No Spend Weekend (almost)

I have joined the No/Low Spend Challenge on Simple Savings and have been pretty successful this weekend.  We had no definite plans but on Saturday morning headed off to get fuel for the mower (even though it was raining) and we popped into the IGA and bought 2 litres of milk and a handful of beans for the stir-fry.  Yesterday was spent at home doing cleaning and cooking (me) and mowing etc (G).

Today our friends came to clip the dog which involved money but much less than the vet bill if he was to get a paralysis tick.  We are in a high-risk tick area and our gorgeous Border Collie has already had 2 ticks in the 5 years we have been here.  The cost is usually in excess of $400, not to mention the risk to our dog.

I made the pikelets so after the dog-clipping we all had morning tea out on the verandah - coffee, fresh pikelets and home-made rosella jam.  They asked how often the tea-rooms are open!!  We all enjoyed them so much that they were all eaten so the snacks for this week will be muesli slice and banana cake.

After lunch we went for a drive to collect some items I had been offered through Freecycle  I now have a bag in which to store my Christmas tree (no more struggling to get it back in the box it came in), a brand new fitted single bed fitted sheet and pillowcase and about 12 novels.  Once G and I have read those which interest us we will pass them on again either through Freecycle or our local op shop.

All chopped up and stacked on our side of the fence

Our final job for the day was to cut up and move the damaged tree back into our yard for mulching.  We got all of it done except for about 6 large pieces which need to be cut again but the chain on the chainsaw broke yesterday.