Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a joyful Christmas day.

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Tale of Woe 2 - She Only Wanted a Slice of Watermelon

This is my new refrigerator, a Westinghouse 510L bottom mount, I have had it for less than 2 weeks.

My youngest daughter Samantha went to get the watermelon out of the fridge and instead of using the handle to close the door she used one of the door shelves, this was the result.

The damage toll, one jar of French mustard,

one tiny cut on her foot,

and a shelf that is beyond repair.

I rang Westinghouse this morning and the good news is that because the refrigerator is still under warranty I won't have to pay for a new shelf, otherwise it would have cost $89.00 plus $14.95 delivery fee.
Just over an hour later the same daughter went to into the laundry to feed our dog Bella.

 She put her glass of water on top of the washing machine which as it turned out wasn't such a good idea.

  Hopefully nothing else will go wrong this month.

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Tale of Woe 1 - When Chickens Go Wild

I was in the kitchen cooking dinner on Sunday night when my daughter called me to come outside. "I'm cooking dinner", I told her. Her reply was "I know but you need to see this". So outside I went wondering what could be so important, "You're not going to like this", she said in a very ominous voice. Of course the first thing I thought of was that one of my chickens had died, it wasn't quite that bad but bad enough. The gate to my vegetable garden is a bit dodgy and if you don't latch it right it comes undone and the chickens had gotten into the garden and had themselves a fine old time.

Not a leaf was left on the Kohl Rabi

They ate the lettuce which they would normally turn their noses up at and the cucumber seedlings that I had planted that morning are no more.

Not a single corn seedling was left uneaten.

This bed had bok choy and choy sum in it, not anymore.

The strawberry bed which I had just started to plant up. It only had three plants in it, I can only find one.

The good news is that the tomato plants some of which are just starting to flower were left untouched.

 As where the pumpkin, zucchini, rockmelon and watermelon seedlings. I was already late in getting the garden planted out and this has put me even further behind, so it's off to the big green shed to buy replacemant plants and the gate is now securely tied up,  I don't think I could stand it if this happened again.

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Cloudy with the Chance of Rain

Fingers crossed, it's badly needed!

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Harvest Monday

Pickings from the garden are slim at the moment and all I have to show this week are some chillies

Hot wax chillies

and some coriander seed, 73 grams in all, about half a jam jar full.

There are 4 more plants drying in the gardening shed which I will harvest in the next day or so. Linking up to Daphne's Dandelions. 

I will be back tomorrow with a tale of woe or two.

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