Monday, August 25, 2008

If anything

the weather patterns since June have been constant.

Cloud, fog, light rain, and drizzle for days on end followed by several days of warmer weather, sun, partly cloudy, temperatures getting up into the high twenties.

Then days on end of cloud, fog, light rain and drizzle.

After several nice days culminating in a high of 31 on Friday we are again in the other stuff. The temperatures are not overly cold on land, but a good run of sunny weather would not go unappreciated.

Despite the weather we took a run up into the hills over the weekend to check out the blue berries. They are OK but need some sweetening before we start picking.
Did not try the red berries, way too early for them and the black berries while in abundance, well they are not a favorite of ours.













In the light of melongate I cant help but draw some similarities with this story from Northern Australia.

We can relate to some of the prices for sure, bread costs more here, coke, potatoes when they are flown in, cheese cake, some brands of sausages. Chops; can’t get lamb chops.

I’m sure there are some people who feel the same frustration with the prices; they hide their emotions better is all.

Growing some of your own food would also require a turn around in the desire to do it, but it can be done in spring/summer, desire desire.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why doesn't Fran work at OK Society now??

Brian said...

Not knowing who Anonymous is, or if motives for question are genuine concern for OKS the short answer is: For a year or more Fran loathed getting up in the morning and going to work. It had nothing to do with her commitment to her job; it had more to do with personnel issues, plus the pressure build up of making decisions for 24 years.
Fran being the person she is does not enjoy talking about others, no matter whom or what they have done to her or others, so she walked away.