Hey it’s a new month :)

blackbirds here get the rat trap treatment.
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Rat traps as in ones that snap and instant kill, or cage traps? I read the plans on how to make a bird trap cage, but I also have a smallish gal rabbit cage here that I may be able to use, with a bit of half inch mesh, fashion a no exit thing to the entry door. It has a water dish holder. Then JJ could put it in a big bin bag and hook it up to a car exhaust to do the humane kill thing.

Happy Potter said:

blackbirds here get the rat trap treatment.
——————————————————-
Rat traps as in ones that snap and instant kill, or cage traps? I read the plans on how to make a bird trap cage, but I also have a smallish gal rabbit cage here that I may be able to use, with a bit of half inch mesh, fashion a no exit thing to the entry door. It has a water dish holder. Then JJ could put it in a big bin bag and hook it up to a car exhaust to do the humane kill thing.

It is over in a nano-second with the rat trap. Bait it with red or black fruit from tomato to grapes.. they are irresistably attracted to red and black.

Another alternative I’ve heard of but don’t approve of is to scrape back the mulch and sprinkle ratsak then put the mulch back on top. When blackbird scratches mulch to eat your beneficial insects, bird sees bright coloured ratsak, eats it and according to what is said on the packet, goes off somewhere else to die.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

blackbirds here get the rat trap treatment.
——————————————————-
Rat traps as in ones that snap and instant kill, or cage traps? I read the plans on how to make a bird trap cage, but I also have a smallish gal rabbit cage here that I may be able to use, with a bit of half inch mesh, fashion a no exit thing to the entry door. It has a water dish holder. Then JJ could put it in a big bin bag and hook it up to a car exhaust to do the humane kill thing.

It is over in a nano-second with the rat trap. Bait it with red or black fruit from tomato to grapes.. they are irresistably attracted to red and black.

Another alternative I’ve heard of but don’t approve of is to scrape back the mulch and sprinkle ratsak then put the mulch back on top. When blackbird scratches mulch to eat your beneficial insects, bird sees bright coloured ratsak, eats it and according to what is said on the packet, goes off somewhere else to die.

Snap rat traps I would have to place on the shed or house roof, to keep young poultry safe. I wouldn’t do the ratsak one under mulch for the same reason.

There’s a council drive on currently to rid the skies of blackbirds, but the traps cost $50 to hire.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

blackbirds here get the rat trap treatment.
——————————————————-
Rat traps as in ones that snap and instant kill, or cage traps? I read the plans on how to make a bird trap cage, but I also have a smallish gal rabbit cage here that I may be able to use, with a bit of half inch mesh, fashion a no exit thing to the entry door. It has a water dish holder. Then JJ could put it in a big bin bag and hook it up to a car exhaust to do the humane kill thing.

It is over in a nano-second with the rat trap. Bait it with red or black fruit from tomato to grapes.. they are irresistably attracted to red and black.

Another alternative I’ve heard of but don’t approve of is to scrape back the mulch and sprinkle ratsak then put the mulch back on top. When blackbird scratches mulch to eat your beneficial insects, bird sees bright coloured ratsak, eats it and according to what is said on the packet, goes off somewhere else to die.

Snap rat traps I would have to place on the shed or house roof, to keep young poultry safe. I wouldn’t do the ratsak one under mulch for the same reason.

There’s a council drive on currently to rid the skies of blackbirds, but the traps cost $50 to hire.

The rat traps have to be set when the chookens are abed. and they need to be on the ground.

cut off a bit of my finger on the mandolin. went to the hospital because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. the doc bandaged it and today the nurse rebandaged it.
next Monday, Wednesday and Friday they will rebandage it again.

bluddy remarkable health system we’ve got. all is well.

justin said:

cut off a bit of my finger on the mandolin. went to the hospital because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. the doc bandaged it and today the nurse rebandaged it.
next Monday, Wednesday and Friday they will rebandage it again.

bluddy remarkable health system we’ve got. all is well.

Ouch! I hate those things. I gave mine away. Heal well.

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

cut off a bit of my finger on the mandolin. went to the hospital because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. the doc bandaged it and today the nurse rebandaged it.
next Monday, Wednesday and Friday they will rebandage it again.

bluddy remarkable health system we’ve got. all is well.

Ouch! I hate those things. I gave mine away. Heal well.

They sound sweet.

justin said:

cut off a bit of my finger on the mandolin. went to the hospital because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. the doc bandaged it and today the nurse rebandaged it.
next Monday, Wednesday and Friday they will rebandage it again.

bluddy remarkable health system we’ve got. all is well.

C sharp?

justin said:

cut off a bit of my finger on the mandolin. went to the hospital because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. the doc bandaged it and today the nurse rebandaged it.
next Monday, Wednesday and Friday they will rebandage it again.

bluddy remarkable health system we’ve got. all is well.

silly boy, you are supposed to use the guard thingy. will you always have a bit missing now? or was it just a chunk of skin which will grow back?

Ok I’m off to bountiful backyards group. We are a small but growing group who visits each members gardens once a month and put our heads together to help advise and deal with problematic garden areas with the question ‘what would you do if this was your garden’ scenario.

It’s been a great idea and I’ve learnt heaps, as others have.

Oh and regarding my pasture raised chicken meat with the yellow fat being finished with a week of corn feed, that isn’t the case. This particular farmer raises his own feed and mills his own grain and told me he finishes them on legumes, sprouts, for the last week. He couldn’t claim they are non gmo fed, if he didn’t. He said a lot of corn is imported, mainly from brazil, and is gmo corn. He won’t have a bar of it. I am glad about that.

Backyard banter: I just snorted laughing at a young chook trying to wrestle with an earthworm big enough to strangle it. LOL.

Hello Gardeners. No gardening for me today, although I have just cut some rhubarb and pulled a couple of leeks.

Been out to the bush block to look at the area cleared for The Shed:

I ‘rescued’ some plants that had been pushed aside, only sedges and grasses though. There was surprisingly little destruction, apart from the cut down trees to make the clearing. And they will become firewood.

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. No gardening for me today, although I have just cut some rhubarb and pulled a couple of leeks.

Been out to the bush block to look at the area cleared for The Shed:

I ‘rescued’ some plants that had been pushed aside, only sedges and grasses though. There was surprisingly little destruction, apart from the cut down trees to make the clearing. And they will become firewood.

Apologies for being out of the loop, but where is your bush block and is it far from where you live now? I just had a look at a few of your other photos of what I assume is your garden…looks really productive.

We have 133 acres of bushland at Digby. We are in SouthWest Victoria. We live in Penshurst, Digby is about 70km away. We are sandwiched between a bluegum plantation and a state forest and we have covenanted all but one acre of the block. We take some firewood for ourselves, and I have been documenting the flora. We have at least 25 different native orchids, and I haven’t added up the whole plant list for ages. We have a tractor and slasher and Mr buffy slashes tracks for walking, but wide enough for us to take a trailer down to pick up some wood. The shed is to house the tractor, slasher, and docking saw. And some wood. And a table and chairs. We do not intend to live there at any stage, it is to save some bush and for general walking and enjoyment.

The garden at Penshurst where we live is about half an acre. I also have an acre of garden at Casterton, also about 90km from Penshurst. Some of the photos in my photobucket are of Casterton. I have an orchard and a veggie patch there too.

So when I think about it, I really shouldn’t have commented on the size of your plot!!!

:)

buffy said:

We have 133 acres of bushland at Digby. We are in SouthWest Victoria. We live in Penshurst, Digby is about 70km away. We are sandwiched between a bluegum plantation and a state forest and we have covenanted all but one acre of the block. We take some firewood for ourselves, and I have been documenting the flora. We have at least 25 different native orchids, and I haven’t added up the whole plant list for ages. We have a tractor and slasher and Mr buffy slashes tracks for walking, but wide enough for us to take a trailer down to pick up some wood. The shed is to house the tractor, slasher, and docking saw. And some wood. And a table and chairs. We do not intend to live there at any stage, it is to save some bush and for general walking and enjoyment.

The garden at Penshurst where we live is about half an acre. I also have an acre of garden at Casterton, also about 90km from Penshurst. Some of the photos in my photobucket are of Casterton. I have an orchard and a veggie patch there too.

So when I think about it, I really shouldn’t have commented on the size of your plot!!!

:)

Wow. How do you keep up with 2 gardens 90km apart? :)

And work fulltime? (Well, I’ve pulled it back to 4 days consulting a week in the last 18 months, but for the 27 years before that…..)

Compromise. You just learn to accept that you won’t have everything tidy at once. Ever. Getting closer now though. I should have gone weeding in Casterton today, but it’s all soggy and I don’t like doing it and getting really wet.

I think I’ll go for a little nap before I sort out some tea for tonight. The leeks are to be cooked with some chicken with a tin of cream of chicken soup. Easy. And not too much of it, because we had souvlaki for lunch. With chips.

buffy said:

And work fulltime? (Well, I’ve pulled it back to 4 days consulting a week in the last 18 months, but for the 27 years before that…..)

Compromise. You just learn to accept that you won’t have everything tidy at once. Ever. Getting closer now though. I should have gone weeding in Casterton today, but it’s all soggy and I don’t like doing it and getting really wet.

I think I’ll go for a little nap before I sort out some tea for tonight. The leeks are to be cooked with some chicken with a tin of cream of chicken soup. Easy. And not too much of it, because we had souvlaki for lunch. With chips.

I’m trying to find an easy chicken and eggplant recipe. I’ve never cooked eggplant before, but want to have a go. I was thinking of trying chicken and eggplant parmiagiana, but that seems a bit too much effort (plus I need something lowish in calories)

Oh, and time. Years. We bought the house in Casterton in 1995 for me to practice from. Then I ‘accidentally’ bought the empty block one side of it. Well, how could I say ‘no’ when it was offered to me for $2000? Then the double empty block on the other side sprouted a For Sale sign. I ignored it for some time. Then curiosity got the better of me and I got Mr buffy to phone the agent. It was not the $10,000 I was expecting, in fact it was less than half of that. So I found the money. And then realized I had an acre of garden to maintain!

And we have been here at Penshurst for about 12 years now, so I’ve had time to get things organized. And yes, I actually drew up plans on paper at the beginning. To scale.

Prior to that I spent 18 years learning on our previous 3 acres a bit further South from here.

So I guess it’s experience, time and patience. And growing to accept things are never finished.

Mr buffy doesn’t like eggplant and I’ve not been very successful with growing it. I did make him eat some last year when I got 1 fruit. I just sliced it, dusted it with flour and panfried it, as I had observed my sister in law doing.

Other than that the only use I know is moussaka.

I think we can live without eggplant really.

buffy said:

Oh, and time. Years. We bought the house in Casterton in 1995 for me to practice from. Then I ‘accidentally’ bought the empty block one side of it. Well, how could I say ‘no’ when it was offered to me for $2000? Then the double empty block on the other side sprouted a For Sale sign. I ignored it for some time. Then curiosity got the better of me and I got Mr buffy to phone the agent. It was not the $10,000 I was expecting, in fact it was less than half of that. So I found the money. And then realized I had an acre of garden to maintain!

And we have been here at Penshurst for about 12 years now, so I’ve had time to get things organized. And yes, I actually drew up plans on paper at the beginning. To scale.

Prior to that I spent 18 years learning on our previous 3 acres a bit further South from here.

So I guess it’s experience, time and patience. And growing to accept things are never finished.

We’ve been here for 10 and a half years, but we are renting and no town water and little income. It was a real struggle during the drought, but since the drought broke we haven’t been gardening as much. I wish I was organised enough to plan, but no…I’m usually just one of those gardeners who just bungs things in anywhere (except for the vegie patch). I also have a son and husband who don’t believe in growing stuff that can’t be eaten. :)

buffy said:

Mr buffy doesn’t like eggplant and I’ve not been very successful with growing it. I did make him eat some last year when I got 1 fruit. I just sliced it, dusted it with flour and panfried it, as I had observed my sister in law doing.

Other than that the only use I know is moussaka.

I think we can live without eggplant really.

Sleepy doesn’t like it much either, but my son keeps telling me that he has started to like it, and as my son-in-law is Greek I thought it would be worth having a go.

Happy Potter said:

Ok I’m off to bountiful backyards group. We are a small but growing group who visits each members gardens once a month and put our heads together to help advise and deal with problematic garden areas with the question ‘what would you do if this was your garden’ scenario.

It’s been a great idea and I’ve learnt heaps, as others have.

Oh and regarding my pasture raised chicken meat with the yellow fat being finished with a week of corn feed, that isn’t the case. This particular farmer raises his own feed and mills his own grain and told me he finishes them on legumes, sprouts, for the last week. He couldn’t claim they are non gmo fed, if he didn’t. He said a lot of corn is imported, mainly from brazil, and is gmo corn. He won’t have a bar of it. I am glad about that.

Backyard banter: I just snorted laughing at a young chook trying to wrestle with an earthworm big enough to strangle it. LOL.

why I don’t buy corn raised chicken. I often wonder what it would feel like to the chook to have a wriggly earthworm in its crop.

It was Violet Town Seed Savers group today. Went to one of the members farm and their awesome mostly native garden which they grew from scratch, and their very productive fruit and vege garden which is oh so neat. And the view! You walk in the front door only to see wall to wall windows opposite you with the most amazing view. I just stopped dead in my tracks when I saw it. I took a couple of pictures with my phone but I doubt they will do it justice. Once I download them if they are viewable I will post them up.

This is only one part of the garden, to give you an idea of that view towards the Strathbogies.

no fill in flash means you can’t really see the view, but you can see the lovely big bay windows.

through the window

various angles from outside

closer look at that glass mosaic that the lady of the house made

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

buffy said:

Mr buffy doesn’t like eggplant and I’ve not been very successful with growing it. I did make him eat some last year when I got 1 fruit. I just sliced it, dusted it with flour and panfried it, as I had observed my sister in law doing.

Other than that the only use I know is moussaka.

I think we can live without eggplant really.

You haven’t lived .. Eggplant is the main ingredient in many dishes ratatouie for one. Yes, it doesn’t contain rats.

Melanzani is the name the Italians use for preserved eggplant.

I make ratatouille with zucchini.

And I make it in the wok.

buffy said:

And I make it in the wok.

It will still work with sliced and diced eggplant.

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

It feels like we just had the last one…I am so sick of elections, mudslinging, political nastiness…politics seems to be about winning at all costs…if they’d just leave the personal nastiness alone and explain the policies of each party in a matter-of-fact way…but we couldn’t have that, it’s not sensational and won’t sell the news…

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

You’re about my vintage: do you remember the Larry Pickering cartoon where (was it Gough?) looks under the sheet and says “I can feel an erection coming on” and Margaret says “that’s nice dear” or something? It was a classic…It would have been about 1979, 1980? when there was speculation that the govt of the day was expected to announce an election date…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

It feels like we just had the last one…I am so sick of elections, mudslinging, political nastiness…politics seems to be about winning at all costs…if they’d just leave the personal nastiness alone and explain the policies of each party in a matter-of-fact way…but we couldn’t have that, it’s not sensational and won’t sell the news…

I agree.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

LOL

It feels like we just had the last one…I am so sick of elections, mudslinging, political nastiness…politics seems to be about winning at all costs…if they’d just leave the personal nastiness alone and explain the policies of each party in a matter-of-fact way…but we couldn’t have that, it’s not sensational and won’t sell the news…

I agree.

That’s why they call us the erectorate.

Happy Potter said:

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

Eggplant soaks up oils but then by cooking chicken with it, there is plenty of that.

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

looks good, how did it taste?

bluegreen said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

AnneS said:

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

And I only used one large purple eggplant. I don’t what size the ones in the recipe were, but four would have been overkill I think.

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

AnneS said:

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

It feels like we just had the last one…I am so sick of elections, mudslinging, political nastiness…politics seems to be about winning at all costs…if they’d just leave the personal nastiness alone and explain the policies of each party in a matter-of-fact way…but we couldn’t have that, it’s not sensational and won’t sell the news…

I would vote for such a party. We teach our kids not to act in this way, but then they see these so called mature adults..

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

You’re about my vintage: do you remember the Larry Pickering cartoon where (was it Gough?) looks under the sheet and says “I can feel an erection coming on” and Margaret says “that’s nice dear” or something? It was a classic…It would have been about 1979, 1980? when there was speculation that the govt of the day was expected to announce an election date…

Yes I do remember that cartoon and chuckling at it :)

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

And I only used one large purple eggplant. I don’t what size the ones in the recipe were, but four would have been overkill I think.

overfill?

depends on how many you are trying to trick into believing the bits of eggplant are actually chicken.

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

Yeah I reckon that if I make it again I’ll do it without salting.

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

And I only used one large purple eggplant. I don’t what size the ones in the recipe were, but four would have been overkill I think.

overfill?

depends on how many you are trying to trick into believing the bits of eggplant are actually chicken.

True

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

I lerve eggplant! I have enough of it dried to last me another year before I will grow another lot. Ratatouille, moussaka, stuffed eggplants, crumbed and fried I could live on, eggplant dip…MMMMM.

This is what I ended up making with minor adjustments (mainly halving the amount of oil)

Oven Baked Chicken and Egg Plant Parmigiana

Oh yes and there’s that. There’s many terrific recipes for eggplants. I haven’t been without it since the first time I grew it. It grows very well in my garden.

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

I don’t salt it. If you pick young and use it same day they don’t go bitter.

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

Yeah I reckon that if I make it again I’ll do it without salting.

When I fry slices.. I don’t salt and I don’t flour the slices at all. I slice and toss in warming oil.. When cooked, I do drain and toss onto a plate with a dollop of soy sauce.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

I don’t salt it. If you pick young and use it same day they don’t go bitter.

It was a bought one

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

Yeah I reckon that if I make it again I’ll do it without salting.

When I fry slices.. I don’t salt and I don’t flour the slices at all. I slice and toss in warming oil.. When cooked, I do drain and toss onto a plate with a dollop of soy sauce.

I sprayed it with olive oil spray and did in the oven

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

I don’t salt it. If you pick young and use it same day they don’t go bitter.

I used to hate silverbeet too but it was only because my mother bought it from the shops when I hated it.

AnneS said:

I sprayed it with olive oil spray and did in the oven

That sounds nice.

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

I sprayed it with olive oil spray and did in the oven

That sounds nice.

A little less oily

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

looks good, how did it taste?

Yummy…the only thing wrong was I salted the eggplant and didn’t rinse enough off so the dish was a bit salty for my taste
I didn’t use capers and olives either, cause I didn’t have any, but I don’t think the recipe suffered from their exclusion

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

not me. I don’t bother salting eggplant. They are only bitter if they are too old anyway.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

I don’t salt it. If you pick young and use it same day they don’t go bitter.

I used to hate silverbeet too but it was only because my mother bought it from the shops when I hated it.

I was the same with peas, until I tasted my first young, sweet, homegrown peas I hated them.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I don’t salt it. If you pick young and use it same day they don’t go bitter.

I used to hate silverbeet too but it was only because my mother bought it from the shops when I hated it.

I was the same with peas, until I tasted my first young, sweet, homegrown peas I hated them.

I have a fond memroy anecdote.. Mum sent me to the garden to pick peas.. After a while I came back.. she asked.. where are the peas.. I patted my belly.. I was always demonstrative rather than vocal.. She said, I wanted them for the dinner I’m cooking, go back and get some more.. my reply was.. I don’t like them cooked.

roughbarked said:

I have a fond memroy anecdote.. Mum sent me to the garden to pick peas.. After a while I came back.. she asked.. where are the peas.. I patted my belly.. I was always demonstrative rather than vocal.. She said, I wanted them for the dinner I’m cooking, go back and get some more.. my reply was.. I don’t like them cooked.

I can relate…the market gardener we used to patronise, may he rest in peace poor feller, used to sell sugar snaps and the kidlets would insist that they be included for lunch boxes, they were so lovely and sweet…

(your poor Mum tho’, RoughBarked: trying to put food on the table and you’re claiming Picker’s Privilege!!!)

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

It feels like we just had the last one…I am so sick of elections, mudslinging, political nastiness…politics seems to be about winning at all costs…if they’d just leave the personal nastiness alone and explain the policies of each party in a matter-of-fact way…but we couldn’t have that, it’s not sensational and won’t sell the news…

I agree.

That’s why they call us the erectorate.

LOL! Best laugh I’ve had today!

roughbarked said:

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

The Tamils I used to flat with, they didn’t salt their eggplant and it was scrumptious!!

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

I used to hate silverbeet too but it was only because my mother bought it from the shops when I hated it.

I was the same with peas, until I tasted my first young, sweet, homegrown peas I hated them.

I have a fond memroy anecdote.. Mum sent me to the garden to pick peas.. After a while I came back.. she asked.. where are the peas.. I patted my belly.. I was always demonstrative rather than vocal.. She said, I wanted them for the dinner I’m cooking, go back and get some more.. my reply was.. I don’t like them cooked.

A young mum I met said she overheard her son boasting to his mates that she never makes him eat his vegetables! She hastened to add that he grazes from the vege patch all day so sees no need to make him eat cooked ones at meal times.

>>I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.<<

From my reading, it is not necessary to salt the newer varieties, but if you grow heirlooms I suspect it might be a good idea. But it probably also depends on freshness.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I’d suggest that salting eggplant is unnecessary.. but then someone will try to shout me down.

The Tamils I used to flat with, they didn’t salt their eggplant and it was scrumptious!!

1. son flats with a Tamil….I should have asked her. She uses eggplant quite a bit in her cooking

bluegreen said:

A young mum I met said she overheard her son boasting to his mates that she never makes him eat his vegetables! She hastened to add that he grazes from the vege patch all day so sees no need to make him eat cooked ones at meal times.

Sensible lady! Mine was a bit like that…

Warning I have been hitting the Bailey’s (Irish Cream)…

Dinetta said:

Warning I have been hitting the Bailey’s (Irish Cream)…

You are supposed to drink it..

AnneS said:

1. son flats with a Tamil….I should have asked her. She uses eggplant quite a bit in her cooking
   

OMG! You lucky thing! Cultivate her acquaintance without further ado! I always regret that I never bothered with cooking when I was flatting with them…and the Indonesian…(but he couldn’t cook) …and the Tanzanian …. and the Canton Chinese…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Warning I have been hitting the Bailey’s (Irish Cream)…

You are supposed to drink it..

mmmmmmm well figures of speech and all that…having some trouble with my typing…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Warning I have been hitting the Bailey’s (Irish Cream)…

You are supposed to drink it..

mmmmmmm well figures of speech and all that…having some trouble with my typing…

well hit the keyboard rather than the bottle.. the words will come out clearer.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

You are supposed to drink it..

mmmmmmm well figures of speech and all that…having some trouble with my typing…

well hit the keyboard rather than the bottle.. the words will come out clearer.

giggle

I’m trying, I’m trying…but I don’t think I will play any Mario just now….

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

1. son flats with a Tamil….I should have asked her. She uses eggplant quite a bit in her cooking
   

OMG! You lucky thing! Cultivate her acquaintance without further ado! I always regret that I never bothered with cooking when I was flatting with them…and the Indonesian…(but he couldn’t cook) …and the Tanzanian …. and the Canton Chinese…

He has been flatting with her for 9 years….the first couple of years his cousin was also with them and she was very unadventurous with food so they had very plain fare. For the last 3 or 4 years cousin hasn’t been with them, so flatmate is cooking a lot more curries etc. She married a fellow Sri Lankan last year (Christian) who finally immigrated after nearly 2 years. #1 son is still flatting with them and their 7 month old baby :)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

mmmmmmm well figures of speech and all that…having some trouble with my typing…

well hit the keyboard rather than the bottle.. the words will come out clearer.

giggle

I’m trying, I’m trying…but I don’t think I will play any Mario just now….

Takes me at least eight or nine Coopers reds before I decide my keyboard work is getting sloshy.

but then it takes me eight or nine hours to get to that stage.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

mmmmmmm well figures of speech and all that…having some trouble with my typing…

well hit the keyboard rather than the bottle.. the words will come out clearer.

giggle

I’m trying, I’m trying…but I don’t think I will play any Mario just now….

:)

AnneS said:

He has been flatting with her for 9 years….the first couple of years his cousin was also with them and she was very unadventurous with food so they had very plain fare. For the last 3 or 4 years cousin hasn’t been with them, so flatmate is cooking a lot more curries etc. She married a fellow Sri Lankan last year (Christian) who finally immigrated after nearly 2 years. #1 son is still flatting with them and their 7 month old baby :)

They are lovely people…we should have more of them… my home is your home…even their leftovers are delishous…

roughbarked said:

Takes me at least eight or nine Coopers reds before I decide my keyboard work is getting sloshy.

but then it takes me eight or nine hours to get to that stage.

I drank whilst waiting for the toast to toast, the eggs to poach…yep it went straight to my head…

I have heard the Bailey’s calling to me for about 5 days now…the dog was not impressed at being tied to a pallet of XXXX

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

well hit the keyboard rather than the bottle.. the words will come out clearer.

giggle

I’m trying, I’m trying…but I don’t think I will play any Mario just now….

Takes me at least eight or nine Coopers reds before I decide my keyboard work is getting sloshy.

but then it takes me eight or nine hours to get to that stage.

I remember a Coopers coming home for a while…it was a nice drop of….P was going through a phase of those “boutique” beers … you can’t drink beer too fast…can’t enjoy the drop if you do…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

giggle

I’m trying, I’m trying…but I don’t think I will play any Mario just now….

Takes me at least eight or nine Coopers reds before I decide my keyboard work is getting sloshy.

but then it takes me eight or nine hours to get to that stage.

I remember a Coopers coming home for a while…it was a nice drop of….P was going through a phase of those “boutique” beers … you can’t drink beer too fast…can’t enjoy the drop if you do…

It isn’t a boutique beer for me.. I’ve been known to say, “if Coopers stop making beer” there’d be nothing for me to buy.

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

He has been flatting with her for 9 years….the first couple of years his cousin was also with them and she was very unadventurous with food so they had very plain fare. For the last 3 or 4 years cousin hasn’t been with them, so flatmate is cooking a lot more curries etc. She married a fellow Sri Lankan last year (Christian) who finally immigrated after nearly 2 years. #1 son is still flatting with them and their 7 month old baby :)

They are lovely people…we should have more of them… my home is your home…even their leftovers are delishous…

They certainly are lovely

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

He has been flatting with her for 9 years….the first couple of years his cousin was also with them and she was very unadventurous with food so they had very plain fare. For the last 3 or 4 years cousin hasn’t been with them, so flatmate is cooking a lot more curries etc. She married a fellow Sri Lankan last year (Christian) who finally immigrated after nearly 2 years. #1 son is still flatting with them and their 7 month old baby :)

They are lovely people…we should have more of them… my home is your home…even their leftovers are delishous…

They certainly are lovely

They.. live in Australia.. it is their duty to be lovely.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I remember a Coopers coming home for a while…it was a nice drop of….P was going through a phase of those “boutique” beers … you can’t drink beer too fast…can’t enjoy the drop if you do…

It isn’t a boutique beer for me.. I’ve been known to say, “if Coopers stop making beer” there’d be nothing for me to buy.

Well we’d never heard of it before…this is about 8 years ago I think…??? Then PainMaster informed me it was the Sozzies’ national drink…

roughbarked said:

They.. live in Australia.. it is their duty to be lovely.

No mate, they are culturally lovely…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I remember a Coopers coming home for a while…it was a nice drop of….P was going through a phase of those “boutique” beers … you can’t drink beer too fast…can’t enjoy the drop if you do…

It isn’t a boutique beer for me.. I’ve been known to say, “if Coopers stop making beer” there’d be nothing for me to buy.

Well we’d never heard of it before…this is about 8 years ago I think…??? Then PainMaster informed me it was the Sozzies’ national drink…

I dunno

my memory of whe we were in the soccer for a chance at the final four for the first time.. when was it? umm anyway.. they had a world cup of beer at the same time.. Coopers Red won all categories hands down.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

They.. live in Australia.. it is their duty to be lovely.

No mate, they are culturally lovely…

That is after all what Australia is about.

roughbarked said:

I dunno

my memory of when we were in the soccer for a chance at the final four for the first time.. when was it? umm anyway.. they had a world cup of beer at the same time.. Coopers Red won all categories hands down.

That was the mid 1990’s?

It doesn’t surprise me…but I guess the transport costs to out here would knock it out of the local competition…so to speak…

Let’s just say it must have been a significant drop in my experience as I still recall tasting it all those years ago…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

They.. live in Australia.. it is their duty to be lovely.

No mate, they are culturally lovely…

That is after all what Australia is about.

We could learn a lot from the other cultures about taking care of each other, that’s for sure…but I can see why folk are reluctant to allow “terrorist” material into our country…hell we’re so laid back even the “terrorists” might give the “terrorism” away after a while…

LOL!

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I dunno

my memory of when we were in the soccer for a chance at the final four for the first time.. when was it? umm anyway.. they had a world cup of beer at the same time.. Coopers Red won all categories hands down.

That was the mid 1990’s?

It doesn’t surprise me…but I guess the transport costs to out here would knock it out of the local competition…so to speak…

Let’s just say it must have been a significant drop in my experience as I still recall tasting it all those years ago…

Coopers stout has often beaten Guinness in some years.

The Family has made it their business to stick with the recipes and motives of their years in business since 1862.
They remain the only family business in the beer brewing industry in Australia and they aren’t shy to spend millions preventing takeovers.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

No mate, they are culturally lovely…

That is after all what Australia is about.

We could learn a lot from the other cultures about taking care of each other, that’s for sure…but I can see why folk are reluctant to allow “terrorist” material into our country…hell we’re so laid back even the “terrorists” might give the “terrorism” away after a while…

LOL!

you have been partaking a tad too much. it isn’t that we can’t teach potential terrorists how not to be.. it is more that we cannot allow those who already carry that in their heart.

There’s a new Doctor Who…

Good morning green ones. I’m counting the days to spring and summer. Dinetta you make me laugh, lol. I hope your head isn’t too sore this morn.

I’m off mid morn to ballarat way to pick up a green dyed Silkie hen. I hope the green doesn’t take too long to wear off. Quarantine and all that for a couple weeks.

First off though, got a horrible ‘mum’ job to do. Ring my youngest daughters work manager/co owner and unleash my frustration at him for playing down and dusting off a situation with a nasty co worker in the office, directed at my daughter wearing down my girl so much over a four year span, that she is a mental wreck.
He will say to those in the office ‘oh we all know what N (the bully) is like’.
My girls having panic attacks and crying meltdowns, can’t function, on medication and has been seeing a psychiatrist and psychologist. The offender is not such a bully as just a nasty uncooperative co worker, but only to my daughter, is nicer to the others. But to the point that is interfering with the work my girl does there. She is going to leave the job and management don’t want her to, they love her. But they don’t get the problem and my girl just thinks they all think she is just too sensitive. I’ve seen and heard the nastiness myself and if you saw some of the awful text messages N has sent my girl..she was a happy bubbly talkative funny girl and to see how this has affected her, her confidence and self esteem shot to pieces, is killing me.

The situation has worsened the past several months since my girl has lost a lot of weight and is now slender. The nasty one leaves cream cakes and chocolates on her desk and when K (my daughter) doesn’t eat them, N tells her what a nasty selfish unappreciative, quote unquote ‘piece of shit’ she is. My daughter is the frontdesk reception and has a speakerphone on, people hear this stuff being said to her. Not good for the business either.

I get my daughter to eat right and eat healthy foods but N just doesn’t stop.

My kids know, watch out when Mum cracks it.

Happy Potter said:

First off though, got a horrible ‘mum’ job to do. Ring my youngest daughters work manager/co owner and unleash my frustration at him for playing down and dusting off a situation with a nasty co worker in the office, directed at my daughter wearing down my girl so much over a four year span, that she is a mental wreck.

My kids know, watch out when Mum cracks it.

I know exactly what you mean, I worked in an office where the supervisors chose grown women to bully…in very much that manner, something so insiduous (F7) that it can’t be pinned down…you don’t need to hit someone to abuse them…

That firm doesn’t deserve your daughter: she owes them nothing. And what’s the bet, once she goes Ms Nasty will pick on someone else…

It’s a wonder the psych’s haven’t been helping your daughter grow a thick skin? You can be thick skinned without being rude…P’s family were all born with a thick skin and they ignore (or score right back) at people who try to put them down…

It’s a wonder the psych’s haven’t been helping your daughter grow a thick skin? You can be thick skinned without being rude…P’s family were all born with a thick skin and they ignore (or score right back) at people who try to put them down…
————————————————————————————— It’s only the last two weeks she’s been seeing medicos and it’ll take a while to undo the damage. But yes, I’m thick skinned like that, I’ve worked with some serious nasties and projected their barbs either side of me and not taken it personally. This is what K has to learn. I have been advising her and giving her strategies for years and she did implement them, and they have worked and she’d coped well thus far. But then N upped the attacks and my girl had been too battered to deal with it. The cincher was that N took her months leave for the first time and suddenly everything went smoothly, work was pleasant. Then N retuned.

Dinetta said:

There’s a new Doctor Who…

Who? Who?

lol!

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

There’s a new Doctor Who…

Who? Who?

lol!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-05/spin-doctor-capaldi-named-as-next-doctor-who/4864254

Happy Potter said:

My kids know, watch out when Mum cracks it.

It is wrong that the company tolerate this sort of behaviour. There are laws against workplace bullying and it must be dealt with. Might have to get a third party in to mediate as they may just write you off as an over-protective, interfering mother (which we know you are not.)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

My kids know, watch out when Mum cracks it.

It is wrong that the company tolerate this sort of behaviour. There are laws against workplace bullying and it must be dealt with. Might have to get a third party in to mediate as they may just write you off as an over-protective, interfering mother (which we know you are not.)

It turned out to be the right thing to do and the fellow had only half an idea of what was happening. I had spoken to him before at the girls work functions that we were invited to and he is kindly.

Anti bullying notices will go up. N will be spoken to about office interpersonal relationships, and manners! Work cover brought in to mediate. A screen will divide the area ( boss had noticed N was spending a lot of time staring at my girl and thought that very odd), but for the immediate future and to get K back to work, she can work on weekends instead of weekdays.

K is very excited. She has always thought this is one of those situations where no one can do anything and no one would believe her so it was all hopeless. But that’s what it’s worn her down to.

She is coming with me for a drive to B’rat with me to pick up the green chicken. I’ll tell her what I did on the way.

The green chickens name is Dr Seuss. LOL

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

My kids know, watch out when Mum cracks it.

It is wrong that the company tolerate this sort of behaviour. There are laws against workplace bullying and it must be dealt with. Might have to get a third party in to mediate as they may just write you off as an over-protective, interfering mother (which we know you are not.)

It turned out to be the right thing to do and the fellow had only half an idea of what was happening. I had spoken to him before at the girls work functions that we were invited to and he is kindly.

Anti bullying notices will go up. N will be spoken to about office interpersonal relationships, and manners! Work cover brought in to mediate. A screen will divide the area ( boss had noticed N was spending a lot of time staring at my girl and thought that very odd), but for the immediate future and to get K back to work, she can work on weekends instead of weekdays.

K is very excited. She has always thought this is one of those situations where no one can do anything and no one would believe her so it was all hopeless. But that’s what it’s worn her down to.

She is coming with me for a drive to B’rat with me to pick up the green chicken. I’ll tell her what I did on the way.

Excellent! I am so glad that the intervention has turned out so well.

Happy Potter said:

The green chickens name is Dr Seuss. LOL

does it cluck in nonsense rhyme? lol!

Happy Potter said:

( boss had noticed N was spending a lot of time staring at my girl and thought that very odd),

No working whilst staring = not productive…

Lovely that K can do her work of a weekend now…

Happy Potter said:

The green chickens name is Dr Seuss. LOL

hahaha!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

The green chickens name is Dr Seuss. LOL

does it cluck in nonsense rhyme? lol!

:D

All is quiet, can only hear the wind. The man went off to nightshift. I am sorting and labelling seed packets and patting the green silkie.

I got a call from my neurosurgeon today. I have to wait another 8 weeks before I can start having physio for my back. He wants me to walk one kilometre a day. Not counting about the house. I can do that, easy.

The girl is happy I spoke to her employer. She understands why I did, I have a breaking point, and she agrees that if I was a meddling parent I would have rang him back some 3 years ago. She is still adamant however, that the only solution is for her to find another job.

She and her bf are going to buy a house and land package at the Waterford estate near Eynesbury. We were looking at the house plans available and I really liked their choices. They actually have eves! lol. They have a deposit saved.
This means I’ll get my shed back. I want to fill it with junk the minute she vacates it, before another kid decides to move back home, lol.

bluegreen said:

This is only one part of the garden, to give you an idea of that view towards the Strathbogies.

no fill in flash means you can’t really see the view, but you can see the lovely big bay windows.

through the window

various angles from outside

closer look at that glass mosaic that the lady of the house made

an incredibly neat landscape – pruning with scissors -wow

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

It’s on! 7th September, Australia is gonna have an erection…!

LOL

You’re about my vintage: do you remember the Larry Pickering cartoon where (was it Gough?) looks under the sheet and says “I can feel an erection coming on” and Margaret says “that’s nice dear” or something? It was a classic…It would have been about 1979, 1980? when there was speculation that the govt of the day was expected to announce an election date…

good one.lol,

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I remember a Coopers coming home for a while…it was a nice drop of….P was going through a phase of those “boutique” beers … you can’t drink beer too fast…can’t enjoy the drop if you do…

It isn’t a boutique beer for me.. I’ve been known to say, “if Coopers stop making beer” there’d be nothing for me to buy.

Well we’d never heard of it before…this is about 8 years ago I think…??? Then PainMaster informed me it was the Sozzies’ national drink…

the sparkling ale was probably the world’s best beer – but that was because no one was really trying and other beers were tasteless. the microbrews started in usa about 1985 and are improving the taste. try an indian pale ale – for its hoppy taste.

justin said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

It isn’t a boutique beer for me.. I’ve been known to say, “if Coopers stop making beer” there’d be nothing for me to buy.

Well we’d never heard of it before…this is about 8 years ago I think…??? Then PainMaster informed me it was the Sozzies’ national drink…

the sparkling ale was probably the world’s best beer – but that was because no one was really trying and other beers were tasteless. the microbrews started in usa about 1985 and are improving the taste. try an indian pale ale – for its hoppy taste.

There are problems though. Coopers fought off a huge takeover bid from Lion Nathan but beers like the esteemed Kingfisher from India which when soley imported was a great beer. Tastes nothing like it used to now that it is bottled in Australia under license by Lion Nathan.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

Dinetta said:

Well we’d never heard of it before…this is about 8 years ago I think…??? Then PainMaster informed me it was the Sozzies’ national drink…

the sparkling ale was probably the world’s best beer – but that was because no one was really trying and other beers were tasteless. the microbrews started in usa about 1985 and are improving the taste. try an indian pale ale – for its hoppy taste.

There are problems though. Coopers fought off a huge takeover bid from Lion Nathan but beers like the esteemed Kingfisher from India which when soley imported was a great beer. Tastes nothing like it used to now that it is bottled in Australia under license by Lion Nathan.

the big conglomerates are useless – buy the homebrewing magazine and check out their recommended pubs and places – mainly in the big cities and mainly $9 per stubby.
- or just keep drinking the sparkling. i’m brewing my own and this year it’s enhanced – I buy the homebrew can and then add the best yeasts, hops and malts to it.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

justin said:

the sparkling ale was probably the world’s best beer – but that was because no one was really trying and other beers were tasteless. the microbrews started in usa about 1985 and are improving the taste. try an indian pale ale – for its hoppy taste.

There are problems though. Coopers fought off a huge takeover bid from Lion Nathan but beers like the esteemed Kingfisher from India which when soley imported was a great beer. Tastes nothing like it used to now that it is bottled in Australia under license by Lion Nathan.

the big conglomerates are useless – buy the homebrewing magazine and check out their recommended pubs and places – mainly in the big cities and mainly $9 per stubby.
- or just keep drinking the sparkling. i’m brewing my own and this year it’s enhanced – I buy the homebrew can and then add the best yeasts, hops and malts to it.

I used to make up the Coopers bottling kits in the early 80s. Which was how I slowly got back into drinking beer. I gave up drinking at the age of 19 after drinking like a fish from 14 to 19. Still giggle at the reaction of the bartender on my 18th birthday. He said “I need to see proof of your age before I can serve you”. I said but I don’t have any. I don’t have a drivers license and I don’t carry a birth certificate. It is my 18th birthday today but I haven’t brought proof with me. He said well I can’t serve you. That’s when I said, then why didn’t that bother you when you served me for the last four years? Then he relented and poured me a beer.

I originally gave up drinking because it made me ill. I got to the stage where one beer went down well but the second gave me a splitting headache and pain in the guts. So for a while I’d drop in have one beer and say “I’m off home now” Some would say “why? what’s wrong with drinking with us?” My answer was, if I stay I’ll only spoil the party. So this became tedious and I stopped drinking altogether.

To cut a long story short, Coopers sparkling is the only beer I can drink. It doesn’t make me ill and doesn’t give me a hangover. I can’t drink Coopers green for long. I’m not very fond of it. I do like Coopers stout though. I’m not well heeled so I cannot afford expensive boutique beers in smaller bottles. I’m currently setting up to start brewing Coopers again as it is too expensive to buy beer. As for enhanced.. the old bottling kits came as a drum of prepared wort, We only had to do the last ferment and the bottling. I opted to chuck 250 grams of brown sugar into the wort with the yeast. It became a lovely deep darker brown and one longneck would make me drunk. two and I was unable to walk. I never did test the alcohol level but I’m assuming that it was more than Mr Cooper ever imagined.

To cut a long story short, Coopers sparkling is the only beer I can drink. It doesn’t make me ill and doesn’t give me a hangover. I can’t drink Coopers green for long. I’m not very fond of it. I do like Coopers stout though. I’m not well heeled so I cannot afford expensive boutique beers in smaller bottles. I’m currently setting up to start brewing Coopers again as it is too expensive to buy beer. As for enhanced.. the old bottling kits came as a drum of prepared wort, We only had to do the last ferment and the bottling. I opted to chuck 250 grams of brown sugar into the wort with the yeast. It became a lovely deep darker brown and one longneck would make me drunk. two and I was unable to walk. I never did test the alcohol level but I’m assuming that it was more than Mr Cooper ever imagined.
—————

the stout is the most forgiving to brew – but it and the lagers need 3 months to mature.
there are various cream malts to add and change the taste into more gentle ‘porters’ and ‘irish’ stouts.
but adding brown sugar to the wart is still the cheapest.
I have a 15% pale ale now – so the alcohol levels can get quite high – higher than I thought was possible.

roughbarked said:

I opted to chuck 250 grams of brown sugar into the wort with the yeast. It became a lovely deep darker brown and one longneck would make me drunk. two and I was unable to walk. I never did test the alcohol level but I’m assuming that it was more than Mr Cooper ever imagined.

You daredevil!!

i’m back from the shops. did you know that the chemist is less than half the supermarket price on fish oil? sup’art $35 chemist $15 for 400 tabs of 1000mg fish oil.

there’s a huntsman spider in our house. it came in via the laundry door and moved very slowly – 5 metres in 8 days and now it is in the windowless stair hall..
when I turn the lights on it witnesses daytime. when I turn them off it must think it’s night. sure it’s warm and dry – but what is happening to the timeclock in it’s mind?

justin said:

i’m back from the shops. did you know that the chemist is less than half the supermarket price on fish oil? sup’art $35 chemist $15 for 400 tabs of 1000mg fish oil.

I mostly get my fish oil caps from the chemist. Much cheaper

Morning sleepy ones. Although I’m probably the last one up, lol.
I have a wet backyard thanks to lots of bands of rain coming through and it being too cold for it to dry out between showers. And the mulches, composts and manures that the chooks and dogs feet have spread muck from here to there make it a pointless exercise to mop the kitchen floor.

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

Happy Potter said:

Morning sleepy ones. Although I’m probably the last one up, lol.
I have a wet backyard thanks to lots of bands of rain coming through and it being too cold for it to dry out between showers. And the mulches, composts and manures that the chooks and dogs feet have spread muck from here to there make it a pointless exercise to mop the kitchen floor.

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

:D :D

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning sleepy ones. Although I’m probably the last one up, lol.
I have a wet backyard thanks to lots of bands of rain coming through and it being too cold for it to dry out between showers. And the mulches, composts and manures that the chooks and dogs feet have spread muck from here to there make it a pointless exercise to mop the kitchen floor.

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

:D :D

I’ve been saying that for years about my yard.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning sleepy ones. Although I’m probably the last one up, lol.
I have a wet backyard thanks to lots of bands of rain coming through and it being too cold for it to dry out between showers. And the mulches, composts and manures that the chooks and dogs feet have spread muck from here to there make it a pointless exercise to mop the kitchen floor.

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

:D :D

I’ve been saying that for years about my yard.

As he has about his yard. He thought he was the only one..haw haw haw haw. He didn’t think that I was picking these things up from him, and you, over the years.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

:D :D

I’ve been saying that for years about my yard.

As he has about his yard. He thought he was the only one..haw haw haw haw. He didn’t think that I was picking these things up from him, and you, over the years.

I think you would have done the same without my comment. ;)

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve been saying that for years about my yard.

As he has about his yard. He thought he was the only one..haw haw haw haw. He didn’t think that I was picking these things up from him, and you, over the years.

I think you would have done the same without my comment. ;)

:) thanks.
The chooks helped. They started it, lol. But, as I had lots of fruit trees in one area, it made sense to treat the whole wider area and not just the trees.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

As he has about his yard. He thought he was the only one..haw haw haw haw. He didn’t think that I was picking these things up from him, and you, over the years.

I think you would have done the same without my comment. ;)

:) thanks.
The chooks helped. They started it, lol. But, as I had lots of fruit trees in one area, it made sense to treat the whole wider area and not just the trees.

yep.

Happy Potter said:

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

Was he drooling, lol!?!?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

Was he drooling, lol!?!?

Lol, he was scratching his head wondering why he hadn’t noticed it before. My yard is a giant worm farm too. They’re everywhere. Surface composters in pot plants and under pots, wood, tin, pavers, even under the pile of pebbles being washed, and then there’s the underground lot, the slow movers and the fast shakers.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning sleepy ones. Although I’m probably the last one up, lol.
I have a wet backyard thanks to lots of bands of rain coming through and it being too cold for it to dry out between showers. And the mulches, composts and manures that the chooks and dogs feet have spread muck from here to there make it a pointless exercise to mop the kitchen floor.

My bestie orchard mate finally twigged as to why I don’t have a compost heap. He’s been nagging me for years about building one. I have all the materials and space for one. I do have the space ball composter but I use what comes out of it to mix with worm casts to make my own seed raising mix.

He was helping me with some gardening jobs and digging over a patch of dirt, a gastronomic mix of manures and worms, fungi and rotting leaf and hay matter, it’s perfect, when he suddenly declared ‘your whole yard is one big compost heap!!’. I have been putting up with his friendly nagging for two years waiting for him to realise this, lol.

:D :D

I agree bluegreen :-D :-D

Getting a book from the library tomorrow: Windows 7 for the complete idiot…

I’m cooking today :)
Party finger foods and pop cakes for the little cuties birthday party tomorrow. And I bought an electric pressure cooker! I’ve wanted one for years. I dislike the stovetop ones. I made beef and barley soup.. omg it smells awesome. I couldn’t wait until tonight to make it, but now I can have it for brekky :D

So, here is our miserable girl. She is not happy with her new outfit….

Eating is a challenge…

But you can at least put your head down for a sleep:

buffy said:

So, here is our miserable girl. She is not happy with her new outfit….

Eating is a challenge…

But you can at least put your head down for a sleep:

aaawwwwwww, poor thing.

The pink stuff on the inside of her right ear is a sponge, soaking up the blood draining from a cyst-like thing. But Mr buffy says it looks like she has a pork chop sewn onto her ear.

buffy said:

So, here is our miserable girl. She is not happy with her new outfit….

Eating is a challenge…

But you can at least put your head down for a sleep:

Awww Paw Bebe!! Mwah Mwah

buffy said:

The pink stuff on the inside of her right ear is a sponge, soaking up the blood draining from a cyst-like thing. But Mr buffy says it looks like she has a pork chop sewn onto her ear.

“Soooo, what’s that?”

“Does it look like a pork chop?”

“Yes”

…..silence….

The sun is out here and as I generally operate on low Vitamin D levels anyway, and it’s been dull and gloomy weather for some weeks, I’d better go out there and dose up a bit.

I wonder why it is that you go out to do particular weeding and end up doing a different lot? A harder lot?

The mini daffodils have come out in the week since I last looked at them.

:)

Good morning Gardeners. We have 6 degrees, but it doesn’t really feel too cold. I’ll put Babuschka in the car shortly and take her to Casterton for a few hours of respite from the Orbital Pug.

And I’ll get some gardening done. Just need to have a good think about which plants to take over there to plant etc.

Morning all…any one got a basic chicken soup recipe, please? Looks like I’m getting a kilo of carcases and the donor regarded me with big blue eyes and said “soup”….

I got quite a lot of weeding done in Casterton, and then I mowed and used the clippings as mulch over shredded paper on the bed I had weeded. I also started pruning The Mermaid rambler rose. She’s a right b that one. Backward pointing, vicious thorns. I have to finish off pruning but I had filled the bag with bits and didn’t feel like doing a second bag today.

She’s a pretty flower though.

This is the plant about 3 years ago. She’s bigger now:

And here is her flower:

Hi there. It’s me at last. Life seems to have taken hold around here. Just don’t seem to get time to log on very often. We are well and the garden is progressing as gardens should.

Spring is just around the corner and the plants are geting ready for it. Animals too it seems.

Eating caulflowers, silver beet, capsicums. Sugar loaf cabbages are almost there along with broccoli and beans. Lots of cape goosberries this year I reckon. At last I might get some jam.

That’s it for me. Be good and be keen. Stay happy and well.

My new quote: “Try to be the person your dog thinks you are.” LOL.

pomolo said:

Hi there. It’s me at last. Life seems to have taken hold around here. Just don’t seem to get time to log on very often. We are well and the garden is progressing as gardens should.

Spring is just around the corner and the plants are geting ready for it. Animals too it seems.

Eating caulflowers, silver beet, capsicums. Sugar loaf cabbages are almost there along with broccoli and beans. Lots of cape goosberries this year I reckon. At last I might get some jam.

That’s it for me. Be good and be keen. Stay happy and well.

My new quote: “Try to be the person your dog thinks you are.” LOL.

glad all is well. Love the quote :)

Good to see your name in lights Pomolo…glad all’s going well…not sure what my dog thinks of me…

Dinetta said:

Morning all…any one got a basic chicken soup recipe, please? Looks like I’m getting a kilo of carcases and the donor regarded me with big blue eyes and said “soup”….

I usually just stick the carcass in a pot or my slow cooker with stock (lately I’ve been cheating and using the ready made ones; use about a litre). I then add what ever vegetables I have on hand or buy a soup pack. Parsnips, swedes, carrots, celery, potato, broccoli, onion etc. All the more the merrier. I often add some macaroni to “beef” it up because Sleepy isn’t keen on barley or dried peas which are often recommended. Rice works too. Then just season to you taste….tomato paste etc.

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

Morning all…any one got a basic chicken soup recipe, please? Looks like I’m getting a kilo of carcases and the donor regarded me with big blue eyes and said “soup”….

I usually just stick the carcass in a pot or my slow cooker with stock (lately I’ve been cheating and using the ready made ones; use about a litre). I then add what ever vegetables I have on hand or buy a soup pack. Parsnips, swedes, carrots, celery, potato, broccoli, onion etc. All the more the merrier. I often add some macaroni to “beef” it up because Sleepy isn’t keen on barley or dried peas which are often recommended. Rice works too. Then just season to you taste….tomato paste etc.

Thanks for that, AnneS…the slow cooker is n eggsellent idea except I need to replace my last one which was turfed due to old age…

Moring green ones
I’m off to a morning tea after at the community centre for the centre’s manager who is retiring. Our craft group is putting on a nice spread.

Then some trailer stuff to do, pick up a nice clean IBC tank for next to nothing uber cheap from just up the road, they just want it gone, plus a downpipe rainwater converter. I need another as the one I have overflows with every shower. This one will sit in the corner of the carport opposite the other one, only with a colourbond fence between them. All the piping is there so it won’t be much to hook it up. It’ll be for watering the front garden.

But my buy of the year was a ‘mini chopper’ with all the bits and pieces for a twenty note. My whizz stick chopper carked it so I was looking for a replacement. I couldn’t figure out all the bits and attachments and screw on bases with chopping blades so went to you tube to see a demo. It turns out to be a complete magic bullet set, with the juicer and bender. Unreal.

The part that lit my eyes up was this itty bitty cup that you can load with peeled garlic cloves, or whatever else you want a small amount of, screw the blade in and whizz it. Minced garlic in a blink. No more sore hands trying to squeeze the manual garlic crusher. Yay!

Hello Gardeners. I’ve been very busy at work today. I don’t even know what the weather was like.

What brand is this wonderful device then HP?

20 week scan

Good morning Gardeners. Around 8 degrees, about 10mm rain overnight. It’s wet out there. I’m hoping the creek is not up on the highway or I will have to turn around and go the other way.

bluegreen said:

20 week scan

so clear!

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. I’ve been very busy at work today. I don’t even know what the weather was like.

What brand is this wonderful device then HP?

The magic bullet Buffy. And what a wondrous little gadget it is. I’ve tested crushing garlic in it, onions too, terrific. I tested crushing vitamin c and b tablets that I add to chooks health mix, for newies in quarantine, sick or too thin, etc., and they were powdered in a blink. I don’t have to make a racket with the mortar and pestle and have one tablet ping itself out across the floor.. as what oft happens. Almond meal, and whole spices to powder, easy peasy.
Threw in some orange quarters to juice for my brekky. Love it.
They ought to pay me for the ad.
And it really doesn’t take up bench space!

bluegreen said:

20 week scan

How clear are those images now! :)

Happy Potter said:

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. I’ve been very busy at work today. I don’t even know what the weather was like.

What brand is this wonderful device then HP?

The magic bullet Buffy. And what a wondrous little gadget it is. I’ve tested crushing garlic in it, onions too, terrific. I tested crushing vitamin c and b tablets that I add to chooks health mix, for newies in quarantine, sick or too thin, etc., and they were powdered in a blink. I don’t have to make a racket with the mortar and pestle and have one tablet ping itself out across the floor.. as what oft happens. Almond meal, and whole spices to powder, easy peasy.
Threw in some orange quarters to juice for my brekky. Love it.
They ought to pay me for the ad.
And it really doesn’t take up bench space!

If you can ignore the hype.. it’s this thing.

http://www.buythebullet.com/

Ah, I see. I’ve got a Kenwood food processor that has a small attachment that does the grinding small quantities thing. But I see this is something different again.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

20 week scan

How clear are those images now! :)

and it’s a girl :D

Good morning Holidayers. Feels cool here, but I haven’t been outside to look at the thermometer yet. I drove through a rather heavy shower of hail yesterday afternoon. The road was quite white……and still someone zoomed up behind me and passed me.

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Feels cool here, but I haven’t been outside to look at the thermometer yet. I drove through a rather heavy shower of hail yesterday afternoon. The road was quite white……and still someone zoomed up behind me and passed me.

That was scary. Hubby daughter and I got caught in it going to our car at a shopping centre carpark. He and she were struggling with the trolley, debris suddenly flying about, signs on shops flapping and tree branches coming down. Everyone scurried back inside the shopping centre or to their cars.

A small but high truck with a tarped cover coming towards me in the opposite direction was driving on a lean. We all did a little collective squeal, I moved over to the far lane.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

20 week scan

How clear are those images now! :)

and it’s a girl :D

:D

What a poser! lol.

Morning green ones. Not a lot happening about here. Visiting friends and catching up with people, generally tending to chooks and chicks and picking up fertile eggs to put under broody Lin Lin.. I have 9 good eggs, 3 from my roo and Lucy lettucehead and 6 from another lady with silkies, and will pop them under her tonight. The roo is leaving us today. I’m dropping him off to his previous owner to go back to the Anakie farm. She works in hoppers so it’s a short trip. He came here crowing weirdly but found his voice here.

The eating eggs are coming at us 8 or 9 a day and being picked up by visiting kiddlywinks just as fast.

Happy Potter said:

What a poser! lol.

gorgeous! who did she copy that pose from?

Happy Potter said:

Morning green ones. Not a lot happening about here. Visiting friends and catching up with people, generally tending to chooks and chicks and picking up fertile eggs to put under broody Lin Lin.. I have 9 good eggs, 3 from my roo and Lucy lettucehead and 6 from another lady with silkies, and will pop them under her tonight. The roo is leaving us today. I’m dropping him off to his previous owner to go back to the Anakie farm. She works in hoppers so it’s a short trip. He came here crowing weirdly but found his voice here.

The eating eggs are coming at us 8 or 9 a day and being picked up by visiting kiddlywinks just as fast.

I’m struggling to keep up with eggs here. What with 5 duck eggs a day and a few bantam eggs as well I am overrun. I have two duck eggs at breakfast (yum, yum) and manage to give a dozen away every now and then but still have lots in the fridge waiting to be consumed.

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Feels cool here, but I haven’t been outside to look at the thermometer yet. I drove through a rather heavy shower of hail yesterday afternoon. The road was quite white……and still someone zoomed up behind me and passed me.

tch

Happy Potter said:

What a poser! lol.

LOL A Natural!!

Happy Potter said:

The eating eggs are coming at us 8 or 9 a day and being picked up by visiting kiddlywinks just as fast.

Good, good…

:)

bluegreen said:

I’m struggling to keep up with eggs here. What with 5 duck eggs a day and a few bantam eggs as well I am overrun. I have two duck eggs at breakfast (yum, yum) and manage to give a dozen away every now and then but still have lots in the fridge waiting to be consumed.

Strewth BlueGreen! As soon as somebody realises I have a few hens and am giving the eggs to family, their eyes light up and next thing I know there’s empty egg cartons being given to me…hint hint…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

I’m struggling to keep up with eggs here. What with 5 duck eggs a day and a few bantam eggs as well I am overrun. I have two duck eggs at breakfast (yum, yum) and manage to give a dozen away every now and then but still have lots in the fridge waiting to be consumed.

Strewth BlueGreen! As soon as somebody realises I have a few hens and am giving the eggs to family, their eyes light up and next thing I know there’s empty egg cartons being given to me…hint hint…

I’m in an area where most people keep their own chooks.

My speckled sussex have not started to lay again yet. They are not young, but I do expect them to lay a bit more yet. They should start soon, the asparagus are beginning, and I have lemons. I want to make Hollandaise before too much longer.

:)

I believe Longy tried taping chicken soup recipes to the coop walls…but it didn’t persuade his hens any…

Like leaning the axe against the recalcitrant fruit tree…..

:)

The last bit is somewhat extreme: I just talk to the tree / shrub or at the very least, chat about it to family and friends…

Still here. Been a bit busy so not posted much. Had my sister down from Blackheath for a few days which was lovely. Bald Archy Exhibition is on now and getting a good turnout. Got a couple of lovely late presents for my birthday. A new compact digital camera (Canon) and a book “Heston’s Fantastical Feasts” based on the TV series Heaston’s Feasts which I noticed is showing again last night. Been raining a fair bit although the sun is out atm for a change.

Sweet

:)

bluegreen said:

Still here. Been a bit busy so not posted much. Had my sister down from Blackheath for a few days which was lovely. Bald Archy Exhibition is on now and getting a good turnout. Got a couple of lovely late presents for my birthday. A new compact digital camera (Canon) and a book “Heston’s Fantastical Feasts” based on the TV series Heaston’s Feasts which I noticed is showing again last night. Been raining a fair bit although the sun is out atm for a change.

Noice :D Happy belated Birthday :)

Morning all. We’re still here, just. That was a big wind. Everything ok here except for a ton of leaf and branches ending up in the pond, and a warped shed door when it got flung back in a gust. I went out to shut it and it caught my forearm. That’s going to be one big bruise. The chooks were more sensible and stayed well tucked up in their quarters.

I went to bed and listened to it roaring. I could hear bins tumbling, shed roof’s and fences coming loose, and the big gums out on the nature strip whipping about. It died right down quite suddenly.. reminded me of when I was a kid in Qld and there was a cyclone and the wind stopped suddenly as the eye passed over. I remembered the rules about not going too close to windows, keep a torch with you and if the house wall starts shaking and roof starts to lift, go into the smallest room of the house and cover yourself with lots of blankets. It’s amazing how memories come back at you like that. The subconscious mind never forgets.

I have the vege swap this morning and I have a stack of things to take. I’ll have to get the man to help me get a dozen 3 lt bottles of manure tea into my swap trolley. It’s cold and damp and the sun is trying to come out.

Glad you kept safe Happy Potter…

Did you know they had to discontinue the cyclone warnings because all the newbies thought it meant the cyclone was imminent? The newbies did not listen to the warnings, just the warning signal…this means the fun of tracking a cyclone (with cold beer in hand or consuming tea and cake) which was never gonna affect us inland, was taken away…

Hello Gardeners. I’ve been for a bike ride, walked the bike back from halfway round down because the gears are slipping (back to the bike shop who fitted my new Sturmey Archer gears in April), walked Digby, then walked Buschka, then walked Long. Then went to the cafe for late breakfast of quiche and three nut tart. No lunch required today.

Then discovered a big branch came down off the old redgum in the backyard sometime since yesterday morning, so I lopped all the leafy bits off and then Mr buffy chopped it into bitesize (well, burn size!) bits and I have barrowed and stacked it. It was only one barrow load. Of course then there was changing the chook water, rolling the chook tractor up the hill to new grass, fixing their shreds in their nest. And this led to me noticing weeds….so weeding. Then there was one Buddleia I missed in The Massacre a few weeks ago so I thought I should do that.

I think I might go and read and nap for a bit now. I also had to have a chat with Auntie Annie next door who will have Digby staying with her for ten days from next Thursday. She needed instructions on what to do if he doesn’t wake up. It could be any time at his age. Mr buffy will line up some of the local men to dig the hole if it is necessary. It’s sad to think about, but it needs to be thought about.

Quiet today…..has everyone got better weather than me? It’s gone dull and gusty here.

I think it’s your turn for the “happenings”, Buffy…battling sleepy-ness from the dry weather here…

Digby sounds like he’ll be in good hands, one way or the other…

buffy said:

Quiet today…..has everyone got better weather than me? It’s gone dull and gusty here.

a bit miserable here too.

Worked this morning, had a nap this afternoon, did nothing in the garden.

Hi all.
I haven’t stopped, bit of this and that, bit of gardening, bit of tidying the yard, bit of chook sorting (the six big girls are going to a farm soon), trailer stuff, some things left, other things came in.. and now my PC has shat itself and I’m just here to do a back up and save stuff, then reformatting it.
In an Arnie voice * I’ll be barkkk *

Happy Potter said:

Hi all.
I haven’t stopped, bit of this and that, bit of gardening, bit of tidying the yard, bit of chook sorting (the six big girls are going to a farm soon), trailer stuff, some things left, other things came in.. and now my PC has shat itself and I’m just here to do a back up and save stuff, then reformatting it.
In an Arnie voice * I’ll be barkkk *

Staying out of mischief, good to see…

Well, after a week in an opal mine. I’ve been from White Cliffs to Wannaring, back through Willcannia, Ivanhoe, Booligal, South Gunbar, stopped to see a bowerbirds bower and on to home today. Got home at 5:30. Have unpacked all the gear and am doing my washing. Have been fora walk around the garden to see that nothing much has changed apart from being a week late to do all my gardening things.

Relieved to see you sign in…looking forward to an update of your finds at White Hill…

White CLIFFS!!

Dinetta said:

Relieved to see you sign in…looking forward to an update of your finds at White Hill…

:) thanks. Yes, there were no mishaps. Yes, when I’m in White Cliffs I do sleep inside Smiths Hill. Below is sunrise from Smiths Hill.

roughbarked said:

:) thanks. Yes, there were no mishaps. Yes, when I’m in White Cliffs I do sleep inside Smiths Hill. Below is sunrise from Smiths Hill.

Took a while to get my bearings, thought it was upside down (but we all know I’m a ditz)…the inclusion of the trees on the LHS helped…an unusual sunrise shot altogether…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

:) thanks. Yes, there were no mishaps. Yes, when I’m in White Cliffs I do sleep inside Smiths Hill. Below is sunrise from Smiths Hill.

Took a while to get my bearings, thought it was upside down (but we all know I’m a ditz)…the inclusion of the trees on the LHS helped…an unusual sunrise shot altogether…

Oh that’s a beautiful pic :)

Heyas, I’m back. Still reloading the comp. What a pain in the rear. It’s running great now though.

Lovely and sunny out but a cold biting wind. Apart from reloading the pc until 4 am, I cut some old plastic pots to place as guards around tree trunks. I’m also getting some help to lay plastic mesh for a meter or so then mulch over the top. This will protect the fine surface roots from chooks ever scratching feet.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

:) thanks. Yes, there were no mishaps. Yes, when I’m in White Cliffs I do sleep inside Smiths Hill. Below is sunrise from Smiths Hill.

Took a while to get my bearings, thought it was upside down (but we all know I’m a ditz)…the inclusion of the trees on the LHS helped…an unusual sunrise shot altogether…

Oh that’s a beautiful pic :)

There are more where that came from. ;)

roughbarked said:

There are more where that came from. ;)

Glorious…I can smell the dust…

So, I’ve leaned the dog grot off a wall and a cupboard, I’ve done some loads of washing, and I’ve done some ironing. I might make a fried cheese sandwich for lunch. Then I’d better get into some journal reading for a couple of hours.

I’ve been cleaning the oven, it is coming up well, hooray for soda bicarb, but it’s boring…also cleaning the wall behind and the cupboard beside, and then the floor underneath…missing out on Mah Jong so I can get it finished…

There I was playing lady of the manor making cups of tea and drinks for a team of friends who’d come in to spruce up my big chook pen for me. They unburied the lemon tree and dug out many years of the best compost you ever saw, made from many, many bales of straw, mulches and manures of every sort you can think of, out of half the pen. They dug out some 30 cm deep and now it’s back to the original level. 30 bags of lovely stuff for them to take home. Estimated there’s at least another thirty bags in there. They spread fresh eucy mulch thickly and it smells lovely now. There’s only 3 little hens in there now and I will shift them into the silkies pen in the next week. I will grow three or four tomatoes in there on the old compost over summer.

Then daughter screams ‘mum! Max! He was flopping on the ground shaking uncontrollably and eyes darting rapidly about, looked like a seizure. She scooped him up, into the car and to the vets. My friends had just left. By the time we got him to the vets he was fine again.

It wasn’t a seizure, it’s a return of the vestibular attacks. Chatting to the vet, there’s decisions to be made and we have to weigh things up. He can go back on the very exxy medication, but it would most likely return when it’s stopped again. He couldn’t stay on it too long or complications could make him sick. His ears are spotlessly clean, no infection present, so this is his brain affected. We could spend squillions taking him to a specialist and do scans and whatnot, but unless it could promise a cure, it could be all in vain. She said what it would really only do is to confirm what they already know. I have another appointment Thursday and if there’s been any recurrence’s, they may try anti epilepsy meds.

He’s asleep at my feet atm.

I need a stiff drink.

Happy Potter said:

There I was playing lady of the manor making cups of tea and drinks for a team of friends who’d come in to spruce up my big chook pen for me. They unburied the lemon tree and dug out many years of the best compost you ever saw, made from many, many bales of straw, mulches and manures of every sort you can think of, out of half the pen. They dug out some 30 cm deep and now it’s back to the original level. 30 bags of lovely stuff for them to take home. Estimated there’s at least another thirty bags in there. They spread fresh eucy mulch thickly and it smells lovely now. There’s only 3 little hens in there now and I will shift them into the silkies pen in the next week. I will grow three or four tomatoes in there on the old compost over summer.

Then daughter screams ‘mum! Max! He was flopping on the ground shaking uncontrollably and eyes darting rapidly about, looked like a seizure. She scooped him up, into the car and to the vets. My friends had just left. By the time we got him to the vets he was fine again.

It wasn’t a seizure, it’s a return of the vestibular attacks. Chatting to the vet, there’s decisions to be made and we have to weigh things up. He can go back on the very exxy medication, but it would most likely return when it’s stopped again. He couldn’t stay on it too long or complications could make him sick. His ears are spotlessly clean, no infection present, so this is his brain affected. We could spend squillions taking him to a specialist and do scans and whatnot, but unless it could promise a cure, it could be all in vain. She said what it would really only do is to confirm what they already know. I have another appointment Thursday and if there’s been any recurrence’s, they may try anti epilepsy meds.

He’s asleep at my feet atm.

I need a stiff drink.

((((HUGS))))

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

There are more where that came from. ;)

Glorious…I can smell the dust…

Ooh ooh sunshots…

Missed the sunset by moments recently…

If you click on the pic, I think you get to my photo project that some of you know about. Got many a story there about my times in PNG.

and a sunrise… on a different part of PNG.

painmaster said:

and a sunrise… on a different part of PNG.

Love the little “choo-choo” clods coming from the volcano…

roughbarked said:

Well done, RoughBarked!

Happy Potter said:

There I was playing lady of the manor making cups of tea and drinks for a team of friends who’d come in to spruce up my big chook pen for me. They unburied the lemon tree and dug out many years of the best compost you ever saw, made from many, many bales of straw, mulches and manures of every sort you can think of, out of half the pen. They dug out some 30 cm deep and now it’s back to the original level. 30 bags of lovely stuff for them to take home. Estimated there’s at least another thirty bags in there. They spread fresh eucy mulch thickly and it smells lovely now. There’s only 3 little hens in there now and I will shift them into the silkies pen in the next week. I will grow three or four tomatoes in there on the old compost over summer.

Then daughter screams ‘mum! Max! He was flopping on the ground shaking uncontrollably and eyes darting rapidly about, looked like a seizure. She scooped him up, into the car and to the vets. My friends had just left. By the time we got him to the vets he was fine again.

It wasn’t a seizure, it’s a return of the vestibular attacks. Chatting to the vet, there’s decisions to be made and we have to weigh things up. He can go back on the very exxy medication, but it would most likely return when it’s stopped again. He couldn’t stay on it too long or complications could make him sick. His ears are spotlessly clean, no infection present, so this is his brain affected. We could spend squillions taking him to a specialist and do scans and whatnot, but unless it could promise a cure, it could be all in vain. She said what it would really only do is to confirm what they already know. I have another appointment Thursday and if there’s been any recurrence’s, they may try anti epilepsy meds.

He’s asleep at my feet atm.

I need a stiff drink.

That’s so sad. I feel for you and for Max. I pray that the anti-epilepsy meds are the answer.

IT’S JUST NOT FAIR!

I’s been chilly up here. Bluddy winds from the South again. Things are getting very dry. Which is usual for this time of the year. Sometimes I can’t tell if a plant is suffering from the latest cold blast or because it’s drying out too much.

The blueberry bushes have flowers. A few anyway. I kinda doubt if they will progress to being edible fruit. Lots of flowers on the mangoes too. So provided there aren’t any more frosts, no strong westerlies and no severe thunder storms we might actually get a mango to ripen this year. Still got lots of cape goosberries maturing but they aren’t close to being ready yet.

Bubba and her husband called in for a quick visit on Sunday afternoon. They were on their way home from Harvey Bay. We had a chat and managed to ID a new plant she had bought from somewhere. It’s hard to imagine that Bubba doesn’t know the name of every plant. She’s the ID queen.

Morning green ones. It’s so cold.
The man gave me one of his old work rainproof ‘rainbird’ jackets to wear outside. It’s made up of an inner one with a warm liner and the outter one a heavy rain proof jacket. I only need the inner one. The removable sleeves go down to my knees but I will take them up. It’s warm and handy, tough as boots. I can use the sleeves over my arms as protectors too in whatever weather :)

Reason I needed it was I’ve been sitting out there in the garden planning what to grow where, and overseeing garden works carried out by fabulous gardener friends, going blue with cold.

The 3 bantam layers have been moved into the silkies pen, I put them on the perch late and they’re happy. The big pen was shut off and the area with the beaut compost will be my tomato bed for this season. My friends dug it over and built it up over to one side in the sunniest area. Then a trailer arrived half full of more of the spoiled lucerne hay and it was piled on the bed. The lucerne was swapped for the bags of compost from my big chook pen.
There was smiles and high fives all round. It took me 2 minutes to get some tomato seeds potted up. Only four I was told by a stern voiced person wagging their finger, as I plant things too close. Yessir. lol. I can temp fence the tomato patch off if I need to use the pen to grow out some poults.

Espalier works in the planning too. So far I would love a Satsuma plum, that will have another eating variety budded onto it, and a pomegranate. Two mountain pawpaws in that area will go elsewhere, yet to be decided, but might be out the front.

Old silverbeet plants were pulled out weeks ago, then yesty the area was dug over and some goodies added and spuds planted. Dutch cream, and a red skinned one thats name has escaped me.

Lastly this morning some wire mesh domes will be made up to go over the two comfrey plants. They’re still hiding underground atm but as soon as they emerge the chooks will be onto them.

Brekky and coffee first!

Rain expected this arvo. So that’ll be for some inside work, bikkie and other baking. Max forever close by my side, he had another little ‘episode’ last night but it only lasted 15 seconds or so. We’re monitoring him.

Oh and I found out what I can grow on the mesh frame under the kitchen eve in the mini orchard, that won’t mind arvo shade… clumping blackberries :) Yum.

Overshoot Day: Living too Large on a Finite Planet

Yous didn’t tell me how small cos lettuce seeds are, hey. The bag sorta dropped and the breeze sorta blew them about, like everywhere! LOL

Happy Potter said:

Yous didn’t tell me how small cos lettuce seeds are, hey. The bag sorta dropped and the breeze sorta blew them about, like everywhere! LOL

you will soon be up to your ears in Cos! lol! But the chooks will help you with that :)

Wondered by this car was reversing…they are taking photographs of the sunset…twits…get out and park properly!

*why….

(typing in the dark)

Hi Gardeners. Heading to Hobart tomorrow. Lectures to attend Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Brother and family to visit in the evenings. Then back via Launceston and a day of tripping to see friends and visit a work contact. Then back home and off to Robe for a 4 day Winter beach holiday. We’ll have the lappy and wireless dongle with us, so I might check in. Or I might be too busy relaxing.

:)

buffy said:

Hi Gardeners. Heading to Hobart tomorrow. Lectures to attend Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Brother and family to visit in the evenings. Then back via Launceston and a day of tripping to see friends and visit a work contact. Then back home and off to Robe for a 4 day Winter beach holiday. We’ll have the lappy and wireless dongle with us, so I might check in. Or I might be too busy relaxing.

:)

have fun :)

buffy said:

Hi Gardeners. Heading to Hobart tomorrow. Lectures to attend Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Brother and family to visit in the evenings. Then back via Launceston and a day of tripping to see friends and visit a work contact. Then back home and off to Robe for a 4 day Winter beach holiday. We’ll have the lappy and wireless dongle with us, so I might check in. Or I might be too busy relaxing.

:)

Nooooo….don’t take the lappy and wireless dongle with you!!

No pic, but I see this little bird all the time catching bugs on my patio. It’s white bellied/breasted with black back and wings, much like a willy wagtail but slightly larger and it’s tail doesn’t sit as high up. And one tiny slash of white like a line above it’s eyes.

It has the prettiest song ever. I could sit here forever listening to it.

Happy Potter said:

No pic, but I see this little bird all the time catching bugs on my patio. It’s white bellied/breasted with black back and wings, much like a willy wagtail but slightly larger and it’s tail doesn’t sit as high up. And one tiny slash of white like a line above it’s eyes.

It has the prettiest song ever. I could sit here forever listening to it.

Hope RoughBarked comes to the rescue soon, with an ID…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

No pic, but I see this little bird all the time catching bugs on my patio. It’s white bellied/breasted with black back and wings, much like a willy wagtail but slightly larger and it’s tail doesn’t sit as high up. And one tiny slash of white like a line above it’s eyes.

It has the prettiest song ever. I could sit here forever listening to it.

Hope RoughBarked comes to the rescue soon, with an ID…

It must be a willy wagtail. Just you ‘tubed them’ and this one, although larger, sounds similar. So probably just a very well fed w’ wagtail :) I do notice more birds around nowadays, because there are more about. More honeyeaters, more wattle birds and so on. Less blackbirds. There is current blackbird trapping goings on in just about every suburb.

Happy Potter said:

Morning green ones. It’s so cold.
The man gave me one of his old work rainproof ‘rainbird’ jackets to wear outside. It’s made up of an inner one with a warm liner and the outter one a heavy rain proof jacket. I only need the inner one. The removable sleeves go down to my knees but I will take them up. It’s warm and handy, tough as boots. I can use the sleeves over my arms as protectors too in whatever weather :)

Reason I needed it was I’ve been sitting out there in the garden planning what to grow where, and overseeing garden works carried out by fabulous gardener friends, going blue with cold.

The 3 bantam layers have been moved into the silkies pen, I put them on the perch late and they’re happy. The big pen was shut off and the area with the beaut compost will be my tomato bed for this season. My friends dug it over and built it up over to one side in the sunniest area. Then a trailer arrived half full of more of the spoiled lucerne hay and it was piled on the bed. The lucerne was swapped for the bags of compost from my big chook pen.
There was smiles and high fives all round. It took me 2 minutes to get some tomato seeds potted up. Only four I was told by a stern voiced person wagging their finger, as I plant things too close. Yessir. lol. I can temp fence the tomato patch off if I need to use the pen to grow out some poults.

Espalier works in the planning too. So far I would love a Satsuma plum, that will have another eating variety budded onto it, and a pomegranate. Two mountain pawpaws in that area will go elsewhere, yet to be decided, but might be out the front.

Old silverbeet plants were pulled out weeks ago, then yesty the area was dug over and some goodies added and spuds planted. Dutch cream, and a red skinned one thats name has escaped me.

Lastly this morning some wire mesh domes will be made up to go over the two comfrey plants. They’re still hiding underground atm but as soon as they emerge the chooks will be onto them.

Brekky and coffee first!

Wow HP you amaze me! Even with serious restrictions with your back you have got it all happening in your patch. Onya Sonya :-)

Happy Potter said:

Rain expected this arvo. So that’ll be for some inside work, bikkie and other baking. Max forever close by my side, he had another little ‘episode’ last night but it only lasted 15 seconds or so. We’re monitoring him.

Oh and I found out what I can grow on the mesh frame under the kitchen eve in the mini orchard, that won’t mind arvo shade… clumping blackberries :) Yum.

Poor Max :(

Happy Potter said:

Yous didn’t tell me how small cos lettuce seeds are, hey. The bag sorta dropped and the breeze sorta blew them about, like everywhere! LOL

I sowed some cos lettuce last week and thought I only planted a few….but heaps germinated. Probably will need heaps with all the rabbits around here. They have been digging up plants left right and centre.

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Wow HP you amaze me! Even with serious restrictions with your back you have got it all happening in your patch. Onya Sonya :-)
———————————————

:) AnneS , I’m just acting supervisor and organizer.

Had a glitch in the system yesty though..GS distress call. He’d befriended (?) a homeless person who talked GS into letting him into his flat and staying the night. offered GS and his gf all the drugs available..
GS wanted him out and was starting to get scared.
Right..while hubby was on his way there, I rang the landline and left a message on the ans machine to say dad is on his way there to meet with the carpet cleaning company fellow to show them the loading area and where to park, in 10 minutes! so hurry up and clean up, pick up all clothes ect off the floor now.
The unwanted visitor soon scarpered. The carpet cleaners really did go there to clean, but not until 5 hours later.

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Yous didn’t tell me how small cos lettuce seeds are, hey. The bag sorta dropped and the breeze sorta blew them about, like everywhere! LOL

I sowed some cos lettuce last week and thought I only planted a few….but heaps germinated. Probably will need heaps with all the rabbits around here. They have been digging up plants left right and centre.

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Absolutely, fencing needed. Otherwise it’s just a food fest for all the furry things. Do you want me to ring him? LOL

Happy Potter said:

Wow HP you amaze me! Even with serious restrictions with your back you have got it all happening in your patch. Onya Sonya :-)
———————————————

:) AnneS , I’m just acting supervisor and organizer.

Had a glitch in the system yesty though..GS distress call. He’d befriended (?) a homeless person who talked GS into letting him into his flat and staying the night. offered GS and his gf all the drugs available..
GS wanted him out and was starting to get scared.
Right..while hubby was on his way there, I rang the landline and left a message on the ans machine to say dad is on his way there to meet with the carpet cleaning company fellow to show them the loading area and where to park, in 10 minutes! so hurry up and clean up, pick up all clothes ect off the floor now.
The unwanted visitor soon scarpered. The carpet cleaners really did go there to clean, but not until 5 hours later.

Oh dear. How had GS been lately?

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Yous didn’t tell me how small cos lettuce seeds are, hey. The bag sorta dropped and the breeze sorta blew them about, like everywhere! LOL

I sowed some cos lettuce last week and thought I only planted a few….but heaps germinated. Probably will need heaps with all the rabbits around here. They have been digging up plants left right and centre.

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Absolutely, fencing needed. Otherwise it’s just a food fest for all the furry things. Do you want me to ring him? LOL

ROFL…

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Wow HP you amaze me! Even with serious restrictions with your back you have got it all happening in your patch. Onya Sonya :-)
———————————————

:) AnneS , I’m just acting supervisor and organizer.

Had a glitch in the system yesty though..GS distress call. He’d befriended (?) a homeless person who talked GS into letting him into his flat and staying the night. offered GS and his gf all the drugs available..
GS wanted him out and was starting to get scared.
Right..while hubby was on his way there, I rang the landline and left a message on the ans machine to say dad is on his way there to meet with the carpet cleaning company fellow to show them the loading area and where to park, in 10 minutes! so hurry up and clean up, pick up all clothes ect off the floor now.
The unwanted visitor soon scarpered. The carpet cleaners really did go there to clean, but not until 5 hours later.

Oh dear. How had GS been lately?

Really good actually. On the right medication :D
We’re still dealing with state trustees, housing authority, dhs and so on, and a missing disability org who is supposed to be looking after him. They send him letters with appointment times. I rang them, yet again, to say what part of he cannot read, do you not understand?

Could drive me to drink, that lot.

For all the Dr Who fans:

Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver – Programmable Universal Remote Control

For all the Dr Who fans:

Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver – Programmable Universal Remote Control

AnneS said:

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Talk $$$…that usually gets most males’ attention…

Happy Potter said:

Had a glitch in the system yesty though..GS distress call. He’d befriended (?) a homeless person who talked GS into letting him into his flat and staying the night. offered GS and his gf all the drugs available..
GS wanted him out and was starting to get scared.
Right..while hubby was on his way there, I rang the landline and left a message on the ans machine to say dad is on his way there to meet with the carpet cleaning company fellow to show them the loading area and where to park, in 10 minutes! so hurry up and clean up, pick up all clothes ect off the floor now.
The unwanted visitor soon scarpered. The carpet cleaners really did go there to clean, but not until 5 hours later.

LOL! Quick thinking…shame they prey on GS’s kind heart like that…

Happy Potter said:

Really good actually. On the right medication :D
We’re still dealing with state trustees, housing authority, dhs and so on, and a missing disability org who is supposed to be looking after him. They send him letters with appointment times. I rang them, yet again, to say what part of he cannot read, do you not understand?

Could drive me to drink, that lot.

They have to follow a “system”, the gits…and it has to be on record somewhere I suppose…

AnneS said:

For all the Dr Who fans:

Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver – Programmable Universal Remote Control

Don’t tempt me…

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Wow HP you amaze me! Even with serious restrictions with your back you have got it all happening in your patch. Onya Sonya :-)
———————————————

:) AnneS , I’m just acting supervisor and organizer.

Had a glitch in the system yesty though..GS distress call. He’d befriended (?) a homeless person who talked GS into letting him into his flat and staying the night. offered GS and his gf all the drugs available..
GS wanted him out and was starting to get scared.
Right..while hubby was on his way there, I rang the landline and left a message on the ans machine to say dad is on his way there to meet with the carpet cleaning company fellow to show them the loading area and where to park, in 10 minutes! so hurry up and clean up, pick up all clothes ect off the floor now.
The unwanted visitor soon scarpered. The carpet cleaners really did go there to clean, but not until 5 hours later.

Oh dear. How had GS been lately?

Really good actually. On the right medication :D
We’re still dealing with state trustees, housing authority, dhs and so on, and a missing disability org who is supposed to be looking after him. They send him letters with appointment times. I rang them, yet again, to say what part of he cannot read, do you not understand?

Could drive me to drink, that lot.

Never a dull moment in your household :)

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Talk $$$…that usually gets most males’ attention…

That’s true. As you can tell from my photos, the bed surrounds are from recycled gal. Hopefully we will be able to use recycled materials for the fence, to save expense and then increase chances of income

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

For all the Dr Who fans:

Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver – Programmable Universal Remote Control

Don’t tempt me…

:) Cool eh?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Really good actually. On the right medication :D
We’re still dealing with state trustees, housing authority, dhs and so on, and a missing disability org who is supposed to be looking after him. They send him letters with appointment times. I rang them, yet again, to say what part of he cannot read, do you not understand?

Could drive me to drink, that lot.

They have to follow a “system”, the gits…and it has to be on record somewhere I suppose…

A bit like Centrelink. I had SIX points of contact this week! Unbelievable! One of which they insisted had to be face to face so I had to drive to Wang for (1 1/2 hr round trip) only to be given the phone receiver to be interviewed on the phone. They couldn’t talk to me on the phone at home? No, because I already asked for that and they insisted I had to come into the office.

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

#1 son and I have decided that we really need to fence off the patch (a pretty big task). Just need to convince Sleepy that it is necessary if we are ever going to make the patch viable as a pseudo market garden

Talk $$$…that usually gets most males’ attention…

That’s true. As you can tell from my photos, the bed surrounds are from recycled gal. Hopefully we will be able to use recycled materials for the fence, to save expense and then increase chances of income

when you do the fence, make sure it is high enough so that you can throw netting over it too.

AnneS said:

That’s true. As you can tell from my photos, the bed surrounds are from recycled gal. Hopefully we will be able to use recycled materials for the fence, to save expense and then increase chances of income

Vegetables don’t car about fine and fancy…and Necessity is the Mother of Invention…amazing how you look at something differently at times…

bluegreen said:

A bit like Centrelink. I had SIX points of contact this week! Unbelievable! One of which they insisted had to be face to face so I had to drive to Wang for (1 1/2 hr round trip) only to be given the phone receiver to be interviewed on the phone. They couldn’t talk to me on the phone at home? No, because I already asked for that and they insisted I had to come into the office.

Sounds like they just follow whatever rule book they happen to be looking at…

bluegreen said:

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

Talk $$$…that usually gets most males’ attention…

That’s true. As you can tell from my photos, the bed surrounds are from recycled gal. Hopefully we will be able to use recycled materials for the fence, to save expense and then increase chances of income

Yes will have to remember to do that

when you do the fence, make sure it is high enough so that you can throw netting over it too.

Dinetta said:

Necessity is the Mother of Invention…amazing how you look at something differently at times…

recycled lawnmower parts.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Necessity is the Mother of Invention…amazing how you look at something differently at times…

recycled lawnmower parts.

A generator?

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Really good actually. On the right medication :D
We’re still dealing with state trustees, housing authority, dhs and so on, and a missing disability org who is supposed to be looking after him. They send him letters with appointment times. I rang them, yet again, to say what part of he cannot read, do you not understand?

Could drive me to drink, that lot.

They have to follow a “system”, the gits…and it has to be on record somewhere I suppose…

A bit like Centrelink. I had SIX points of contact this week! Unbelievable! One of which they insisted had to be face to face so I had to drive to Wang for (1 1/2 hr round trip) only to be given the phone receiver to be interviewed on the phone. They couldn’t talk to me on the phone at home? No, because I already asked for that and they insisted I had to come into the office.

Both those stories are unbelieveable but not surprising in this advanced way we live. Someone should write a book on this stuff.

D was putting bales of hay through the mulcher and retrieved the huge plastic container we store the mulched hay in. It had been upended on the grass for about 2 monhs. Surprise, surprise. Under it was a fully grown beetroot. Probably a seedling that escaped from the last plantings but it grew under the big plastic drum without rain or sunshine of any kind. The beet itself was totally above ground but the roots were anchored. The leaves were bright pink but droopy and almost transparent.

Quite often ones that we feed and water don’t do as well as this one did.

pomolo said:

Bubba and her husband called in for a quick visit on Sunday afternoon. They were on their way home from Harvey Bay. We had a chat and managed to ID a new plant she had bought from somewhere. It’s hard to imagine that Bubba doesn’t know the name of every plant. She’s the ID queen.

My crown must be slipping. :)

I turned the silverbeet into that recipe I told you about and it was yummy. The pastry doesn’t look like enough but it has to be rolled really thin.

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/recipes/silverbeet-and-potato-torte-20111019-1m4xv.html

bubba louie said:

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/recipes/silverbeet-and-potato-torte-20111019-1m4xv.html

I used mozzarella.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Necessity is the Mother of Invention…amazing how you look at something differently at times…

recycled lawnmower parts.

A generator?

Yes.

Hello Gardeners…..from Hobart. Cool outside, but sunny at the moment. There is a bit of cloud about. Shortly we will head over to Kingston to the bakery for some breakfast and around the mountain to visit my brother. He is not working this morning, although his wife will be at work and the kids at school. Then lectures from 1.00pm in town here, and catch up with the family again this evening for a meal at a local restaurant.

HP…….look up pictures of fantails for you pretty little bird with the lovely song. I have one buzzing me in the backyard a lot lately, which I take to mean there is a nest close by. Their nests are beautiful constructions. I can’t look things up here as I only have 400meg for the month on the dongle so you will have to find your own photos.

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners…..from Hobart. Cool outside, but sunny at the moment. There is a bit of cloud about. Shortly we will head over to Kingston to the bakery for some breakfast and around the mountain to visit my brother. He is not working this morning, although his wife will be at work and the kids at school. Then lectures from 1.00pm in town here, and catch up with the family again this evening for a meal at a local restaurant.

HP…….look up pictures of fantails for you pretty little bird with the lovely song. I have one buzzing me in the backyard a lot lately, which I take to mean there is a nest close by. Their nests are beautiful constructions. I can’t look things up here as I only have 400meg for the month on the dongle so you will have to find your own photos.

Thank you Buffy. It’s not the bird in question, but I have definitely heard this one here also. I listened to the sound wave and recognized it immediately. My lovely wake up songbird looks more and more like a willy wagtail, only fat. Bugs flies and blowies get caught under my large patio roof area, so no doubt there’s no shortage of juicy pickings. A common sound, is the tap tap tapping of little beaks jabbing at the polycarbonate ceiling.

The daughter staying in the shed/room remarked that she loves waking up here because of all the singing birds.

Have fun. Sounds like you have work and rest worked out in equal quantities :)

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Necessity is the Mother of Invention…amazing how you look at something differently at times…

recycled lawnmower parts.

A generator?

Yes.

Well done!

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

No pic, but I see this little bird all the time catching bugs on my patio. It’s white bellied/breasted with black back and wings, much like a willy wagtail but slightly larger and it’s tail doesn’t sit as high up. And one tiny slash of white like a line above it’s eyes.

It has the prettiest song ever. I could sit here forever listening to it.

Hope RoughBarked comes to the rescue soon, with an ID…

It must be a willy wagtail. Just you ‘tubed them’ and this one, although larger, sounds similar. So probably just a very well fed w’ wagtail :) I do notice more birds around nowadays, because there are more about. More honeyeaters, more wattle birds and so on. Less blackbirds. There is current blackbird trapping goings on in just about every suburb.

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

recycled lawnmower parts.

A generator?

Yes.

Well done!

I’ve chopped up a couple of lawnmowers and re-fitted the parts to create a retractable undercarriage so that it takes no more space in the ute and is able to be wheeled away rather than need two men to get it in and out. I think it is clever but I’m also trying to make it automatic, one grab should pull the retractable handle and let the wheels down or indeed up again when pushing the handle back in. This latter part is very complicated because it involves at least three reverse actions to be put in place.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Yes.

Well done!

I’ve chopped up a couple of lawnmowers and re-fitted the parts to create a retractable undercarriage so that it takes no more space in the ute and is able to be wheeled away rather than need two men to get it in and out. I think it is clever but I’m also trying to make it automatic, one grab should pull the retractable handle and let the wheels down or indeed up again when pushing the handle back in. This latter part is very complicated because it involves at least three reverse actions to be put in place.

Let me know if mouse-over shows all the notes.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/99559986@N00/9542515199/in/photostream

otherwise it is this image..

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Hope RoughBarked comes to the rescue soon, with an ID…

It must be a willy wagtail. Just you ‘tubed them’ and this one, although larger, sounds similar. So probably just a very well fed w’ wagtail :) I do notice more birds around nowadays, because there are more about. More honeyeaters, more wattle birds and so on. Less blackbirds. There is current blackbird trapping goings on in just about every suburb.

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Click to hear.. http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/restlessFlycatcher.htm

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

It must be a willy wagtail. Just you ‘tubed them’ and this one, although larger, sounds similar. So probably just a very well fed w’ wagtail :) I do notice more birds around nowadays, because there are more about. More honeyeaters, more wattle birds and so on. Less blackbirds. There is current blackbird trapping goings on in just about every suburb.

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Click to hear.. http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/restlessFlycatcher.htm

The White eyebrow indicates either the Willie Wagtail or.. the grey fantail and the northern fantail. Though both the latter are grey rather than B&W.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Click to hear.. http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/restlessFlycatcher.htm

The White eyebrow indicates either the Willie Wagtail or.. the grey fantail and the northern fantail. Though both the latter are grey rather than B&W.

A similar B&W bird(though smaller) with a very pretty call.. is the White Winged Triller.

the wagtail however is hood for a lot of sweet pretty creature type sounds.. it also rattles its box of matches as a danger warning or territory warning.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

It must be a willy wagtail. Just you ‘tubed them’ and this one, although larger, sounds similar. So probably just a very well fed w’ wagtail :) I do notice more birds around nowadays, because there are more about. More honeyeaters, more wattle birds and so on. Less blackbirds. There is current blackbird trapping goings on in just about every suburb.

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Click to hear.. http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/restlessFlycatcher.htm

Goodness me I’ve heard that one too. They are all beautiful. Mines def a willy wagtail going on the flash of white above it’s eyes.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Wagtails are commonly seen both catching spiders and also stealing spider webs for nesting purposes. there is also another bird very similar in the flycatcher class which is the scissors grinder or restless flycatcher. It has more white than the wagtail.

Click to hear.. http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/restlessFlycatcher.htm

Goodness me I’ve heard that one too. They are all beautiful. Mines def a willy wagtail going on the flash of white above it’s eyes.

http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/cuckoShrikes/whiteWingedTriller.htm

http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/willieWagtail.htm

http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/greyFantail.htm

roughbarked said:

http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/greyFantail.htm

I haven’t head that one. Very pretty song though.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/sitellasetc/greyFantail.htm

I haven’t head that one. Very pretty song though.

scissors grinders and grey fantails are more winter visitors for me. the wagtail is ever present The triller is found near permanent water in spring in my locale.

I went over to flickr and the mouseover worked there…just the two mouseovers?

Dinetta said:

I went over to flickr and the mouseover worked there…just the two mouseovers?

That’s why I asked.. Thanks.. Flickr doesn’t seem to let me respond.. There are actually four notes.. Two in each section front and back of the generator and Flickr only shows them to me when I mouse-over the first one.. when I try to move to the two on the left, the notes outlines, disappear.. :(

Pain the butt but there you go.. All that is new is the descriptions of what each part does.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I went over to flickr and the mouseover worked there…just the two mouseovers?

That’s why I asked.. Thanks.. Flickr doesn’t seem to let me respond.. There are actually four notes.. Two in each section front and back of the generator and Flickr only shows them to me when I mouse-over the first one.. when I try to move to the two on the left, the notes outlines, disappear.. :(

Pain the butt but there you go.. All that is new is the descriptions of what each part does.

Yes, the plough disc at the back shows up OK, and the front of the generator, but the two squares at the back of the generator show when you hover over the front and then disappear before you can mouse-over them…

Back to the drawing board, feller…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

I went over to flickr and the mouseover worked there…just the two mouseovers?

That’s why I asked.. Thanks.. Flickr doesn’t seem to let me respond.. There are actually four notes.. Two in each section front and back of the generator and Flickr only shows them to me when I mouse-over the first one.. when I try to move to the two on the left, the notes outlines, disappear.. :(

Pain the butt but there you go.. All that is new is the descriptions of what each part does.

Yes, the plough disc at the back shows up OK, and the front of the generator, but the two squares at the back of the generator show when you hover over the front and then disappear before you can mouse-over them…

Back to the drawing board, feller…

make that five notes.. :blush: I was looking at the generator.. forgot my home-made pelican pick.

Hi and bye gardeners, with thanks to Wocky for clearing up the mystery.

Is OCDC from another Forum?

Dinetta said:

Is OCDC from another Forum?

Yes. The one on the holiday island over there <——-

That’s a juvenile goldfish. It was in the little water feature in the fernery. How it got there will probably do my head in for a very long time. The fernery is on the opposite side of the house to the fish tank on the patio and there was never any water taken from the tank to the water feature. Nor would I keep any fish in it because it’s too small to keep fish in anyway.

I thought it was a tadpole. I saw something move in here when checking on Lin Lin and her chick. But then the fernery is shut off and not even a fly can get in there, let alone a frog. It’s only one, and what has it been living off? the water is murky green.

Truly scratching my head.

Happy Potter said:

That’s a juvenile goldfish. It was in the little water feature in the fernery. How it got there will probably do my head in for a very long time. The fernery is on the opposite side of the house to the fish tank on the patio and there was never any water taken from the tank to the water feature. Nor would I keep any fish in it because it’s too small to keep fish in anyway.

I thought it was a tadpole. I saw something move in here when checking on Lin Lin and her chick. But then the fernery is shut off and not even a fly can get in there, let alone a frog. It’s only one, and what has it been living off? the water is murky green.

Truly scratching my head.

AHA! I worked it out. I knew I would and it is the only explanation. When my big fish spawned last year I scooped a bunch of the eggs out with the net and placed them all into a still water fish bowl inside. The eggs are very sticky and tiny and at least one has stayed on the net. Then I remember I used the net to retrieve an ornament from the side of the water feature that’d fallen in it. What its been feeding on is compost worms that were living in the filter sponge of the waterfall pump. I have seen the worms in there. Right, now I can rest my brain from all the why’s and hows, lol.

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

That’s a juvenile goldfish. It was in the little water feature in the fernery. How it got there will probably do my head in for a very long time. The fernery is on the opposite side of the house to the fish tank on the patio and there was never any water taken from the tank to the water feature. Nor would I keep any fish in it because it’s too small to keep fish in anyway.

I thought it was a tadpole. I saw something move in here when checking on Lin Lin and her chick. But then the fernery is shut off and not even a fly can get in there, let alone a frog. It’s only one, and what has it been living off? the water is murky green.

Truly scratching my head.

AHA! I worked it out. I knew I would and it is the only explanation. When my big fish spawned last year I scooped a bunch of the eggs out with the net and placed them all into a still water fish bowl inside. The eggs are very sticky and tiny and at least one has stayed on the net. Then I remember I used the net to retrieve an ornament from the side of the water feature that’d fallen in it. What its been feeding on is compost worms that were living in the filter sponge of the waterfall pump. I have seen the worms in there. Right, now I can rest my brain from all the why’s and hows, lol.

bet your brain has been ticking over and over trying to work that out!

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

That’s a juvenile goldfish. It was in the little water feature in the fernery. How it got there will probably do my head in for a very long time.

AHA! I worked it out. … …Right, now I can rest my brain from all the why’s and hows, lol.

Well done to both Happy Potter and little fishy…

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

That’s a juvenile goldfish. It was in the little water feature in the fernery. How it got there will probably do my head in for a very long time. The fernery is on the opposite side of the house to the fish tank on the patio and there was never any water taken from the tank to the water feature. Nor would I keep any fish in it because it’s too small to keep fish in anyway.

I thought it was a tadpole. I saw something move in here when checking on Lin Lin and her chick. But then the fernery is shut off and not even a fly can get in there, let alone a frog. It’s only one, and what has it been living off? the water is murky green.

Truly scratching my head.

AHA! I worked it out. I knew I would and it is the only explanation. When my big fish spawned last year I scooped a bunch of the eggs out with the net and placed them all into a still water fish bowl inside. The eggs are very sticky and tiny and at least one has stayed on the net. Then I remember I used the net to retrieve an ornament from the side of the water feature that’d fallen in it. What its been feeding on is compost worms that were living in the filter sponge of the waterfall pump. I have seen the worms in there. Right, now I can rest my brain from all the why’s and hows, lol.

bet your brain has been ticking over and over trying to work that out!

Yes. But I’m not even going to try and work out how a fish egg managed to stay alive out of any water. I leave the net resting on the border rocks. Nup, that’s one I’m not ever going to work out, lol

Morning. a top of 17C today, a veritable heatwave after the biting cold. We’re off to a pub for lunch to celebrate two daughters birthdays. Their birthdays are 10 days apart but this is the first time we have combined them. It should be good. One is turning 27 and the oldest 33.

Then arvo I have garden works and ‘chooking’ stuff to do. The 7 week olds will spend some time in a temp pen on the lawn area, their first foray into the yard, while the man replaces the electric cord for the light in their brooder box. It keeps blowing and it’s not the bulbs. I have noted whats male and female in this clutch and the males make up the majority.

Housework coming in last, there’s laundry and kitchen cleaning to do. If I get a chance.

bubba louie said:

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/recipes/silverbeet-and-potato-torte-20111019-1m4xv.html

Thanks Bubba. Have copied it. I note that she at least says to use stalks and leaf of the silverbeet. That’s a first. Most recipes say to discard the stalks and I can never understand why. They are the best part in our house.

The Bald Archy’s finished today and all in all it was a great success with over 3,500 people coming to see it. A huge effort for all especially the catering team that provided hot lunches every day plus morning and afternoon teas with freshly made scones cooked on site and slices that were supplied by volunteers. We will be doing it again next year so mark it in your diaries!

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/recipes/silverbeet-and-potato-torte-20111019-1m4xv.html

Thanks Bubba. Have copied it. I note that she at least says to use stalks and leaf of the silverbeet. That’s a first. Most recipes say to discard the stalks and I can never understand why. They are the best part in our house.

Oh I like the silverbeet stalks as well…this is a first I’ve heard not to use the stalks!

bluegreen said:

The Bald Archy’s finished today and all in all it was a great success with over 3,500 people coming to see it. A huge effort for all especially the catering team that provided hot lunches every day plus morning and afternoon teas with freshly made scones cooked on site and slices that were supplied by volunteers. We will be doing it again next year so mark it in your diaries!

If I’m down that way this time next year…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

http://www.essentialkids.com.au/recipes/silverbeet-and-potato-torte-20111019-1m4xv.html

Thanks Bubba. Have copied it. I note that she at least says to use stalks and leaf of the silverbeet. That’s a first. Most recipes say to discard the stalks and I can never understand why. They are the best part in our house.

In most all written recipes that I’ve seen they say to discard the stalks. In some cases it’s that english spinach and they don ‘t even have a stalk.

Oh I like the silverbeet stalks as well…this is a first I’ve heard not to use the stalks!

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Thanks Bubba. Have copied it. I note that she at least says to use stalks and leaf of the silverbeet. That’s a first. Most recipes say to discard the stalks and I can never understand why. They are the best part in our house.

Oh I like the silverbeet stalks as well…this is a first I’ve heard not to use the stalks!

In most all written recipes that I’ve seen they say to discard the stalks. In some cases it’s that english spinach and they don ‘t even have a stalk.

Mind you it’s only been the last couple of years that I’ve included the stem of broccoli in the vegetables…it’s yummy!

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Thanks Bubba. Have copied it. I note that she at least says to use stalks and leaf of the silverbeet. That’s a first. Most recipes say to discard the stalks and I can never understand why. They are the best part in our house.

In most all written recipes that I’ve seen they say to discard the stalks. In some cases it’s that english spinach and they don ‘t even have a stalk.

Oh I like the silverbeet stalks as well…this is a first I’ve heard not to use the stalks!

Have to know what they mean by what’s spinach an who is popeye/

Dinetta said:

Mind you it’s only been the last couple of years that I’ve included the stem of broccoli in the vegetables…it’s yummy!

You crazy? Tha’ts the best bit

Good morning Gardeners. I am now officially on holidays. Lectures attended. Brain filled up. Today for some touring, breakfast and lunch with friends (different ones for each meal) and a relaxing evening in the North of Tasmania.

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I am now officially on holidays. Lectures attended. Brain filled up. Today for some touring, breakfast and lunch with friends (different ones for each meal) and a relaxing evening in the North of Tasmania.

Glad you’re having a good time…

Hello again gardeners. We are staying at Anabel’s of Scottsdale….I don’t have the link, but if you Google and find it….have a look at the garden we are waking up to…..

Evening. I didn’t get a chance to get on here today. I was helping a friend load trays of seedlings into my car from her backyard and help clean out a huge aviary. She and her hubby are going o’seas for a couple weeks and I am ‘plant minding’ her summer vege’s until they come back. I have put the trays, and some of mine, into the vacant chook pen on a flat pile of lucern biscuits. they will get bottom warmth from that.
My friend lives a mere 10 mins from me and I could go there and water them, but they have a humongous ‘kujo’ type dog that would eat me given half a chance. It’s a rotty with a big mouth, a nasty disposition and weighs a ton. It has to be chained up behind a pool fence spa area when other people are there. It even took out a section of the pool fence and dragged it along once. My friend had to get a fence fixit bloke in. It’s going when the couple get back. The dog, not the pool fence.

I put the young chicks in the lawn pen to have a spell on the grass and fun in the sun again, and also added 2 other chicks a week younger straight in. They are all black so there was hardly any notice taken of the smaller ones. Chooks can be racist and if the 2 younger chicks had been white, I wouldn’t have put them in.
When I took them back to the patio brooder box, I put them all in together.

The inside brooder is now off and cleaned out, waiting for the next lot, lol.

The Rotties I’ve met have a fantastic nature, it’s so sad to hear when they’ve got a sour disposition…

Hello Gardeners. I just had a wander around this garden where we are staying……huge rhododendron trees, and massed Helleborus underneath. I don’t want the rhodos, but I’m pleased to say my Helleborus are spreading nicely. And I just saw how they will be in another few/more years.

Morning. I love rhodys :)

There’s nature strip clearing work happening again today and the three lillypillys will be planted out. Yay. They’ve gotten quite tall in pots and need to be planted out asap. The chooks will miss sitting on the pebble mulch on the pots. Sometimes it was a push and shove to see how many could fit on one. It’s given me a thought to provide them with one taller larger pot filled with pebbles to rest on. Obviously the stones warm up in the sun and provide a comfy vantage point.

Max has had another few brief ‘seizure’ moments, but recovers quickly. He doesn’t lose control of his bowel or throws up, so at the moment no meds are needed. Just need to supervise him in case he’s walking past the pond. He suddenly crouches on the floor and his head and eyes shake. The sensation is one of falling so I hold his head still and reassure him. I know he is ok the moment his tail starts wagging. Then he gets up and continues along where he was going.

Happy Potter said:

Max has had another few brief ‘seizure’ moments, but recovers quickly. He doesn’t lose control of his bowel or throws up, so at the moment no meds are needed. Just need to supervise him in case he’s walking past the pond. He suddenly crouches on the floor and his head and eyes shake. The sensation is one of falling so I hold his head still and reassure him. I know he is ok the moment his tail starts wagging. Then he gets up and continues along where he was going.

Just as well you’re At Home…

Hello Gardeners. You will be pleased to know I did some gardening today. We left Launceston just before 10.00am this morning, and got home to Penshurst around 3.00pm. At which point I noticed the length of the grass, the sun in the sky and…..well, you can guess the rest. I also managed to get three loads of washing done, partly dried too. Heading straight away again tomorrow for some relaxation at Robe in South Australia.

Is it possible to set an Automatic Forward in MS Outlook 7?

There is one particular sender and the forward is to one recipient. Why they don’t just get it sent to their email directly I don’t know, but I’ve been asked if, once the messages are received here, can they be automatically forwarded to the intended recipient?

Dinetta said:

Is it possible to set an Automatic Forward in MS Outlook 7?

There is one particular sender and the forward is to one recipient. Why they don’t just get it sent to their email directly I don’t know, but I’ve been asked if, once the messages are received here, can they be automatically forwarded to the intended recipient?

try and see if you can do something in “rules” (or whatever). You should be able to. Strange that they don’t send it direct.

bluegreen said:

try and see if you can do something in “rules” (or whatever). You should be able to. Strange that they don’t send it direct.

Yes I had a look in Rules but it’s no go…Not sure why it’s not sent direct…we’re dealing with 80 year olds (the recipients) who don’t care for the internet…

Evening. Raining at the moment.
I woke to this, 2 metres of eucy mulch tipped right behind my car, lol. It was all hands on deck to get it moved from there to the chooks yards. Courtesy of some street tree loppers that were given my address as a next delivery acceptee. If thats a word.

And…the three lillypillys all planted. It’s any wonder the pots didn’t blow over in the recent strong winds.. their roots had gone through the pot bases and under the paving. I should have noticed that as everything else got blown about. I managed to snip the pot bases off without damaging too many fine roots. Now to remove the rest of the grass on the strip, as soon as possible.

wish someone would dump some mulch in MY driveway!

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Raining at the moment.
I woke to this, 2 metres of eucy mulch tipped right behind my car, lol. It was all hands on deck to get it moved from there to the chooks yards. Courtesy of some street tree loppers that were given my address as a next delivery acceptee. If thats a word.

And…the three lillypillys all planted. It’s any wonder the pots didn’t blow over in the recent strong winds.. their roots had gone through the pot bases and under the paving. I should have noticed that as everything else got blown about. I managed to snip the pot bases off without damaging too many fine roots. Now to remove the rest of the grass on the strip, as soon as possible.

Should look nice when mature…lucky the lillypillies in the pots were self-anchored!

I’ve been keeping my eye out for paddock forage, 4 × 4 bales…would go well in the chicken run…

bluegreen said:

wish someone would dump some mulch in MY driveway!

You need to ring the council maybe? Or a local arborist. They hate having to take it to the tip and like it when they can dump it where it’s wanted. Saves them tip fees too. This loppers truck was noticed by my orchard friend who approached them and asked. They were only a street away so agreed, not knowing that the address he gave them was not his own. He’s cluey like that, shifty even lol. The trailer was loaded with bags of it to go to other friends chook pens :) It’s valuable stuff around here.

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

Happy Potter said:

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

Crikey! I am overrun with them atm. Maybe I should be advertising them? Mind you, I think $35 a doz is the about the going rate for fertile eggs. That’s what I paid for the ones I bought, even if they didn’t all end out the right breed.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

Crikey! I am overrun with them atm. Maybe I should be advertising them? Mind you, I think $35 a doz is the about the going rate for fertile eggs. That’s what I paid for the ones I bought, even if they didn’t all end out the right breed.

I think you should too! There’s more value in bantams in backyards than the large breeds. I would buy some eggs from you. The distance is a prob though.

I sorted my males and female silkies and I always get more males. Out of 21 chicks I got 8 females and all the girls are spoken for. The males will be grown out until they start crowing then go as meat.

bluegreen said:

wish someone would dump some mulch in MY driveway!

Our landlord’s got a big pile of eucy mulch for his place (next door to us) from the Endeavour Energy tree loppers and he says we can use as much as we want. :-)

Sleepy is using it on the paths between the vegie beds. Also will use it in the chook pen.

Oh. g’day by the way

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Raining at the moment.
I woke to this, 2 metres of eucy mulch tipped right behind my car, lol. It was all hands on deck to get it moved from there to the chooks yards. Courtesy of some street tree loppers that were given my address as a next delivery acceptee. If thats a word.

And…the three lillypillys all planted. It’s any wonder the pots didn’t blow over in the recent strong winds.. their roots had gone through the pot bases and under the paving. I should have noticed that as everything else got blown about. I managed to snip the pot bases off without damaging too many fine roots. Now to remove the rest of the grass on the strip, as soon as possible.

Well scored.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

wish someone would dump some mulch in MY driveway!

You need to ring the council maybe? Or a local arborist. They hate having to take it to the tip and like it when they can dump it where it’s wanted. Saves them tip fees too. This loppers truck was noticed by my orchard friend who approached them and asked. They were only a street away so agreed, not knowing that the address he gave them was not his own. He’s cluey like that, shifty even lol. The trailer was loaded with bags of it to go to other friends chook pens :) It’s valuable stuff around here.

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

One of the tree loppers from around here charges for the mulch (not the Endeavour Energy guys)

I scored some Silver Laced Wyandotte and Acona eggs for incubating from a friend in exchange for helping her sort out a computer issue she was having. Fair deal I reckon :-)

Happy Potter said:

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

Ridiculous!

AnneS said:

I scored some Silver Laced Wyandotte and Acona eggs for incubating from a friend in exchange for helping her sort out a computer issue she was having. Fair deal I reckon :-)

I reckon too! Good score!

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

wish someone would dump some mulch in MY driveway!

You need to ring the council maybe? Or a local arborist. They hate having to take it to the tip and like it when they can dump it where it’s wanted. Saves them tip fees too. This loppers truck was noticed by my orchard friend who approached them and asked. They were only a street away so agreed, not knowing that the address he gave them was not his own. He’s cluey like that, shifty even lol. The trailer was loaded with bags of it to go to other friends chook pens :) It’s valuable stuff around here.

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

One of the tree loppers from around here charges for the mulch (not the Endeavour Energy guys)

I scored some Silver Laced Wyandotte and Acona eggs for incubating from a friend in exchange for helping her sort out a computer issue she was having. Fair deal I reckon :-)

Great deal. Gotta love bartering :)

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

You need to ring the council maybe? Or a local arborist. They hate having to take it to the tip and like it when they can dump it where it’s wanted. Saves them tip fees too. This loppers truck was noticed by my orchard friend who approached them and asked. They were only a street away so agreed, not knowing that the address he gave them was not his own. He’s cluey like that, shifty even lol. The trailer was loaded with bags of it to go to other friends chook pens :) It’s valuable stuff around here.

Ps.. I noticed city chicks have fertile light Sussex bantam eggs atm..130 dollars a doz. Or 75 a half doz. Maybe they’re gold plated.

One of the tree loppers from around here charges for the mulch (not the Endeavour Energy guys)

I scored some Silver Laced Wyandotte and Acona eggs for incubating from a friend in exchange for helping her sort out a computer issue she was having. Fair deal I reckon :-)

Great deal. Gotta love bartering :)

:-)

Only one more sleep ‘till spring!

What a gorgeous sunny day. I won’t waste it :)

Happy Potter said:

Only one more sleep ‘till spring!

What a gorgeous sunny day. I won’t waste it :)

I’ve got another ride on the agenda :)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Only one more sleep ‘till spring!

What a gorgeous sunny day. I won’t waste it :)

I’ve got another ride on the agenda :)

Nice, enjoy :)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Only one more sleep ‘till spring!

What a gorgeous sunny day. I won’t waste it :)

I’ve got another ride on the agenda :)

..and more photos I hope?

Nice, enjoy :)

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

I’ve got another ride on the agenda :)

Nice, enjoy :)

..and more photos I hope?

yep :)