Life is just so good

I am so lucky life is good and every day i am able to look back in the evening and say That was another good day.

Today is no exception after sterilizing a load of straw for my next raised bed. Sterilized whatever for, well in this raised bed is mushroom compost and not wanting any bad bacteria to spoil it the straw had to be sterilized. I then after it had time to cooled i then spread it over the raised bed and then covered it with a layer of mushroom compost and then soil. Not just any old soil, soil that was so dry after sieving it into a wheel barrow it was more like a powder than soil. Then i had to  take it down to my raised bed and spread it over where the raised bed was. The difficult part was spreading over the raised bed because it was like powder. It had been dug out from where someone was having a pool base built. The soil had been left in the baking sun for a couple of months and was  dry it was more like powder. After a good watering hopefully it should be ok. Next i need some horse manure and i am told the Co-operative in Arganil have it for a little over 3€ for a 70 liter bag.

Tomorrow i will hope to get my Carrots planted for later in the year and i want them to do well after all this work i have done to give them a good home.

I got to go to Coimbra late in the afternoon with a friend and while there we went to Makro. I like the flour you can get at Makro even though it is a little bit more than i would pay at the likes of Lidl, a little over 8€ for 20 kg. Also i got some Currants and Sultanas for both my Christmas cakes.

Talking of Christmas cakes this year i am going to make two cakes but in tins like you would use for a meat loaf.

The reason for this tin is because i have two but also i have some very nice Cherries that have been in Vodka for the last three months. I also have some Cherries that have been in Remy Martin for the last three months. It would be wrong to mix them up so i will have to make two cakes. Because i can.

In the cakes will be Currants and Sultanas. At Makro they have Currants and Sultanas that are huge not at all like you get in Asda or Tesco  in those little bags of 100gm or 250gm these bags are a Kilo. Any over i will be using them in my bread.



I have mentioned before that i make all my own bread and i often use Currants or Sultanas in it  i would normally  put in 50gm of either Currants or Sultanas it does make a nice change to my bread. Before you get to impressed i use a bread maker but then again what can you expect from a man with such a busy life as i have.

Well that's all in a day so as you can see life is good in fact very good.