melvania

Puzzled…

melvan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:47:31 +0000

Any guesses what Caleb’s new interest is?

Knee high by the fourth of…December?!

melvan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:54:37 +0000

Yes, we have sweet corn growing in our back yard. And despite the temperatures rising to as high as 44.1, it’s doing really well. A couple of the plants are already knee high.

Also have some capsicum plants and one (out of six planted) bean plant. The cucumber plants all died within a couple days of planting. And there’s a couple new potato plants coming up as well.

And…somehow a peach seed managed to find fertile enough ground within a metre of my compost heap. So I’ve got the one I planted last autumn, and now another much smaller one. Go figure.

Writer’s block

melvan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:50:22 +0000

Day 5 and I’ve already got it. Pretty pathetic. I even had something great I thought of when I was at the shop across the road tonight, but can I remember it now? Of course not.

Ah well.

This is the post for yesterday.

melvan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:09 +0000

Meant to post yesterday but it got to 11:30 or something and Caleb was still awake, and so yeah, it just didn’t happen.

Modern pet peeve

melvan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:37:11 +0000

So I read a lot of blogs, and because of this, I have all the ones that use RSS (really simple syndication) come to me through a feed reader. And it really bugs me that certain ones only have a summary of whatever the new post is about (first few lines or whatever) rather than the entire post. The whole point of reading blogs in a feed reader is so you DON’T have to go to each web page individually.

National Blog Posting Month

melvan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:24:32 +0000

Thought I’d give it another go this year. So here’s my first entry. Not much to say. See you again tomorrow!

Well, I guess I’ll be freebirthing my next baby.

melvan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:08:36 +0000

That, or flying to New Zealand for the birth. Because no way am I going to go to hospital, and no way will any of the independent midwives I know just follow along like good little girls and work with a GP or obstetrician. That’s kinda the whole point of them being INDEPENDENT.

http://savehomebirth.com.au/news/?p=640

Hi, my name is Mel, and I haven’t used shampoo in about two weeks.

melvan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:59:04 +0000

Yes, seriously.

What am I using instead? Just water and baking soda. And my hair is still clean! I’m never buying shampoo again.

Stuff Caleb would love for Christmas

melvan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:14:36 +0000

Duplo. He’s really getting into building stuff with it (Nan’s house, Cranky the crane from Thomas & Friends, towers).

Some of the Thomas characters – the wooden railway ones. Bertie the bus, James, Gordon, Toby, Harvey, Salty. And there’s a Cranky the Crane at K-Mart that he really liked the look of too.

Will add to this list when I can think of other stuff.

You sure it’s not April 1st?

melvan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:23:57 +0000

Just noticed on our bank’s website that they’re actually REDUCING and REMOVING fees. I swear this is the first time I’ve ever heard of this happening.