We've been enjoying our life here in Albury. We've started to make some great friends, really generous people. So it's all been fun.  We struggle with priorities, I want to save for some land and a house, but overseas trips keep tempting us. Our friend Christian is getting married in Pakistan, and we just missed a conference in the Netherlands. There is always some event we feel pulling us away, but it'd be very expensive, and completely change our lifestyle again.

I took Jan to the TAFE farm where we saw the baby pigs again. This time though they were naughty and snuck under the low electric fence line to go see the other mummy pig, and stopped to explore us on the way.

My class on Wednesday was about grafting.  It was a fabulous all day workshop where I learnt so much about grafting.  I got to practice on 6 trees of my own and came home with a double grafted pear (A red sensation and a nashi nijiseki.  A stella cherry. Golden Drop Plum,  Red Fuji Apple. An Apple from Becks place, An Almond.  I'm so excited.

Wednesday night I attended the Committee Meeting for our community centre.  I'm a bit over being on committees but I'm going to build a website for these guys so I'll attend while I'm involved in that and see how I feel after.  It was actually a really fun meeting with everyone being considerate and having their turn to speak.  It was productive and enjoyable... strange.

Just in time for my new parenthood of 18 fruit trees in total, Thursday night was the Fruit fly event held by the Seed Savers Network.  We learnt about putting up traps, in August to see what fruit flies are visiting our garden.  Once we spot problem areas it's time to kill them.   The method of choice for killing fruit fly is to use Eco Naturalure mix, which isn't cheap.  I bought a bottle.  The idea is to splash it on the leaves/trunk once a week, or on a sign board hanging in the tree.   The final step is when the fruit are appearing to cover them with netting.  There were a range of netting available.  One used the same materials I've been using to protect the garden from Frost, so I may attempt to sew my own.

We've been walking to train for the City to surf.  We gave up jogging recently and have swapped to doing one hour walks instead.  Two more to go until the big 14km event in Sydney.  One a few of the walks we have explored the CSU campus and their community gardens.  We found two interesting areas, the first has metal tubs with one crop in each.  There is an interesting watering system too with storage areas below the plants and little indicators to show the levels.  The second is in wooden raised beds and an orchard of fruit trees. and three big composting bays, which were full of black birds.

Star Craft 2 (Which I have running under wine) took up all the remaining hours of my weekend.   Which meant I'm already behind this week, doh.  I've enjoyed the game though I wouldn't say the strategy parts are fun,  I find it quite difficult and get stressed out when I can't beat the challenges heh.  More practice needed.