AUTUMN

On Wednesday we got our second load of firewood and got it stacked away.  It was just over 1.5 cubic metres and is offcuts from a nearby mill.  Various sizes which suits us fine.  Usually we stack together, me loading the wheelbarrows and Doug emptying them but this time I got the smaller pieces and stacked them in containers while Doug dealt with the larger pieces and this worked well.  As usual we stacked it when it was delivered.

We ordered a third load plus some lengths of timber for Doug to make picture frames and were expecting to wait a week or two for that to be delivered but got a call the following afternoon and had the delivery.  As it was late in the afternoon we just stacked a small amount and did most of it on Friday.  We were both tired at the end of it but it was a good tiredness.  The timber delivered for Doug was Redwood.

                                               Just a part of the timber stacked in the shed

The containers of the smaller wood stacked three deep in another shed.  I was running out of containers hence the polystyrene one in the front.  There were also about half a dozen containers of the very small wood at the bottom of the first photo.

It is really starting to feel like autumn and this morning when we got up at 6 a.m. to go to the Market it was quite chilly and dark.  By the time we arrived at the Market it was light.   Our vegetable garden is starting to wind down with only a few beans and tomatoes left now apart from one Russian Red tomato that is just starting to turn colour so we bought quite a variety.

Today we bought leeks, a couple of Buttercup squash, a small broccoli, some figs, a bunch of bananas (we have three bunches on ours but they are not ready yet), a new to us variety of plum, some Asian aubergine, blueberries, Reed avocadoes, 500 gm. tomatoes and a tray of free range eggs.  Our diet has already changed from our summer diet.