Missed One

Somehow,

 we all missed spotting this zucchini in the veggie patch.

It weight in at 1.7kg.

It has now been turned into soup and

tucked away in the freezer.

Jacqueline :)

Wholesale

My first wholesale order for the year

has departed ZippyZippy HQ.

The 10 Buntings are headed to

"Rising Spirit" in Exmouth WA.

Jacqueline :)

A Day On The Green

Last weekend,

 we had a couple of child free days at Halls Gap.

The village was packed with visitors for

The Halls gap Jazz Festival.

It was great to see the visitors in town

after the debarcle over the states first

"Code Red Fire Day"

when accomodation was cancelled

left, right and centre.

Everywhere you went you could hear music,

and boy, those Jazz enthusiasts

sure do know how to have a great time.

We met up with friends Ross & Lyndal at

The Day On The Green

at Seppelt Wines Great Western.

The weather was perfect, great crowd

and fantastic atmoshere.

Dan Sultan & Tim Freedman (pic) performed

Along with Evermore

And the mighty Hoodoo Gurus

There were lots of Horsham locals

in attendence

Leanne & Smiley

Whooa and boys, Tex & Archie

Dean & Lisa

Matt & Vernetta

Keryn & Tony

Matt & Janene

Matt & friends

Jacqueline & Stacey

Ross & Paul (our local press photographer)

This mum and her young son came up from Melbourne,

they danced all afternoon and all evening,

he danced on the esky.

They had a fantastic time,

you could clearly see what a wonderful relationship they had.

Poor Peter, towards the end of the evening,

(it was dark)

he went for a walk and bumped into a bit of wood.

It hit his shin, it bled, he put a bandaid on.

Sunday the leg was a bit sore.

Went home to Horsham,

by Sunday night, he was in alot of pain,

 Monday morning he could not stand

and was in excrutiating pain.

Admitted to hospital for 3 days with a very infected leg.

It is now a week since the incident,

he can only just put weight back on the leg.

Get well soon Peter

the veggie patch is missing you!

See you at A Day On The Green next year,

Peter will be the one with a lamp attached to his head.

Jacqueline :) 

Red Day

Yesterday was a red day,

Some red customer orders.

Some red cards

Red cordial 

A red harvest yesterday morning

Red icy poles after a hot walk home from school

Homemade tomato soup,

Made with home grown tomato's, capsicum, onions and herbs.

Jacqueline :)

The Carrot Smell

I needed to grate some carrot tonight.

Off to the vegie patch I went.

We have had a constant supply of home grown carrots

since 1st October, there will be

many more months of supply as we have done

staggered plantings over the summer.

The carrots we harvest are not as uniform and perfect

as their supermarket "very distant cousins"

There is always great exitement when we find odd ones.

Our carrots have a wonderful smell and taste.

I can tell you

Supermarket carrots do not smell like carrots at all.

And, what is with these?

They were all in a row,

Sort of look like they have exploded under ground.

Does anyone know how this happens?

Too much water

Not enough water

Too hot, Too cold

Harvested to late

Have a great weekend

Jacqueline :)

Buried Treasure

A couple of weeks ago, we had our annual spud harvest.

It was a "boys only" job

The varieties planted were Nicola, Desiree and Charlotte.

Peter was a little disappointed, he expected many more

from one whole bed dedicated to spuds.

The big goal was to find the oddest shapes.

It's been a long wait for the boys,

planting was a long time ago

Jacqueline :)