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Good Learnings



This morning I decided that I had to mow the lawn before the rain came. I then had to wait two hours after I got up to start so as not to piss off the neighbours. Some good learnings from the lawn mowing exercise.

1. I now know why dad never takes up the offer of mowing my lawn.

2. There is not much lawn at my place it is mostly bloody edges.

3. If you put the mower on the lowest setting so you don’t need to mow again for ages it is very, very hard to push.

4. The lowest setting does not cope well with exposed tree roots.

5. Paspalum requires mowing in three different directions to actually cut those big hairs off.

6. Two up from the lowest setting seems to be a bit easier going on the mower.

7. The mower now requires some repairs and maintenance

8. I told the lawn mowing boys mum he would be getting a pay rise.

9. Pay no attention to the weather report on RNZ.

So I made an extra special effort with the edges and like and the place now temporarily looks like a park, but I was thoroughly exasperated with the job and now hold lawn mowing boy in high esteem.

Anyway the bacon business. On closer inspection of the salt mixture it has finely chopped bay leaf in it, god knows what else as I made it some months ago but I think the quantities I shared yesterday were just to get the salt/sugar/pepper ratio right and after that you can add seasoning of your choice. The seasonings of choice that were sadly not recorded in the “book of random things that worked that my well one day become a cook book “. So I poured about ½ a cup of liquid off the bellies this morning, re-salted with a good handful of salt for each piece and put them back in the fridge.

Tonight I am on the deck again with johnsey burner going, I cooked some homemade sausages on it while listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G383538qzQ and I have ordered fresh fish online to be delivered to my door by Egmont Seafoods at https://www.egmontseafoods.co.nz/. I can also report I received a delivery from http://www.hamdenestate.co.nz/ so they are back in business!






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  1. RebeccaApril 7, 2020 at 1:01 PM

    Jake is very proud of your lawns!!

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  2. JodyHApril 7, 2020 at 3:17 PM

    Wish I was in your bubble... for the pork belly not the lawns!

    ReplyDelete

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