Over the past month we have had a few visitors to the farm. We do a tour of the block explain where we will build the house, gardens, chicken pen and put the pigs. During these visits we stop to raid the wild raspberries growing on the hill side. We have two varieties growing; a larger red plump one which is little sourer than the tiny yellow sugar hit one that tastes as sweet as honey and very refreshing. We still have loads on our raspberry bushes, it only dawned on me the other day to use them for jam. Do you think you would eat yellow raspberry jam?
Recently I got a new job at a nursery I am on to week three. My hat goes off to all you bloggers out there who work full-time and still blog. Over the past two weeks I have been so physically exhausted that my body just wants to curl up and read. I have built a few muscles and lost two kilo’s since starting which is good. Though my back and shoulders are not in it for the long run. The plus side of working with plants is that I am learning more about them, how they grow and different varieties. I am slowly working on fitness and losing a few kilo’s always helps. I might just look fit and fabulous at the food conference in Adelaide this weekend. Yet my body will be aching all over.
Sometimes people over commit and I guess I am one of those people. I am studying working a 30 hour week, write weekly recipes for several local papers, mentoring beginner food bloggers, nurturing my garden and going to the gym. Life is busy yet plentiful. So I have to apologise in advance for the lack of blog posts, I will try to keep it up. Hopefully my routine starts to develop so I can catch up on all the blogs I miss reading.
In two weeks we will be doing our first harvest of the garden. You can take a look at facebook with the pictures of our tiny veggies.
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Hi Lizzie, the raspberries look so good, perfect in fact and yellow raspberry jam sounds wonderful.
Wow what a busy schedule you have! Look forward to seeing the veggies from your first harvest and meeting you at the blogging conference this weekend. Catherine
Looking forward to meeting you too Catherine. See you there.
Congrats on the new job. I work too, but I just have to blog less. I learned a long time ago, you can do it all, you just can’t do it all well. So now I pick and choose my priorities. Gorgeous berries.
-Gina-
Thanks Gina. Yes I am still learning how to juggle all of my commitments.
Those raspberries look delicious! I have never seen yellow raspberries before but they sound tasty! You sound incredibly busy!! Well done on the new job. It is hard to fit in blogging with a full-time job…but you find time for things you enjoy! Have fun in Adelaide this weekend, hope we have some nice weather for you
wow i’ve never seen yellow raspberries before. love the colours.
Congratulations on the new job and it was great to finally meet you, even if we had to travel all the way to Adelaide to do so!
Melissa it was great to meet you too. We will have to organise a brizzy gig for Christmas to all get together again.