Two esses

The title of today's Journal entry neatly sums up my main achievements for the day.

As a bit of a diversion, I'm not sure why I feel the need to do stuff each day. Is it a hangover from a working life, where I was mostly self-managed, and needed to ensure that my days were productive?* Is it an inbuilt personality trait? I'm not sure, but I do know that I do like to make stuff, and take immense satisfaction from a job well done.

For the sake of balance, I can also be a lazy sod, and will happily spend all day with my head in a book.

Now, back to the two esses.

The first of these was the production of yet another batch of tomato soup. The tomato plants are producing an amazing quantity of fruit at the moments, and I estimate that I am picking about 3 lbs every other day. 

Surprisingly, 30% has mentioned diverting a portion of the crop to make, and freeze batches of cooked tomatoes. I say "surprisingly" as she adores our homemade tomato soup, declaring this each time she eats it. 

So, with the soup made, I was hoping for an afternoon of gentle pottering. However, I had foolishly forgotten that 30%** had arranged for us to head out, to collect a load of horse manure for the veg patch. 

A consequence of this was that I needed to fit the tow ball to the car, before hitching up the trailer.  The muck heap was only about three miles from home, and it wasn't overly arduous to fill the trailer to the brim with shit. We were invited to come and collect further loads, provided that the fields do not get too wet.

So that was my day. I have in excess of two litres of tomato soup ready for freezing and a trailer full of shit ready to be spread over the veg patch ... two esses.

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* That's time-critical complex deliverables for you.

** One of my wife's personality traits is that she can be a bit of a girl guide. This manifests it self as an uncontrollable desire to perform good deeds, whether they are wanted or not.  The dark side of this compulsion is that she can, on occasion be, shall we say, a little interfering.  

On this occasion she offered up surplus apples from our trees via Facebook. A local lady came and picked up a couple of bags as treats for her horses. The conversation go around to horse manure, and the rest, as they say, is history. I should state, for the record, that this is one occasion when my girl guide wife came up trumps.

Post Script: I must also record that we had our first decent rainfall today after more than thirteen weeks of drought. We still need weeks of rain to restore the land, but today's fall was very welcome.