It’s Micky’s engagement party tomorrow night and the whole family is invited. Calum is taking some of his friends which gave Tammy a reason to try to get out of it. I put my foot down though as Micky is a good family friend. It is also good for us as a family to go out for a bit even if we don’t stay to long.
Calum’s project, the desk, is a little closer to being completed. Sadly we need a drill as mine has decided it stop functioning on the one day we needed it on Sunday. Getting a replacement isn’t going to be cheap. I looked at the prices online and was shocked into stunned silence. I have small rechargeable one but unfortunately the drill bit I need doesn’t fit. I’ll have to look around and see if I can pick one up second hand from the pawn shops when I get time to go down town. When that shall be I’m not sure. Until then the desk shall have to wait unless I can come up with a solution to drill the holes to fix the supports to the wall. As the desk will be for his computer and other things I need it secured firmly so it can take the weight.
I will be spraying my apple tree this weekend for Scab Apple, a fungus infection. I noticed that some of the fruit that was ripening had split open last weekend. After some online searching I found what was wrong. The wet summer is to blame so Magz went to the garden centre at the bottom of town, the only place that stocked what I needed. I’ll need to spray the tree once a week till the end of season with Systhane Fungus Fighter to deal with the problem. I had thought that the tell-tale black marks on the fruit was nothing more than Sooty Blotch or something like that as I saw that on apples as a kid. Sadly I had to get something a little more troublesome. Well at least I can deal with it now. My cooking apple tree isn’t touched so I shall still get a crop from it. Plenty of apple pie then.