I slept in today because according to the weather forecast there would be no frost. They were wrong and my lemon trees endured another frost. I usually get up and hose them down before the sun rises. They lived through last year when we had twenty consecutively frosts at least. By the time spring arrived they were severely damaged. I pruned off the dead bits and they survived. I will have to cover the asparagus with straw soon because frost bitten asparagus spears are not very nice to eat. The spears start to grow in August here in Taradale. August is the last month of winter.

Tomorrow is my birthday. I went to the eye doctor this morning in Bendigo. I've got glaucoma and it wasn't diagnosed by my optometrist. It was only when I changed optometrists that it was finally discovered. Luckily it is under control. I had a peripheral vision test as well this morning. They're like torture and I hate doing them. I have to put in eye drops each night before going to bed. The trouble with that is I can't read in bed. I asked my eye specialist, Andrew Atkins, if I needed to keep using the eye-drops. He said you don't if you don't mind going blind.

I was home by about 1:30pm and I started up the ride-on for the first time since February earlier in the year. I have a lot of Cape weed because the bees fertilized it last year. Bees like Cape weed because it provides them with early protein in the form of pollen to raise young. I am looking forward to raising some queens this year from a very good hive of bees I had last season. They were good bees and I took about 50 kilograms of honey from them. The queen in that hive is a very good layer of eggs and the bees are quiet.