Another Izzie list update

It's time for the lazy serpent to do a bit of catching up on the old 101 list

So far it's March and April on the agenda

So in progress for the two months

8.Reduce water usage to 50% of water bill from 2006
Reading for 1 March was 349.316 kilolitres
Reading for 31 March was 361.154
Reading for 1 May was 371.974
Around 10 kilolitres per month - a pleasant change from last year's 25 or so - due mainly to finding and fixing the mysterious leaking tap

9.Reduce electricity usage to 50% of 2006 average
Cheating with this one as it's officially off the list since February
Produced a total of 124.8 kilowatts for March and sold 115 of them
April clocked up 84 units and sold 78

23.Visit 6 Open Gardens
A visit to a very gorgeous garden in Nannup brought the grand total to five

65.Design a tarot deck
Some serious research on this front - got half way through the absolutely amazing "Understanding Alistair Crowley's Thoth Tarot" as well as being the perfect excuse to acquire another deck or two

73.Try one new recipe every month for 6 months
Invited the Izzie sister and family plus the ma and pa for dinner so clocked up a couple of recipes. Made mayonnaise from scratch - it was going so well but then got a bit impatient and it curdled. What a total waste of free range eggs and extra virgin cold pressed olive oil. Also made onion and celery soup

98.Sort out our munchies hoarding problem by using old stuff and not buying new food
(March 2008 19 No buying munchies days)
(April 2008 15 No buying munchies days)
A lousy score largely due to that dinner invitation for 9th April


So completed over March and April

36.Toss 10 things for 101 days
Some serious decluttering during March in preparation for the Izzie sisters' visit. Brought the total score past the required 101 and was a very good habit to get into

81.Make pesto instead of buying it (09/04/08)
Another thing ticked off due to that dinner invitation