We had a call yesterday afternoon from friends in Deloraine inviting us to a picnic. They're trying to. make it a regular Sunday event and it's nice to be included. However, their plan was to head out towards Port Sorrel and pick up some pumpkins from roadside stalls so that they could make some soup for the winter. It sounds like a good plan but we said No. Deloraine is 50Km from here and Port Sorrell is another 50 Km on from there and the idea of a 200 Km round trip with the only benefit being a bowl of pumpkin soup at some time in the future didn't sound attractive.
Anyway, Marilyn had come home from a trip to Bunnings a couple of days ago with a tray of pansies and wanted to tidy up our hanging gardens. The current pots have been spectacular but there are a few dead spots and some straggly ones so Marilyn wanted to bring them back to their usual glory.
I avoided putting a damper on proceedings by suggesting that the beginning of winter was not necessarily a great time for planting but kept my mouth shut. We spent a couple of hours doing that in the afternoon and that was more productive than driving to Port Sorell. I'm sure our supermarket sells pumpkins anyway.
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