Home January’s Challenge: BE TIDY
Cull the salt shakers! In the pantry there is a large lunch box with a big assortment of salt shakers and salt grinders. This untidy collection has occurred because in our Queensland climate, we have experimented with many sea-salt grinders, looking for one that will continue to do its job in spite of humidity. Now, there is nothing wrong with all of these salt grinders - they are just not able to handle our humidity.
Recently Son-number-3 came home with an expensive Russell Hobbs battery operated salt grinder, plus the receipt so that I would repay him for his kindness! It has a button to push which starts the process, and it even has a light so that one can easily see how much salt is being showered on the food! The fancy salt grinder which needs 4 AA batteries to function, is doing a very good job, so out go the old grinders, and in comes the new!
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Recently Son-number-3 came home with an expensive Russell Hobbs battery operated salt grinder, plus the receipt so that I would repay him for his kindness! It has a button to push which starts the process, and it even has a light so that one can easily see how much salt is being showered on the food! The fancy salt grinder which needs 4 AA batteries to function, is doing a very good job, so out go the old grinders, and in comes the new!
Garden SEAWEED
My kind friend, Mandy, informed me a couple of weeks ago that some seaweed had been washed up on our local beach, which is usually free of both shells and seaweed - a shame! So I headed for the ocean's edge before the tide came in to wash back a possible treasure. We rarely smell that delightful sea-smell that is characteristic of beaches where there is seaweed, and the smell reminded me of the many times, as a young mum, when with a little brood of children, we visited my parents who lived at Victor Harbor in South Australia. My dad had a lovely vege patch created on a rocky hill with an amazing view of The Bluff - a patch of fertile soil created by collecting many trailer-loads of seaweed.
I now have a big bin of seaweed soaking in water, and am feeling proud of my home-made seaweed-fertilizer-brew!
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| 5 month old Erin Rose surfing at King's Beach |
May our lives be salted with goodness
from Robyn
from Robyn
Robin in a flowering gum
Painted by Brenda, Robyn’s mum