We were forecast for high winds today. It started blowing through the night but being deaf I never heard a thing. Sometimes being deaf is good but I would also sleep through a civil defense alert on my phone - not so good. Anyway, when I went out into the kitchen I checked the driveway for feijoas. The wind brings them down. There was a good smattering of them.
The smattering continued throughout the day. The wind didn't let up and was quite strong at times, it almost blew me over at one point when I was gathering the feijoas this evening. There are so many of them I don't really know what to do with them. I've taken a large bag to one of the local rest homes this afternoon and stewed some to freeze. I think I'll bag some up to go into the community pantry at church tomorrow. And hopefully the girls will come over and take some off my hands. If its a nice day tomorrow any left over can go in a bucket outside the gate for people to help themselves.
Enough of the feijoas 😄
My GKB Bob came through for breakfast and said 'it must have been a good wind overnight, the swing seat's been blown over'. So it had. The wind must have caught it under the awning, it was definitely not in the position we'd last seen it, up against the fence. Instead it was looking a bit skewiff in the middle of the lawn. I'm just pleased it was a swing and not a trampoline or goodness knows where it may have ended up.
Once the wind dropped a bit GKB Bob went out and put things to rights, removed the awning and put it in the shed and the swing is once again in its rightful place by the fence.
The wind's still blowing this evening, hopefully it'll blow itself out by morning.
And that's as exciting as it's got this week.
Take care, keep well and enjoy your week.
Diana
That sounds like quite a wind storm! Glad nothing more than that was damaged. I had to look up feijoas to see what they were, and I guess they are pretty popular in your country! I've never heard of them before, I guess because of their "short shelf life", according to the info I found on the internet. So I hope you find a good home for all of them and that many will enjoy them! Take care and stay safe and don't blow away!!
ReplyDeleteFeijoas! Lovely. Those and passionfruit. I havent eaten either in years.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly had a good blow.
Had to look up that fruit, too. Related to guava I read. I remember drinking guava juice when I was young in the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteWe had the high winds here, I don't think any roofs came off or anything like that.
ReplyDeleteOh my that was windy. It's been windy here today but nothing like your wind.
ReplyDeleteI don’t like strong winds at all.
ReplyDeleteNot only the destruction the cause, it always gives me headaches.
I’m not a huge fan of feijoas. They taste like medicine to me.
I’m sure that the charity’s your giving them too, and those that walk past, will be very grateful for them
We also are having some strong winds here the weather changes a lot.i ‘ll have a look at what are feijoas?
ReplyDeleteYou've really had some strong winds! Glad that the swing is still useable. Stay safe.
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