WEATHER: Partly cloudy. Highs in 70s
After our morning dog-walking and feeding routine, we decided to pick the homeowners' grapes. They have had a bumper crop, and it is almost the end of the season (fall here in the Southern Hemisphere). The grapes grow on top of a lattice near the back porch. The birds peck at the grapes causing them to fall on the ground. Then they start fermenting, and so it smells like a winery in the back. Not complaining!
I cleaned and stemmed the grapes, and put them on trays for drying in their fruit dehydrator.
We will have lots of raisins, called sultanas here.
We are a bit worried about the bird. He misses his owners. He started chewing on his feathers, which we think is a bad sign.
We have so many vegetables growing, so are trying to eat a lot of them up. For lunch, I did a tomato, onion and zucchini mix. Kind of like ratatouille.
I did laundry and the sun kindly came out to dry the clothes on the clothesline.
DINNER: Asian stir-fried rice. It was mostly veg (onion, ginger, garlic, carrot, cabbage, runner beans, broccoli) and some minced pork.
Dad looks in love with the bird.
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