Brush fire and His's and Her's

Bushes and Trees are trimmed and many roots are pulled out already. It starts to look like something. I had to search a lot to find some photo that show how it looked like before. It was so bad that hardly any photo was taken from this area.

A gree wilderness of brambles and wild rasbberries, invading slowly but surely the lawn

There are actually nice bushes and trees there

Brush fire

Yesterday we burned of a lot brambles and bur-seeds.
Better get rid of this stuff.

And the priming job is done. Now starts the wait for a longer warm weather period to get the final coat of colour on. That will not be before next weekend since the weather forecast predicts rain from Sunday to Thursday coming week. I hope so, it is very dry and we need the moisture.
With all these projects around house and garden there is not much time for sophisticated cooking. Today I just made a mashed-sweet potato-com-veggie.
We like this kind of simple food. J.P. got some sausages added.

His'

Her's

Die Büsche und Bäume sind beschnitten, und viele der Wurzel wurden schon ausgerissen. Nun sieht es schon halbwegs ordentlich aus. Gestern haben wir Brombeerranken und Klettengesträuch verbrannt. Besser gleich weg damit! ....mehr ("read more" anklicken)

Time out for informational reading

No post yesterday because I was reading the complete notes of the Norwegian Court for Thursday. That took me a full two hours!
There is no doubt that he is guilty, but I wanted to know "why" he did what he did. Unsettling to read what that guy is coming up with.
Since I lived in Norway for near 20 years I am still interested in what is going on "over there".

The raspberries are loosing territory!

The whole morning was occupied with cutting more raspberry plants down to the ground and, extract small tree roots with help of our little jeep. 

The open space revealed to us six concrete blocks and, we assume that they must have been foundation for a small barn way down in the past. When hubby tried to get these out of the ground it showed they were rooted deeper than anticipated.

Luckily a contractor was working on the neighbouring property and, he came over to offer us help. With his equipment it took about halve an hour to remove all concrete blocks. He was friendly enough to also remove several boulders he found in the ground. The clearing is now ready to be shaped into something.

And there was that part of the wall that we failed to finish up last fall, and since the weather was right I started on the priming process. 
              

As to the question why I didn't complete the task, I will tell you that there was only a certain amount of paint in my can. I figured that I would have to start supper by the time it was used up. (Which was not a big affair today, just leftovers.)

Die Himbeeren sind im Moment auf der Verliererseite. 
Den ganzen Morgen haben wir damit verbracht weiter Himbeerbüsche zu entfernen, Steine zu sammeln und kleine Baumwurzeln wurden mit Hilfe unseres Jeeps aus dem Boden zu reißen. (Weiterlesen : siehe "read more")

Gardening and Danish Waffles

2nd part of Thirsday's events:
After a foggy start of the morning the day turned out as a cloudy day, a good work weather. Many wheelbarrows with soil were prepared and filled into my little garden bed. 

Thin layers of peat-moss and some compost were added. 

Our compost bin yielded 2 wheel-barrels full of black soil!  Not bad at alle.

I used a plastic crate to separate the rocks and the roots. 

Which worked pretty well.

I guess I need another day of work before the top layer of gardening soil (vermiculite) gets added. 

There are negative sides of living on this island. One is that we are NOT allowed to import any soil, plants or bulbs from the US. Not even when bought in Canada and just transferred through the US. It is not like go shopping at the nearest garden centre whenever you feel for it.

Nay - we have to wait until the ferry starts going again. Then we can go direct to mainland Canada and get  the necessary gardening stuff. But that will be in the end of June, way too late for my garden project.

Many gardeners buy their supplies in the fall, store it and get an early start in May, but I didn't plan that far and now I have to make do with what I can get. 

There are some leftover soil bags at the local grocery, so there is hope. 

For coffee I baked some thin Danish Waffles. I was lucky and found an old fashioned waffle iron on the flee-marked. 

Ingredients for waffles baked with WATER. (We like them crisp)

1 cup       butter

1 cup sugar

   

3   eggs

2 2/3      cup flour       
1/2 tsp   baking powder
1 tsp  vanilla essence
1 cup       cold water (better: club soda)

Beat butter and sugar. Add one egg at a time. Blend baking powder and flour. Mix vanilla and water. Add flour one cup at a time to the egg batter. Add water. Ladle onto waffle iron and bake ca 2 minutes or until brown.
Cool on a rack. Serve sprinkled with icing sugar.