Raid

Over the last few days I drove south, conducted a raid on my brothers containerload of nursery equipment and supplies, negotiated a deal with him on an old stainless steel bench that will go well in my (yet to be built) potting shed, dropped off some of his gear I had been using here and picked up an enormous bale of peastraw

(that was a fund raiser for the Rakaia Rugby Club), dug out a couple of bits of furniture, and drove back.

4 days in total.

Today I built a tiny polytunnel

to put my seed trays in, protected a few plants from rabbit predation,

played doinkball with Scully and sowed some flower seeds - calendula, eschscholzias, nasturtiums and tagetes.

Tomorrow I have to go and pick up my water tank.

I wonder when it will next rain… Murphy's Law says we will have a drought now.