Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

(((HUGS))) I remember that so well. Like setting too many places at the table..

We will see you through Christmas. Although I do not celebrate the way most do. It is simply a holy time here.

Here for thee

 

Oops, sorry Upsy ... it was your photography or most likely my eyes as I missed the Olives till Logan pointed them out! The second photo certainly looks healthy and is a good size. Will you put it in the ground or large pot?

Do you know which variety it is? The one against my house is a bitter small black one but the ones behind us are fat green ones, the same as our friends have here. In the 23 years we have owned this house we have never seen a green olive on the tree against our wall ... and the sodding black things fall down our chimney onto the cooker!

This is it against the kitchen wall ...

 

No need to apologise Vicky...I know full well my photography skills are zilch and with the added assault of only every using my tablet's camera.....I amaze myself sometimes at just how brilliant.. (..ly awful) my pictures are on here.
Now sit down everyone this might shock you ( it did me), but on another forum I once won the photo of the month competition...yes ME!!! Can you believe it??? Ok I heard that chorus of....NOOOO!!! .


Anyway back on track....I think it's a pretty basic one ( can you even get basic plants)

 

Probably keep it in a pot Vicky...sorry forgot to answer your question!! It says that following the 1st frost of winter move it to a cool, light room for it's dormancy period.

 

Well that looks a better pic and it looks fine.

 

What is the first frost of Winter, pray tell?

 

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@Islander77 ... it is a joke ... we don't have frost where I live in Algarve. Currently we are under a heat warning and fires of any kind are banned in rural areas.. I guess BBQs are okay as most restaurants cook on them. Temp to go to at least 32c today with night lows not below 20c, as it did yesterday.

 

Ah I see! lol...I would melt to a spot of grease. A cool northern bird. me! Makes me glad I chose Ireland when I left Orkney as Portugal was on my original list...

 

I have always been a Southern Gal ... born in South Wales, emigrated to Toronto, lived in Alabama for 14 years, lived in Bucks and the IoW before moving here 19 years ago. The only North I have been is Long Island, NY, and Connecticut for 6 years.

Northern Portugal has a lot of rain and snow ... but nice Summers.

 

Feeling a little smug! And relieved. Small situations can be hard here; I am so used to doing everything myself that perforce relying on others.... An issue re an outgoing parcel and in incoming prescription... however with a couple or three careful phone calls.. one has just left and the other is here. lol

 

The first frost is that pretty white covering that you wake up to on nippy mornings in.....August.. hmm could even be July, nope maybe June.....got it, definitely May!!! Or is that the last frost ....

 

The one that follows the last frost of Autumn.

 

We dug out the bag of clothes that are no longer worn to make some stylish face coverings. We found some very worn flannel pyjamas The Teenager used to love and I had this brilliant idea of making a mascot out of the material. A cute little pink mouse perhants?

As it goes, I'm in general not brilliant at many things but for some reason I'm superbly proficient in making mouse's ears. Give me a piece of cloth, scissors and a needle and lo behold, the best ever mouse ears are there.



On the downside, I have actually only needed mouse ears once in my life, when making a toy mouse. The rest of the cases ( a carnival bear costume for a toddler, a bunny toy, a fun cat hat for a baby all went well apart from the ears- all had mouse ears. Pretty good mouse ears though. )

In the end, no face coverings got made but the most harrowing mouse mascot (albeit with perfect ears) was created. The Teenager is still in stitches and photographing the vaguely drug addict lookalike mascot around the house.