This weekend has been very spendy indeed, but mostly in a good way. We finally bought a set-top box. The ticket price was $59 but we got it for $49. We now have perfect reception. It's so perfect, in fact, that DF, who *hates* tv, is willing to sit and watch it. 
(which goes to show how bad it was before!)
We bought a lot of gardening supplies yesterday, and spent $74.43.
We bought: lawn fertiliser and lawn seeds (for a tiny patch that DF wants to grow grass on where it is shaded - all of the other grass areas are fine except this one part). Also bought a round flat saucer (thanks to Baselle for that brilliant idea!!!) and some lettuce seeds, and a long rectangular tub for herbs. I bought mint seeds, rosemary seeds, coriander and basil seedlings, as well as seedling potting mix and regular potting mix. Fingers crossed it all works out! I should have a lovely mixture of lettuce in 8-10 weeks. Not sure about the other herbs. I will post pictures later.
Today we bought a passionfruit vine as well.
Not a lot of other news. Now it is time for me to go and start planting!!!
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And there will be things that won't go well - part of gardening. Last year one of my tomatoes was killed by fusarium wilt. I got it out of DH that he had put potatoes there, which is a carrier of it.
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it does get cooler, and during winter, at night and in early mornings it gets to below zero degrees celcius - but generally speaking except for a few weeks in winter, winter the temperature is around 20-30 C, and at the height of summer it can go over 40 C. the hottest in my area the last summer was 45 C! eugh.
we have a month and a bit before it begins to get anywhere near cold for winter, so by then i am hoping my little plants will be hardy enough to withstand it. i might bring them inside if i think it's too cold (my babies!).
and yes, there's a creek! you can't really see it unless we get a big down pour, and then it floods over into the park area below our hill. i will post a few photos later for you
it's DF and my ultimate plan to have a vege patch on the hill, as it would provide good drainage too. i want to have a compost heap down the bottom, and MAYBE even a tiny weeny little chicken coop. oh how lovely that would be....