Post 262 Cooking and hexies

A much cooler, more pleasant day in Adelaide today, down to 20C. I went to Frewville Foodland around 10am to get potatoes, a large leg of lamb and some bakery items. I also bought a bunch of multi-coloured carrots. Back at home I  par-boiled the potatoes and got it all ready to roast later this afternoon. It all worked well - except that I forgot to take the carrots out of the oven. Katherine arrived late from work and Anthony discovered the carrots when he put the meat back in the oven to keep warm until her arrival. She ate a lot of carrots!

 

There was another concrete pour next door today. There now seems to be a ground floor.

At the front of the apartment the jacarandas planted by the Council two years ago, to replace other trees assessed by the arborist as past their use-by date. are growing at varied paces. The ones in the park were smaller when planted (tree No 1). Tree No. 2, which is in front of the building site, is small, but compact and full of growth. Tree 3, which is directly in front of me, is taller, blooming and a bit leggy. 

Looking the other way, however, is less promising. Tree 3 appears here again. Across the road, Trees 5 and 6 are small but alive and blooming. Again, these trees were small when planted. Tree 4, however, appears to be dead. On the whole, the Adelaide City Council is good with trees. I hope they replace that tree soon - and with a large one. It's going to be fabulous at this time of year out there when these trees are more mature. 

While out on the front balcony I decided to separate this lemon-scented pelargonium from the pot of succulent that it is in. It looks good together, but I doubt the competition for nutrients is good for neither plant.The pelagonium root proved to be very long. I hope I haven't done too much damage moving it. I cut back some of the leaves and replanted it in its own 6" pot.

The topic of discussion this afternoon and evening is our Covid hotspot. There are a few questions about the detail of the restrictions. Since the weekend, we have 17 locally acquired cases - linked to a worker in a quarantine hotel, 15 part of one extended family. Health authorities appear to be on to it. Three schools are closed for cleaning and several hundred people required to self-isolate. 

We have been free of the virus since April. In recent weeks, at the Prime Minister's urging, State governments, our own included, responded to the Prime Minister's appeal to States to take more Australians returning from overseas. We have increased our contribution to 450. By last Friday, 17 of these had tested positive for Covid 19. It now seems a cleaner has picked up the disease in one of the hotels and it is now in the community. Other States have closed their borders to SA. Let's hope the quick response from government suppresses its spread.

My stitching time today went into hexies, in an attempt to get the large quilt off the lounge room floor. I got 6 appliqued on. It's a slow process, removing the tacking and papers, then stitching around the edges.

It's pretty tame work after the excitement of Counted Sashiko, but a job that needs doing.