums have a heat mat beneath them to get them going. They won't come up without the additional warmth. Once the capsicums germinate I'll put any ungerminated tomato seed punnets onto the heat mat.

My reading matter at the moment is "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History" by Selena Wisnom. It is one of those books which is showing me how much I don't know. 

I am learning much about cuneiform and the development of writing, as well as Assyrian and Babylonian history. It was a sophisticated and well-developed society, just as complex and well-run as ours. I'm sure there will be some profound thoughts which cross my mind as I progress through the book, but at the moment I am simply soaking in the new information and letting it settle in my head. 

Does my brain have enough capacity to fit it all in?

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