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Hi, Andrew here.
Belinda is still working away on her PDC site design. I'll use the Challenge update format.

Observing

• Flowers! Blooms to see in day and pretty smells at night.
  
• All our fruit and nut trees have at least some new growth. Very tiny on the apples.
  
• Early spring wattle flowers seem to have finished already. The normal signals of the seasons seem to be changing.
• Potato plants growing where I hoped they'd go wild
  
• The ground is quite spongy from the sudden heavy rain. I will walk along the swales and irrigation trenches and see what effect they have and if I need to extend them.
• All the worm farms have lots of babies and activity in them
  

Planning for The Future -

• Contemplating running self defence classes again
• Thinking about where should I put backup herb bed
• Thinking about how to get out of current unsocial mood
  

Working for the Future -

• Pruned lemon tree
• Wallaby fenced all but the biggest trees in orchard
• collecting worm tea in glass bottles
• Installed drum software
• Collected old music projects in one spot
• Organised the CD/DVDs
• organised my computer desk
• Cleaned weeds from paths and edges
  
• Cleaned out where the greenhouse/solar heater will be
• Did hedge with a power trimmer. Power tools can be pretty nifty. Certainly a lot easier than the hand shears for large areas. I'll use hand shears to do the job 90% of the time but was interesting after seeing the beating power tools got in whipper snipper versus Scythe

Building Community -

• Had family gathering at mudbrick palace (Belinda did all the work)
  
• Gave away some worms
• Helped build filtration system
  

Learn a new Skill -

• making printed circuit boards
• vastly improved speed of rotational strikes