… at this blogging thing.

Mostly I am bad because I have no time. Working, studying and all the house stuff is taking up most of my time. I picked up my camera the other day to get some photos of Ellie and it was the first time in a long time. I haven’t even blogged about Ellie, but photos have probably been randomly coming up for all to see.

So who is Ellie, she is my Murray River Curly Coat Retriever puppy that I picked up on November 28 from Kingston SE. She is an adorable little girl and an absolute pain in the arse at the same time but I wouldn’t give her up. She likes to dig and I expected that, so I put up a fence around my garden, except she likes to jump and the fence isn’t tall enough and she can jump straight over it. She is currently spending some days at Mum and Dads with their dog Abbie so she isn’t home a lot on her own, but I am leaving her home more and more each week, by the end of February she will pretty much be home every day – so the fence height will be increased before then.

What else is happening, I have gone back to studying at Open University – the goal is to complete Accounting and Business Degree within 4-5 years and at the current rate I should be able to do it. Open Uni works on 4 study periods per year (instead of 2 semester) and I am doing 2 units per study period (instead of 4 per semester) so I am effectively studying full time over the 12 month period. I have found it tough getting back into the swing of things – university is nothing like real life (well the life I have lived so far anyway). I have completed a total of 4 essays/reports (I am half way through my second study period – so half way through my third and fourth units) and I can’t believe how much crap you have to talk in the essays/reports. Where I work a report to management is considered long if it is more than a page and it is usually in point form. In the four essays/reports so far I have written about 6,000 words which has been rather tough, I am in the middle of a 2,250 word report at the moment on Health and Safety Management and I find the research side of the report difficult to find the right sources. I am soldiering on and sort of starting to enjoy it, next study period is classed as study period 1 in the academic year and I get to start on the accounting subjects – so I am bound to be calling on any accountants out there to ask questions if Dad or Kristen are sick of me asking.

I have a nice vegetable garden happening in the back yard, which has so far gone untouched by Ellie. It has produced lots of Zucchini and up to about 10kg of Roma tomatoes so far from 4 plants and 8 corn cobs from 6 plants. The Might Red tomatoes and cucumbers haven’t done do well and the Cayenne Peppers I planted aren’t very strong, so I have planted some Jalapenos to make up for it, hopefully it wasn’t too late.

I am preparing to plant some fruit trees, I am looking to set up 3 espalier trees along 2 sides of my shed. Not sure what exactly I will plant yet, but peach, plum, nectarine are prime candidates. I purchased some metal fencing posts through work and hope to get them installed over the next week or 2 – I have no idea when the right time to plant fruit trees are, I reckon winter but I will need to do some more research on this.

I have a sore back, but it isn’t getting better so I am trying hard to ignore it and just keep doing what I need to do.

Hopefully the next update wont take as long as this one.

My oldest niece Chelsea started school this year – can’t believe it.

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