Hey it’s a new month! :)

Trailer stuff over for the day, thank goodness, thought the wind was going to stop us. Hubby, myself and a friend went with two trailers to a farm sale/giveaway. This gorgeous farm is only 10 years old but has been acquired by the g’mint for the land for the new rail link. Poo.

Well, I scored a fab market cart, with the canopy. Think old fashioned ice -cream cart, only bigger. It’ll make a fab potting stand. Inside it was a treasure trove of tarps and a long folded piece of unused hessian. I’m going to make cushion covers out of that for the seating around the AP beds!
I also got a sheet of concrete reo mesh, 6 by 2.5 meters. It had to be cut into three parts to fit on the trailer. It’s going on my rear fence for making the espalier wall. It saves me from having to use the bits and pieces of wire mesh I already had, except mine was different colours and gauges and sizes. Now it will look uniform. You beauty.

And lengths of 4×4 and 4× 2 hardwood, times many. Again it had to be cut to go on the trailer. And about a million miles of watering system poly pipe with heaps of connectors and drippers. There was also blue barrels and tubs, assorted large pots and other things that I got for another friend.

I am stuffed! I think a Nanna nap is in order.

Happy Potter said:

Hey it’s a new month! :)

Trailer stuff over for the day, thank goodness, thought the wind was going to stop us. Hubby, myself and a friend went with two trailers to a farm sale/giveaway. This gorgeous farm is only 10 years old but has been acquired by the g’mint for the land for the new rail link. Poo.

Well, I scored a fab market cart, with the canopy. Think old fashioned ice -cream cart, only bigger. It’ll make a fab potting stand. Inside it was a treasure trove of tarps and a long folded piece of unused hessian. I’m going to make cushion covers out of that for the seating around the AP beds!
I also got a sheet of concrete reo mesh, 6 by 2.5 meters. It had to be cut into three parts to fit on the trailer. It’s going on my rear fence for making the espalier wall. It saves me from having to use the bits and pieces of wire mesh I already had, except mine was different colours and gauges and sizes. Now it will look uniform. You beauty.

And lengths of 4×4 and 4× 2 hardwood, times many. Again it had to be cut to go on the trailer. And about a million miles of watering system poly pipe with heaps of connectors and drippers. There was also blue barrels and tubs, assorted large pots and other things that I got for another friend.

I am stuffed! I think a Nanna nap is in order.

awesome!

Me, all I have done today is cut and polish a handful of opals in the hope that one of them will please the person who put $200 in my bank.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Hey it’s a new month! :)

Trailer stuff over for the day, thank goodness, thought the wind was going to stop us. Hubby, myself and a friend went with two trailers to a farm sale/giveaway. This gorgeous farm is only 10 years old but has been acquired by the g’mint for the land for the new rail link. Poo.

Well, I scored a fab market cart, with the canopy. Think old fashioned ice -cream cart, only bigger. It’ll make a fab potting stand. Inside it was a treasure trove of tarps and a long folded piece of unused hessian. I’m going to make cushion covers out of that for the seating around the AP beds!
I also got a sheet of concrete reo mesh, 6 by 2.5 meters. It had to be cut into three parts to fit on the trailer. It’s going on my rear fence for making the espalier wall. It saves me from having to use the bits and pieces of wire mesh I already had, except mine was different colours and gauges and sizes. Now it will look uniform. You beauty.

And lengths of 4×4 and 4× 2 hardwood, times many. Again it had to be cut to go on the trailer. And about a million miles of watering system poly pipe with heaps of connectors and drippers. There was also blue barrels and tubs, assorted large pots and other things that I got for another friend.

I am stuffed! I think a Nanna nap is in order.

awesome!

Wow! How did you find out about it? From the Weekly Times or the Land or similar?

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Hey it’s a new month! :)

Trailer stuff over for the day, thank goodness, thought the wind was going to stop us. Hubby, myself and a friend went with two trailers to a farm sale/giveaway. This gorgeous farm is only 10 years old but has been acquired by the g’mint for the land for the new rail link. Poo.

Well, I scored a fab market cart, with the canopy. Think old fashioned ice -cream cart, only bigger. It’ll make a fab potting stand. Inside it was a treasure trove of tarps and a long folded piece of unused hessian. I’m going to make cushion covers out of that for the seating around the AP beds!
I also got a sheet of concrete reo mesh, 6 by 2.5 meters. It had to be cut into three parts to fit on the trailer. It’s going on my rear fence for making the espalier wall. It saves me from having to use the bits and pieces of wire mesh I already had, except mine was different colours and gauges and sizes. Now it will look uniform. You beauty.

And lengths of 4×4 and 4× 2 hardwood, times many. Again it had to be cut to go on the trailer. And about a million miles of watering system poly pipe with heaps of connectors and drippers. There was also blue barrels and tubs, assorted large pots and other things that I got for another friend.

I am stuffed! I think a Nanna nap is in order.

awesome!

Wow! How did you find out about it? From the Weekly Times or the Land or similar?

Facebook bss site AnneS :) (bss= buy sell swap)

Happy Potter said:

Trailer stuff over for the day, thank goodness, thought the wind was going to stop us. Hubby, myself and a friend went with two trailers to a farm sale/giveaway. This gorgeous farm is only 10 years old but has been acquired by the g’mint for the land for the new rail link. Poo.

Well, I scored a fab market cart, with the canopy. Think old fashioned ice -cream cart, only bigger. It’ll make a fab potting stand. Inside it was a treasure trove of tarps and a long folded piece of unused hessian. I’m going to make cushion covers out of that for the seating around the AP beds!
I also got a sheet of concrete reo mesh, 6 by 2.5 meters. It had to be cut into three parts to fit on the trailer. It’s going on my rear fence for making the espalier wall. It saves me from having to use the bits and pieces of wire mesh I already had, except mine was different colours and gauges and sizes. Now it will look uniform. You beauty.

And lengths of 4×4 and 4× 2 hardwood, times many. Again it had to be cut to go on the trailer. And about a million miles of watering system poly pipe with heaps of connectors and drippers. There was also blue barrels and tubs, assorted large pots and other things that I got for another friend.

Well I guess somebody had to give it a new home…

roughbarked said:

Me, all I have done today is cut and polish a handful of opals in the hope that one of them will please the person who put $200 in my bank.

Lucky duck! (the recipient)…

I watched a show on iView, called The Rise of the Continents, and it explained how opals came to be made (silica + sulphuric acid + sludge amoebas / bacteria)…not sure if it’s just the soil around the opal diggings or Aus in general, is very similar somehow to that on Mars…but I digress…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Me, all I have done today is cut and polish a handful of opals in the hope that one of them will please the person who put $200 in my bank.

Lucky duck! (the recipient)…

I watched a show on iView, called The Rise of the Continents, and it explained how opals came to be made (silica + sulphuric acid + sludge amoebas / bacteria)…not sure if it’s just the soil around the opal diggings or Aus in general, is very similar somehow to that on Mars…but I digress…

it is all true.

Until you watch a show like that, you don’t realise just how special Australia is…

Happy Potter said:

AnneS said:

bluegreen said:

awesome!

Wow! How did you find out about it? From the Weekly Times or the Land or similar?

Ok. My FB bss never has anything near as interesting as that and I live rural LOL

Facebook bss site AnneS :) (bss= buy sell swap)

Dinetta said:

I watched a show on iView, called The Rise of the Continents, and it explained how opals came to be made (silica + sulphuric acid + sludge amoebas / bacteria)…not sure if it’s just the soil around the opal diggings or Aus in general, is very similar somehow to that on Mars…but I digress…

That was a good episode eh? Just got home from our Progress Assoc. meeting and just turned tonight’s episode on :)

Dinetta said:

Until you watch a show like that, you don’t realise just how special Australia is…

Ain’t that the truth :)

Hopefully they’ll put up the closed captions tomorrow…

Argh, high winds again. I don’t think the framework for the passionfruit will be done today. Good day to cook and have the oven on though, brr.

Happy Potter said:

Argh, high winds again. I don’t think the framework for the passionfruit will be done today. Good day to cook and have the oven on though, brr.

windy here too

plink!!

(drops pin)

There goes Home IceCream…

Dinetta said:

plink!!

(drops pin)

I heard that!

Morning. Cold and windy day. I have some running about to do so rugging up.

Ps the chick with the curled toes is all better, playing leap frog with the others and bouncing off the walls, with straight toes :)

Happy Potter said:

Ps the chick with the curled toes is all better, playing leap frog with the others and bouncing off the walls, with straight toes :)

Lurve a happy ending!!

Does your daylight savings start this Sunday?

Dinetta said:

Does your daylight savings start this Sunday?

I think so. I haven’t kept up.
Plus I was distracted by a bargain buy, lol. I saw a gorgeous top on a bss site for $60. It was one of those ‘I have got to have that!’ moments. I messaged the lady and offered her $45, she said yes sure. Then I saw the tag on it, $239.00. Not that that means anything, designers put whatever price they like. But I lerve it.

I’m off to pick it up :D

good morning.

Been to the chiro for my regular. I have been having problems with my right shoulder for a while now and he fears I may be heading for a frozen shoulder. He has given me some tips on avoiding that.

I had a look for the MacArthur Natural Products in the chemist but not sure if they would be suitable. They were all cleaning products or moisturisers. Is that what you were using HP? In the meanwhile I got some arnica cream as the chiro suggested. It was cheaper and I didn’t want to spend $45 on something I wasn’t sure would be the right product.

Got to set up a pulley out on the verandah so I can lift my bad arm using the (relatively) good arm, it has to be completely relaxed. This is supposed to help stop the shoulder completely freezing.

bluegreen said:

good morning.

Been to the chiro for my regular. I have been having problems with my right shoulder for a while now and he fears I may be heading for a frozen shoulder. He has given me some tips on avoiding that.

I had a look for the MacArthur Natural Products in the chemist but not sure if they would be suitable. They were all cleaning products or moisturisers. Is that what you were using HP? In the meanwhile I got some arnica cream as the chiro suggested. It was cheaper and I didn’t want to spend $45 on something I wasn’t sure would be the right product.

Got to set up a pulley out on the verandah so I can lift my bad arm using the (relatively) good arm, it has to be completely relaxed. This is supposed to help stop the shoulder completely freezing.

There’s new products in the mcarthurs range, body wash and shampoo and the like, but I stick to two items only, the 240 ml cream with 60% pawpaw extract, and the soap. I wouldn’t be without the cream. It prevented my shoulder becoming frozen when it started to do so.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

good morning.

Been to the chiro for my regular. I have been having problems with my right shoulder for a while now and he fears I may be heading for a frozen shoulder. He has given me some tips on avoiding that.

I had a look for the MacArthur Natural Products in the chemist but not sure if they would be suitable. They were all cleaning products or moisturisers. Is that what you were using HP? In the meanwhile I got some arnica cream as the chiro suggested. It was cheaper and I didn’t want to spend $45 on something I wasn’t sure would be the right product.

Got to set up a pulley out on the verandah so I can lift my bad arm using the (relatively) good arm, it has to be completely relaxed. This is supposed to help stop the shoulder completely freezing.

There’s new products in the mcarthurs range, body wash and shampoo and the like, but I stick to two items only, the 240 ml cream with 60% pawpaw extract, and the soap. I wouldn’t be without the cream. It prevented my shoulder becoming frozen when it started to do so.

OK. Is that the one marketed as a skin moisturiser? It had 60% pawpaw on the container but wasn’t sure if it was what you used.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

good morning.

Been to the chiro for my regular. I have been having problems with my right shoulder for a while now and he fears I may be heading for a frozen shoulder. He has given me some tips on avoiding that.

I had a look for the MacArthur Natural Products in the chemist but not sure if they would be suitable. They were all cleaning products or moisturisers. Is that what you were using HP? In the meanwhile I got some arnica cream as the chiro suggested. It was cheaper and I didn’t want to spend $45 on something I wasn’t sure would be the right product.

Got to set up a pulley out on the verandah so I can lift my bad arm using the (relatively) good arm, it has to be completely relaxed. This is supposed to help stop the shoulder completely freezing.

There’s new products in the mcarthurs range, body wash and shampoo and the like, but I stick to two items only, the 240 ml cream with 60% pawpaw extract, and the soap. I wouldn’t be without the cream. It prevented my shoulder becoming frozen when it started to do so.

OK. Is that the one marketed as a skin moisturiser? It had 60% pawpaw on the container but wasn’t sure if it was what you used.

Yes that’s the one. I assume they can’t claim that it cures anything. I wish you were closer, could give you a little pot of it to try.

The patio an backyard clean up is nearing the end. It’s taken weeks, but that’s because I’ve had to rely on others to help. I’m sending the man off to do some grocery shopping.. Heaven help us, we will be eating chips and chocolate, while a girl friend and I rearrange patio seats and pot plants and do a sweep up.

A garden group is visiting my garden on Sunday. Then a permaculture lot the next weekend, then a third gardening club is visiting in the first week of Nov. I’m going to keep it spik and span.

well the chiropractor might have hurt my shoulder like billy-oh with his manipulations, but I had the best sleep last night that I have had for months. Almost (but not quite) pain free. Now just to to get it to keep improving and not go backwards.

Happy Potter said:

A garden group is visiting my garden on Sunday. Then a permaculture lot the next weekend, then a third gardening club is visiting in the first week of Nov.

Lucky things…

bluegreen said:

well the chiropractor might have hurt my shoulder like billy-oh with his manipulations, but I had the best sleep last night that I have had for months. Almost (but not quite) pain free. Now just to to get it to keep improving and not go backwards.

Nothing like a good night’s sleep and all’s well with the world…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

A garden group is visiting my garden on Sunday. Then a permaculture lot the next weekend, then a third gardening club is visiting in the first week of Nov.

Lucky things…

Thankyou :)
The first group is the bountiful backyards group. The one where we visit each others gardens for a session on ‘what would you do if this was your garden’ discussion. You get lots of ideas and things you hadn’t thought of. Or had but wasn’t sure if it’d work. They are a terrific bunch, men and women.

My girl friend is amazing. She’s like that tassie devil cartoon character, but with a cleaning cloth… I feel like a slug, lol.

Happy Potter said:

My girl friend is amazing. She’s like that tassie devil cartoon character, but with a cleaning cloth… I feel like a slug, lol.

If she makes you feel like a slug she must move at light speed!Would she like a short country “holiday”? lol! Not much cleaning getting done here atm.

Happy Potter said:

The first group is the bountiful backyards group. The one where we visit each others gardens for a session on ‘what would you do if this was your garden’ discussion. You get lots of ideas and things you hadn’t thought of. Or had but wasn’t sure if it’d work. They are a terrific bunch, men and women.

My girl friend is amazing. She’s like that tassie devil cartoon character, but with a cleaning cloth… I feel like a slug, lol.

Sounds good, the discussion group. Sometimes I look around my block and think should I do this? Should I do that? Heck I can’t even make up my mind about the trees along my front fence…and I need them to keep the dust down …

Postie’s about to come…yay hey!!

He didn’t stop…

:(

Dinetta said:

He didn’t stop…

:(

Oh don’t you hate that! Especially when it’s a Friday.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

My girl friend is amazing. She’s like that tassie devil cartoon character, but with a cleaning cloth… I feel like a slug, lol.

If she makes you feel like a slug she must move at light speed!Would she like a short country “holiday”? lol! Not much cleaning getting done here atm.

Light speed would be right. She doesn’t stop. I made her stop for a coffee though. She would love nothing more than to clean a yard, she really enjoys it. 3 school kids keep her on her toes.

Morning. The patio has been transformed. Pity I didn’t take a before pic with ceiling high piles of stuff, too much to mention, it had just become a storage area for anything that couldn’t live inside.
All clean now. We celebrated with fish and chips and a glass of red, then we all went to bed, lol. We stopped for a quick drink and a dash to the nursery for some instant flower pots, petunias mostly.
The seats have been rearranged and the swing seat cushions gurneyed and hung out to dry, the top canopy had layers of dust and feral bird poop build up. It’s good to see it clean again. And my beaut market cart has been set up as a potting centre. There’s a large empty pot beside it with a bag of potting mix and another of washed river sand, large working tray on top with various potting tools and seed packets/ pots nearby, and other things, gloves, masks, stored inside it. I will use it a lot!

I will continue to help with the carport clean up this morning but I have a meeting to attend for an hour or so mid way. My presence isn’t that important at this meeting, however they changed the venue so I could attend and not have to climb three flights of stairs. I must attend. Even if I’m wet and dirty, lol.

Chook feeding now then have my brekky.

Good morning Gardeners. Today is a gardening day here. Woke to 15 degrees about 6.00am. Got outside by 6.30.

First shift done in the garden now. Weeding, weeding, weeding. A little digging. A falling into a hole I didn’t know was there – possibly an old European wasp nest. I stuck a stick in and jiggled it around and then I filled in the hole with weeds and dirt (Its not wasp season at the moment, too cold). I have reduced the witchiness of the garden somewhat by pulling out a good crop of marshmallow plants. And I may have slowed up the local absinthe production a bit by pruning some of the wormwood. Citrus trees fed and mulched. They got sheep poo, grotty old rotting straw on top of that, and wormwood prunings chopped up on top of that. Should keep their roots cool for a while.

Now I think a couple of fried eggs and some ham and then the mower can start. I don’t think I’ll be doing too much more today, 3 to 5 hours of reasonably heavy gardening a day seems to be about comfortable now.

Everyone is obviously out there gardening today!

:)

buffy said:

Everyone is obviously out there gardening today!

:)

I managed to get a bit in :)

I think I actually learnt something from Gardening Australia tonight. How to twist a rope from old leaves. Now, I wonder if I can remember how she did it….

buffy said:

I think I actually learnt something from Gardening Australia tonight. How to twist a rope from old leaves. Now, I wonder if I can remember how she did it….

Should be on iView…

Yep, found it.

Good morning. Cool and overcast here. There has been a sprinkling of rain, which will dampen up the tomato seeds waiting in their soil to germinate. I’ve been for a ride on the bike, and done the washing up and pulled carrots and parsnips. Picked the first handfull of broadbeans too, now double shelled ready for tea tonight. There will be asparagus with Hollandaise, carrots, broadbeans and Thai chicken pie.

buffy said:

There will be asparagus with Hollandaise…

Can I come?

buffy said:

Yep, found it.

Good morning. Cool and overcast here. There has been a sprinkling of rain, which will dampen up the tomato seeds waiting in their soil to germinate. I’ve been for a ride on the bike, and done the washing up and pulled carrots and parsnips. Picked the first handfull of broadbeans too, now double shelled ready for tea tonight. There will be asparagus with Hollandaise, carrots, broadbeans and Thai chicken pie.

sounds yum :) Love home ground broadbeans, all sweet and tender.

Quiet in here again today. I haven’t done any gardening as it keeps showering at inopportune times. So I have made up a new companion planting list and done some more planning of my Summer garden. I’m going to plant sunflowers amongst my corn and pumpkin underneath. And I’m going to try a ring of carrot and basil seed around the base of my tomatoes. And more marigolds than I had last year all over the place. If nothing else, it will make the garden look interesting.

:)

I put up the hessian bag curtains along the western side of the verandah last night, and they worked a treat today!! They look very povo but who cares as they’re egg-sellent at keeping the sun out and the afternoon heat down…

Also finished putting the fresh shredded paper under the main roost, but the shredder has died (after 12 – 13 years… it was top of the mid range when I bought it, they had only just become mainstream back then)

Defrosted the chest freezer, need to wash and refill 3 dozen bottles as the main horse racing event for the local area is this Saturday coming…

Evening. It’s been a pretty crazy weekend. The gardeners visit was fantastic, we had a blast :)

My patio looks wonderful and much more welcoming now, comfy and interesting. Pity it was a cold day, we ate inside, but they will re visit in a months time. It was good to be able to show people new to gardening what you can do on a small suburban block. I have 28 fruit trees, that drew gasps, but there’s going to be a few more added when the espalier wall is completed. Then there will be cherries and plums as well.

But my one ‘problem’ plant couldn’t be ID’d, so I am going to show it here in the hope someone might know what it is. I know what it is, a dwarf lime, at least that’s what the label says.

First up. I have five limes and here’s pics of the first four..

Lime one.

Lime 2.

Lime 3.

Lime 4.

So this is Lime 5..label says Tahitian dwarf lime.
I can tell you the growth is above the graft and not from below, and the graft itself looks fine. It just doesn’t look anything like the other normal lime trees. I would appreciate any info on it. If it’s a dud then it comes out and I can put another in it’s place.

Wo, sorry for the one huge pic. I don’t know how that happened. Well my fotography is getting better tho ;)

don’t know anything about limes so can’t help you there I’m afraid.

The Tahitian limes that I’ve seen, do look a bit different to the “normal” limes, but I’ve not seen them in flower…

I’d just wait until that lime makes some fruit. Presumably you will be able to tell from that. Why have you got 5 lime trees? I have just the one Tahitian lime.

Well, one here and one in Casterton.

Oh, and I can’t pick the difference between them, except for leaf colour and that could simply be minor soil differences.

I should go to bed. Probably pretty soon, actually.

buffy said:

I’d just wait until that lime makes some fruit. Presumably you will be able to tell from that. Why have you got 5 lime trees? I have just the one Tahitian lime.

Well, one here and one in Casterton.

I love limes and they are so expensive, about $24 the kilo sometimes…prefer limes to lemons in the main…I do believe that the Tahitian lime leaf is good for some salads? I think Happy Potter uses them (limes) a lot in cooking … then there’s the bartering value…

buffy said:

Oh, and I can’t pick the difference between them, except for leaf colour and that could simply be minor soil differences.

I should go to bed. Probably pretty soon, actually.

Pretty sure Tahitian lime leaves are different to the “normal” citrus leaf…from what I can recall…

Morning. I flaked it after a small glass of red and went to bed, but now woke too early. Never mind. I’ve been up an hour already emailing.

I can’t get enough limes. Family’s hooked and so am I. If I had the space I’d have ten limes. If I had an acreage I’d have a lime orchard. We use the juice and I make cordial with it and they line up. Including friends. I collect pop top fruit juice bottles for sharing and vege swap bartering. At a dollar a lime, we wait patiently for them each year. Little tarts filled with lime curd are a delight. The oranges we straight eat off the tree.

I bought limes when on special, but they don’t go anywhere near my fruit for comparison. It’s like they have no taste at all. I pick mine when they are still a dark green, but have just started turning a lighter shade of green on one side, for maximum flavor.

Apparently I have a visiting brush tail possum that’s pruning the lime at the back on the fence. It only prunes what it can reach from the fence, not daring to step a foot into my yard. I will tolerate it as I believe they can’t be relocated without grief to the animal. As long as it doesn’t take too much. If it brings it’s entire family in, I’ll have to net the trees.

Lime leaves are different as mandarins are to oranges, ect. but this one strange lime is vastly different. The stems are more upright, like straight stems in a vase of flowers, and the flowers different. The petals aren’t opening out like the others, they sort of curl back inwards, and are a lot smaller.
I will have to take closer flower and stem photos and send to the nursery, or sacrifice a good lime cutting with one from the ufo (unidentified fruit object) to the nursery. Not even any my older orchard mates know what it is.

I’ll leave it to see what fruit might develop. It’s in it’s late 2nd year and didn’t have a flower in the first year.

Good morning Gardeners We have 5 degrees and bright and sunny. Eggs and bacon after my ride (done) and then weeding and digging.

>>I do believe that the Tahitian lime leaf is good for some salads?<<

It’s the kaffir limes that you use the leaves and not the fruit. My lime tree leaves look very similar to orange/lemon/mandarin leaves.

Oh, and I agree on picking the Tahitian limes while still a bit green. But I think I learnt that from here anyway!

:)

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

Oh, and I can’t pick the difference between them, except for leaf colour and that could simply be minor soil differences.

I should go to bed. Probably pretty soon, actually.

Pretty sure Tahitian lime leaves are different to the “normal” citrus leaf…from what I can recall…

That’s Kaffir lime you are thinking of I think.

I sent lime photos to my local nursery of the normal and the strange one, Hopefully they can ID it for me. thinking maybe a piece of rootstock was mistakenly grafted onto the rootstock, who knows, but I cannot find any images of the rootstock of the lime to be able to tell.

Oh well. Brekky an coffee :)

Reporting in. One lot of weeding done. Now for some spreading of manure and digging. Lovely and sunny out there.

I have a friend coming over to help me pull out the pond pump. It has issues and when I rang the water pro place I got it from years ago, they asked if I could bring it in for a service. It will only take two hours and there’s no charge.
Cool.
Yuk, slimy job.. gloves on.

Next the yabbies’ are coming out of the pond and white cloud minnows are going in. The yabbies’ are few in number because they’re eating each other. I can get plenty from a dam for eating :)

Minnows breed quickly, will feed the chooks..

And sheep manure spread/dug/distributed. Only two bags, but there was intermittent weeding and seeding to do too. First block of corn seed is in. Possibly too early. It’s got some sunflower, cornflower and zucchini seed in amongst it. And a row of bush beans at the front of the bed. If all that grows, it’s going to be hectic! And it’s only a very small piece of bed, so there are only a dozen corn plants to happen. We’ll see.

I need some lunch. And a walk to the produce store for citrus feed and secateurs. My secateurs in Casterton are cactus.

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners We have 5 degrees and bright and sunny. Eggs and bacon after my ride (done) and then weeding and digging.

>>I do believe that the Tahitian lime leaf is good for some salads?<<

It’s the kaffir limes that you use the leaves and not the fruit.

I happily stand corrected…

bluegreen said:

That’s Kaffir lime you are thinking of I think.

:)

I’m planning to relocate the “rootstock” roses to the bed by the fence between Mrs B and me…like Buffy said, they can be trained to work their way along the weldmesh fence…no fragrance but it will “look” pretty and maybe one day somebody will want some rootstock…

Public holiday here today..Labor Day has been relocated from May to here…

Morning all. Gunna get to 30C today.. right.

Got GS here for the day. I’m going to put him to work.. got a couple bags of potting mix that needs tipping into big pots.

I’ve been wheeling and dealing for the orchard. We need to net the trees and needed tall star pickets. Done. I got 80 × 2.4 mt stakes, the Aussie made heavier variety, for $4 ea. The treasurer is off to hand over monies and do the pick up. They’re gunna buy me a beer, lol.

Morning. So quiet in here now.

I planted a blueberry! :)

Hello Gardeners. I don’t get to garden much Tuesday to Friday….looking at eyes those days. I intend to garden Saturday to Monday though. My blueberry bush (one of them) has some blueberries on it. I’ll be watching to see how it goes. I’ll have to think about rigging up some netting at some stage.

been out all day. Only just got home 20 mins ago and I am so tired.

Still quiet in here, I see. I’m still at work. About to get going with the afternoon lot.

I won’t be around for the weekend. Off on my bike. Be good.

Gardeners must be gardening today!

Hello Gardeners.

I spent a couple of hours harvesting and digging and planting in Casterton. I have asparagus and silver beet for eating. Silver beet for chooks. And a couple of nice leeks. I replanted some potatoes along the side of the broadbeans and put out corn seed with sunflower seeds in there too, and some pumpkin seed in the centre of the block. We’ll see how that grouping works. Also popped in some dill and marigold seed near the cabbagey things that are already on the go. I also put in some marigold seed near the carrots which germinated recently and some baby leeks along the row too. I’ve got some blue bantam bush peas just germinated there too, so I’ve put some random carrot seed amongst them to grow wild and some cucumber seeds as well. Sunflowers amongst that lot too. I was pleased to find 20 odd baby leeks popping up too, so some of them got planted out and some have come home with me to plant out here.

And after all that I mowed for a couple of hours, some of that involving the catcher to mulch over thick newspaper under a mauve lilac bush that insists on suckering. If I put enough on top it discourages this undesirable behaviour.

My feet are complaining! I might go and have a nanna nap. Going to the pub for tea tonight.

Announcement: indicator beans are germinating. And feral tomatoes also. The soil is heating up now.

:)

Good morning Gardeners. I seem to be The Chatter at the moment. I’ve harvested three asparagus spears (it’s OK, I have a dozen more from Casterton yesterday, so there is a proper feed), a heap of rhubarb (now on the stove) and some carrot thinnings. I decided to water this morning after my bike ride, so that is also done. Now eating bacon and eggs and then out to weed. It is supposed to be showery, which would be good, but as it isn’t, I’ll get some more weeding done.

:)

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I seem to be The Chatter at the moment. I’ve harvested three asparagus spears (it’s OK, I have a dozen more from Casterton yesterday, so there is a proper feed), a heap of rhubarb (now on the stove) and some carrot thinnings. I decided to water this morning after my bike ride, so that is also done. Now eating bacon and eggs and then out to weed. It is supposed to be showery, which would be good, but as it isn’t, I’ll get some more weeding done.

:)

Yes it has gone quiet…been trying to work out what I said, for my sins…I shower every day so it’s not that…

Your harvest sounds yummy, for want of a better word…

I think we may be up for some rain soon, the kookaburras now number 5…a good omen but not temporally accurate in any way…

bluegreen said:

been out all day. Only just got home 20 mins ago and I am so tired.

as long as it’s the happy tired?

How is the job going? Do you like it?

Morning.
Yes, gardening, lots! and gathering, and cooking, garden open days, and ‘chooking’, running about like a headless one and sleeping when I’m not :) And the fluffy four legged one has another ear infection. Vets and all that, again. Ointments and washes and solutions, again. But we’re onto it and he’s good.

This weather! ..doesn’t know what it wants to do. Hot then cold. This is a cold day so inside stuff to do. Apart from one job to pick up a large fish tank. Well it’s a 61 cm square cube tank and it wouldn’t fit in the car so we’re going back for it today with the very handy trendy little trailer. They had some big tropical fish in it, but I would like to turn it into a terrarium. Or a vivarium! That would be nice with a couple frogs in it. It’s heavy so am taking some muscle men with me and blankets to sit it on.

Chickens are coming, and going. Two silkies left with new owners. And three rescue hens came in. The owner didn’t want these 3 x one year olds as she said they don’t lay enough, so she wanted to replace them with isa browns. Ignorance that’s what that is. Pure breeds will lay less eggs but for many years longer. I don’t encourage keeping hybrid breeds as I think it’s cruel on the birds. They lay and lay until they get sick with weak bones or prolapses, (saw one last week with a prolapse, as not nice) or they simply drop dead from exhaustion.
They are all bantams, a plymoth rock, a light sussex and one very small silver penciled wyandotte. It’s as cute as a button. Well they are loving it here with the whole rear mini orchard to scratch around in.
Strangely, they are each laying an egg every day for the five days I’ve had them. They are good laying breeds anyway.

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I seem to be The Chatter at the moment. I’ve harvested three asparagus spears (it’s OK, I have a dozen more from Casterton yesterday, so there is a proper feed), a heap of rhubarb (now on the stove) and some carrot thinnings. I decided to water this morning after my bike ride, so that is also done. Now eating bacon and eggs and then out to weed. It is supposed to be showery, which would be good, but as it isn’t, I’ll get some more weeding done.

:)

Yes you talk too much, hehehe ;)

Asparagus, yes, picking daily and eating on the spot. It doesn’t make it inside. It’s so yum. And I have potted up another dozen or so asparagus seed, mary washington, sweet purple and that fat bastard one. They’re starting to pop up :)

I love the look of the rock plymouths, I think the neighbour next one over has them…the rooster is the cutest! This is the flock that Madam is supposed to belong to… I think she’s a Cornish hen, tho’…I just think she is…

What a lucky break for the rescue chooks, landing in your backyard!…

Sonny Jim is going to look out for more pallets for me, laid across the concrete-edged garden beds, they provide shade and protection from the chookens for the rose roots…

Still shuddering from yesterday’s races…I went to help the family business and ended up publicly fighting with my FIL …Usually that’s P’s job…the biggest race meeting in the district but maybe marginally smaller than the big metropolitan meets…

So, don’t know where the showers have got to. Not here. So I’m glad I did a brief run around with the hose earlier. I’m getting germinations, so I don’t want them dying for lack of water.

buffy said:

So, don’t know where the showers have got to. Not here.

Hang out your expensive feather doona (or your best woollen blanket?)… that should bring the showery weather back…

There you go…..went to the cafe for lunch. And now it has showered. I think I’ll take that as a signal to stay inside for the afternoon. Ironing to do. And when I washed the pot holders and oven mitt they fell to bits a bit. Time for me to make some new ones, I think.

Hello Gardeners. I have been waging war on the Fumaria and Galium. Easy to pull. Annoying on the skin. Great big pile of stuff. Now i need to fill in my Casterton garden plan with the stuff I did on Saturday.

Good to see you keeping out of trouble, Buffy…

The roses are doing well here, for a wonder…I think they like their occasional long drink of an evening…I would have thought with all the scratching going on, they’d be unhappy about the disturbance to their roots…the pallet planks have also proved a great idea…

Anyway they are blooming the best I’ve seen since I arrived in June last year…

Mrs B next door is home again, went to a grand daughter’s wedding and is happy with the little holiday…I have seen her sitting beside her front gate and yesterday I found out that she tries to get close to her gardenia so she can enjoy the perfume…however her arthritis medication has taken away most of her sense of smell…bummer that!

I told her that some time last week, I had to go to the toilet (which is on the verandah, quite common for the older style houses) and the perfume from my frangipanni was like a mist…it was all around and it felt like I was walking through the aroma…fantastic…fabulous!! The frangi leafed up last year before putting out a few flowers, not much perfume at all…however this year the flowers emerged first and now it’s starting to leaf…Mrs B said a seed must have self-sown in a bit pot that has a bogan in it, and there it was, a frangi about 2 foot tall in the pot, with healthy new leaves…

Thus endeth my gardening saga for the month!!

• big pot

!!

Dinetta said:

• big pot

!!

Gotta love bonus blow in wanted plants :D

Evening all. No gardening this weekend just gone. Instead we managed to get Sleepy to go away for a family weekend to Central Coast for his 60th birthday. He didn’t want a party so a weekend away was the way to go. We had a great time with the kids, grandkids and my son-in-law’s mother. Lovely and relaxing. The only downer on during the weekend was the gale force winds yesterday. Horrible, hot, Nor’ Westers.

Was a bit worried about how the vegie beds would survive the onslaught. Went out to check this morning and all the mulched beds were still lovely and moist and the plants not too windblown. The un-mulched allium beds and the newly sown grain beds didn’t fare as well, so I had to get our there this morning and give them a good watering.

Late this afternoon we had a doozey of a storm which dumped a fair bit of rain in a small amount of time, so at least I shouldn’t have to water tomorrow morning.

It all sounds good AnneS…Hippy Bathday to “Sleepy” from me…

gotta love that wet stuff from the sky…

Good morning Gardeners. Well, it’s back to work for me today. I’m sort of finally getting the hang of Monday not being a working day. I think it will take the full two years to really settle into it. It’s been 18 months or so now.

I’d better put Work Clothes on and head off.

Morning from me too. Like here AnneS, strong drying warm winds, then sudden storms and rain. But with us it’s winter one day and summer the next.

I couldn’t get on here at times, I think there’s been server probs. I did a post yest’ and as I was typing the left menu went blank. I submitted the post then couldn’t get back on, then when I could the post wasn’t there. Oh well.

Mrs Daughter had a doctors appt to change a wound dressing and I went along to hold my wriggly granddaughter while she had that done. I asked B what was the red lump behind bubs ear..she said she saw that but all those around her said not to worry, kids bump their heads all the time. She had thought to take her to the doctors but told she was a worry wart. I said trust your own instinct above all others advice..it’s only a question and then you can relax if it’s nothing.
So she asked the doc doing her dressing to take a look at the lump. It turns out to be a swollen infected lymph node, turning into an abscess. Bubs now on antibiotics x 4 times a day, pain relief when needed. B felt terrible, but glad baby is feeling better this morn.

Hard to bump your head behind your ear…and you are right, trust your montherly instincts…

Happy Potter said:

Morning from me too. Like here AnneS, strong drying warm winds, then sudden storms and rain. But with us it’s winter one day and summer the next.

I couldn’t get on here at times, I think there’s been server probs. I did a post yest’ and as I was typing the left menu went blank. I submitted the post then couldn’t get back on, then when I could the post wasn’t there. Oh well.

Mrs Daughter had a doctors appt to change a wound dressing and I went along to hold my wriggly granddaughter while she had that done. I asked B what was the red lump behind bubs ear..she said she saw that but all those around her said not to worry, kids bump their heads all the time. She had thought to take her to the doctors but told she was a worry wart. I said trust your own instinct above all others advice..it’s only a question and then you can relax if it’s nothing.
So she asked the doc doing her dressing to take a look at the lump. It turns out to be a swollen infected lymph node, turning into an abscess. Bubs now on antibiotics x 4 times a day, pain relief when needed. B felt terrible, but glad baby is feeling better this morn.

Yep. Best to go to the doctor to be sure.

I lost a pendant off my neckchain. Very upset, it is not only valuable, but a very sentimental item. I discovered the open broken chain on my neck after catching a chook. I think a chook might have eaten it. It was a small solid 22 ct embossed heart pendant. I have to find it!
It’s not in the house or washing machine, evry nook and cranny..the house has been combed clean. Given the depth of mulch in my yard it would seem impossible to find. I’m borrowing a friends metal detector..chooks will get scanned too.

Dinetta said:

Hard to bump your head behind your ear…and you are right, trust your montherly instincts…

That’s the thing, there wasn’t a mark on her ear itself.

Happy Potter said:

I said trust your own instinct above all others advice..it’s only a question and then you can relax if it’s nothing.
So she asked the doc doing her dressing to take a look at the lump. It turns out to be a swollen infected lymph node, turning into an abscess. Bubs now on antibiotics x 4 times a day, pain relief when needed. B felt terrible, but glad baby is feeling better this morn.

I always worked on the premise, and encourage #1 daughter to do the same, better to go to the dr and be thought a worry wart than have your children suffer because you were to embarrassed to ask.

Happy Potter said:

I lost a pendant off my neckchain. Very upset, it is not only valuable, but a very sentimental item. I discovered the open broken chain on my neck after catching a chook. I think a chook might have eaten it. It was a small solid 22 ct embossed heart pendant. I have to find it!
It’s not in the house or washing machine, evry nook and cranny..the house has been combed clean. Given the depth of mulch in my yard it would seem impossible to find. I’m borrowing a friends metal detector..chooks will get scanned too.

Oh no :-(

It’s terrible when you lose something that has great sentimental value. Hope you find it

AnneS said:

I always worked on the premise, and encourage #1 daughter to do the same, better to go to the dr and be thought a worry wart than have your children suffer because you were to embarrassed to ask.

Absolutely. And the Dr who thinks you’re a worry wart shouldn’t be treating mothers and grots…

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

I lost a pendant off my neckchain. Very upset, it is not only valuable, but a very sentimental item. I discovered the open broken chain on my neck after catching a chook. I think a chook might have eaten it. It was a small solid 22 ct embossed heart pendant. I have to find it!
It’s not in the house or washing machine, evry nook and cranny..the house has been combed clean. Given the depth of mulch in my yard it would seem impossible to find. I’m borrowing a friends metal detector..chooks will get scanned too.

Oh no :-(

It’s terrible when you lose something that has great sentimental value. Hope you find it

Hopefully it will be in the house or other chook-free area…hope so…

Happy Potter said:

I lost a pendant off my neckchain. Very upset, it is not only valuable, but a very sentimental item. I discovered the open broken chain on my neck after catching a chook. I think a chook might have eaten it. It was a small solid 22 ct embossed heart pendant. I have to find it!
It’s not in the house or washing machine, evry nook and cranny..the house has been combed clean. Given the depth of mulch in my yard it would seem impossible to find. I’m borrowing a friends metal detector..chooks will get scanned too.

put nappies on the chooks?

bluegreen said:

put nappies on the chooks?

That’s an idea…

Hey, Gardeners! I think I just disturbed a microbat in the garden shed. I went out to get some fabric scraps (I’m replacing/remaking my potholders which fell to bits when I washed them) and the trunks of scraps are out there. And I got sort of buzzed by a critter. This has happened before. I can’t get a good look at it. It’s the size of a large butterfly and zips around erratically.

buffy said:

Hey, Gardeners! I think I just disturbed a microbat in the garden shed. I went out to get some fabric scraps (I’m replacing/remaking my potholders which fell to bits when I washed them) and the trunks of scraps are out there. And I got sort of buzzed by a critter. This has happened before. I can’t get a good look at it. It’s the size of a large butterfly and zips around erratically.

sounds like it could be :)

I’d like it to be. Doing a quick Google, it seems there are likely to be quite a lot of microbats in this district. Just don’t really see them.

I did some hooning about the streets this morning, tearing up and down side streets and main roads looking for Max. Damn the wind. One new gate auto lock on order.

I spotted him with a lady walking her black cocker spaniel and she was just putting her spare lead on him to take him to her place to get his ID details from his council his tags and get him off the streets. Bless those angel people that we meet from time to time. I was just getting his tablets and ear wash ready and he was out the back for a wee..then disappeared.

He’s home safe and sound and about to have a bath..he’s covered in mud.

Happy Potter said:

I did some hooning about the streets this morning, tearing up and down side streets and main roads looking for Max. Damn the wind. One new gate auto lock on order.

I spotted him with a lady walking her black cocker spaniel and she was just putting her spare lead on him to take him to her place to get his ID details from his council his tags and get him off the streets. Bless those angel people that we meet from time to time. I was just getting his tablets and ear wash ready and he was out the back for a wee..then disappeared.

He’s home safe and sound and about to have a bath..he’s covered in mud.

Bless indeed…I’ve not heard of walking with spare leads…by the time I pack my torch and mobile phone, there’s not much in my pockets for a spare lead…

Went to the Benalla Spring Show this morning and helped a bit in the office and had a bit of a look around.

I put some entries in this year and I won firsts for a dozen bantam eggs and a pot of no less than 3 succulents. I won seconds for 6 duck eggs and a skein of hand spun wool. The Swanpool CWA won first prize for the CWA group entry class which included a skein of my wool as one of the items.

My friend who bakes won various firsts and seconds for her cakes including a first for her sponge sandwich made with my duck eggs.

So over all I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself :D

I will go in again tomorrow to help again if needed and to check out the farm animals that weren’t there today.

bluegreen said:

Went to the Benalla Spring Show this morning and helped a bit in the office and had a bit of a look around.

I put some entries in this year and I won firsts for a dozen bantam eggs and a pot of no less than 3 succulents. I won seconds for 6 duck eggs and a skein of hand spun wool. The Swanpool CWA won first prize for the CWA group entry class which included a skein of my wool as one of the items.

My friend who bakes won various firsts and seconds for her cakes including a first for her sponge sandwich made with my duck eggs.

So over all I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself :D

I will go in again tomorrow to help again if needed and to check out the farm animals that weren’t there today.

You’re a champion, BlueGreen! Well done on the wins, and I’m personally best impressed with your hand spun yarn victories…

Yes! I’ve just realised that because of the hour’s difference, the abc tv shows show up almost straight away on iView for me…

bluegreen said:

Went to the Benalla Spring Show this morning and helped a bit in the office and had a bit of a look around.

I put some entries in this year and I won firsts for a dozen bantam eggs and a pot of no less than 3 succulents. I won seconds for 6 duck eggs and a skein of hand spun wool. The Swanpool CWA won first prize for the CWA group entry class which included a skein of my wool as one of the items.

My friend who bakes won various firsts and seconds for her cakes including a first for her sponge sandwich made with my duck eggs.

So over all I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself :D

I will go in again tomorrow to help again if needed and to check out the farm animals that weren’t there today.

Lovely! :)

Been busy settling GD all arvo. All quiet again now.

In the morn I gardened and watered and planted things, silverbeet and eggplants, and covered both. Might be a light frost again tonight.

And I shopped. Online too.. getting a full dressed spring lamb on Monday from a nearby farm. Chopped and packed ready to go in the freezer. The fellow asked if I wanted the cleaned sheep head. Not really, but I know someone who might want it, a friend who owns and runs dog boarding kennels. Rang him and he definitely does want the head. And he will get heaps more heads as the farmer usually discards them as no one wants them. A good bit of communicating there on my part to avoid waste. Even if I do say so myself.

I can’t seem to get that weird looking Tahitian lime ID’d so I’m just going to pull it out. In it’s place will go a dwarf imperial mandarin.

Cuppa tea then early bed for me. I’m mentally worn out.

Happy Potter said:

Been busy settling GD all arvo. All quiet again now.

In the morn I gardened and watered and planted things, silverbeet and eggplants, and covered both. Might be a light frost again tonight.

And I shopped. Online too.. getting a full dressed spring lamb on Monday from a nearby farm. Chopped and packed ready to go in the freezer. The fellow asked if I wanted the cleaned sheep head. Not really, but I know someone who might want it, a friend who owns and runs dog boarding kennels. Rang him and he definitely does want the head. And he will get heaps more heads as the farmer usually discards them as no one wants them. A good bit of communicating there on my part to avoid waste. Even if I do say so myself.

I can’t seem to get that weird looking Tahitian lime ID’d so I’m just going to pull it out. In it’s place will go a dwarf imperial mandarin.

Cuppa tea then early bed for me. I’m mentally worn out.

GS, even not GD, Giant Son.

Happy Potter said:

GS, even not GD, Giant Son.

I just spent 2 minutes trying to work it out! I thought it might be something like that … hope all is serene now…

You did well with the sheeps’ heads…and when the dawgs have finished they can be buried as B&B…

Going to make a potato salad for tomorrow, just a mayo:sour cream with garlic one, simple but effective, and it’s good either hot or cold. The bishop is retiring, he was a good shepherd and very popular, so it will be quite an occasion. “Bring a plate” for lunch so I’ll do this salad…

bluegreen said:

Went to the Benalla Spring Show this morning and helped a bit in the office and had a bit of a look around.

I put some entries in this year and I won firsts for a dozen bantam eggs and a pot of no less than 3 succulents. I won seconds for 6 duck eggs and a skein of hand spun wool. The Swanpool CWA won first prize for the CWA group entry class which included a skein of my wool as one of the items.

My friend who bakes won various firsts and seconds for her cakes including a first for her sponge sandwich made with my duck eggs.

So over all I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself :D

I will go in again tomorrow to help again if needed and to check out the farm animals that weren’t there today.

Well done you clever little vegemite :)

We have extra babysitting duties to do. Mrs. Daughter will be working more days for a while as our son in law broke his leg in a ju jitsu throw last night. He is in surgery as I type. His mother is horrified and reckons she is going to teach him to knit, lol.
Boys!

Vege swap day today and as usual I have a carload of stuff to take. lemons, eggs, rhubarb, seedlings of all sorts, and more bottles of manure tea from the never ending self filling barrel of it. The bag of manure floating inside the barrel is pretty much empty now, but the black liquid continues to steep. It’s powerful stuff.

Mid week friends and I, with our trailers, are going to a farmhouse to bag up sheep manure. As much as we can fit in our vehicles is ours for the taking. My carport will start to fill again, lol. The stuff will be shared about with many gardeners :)

Happy Potter said:

We have extra babysitting duties to do. Mrs. Daughter will be working more days for a while as our son in law broke his leg in a ju jitsu throw last night. He is in surgery as I type. His mother is horrified and reckons she is going to teach him to knit, lol.
Boys!

There used to be a chap who knitted on a commuter train … this was about 35 years ago…I used to watch him and thought nothing of it and he was informally famous…then the newspapers picked up the story…

Happy Potter said:

Vege swap day today and as usual I have a carload of stuff to take. lemons, eggs, rhubarb, seedlings of all sorts, and more bottles of manure tea from the never ending self filling barrel of it. The bag of manure floating inside the barrel is pretty much empty now, but the black liquid continues to steep. It’s powerful stuff.

Mid week friends and I, with our trailers, are going to a farmhouse to bag up sheep manure. As much as we can fit in our vehicles is ours for the taking. My carport will start to fill again, lol. The stuff will be shared about with many gardeners :)

I’m starting to think you might need your own thread for these updates!

Good morning Gardeners. I have identified the mysterious flying object of the other night….it is indeed a microbat. This morning I saw it in daylight in our big shed. I like this idea. They eat lots and lots and lots of mosquitoes. Which is a lot better than lots and lots and lots of mosquitoes eating me.

I bought a ram and a lamb this morning, to go with my three sheep:

buffy said:

I bought a ram and a lamb this morning, to go with my three sheep:

You won’t get much manure, but they look good :D

buffy said:

I have identified the mysterious flying object of the other night….it is indeed a microbat. This morning I saw it in daylight in our big shed. I like this idea. They eat lots and lots and lots of mosquitoes. Which is a lot better than lots and lots and lots of mosquitoes eating me.

Can you introduce it to another so they can have lots of baby microbats?

I’d like to borrow one or two to keep my resident mozzie population down, so I can go outdoors at night and enjoy the coolth of summer – when it finally arrives.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Vege swap day today and as usual I have a carload of stuff to take. lemons, eggs, rhubarb, seedlings of all sorts, and more bottles of manure tea from the never ending self filling barrel of it. The bag of manure floating inside the barrel is pretty much empty now, but the black liquid continues to steep. It’s powerful stuff.

Mid week friends and I, with our trailers, are going to a farmhouse to bag up sheep manure. As much as we can fit in our vehicles is ours for the taking. My carport will start to fill again, lol. The stuff will be shared about with many gardeners :)

I’m starting to think you might need your own thread for these updates!

No time, too busy organizing peoples to help gather these goodies :) I will take pics, if I remember the camera.

The swap was terrific, heaps of new faces and loads of veges seedlings and yummy things brought along.

buffy said:

I bought a ram and a lamb this morning, to go with my three sheep:

Love them! :)

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

We have extra babysitting duties to do. Mrs. Daughter will be working more days for a while as our son in law broke his leg in a ju jitsu throw last night. He is in surgery as I type. His mother is horrified and reckons she is going to teach him to knit, lol.
Boys!

There used to be a chap who knitted on a commuter train … this was about 35 years ago…I used to watch him and thought nothing of it and he was informally famous…then the newspapers picked up the story…

I’m one who likes to knit. Spin and weave as well.

roughbarked said:

I’m one who likes to knit. Spin and weave as well.

…and you didn’t have to break a bone to discover these talents!!

I’ve been meaning to ask, how did your opal come along, the one that was pre-paid?

:D :D

CWA entry

Winning sponge made with my duck eggs

Some items of note

That sure is a handsome sponge cake…lovely to see your entries in the photos…thanks for putting them up…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I’m one who likes to knit. Spin and weave as well.

…and you didn’t have to break a bone to discover these talents!!

I’ve been meaning to ask, how did your opal come along, the one that was pre-paid?

He was happy with what I sent him.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I’m one who likes to knit. Spin and weave as well.

…and you didn’t have to break a bone to discover these talents!!

I’ve been meaning to ask, how did your opal come along, the one that was pre-paid?

He was happy with what I sent him.

Did you take a photo? I’d love to see it if you did…if that’s OK…

Morning green ones. It’s a warm one today with an expected top of 31C. I’ll be tearing about, like I do. This and that. And going to see critter, son in laws nickname, and see how he is going. He’s been transferred to a big city hospital and has a team of orthos’ working on a plan as to how best to fix his broken leg. The op will be done tomorrow. The poor buggers done a good job of it too, smashed knee broken leg and torn ligaments. Found out he’s not unbreakable. He’s a good patient, doesn’t complain and is doing his upper body weights while he’s laid up. The rest of us, our kids and critters family, are gearing up to help. My daughter will have to go back to work full time, so between baby sitting on the odd days I can help out by cooking them some meals.

Happy Potter said:

Morning green ones. It’s a warm one today with an expected top of 31C. I’ll be tearing about, like I do. This and that. And going to see critter, son in laws nickname, and see how he is going. He’s been transferred to a big city hospital and has a team of orthos’ working on a plan as to how best to fix his broken leg. The op will be done tomorrow. The poor buggers done a good job of it too, smashed knee broken leg and torn ligaments. Found out he’s not unbreakable. He’s a good patient, doesn’t complain and is doing his upper body weights while he’s laid up. The rest of us, our kids and critters family, are gearing up to help. My daughter will have to go back to work full time, so between baby sitting on the odd days I can help out by cooking them some meals.

He did do well with the breaks! Not that I’d wish it on him…those pre-cooked meals will call blessings on your head…

I was soaking that “hard” garden bed yesterday, and it has become “diggable”. Sadly the hardware shop is closed or I’d buy some bags of whatever to lay on it…yes I have two chicken coops of droppings but if I buy the bagged stuff it can get to work straight away…must remind Sonny Jim that I’m waiting on some pallets to cut down for bed protection…

This soil workability is good news because once I get the fence bed settled, I can work on transplanting the rootstock roses, which are blooming madly…

Can you grow roses, lavender and rosemary all in the one garden bed?

Dinetta said:

I was soaking that “hard” garden bed yesterday, and it has become “diggable”. Sadly the hardware shop is closed or I’d buy some bags of whatever to lay on it…yes I have two chicken coops of droppings but if I buy the bagged stuff it can get to work straight away…must remind Sonny Jim that I’m waiting on some pallets to cut down for bed protection…

This soil workability is good news because once I get the fence bed settled, I can work on transplanting the rootstock roses, which are blooming madly…

Can you grow roses, lavender and rosemary all in the one garden bed?

That would be sensational for the senses :)

Happy Potter said:

That would be sensational for the senses :)

Now that you mention it…the lavender and the rosemary for sure, but the roses have no perfume…they’re just rugged little bugg*rs….I’m impressed with their tenacity…

So that’s a “yes”? Not partial to lavender but I’ve been intrigued with your cooking stories…we have a tradition of peach blossoms up here (which Happy Potter may remember from ‘way back?) and I thought lavender blossoms would be interesting…toying with the idea of blueberry blossoms (a blueberry in the centre and port wine jelly outer) but haven’t been bitten by the “aw, go on give it a go” bug yet…the chookens can always eat my failures I suppose…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning green ones. It’s a warm one today with an expected top of 31C. I’ll be tearing about, like I do. This and that. And going to see critter, son in laws nickname, and see how he is going. He’s been transferred to a big city hospital and has a team of orthos’ working on a plan as to how best to fix his broken leg. The op will be done tomorrow. The poor buggers done a good job of it too, smashed knee broken leg and torn ligaments. Found out he’s not unbreakable. He’s a good patient, doesn’t complain and is doing his upper body weights while he’s laid up. The rest of us, our kids and critters family, are gearing up to help. My daughter will have to go back to work full time, so between baby sitting on the odd days I can help out by cooking them some meals.

He did do well with the breaks! Not that I’d wish it on him…those pre-cooked meals will call blessings on your head…

He was sparring with a huge fellow doing a move where you put your leg behind the other person and throw them to the ground. Something went wrong and the big fellow tripped and landed with his full weigh on critters leg, only the leg went the other way. He: ‘oh look where my leg is’. So glad I didn’t see that happen. He sat there and called Le Le, youngest daughters bf who normally trains with him, and he took critter to the local hosp.

Happy Potter said:

He was sparring with a huge fellow doing a move where you put your leg behind the other person and throw them to the ground. Something went wrong and the big fellow tripped and landed with his full weigh on critters leg, only the leg went the other way. He: ‘oh look where my leg is’. So glad I didn’t see that happen. He sat there and called Le Le, youngest daughters bf who normally trains with him, and he took critter to the local hosp.

Couldn’t have done it if he tried…

Thank goodness for modern orthopaedic medicine…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

That would be sensational for the senses :)

Now that you mention it…the lavender and the rosemary for sure, but the roses have no perfume…they’re just rugged little bugg*rs….I’m impressed with their tenacity…

So that’s a “yes”? Not partial to lavender but I’ve been intrigued with your cooking stories…we have a tradition of peach blossoms up here (which Happy Potter may remember from ‘way back?) and I thought lavender blossoms would be interesting…toying with the idea of blueberry blossoms (a blueberry in the centre and port wine jelly outer) but haven’t been bitten by the “aw, go on give it a go” bug yet…the chookens can always eat my failures I suppose…

Haha, definitely give it a go :)

I can’t step a foot outside and not get nostrils filled with the scent of citrus blossoms. It’s gorgeous. As one visitor mentioned, you can’t even tell there are chickens here. The trees are covered with bees.
Incidentally, the fellow who put the bee hive in my garden remarked that it’s going so well he can put the next box on already. Super? I think it’s called. And rather than mix the honey from all his hives for bottling, he will keep mine separate as all the citrus trees will make for a lovely orange blossom flavor. Yum!

I seem to have a lot of bees around this year. No hives close by that I know of, our local beekeeper has his hives out of town, I think. Mostly in bushland for native honey.

We’ve just had a spatter of ‘rain’. Not enough to matter though. It’s still fairly warm.

Happy Potter said:

Incidentally, the fellow who put the bee hive in my garden remarked that it’s going so well he can put the next box on already. Super? I think it’s called. And rather than mix the honey from all his hives for bottling, he will keep mine separate as all the citrus trees will make for a lovely orange blossom flavor. Yum!

Oooooh, one good turn, as they say…

A lady came around off-loading peppermint cheesecake from yesterday’s function…sadly I ate half before putting it away in the fridge…it will not freeze very well, we are agreed on that…

I would have invited her up for a cuppa except the sculptural interest of my unwashed crockery is grounds for shock! horror! …and sarcasm…

Kind of her to think of me, I have memorised her number plate so I can wave to her car in future (you know what I mean)…

So I have washed the dishes, and pans, and am in the process of washing all the water bottles left over from the races last weekend…these are washed in hot soapy water, the necks are thoroughly gone over with the dish cloth, they’re rinsed in clean hot water and then refilled and frozen. This way the bottles are recycled and we’ve always got water for the pencillers…am also going to wash and clean the new cooler bags I bought, the sods leak like they’ve no bottom layer, and they’re then going to Vinnies. Better off to spend a bit extra on Smash ® or similar, although I bought a marvellous bag for $3 last year and it’s possibly more efficient and sound than the Smash ® bag. There’s something about tidy benches in the kitchen.

Does anybody have one of those ladders, you can tweak them into many shapes and heights? Are they worth the outlay? How high do they go? I want to clean the wall and hopefully ceiling above some kitchen cupboards, possibly not cleaned for 7 years (since Mum left the house). Will have to use a squee-gee as I am too heavy to get on top of the cupboards, but I need a ladder higher than the tradey’s basic that I have now….

Best piece of advice I’ve ever got for cleaning the walls (especially as they are mildew on top of soot) is (drumroll) laundry detergent! So I have a bottle of Drive. The lady who told me, uses Hurricane but I said I didn’t want to strip the paint.

Lmao. We got the broken legged youngin a Iron Man onsie. Cheered him up, and half the staff, no end lol.

We’re off to a tea invite at a friends :)

I’ve just seen over on fbk where I can use old plastic pots to protect my paw paws (I did say I don’t like paw paws?) from the fruit bats and rainbow lorikeets…you slit down one side of the pot and also put in a hole in the bottom of the pot to make room for the stem…looks kind of like a bucket head that results from those plastic funnel things they put on dogs and cats after THE operation, so they won’t pull their stitches out…

Apparently the wrong make of “bird netting” causes deaths of birds and bats…the weave is important…

Dinetta said:

blooming madly…

Can you grow roses, lavender and rosemary all in the one garden bed?

yes

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

…and you didn’t have to break a bone to discover these talents!!

I’ve been meaning to ask, how did your opal come along, the one that was pre-paid?

He was happy with what I sent him.

Did you take a photo? I’d love to see it if you did…if that’s OK…

He wanted one stone so I sent a couple from this batch.

Dinetta said:

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Does anybody have one of those ladders, you can tweak them into many shapes and heights? Are they worth the outlay? How high do they go?

There are various types. I’ve got a simple one that is either a flat ladder or a step ladder or a trestle or several odd angles. I find that I use it quite a lot.

roughbarked said:

He wanted one stone so I sent a couple from this batch.

I’d have chosen the “green” one, top right hand corner, between the firey red one and the two with blue bottoms…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

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Does anybody have one of those ladders, you can tweak them into many shapes and heights? Are they worth the outlay? How high do they go?

There are various types. I’ve got a simple one that is either a flat ladder or a step ladder or a trestle or several odd angles. I find that I use it quite a lot.

I was just thinking, when people get married, they don’t ask for ladders as wedding presents…it might be a good idea….

roughbarked said:

He wanted one stone so I sent a couple from this batch.

Hard to choose…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

He was happy with what I sent him.

Did you take a photo? I’d love to see it if you did…if that’s OK…

He wanted one stone so I sent a couple from this batch.

beautiful :)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

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Does anybody have one of those ladders, you can tweak them into many shapes and heights? Are they worth the outlay? How high do they go?

There are various types. I’ve got a simple one that is either a flat ladder or a step ladder or a trestle or several odd angles. I find that I use it quite a lot.

I was just thinking, when people get married, they don’t ask for ladders as wedding presents…it might be a good idea….

we asked for camping equipment as we already had household stuff and were planning on lots of bike rallies. One person gave us a tomahawk and my dad brought it out all tied up in a ribbon when it was time to cut the cake.

Good morning Gardeners. I’m about to go out and scratch out some feral tomato seedlings that have germinated and put them in their own place in the garden. They shall be known as the Surprise Tomatoes. There may be Tigerella amongst them.

And will you lot stop making me feel so old. When we got married there was no “please will you get me” list. People just bought what they thought was appropriate.

bluegreen said:

we asked for camping equipment as we already had household stuff and were planning on lots of bike rallies. One person gave us a tomahawk and my dad brought it out all tied up in a ribbon when it was time to cut the cake.

LOL!!

(still larf’n…)

buffy said:

And will you lot stop making me feel so old. When we got married there was no “please will you get me” list. People just bought what they thought was appropriate.

Same here… altho’ I gave someone a spade, hose (with fittings) and garden fork as they’d just built their house and I don’t think they’ve used it much…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

He wanted one stone so I sent a couple from this batch.

I’d have chosen the “green” one, top right hand corner, between the firey red one and the two with blue bottoms…

Those are the two stones I sent him.

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

And will you lot stop making me feel so old. When we got married there was no “please will you get me” list. People just bought what they thought was appropriate.

Same here… altho’ I gave someone a spade, hose (with fittings) and garden fork as they’d just built their house and I don’t think they’ve used it much…

Many wedding presents get returned to BigW or left in cupboards

roughbarked said:

Many wedding presents get returned to BigW or left in cupboards

Time was, wedding presents were for the “special occasion”, e.g crystal glasses, expensive tablecloths. Mine are left in cupboards but it’s lovely to have an occasion to trot them out, and it’s lovely to trot them out for an occasion…The bride and groom were expected to provide their own basics and I reckon this worked well…

roughbarked said:

Those are the two stones I sent him.

The “fiery” one and the all-green one?

On a gardening note, I have a bag of composted materials already (Searles 5-in-1) so I might pop that into the garden bed and plant the rose on top, get the shin-dig going over there…after Mah-Jong this arvo…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Those are the two stones I sent him.

The “fiery” one and the all-green one?

Yep.

good spotting.

37.0°C here and the wind is bending things.

roughbarked said:

37.0°C here and the wind is bending things.

Horrible. Hope there’s no bushfires near you? I asked Veg Gardener the other day and he said they were around his are but his parent’s farm not affected…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Those are the two stones I sent him.

The “fiery” one and the all-green one?

Yep.

good spotting.

LOL! I just chose the ones that brought a bit of a catch to my breath…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

37.0°C here and the wind is bending things.

Horrible. Hope there’s no bushfires near you? I asked Veg Gardener the other day and he said they were around his are but his parent’s farm not affected…

irrigation farms mean lots of windbreaks. Fires would have to be very local to bother me.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

The “fiery” one and the all-green one?

Yep.

good spotting.

LOL! I just chose the ones that brought a bit of a catch to my breath…

He put $200 in my bank. and allowed me to make the choices. He is a boyhood friend so I was treating him in that manner.

Hello again Gardeners. The Surprise Tomato seedlings are still where they came up. I started doing some weeding, got a fit of the Can’t be Bothereds and we went out to the bush block to see how things are going. Lots of flowers. Walking tracks almost obliterated by bracken and stuff. So I picked a handful of flowers and made some notes for my longterm records of what flowers when. And it was drizzling. So we ate our picnic quiche and cake in the car and headed home.

Came through the Macarthur windfarm and stopped under a turbine to assess the noise level. Had to turn the car off and open the windows to hear them, but today there was some noise. But there are many of them and we were right in the middle and underneath one. And it was moderately windy today, so they were working. I suspect the noise was actually less than living near a main road in the city really.

Then I spent the afternoon writing up my flowering times book. I hadn’t done it for Quite Some Time (about three or four years). I take a notebook every time we go and mostly I remember to just write down what is in flower. I’m slowly building a record of what flowers when. I must go back and fill in the rainfall for each month for the last 4 years too.

Now I’m smelling roast pork…

And here are today’s little beauties:

There are nodding greenhoods, pink finger and wax lip orchids, twining fringe lily, milkmaids, teatree (2 sorts) and some yellow everlastings. Oh, and chocolate lilies. Such dainty things they are.

(In case anyone is worried about the legalities, the bush is ours and so I am allowed to pick. The covenant we put on it also allows me to pick for my own use)

roughbarked said:

irrigation farms mean lots of windbreaks. Fires would have to be very local to bother me.

Oh good I can stop wondering…

I’m the type that gets goosey-bumps when I see out of control fires and the damage they do…

roughbarked said:

He put $200 in my bank. and allowed me to make the choices. He is a boyhood friend so I was treating him in that manner.

You would have the trained eye, of course…but I do find I prefer the milky (white) opals rather than the dark ones…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

He put $200 in my bank. and allowed me to make the choices. He is a boyhood friend so I was treating him in that manner.

You would have the trained eye, of course…but I do find I prefer the milky (white) opals rather than the dark ones…

I like the firey red ones and the multi coloured :)

Arvo. I am trying to finish off a wedding cake, just a single tier and some cupcakes to match, but got GS here and his guitar giving us a screamingly funny Jonny cash impersonation.

I’ve had to chase all people out and shut the door, so I can concentrate, lol.

Happy Potter said:

Arvo. I am trying to finish off a wedding cake, just a single tier and some cupcakes to match, but got GS here and his guitar giving us a screamingly funny Jonny cash impersonation.

I’ve had to chase all people out and shut the door, so I can concentrate, lol.

sounds like fun :)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Arvo. I am trying to finish off a wedding cake, just a single tier and some cupcakes to match, but got GS here and his guitar giving us a screamingly funny Jonny cash impersonation.

I’ve had to chase all people out and shut the door, so I can concentrate, lol.

sounds like fun :)

It does, rather!!

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

He put $200 in my bank. and allowed me to make the choices. He is a boyhood friend so I was treating him in that manner.

You would have the trained eye, of course…but I do find I prefer the milky (white) opals rather than the dark ones…

I wish there were more like you. The problem is that marketing doesn’t want the white opals. Therefore they don’t end up on display.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

He put $200 in my bank. and allowed me to make the choices. He is a boyhood friend so I was treating him in that manner.

You would have the trained eye, of course…but I do find I prefer the milky (white) opals rather than the dark ones…

I like the firey red ones and the multi coloured :)

The point is that 98% of opal found is potch. Loosely translated as looking more like shards of pottery or glass.
Very little of the opal found us actually precious in that the play of colour attracts the buyer.

ie: this trip I dug opal every day and brought home approx. eight kilos of opal. Not one piece of it is saleable. I shifted 50 tonnes of mullock to get that amount of opal.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

You would have the trained eye, of course…but I do find I prefer the milky (white) opals rather than the dark ones…

I like the firey red ones and the multi coloured :)

The point is that 98% of opal found is potch. Loosely translated as looking more like shards of pottery or glass.
Very little of the opal found us actually precious in that the play of colour attracts the buyer.

ie: this trip I dug opal every day and brought home approx. eight kilos of opal. Not one piece of it is saleable. I shifted 50 tonnes of mullock to get that amount of opal.

When I say I shifted 50 tonnes. I mean that I jackhammered the rock into small pieces and shovelled them into the tipper then sent it to the surface. All in one week and with a serious rotator cuff injury… er; damaged shoulder.

roughbarked said:

When I say I shifted 50 tonnes. I mean that I jackhammered the rock into small pieces and shovelled them into the tipper then sent it to the surface. All in one week and with a serious rotator cuff injury… er; damaged shoulder.

how’s the shoulder now?

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

When I say I shifted 50 tonnes. I mean that I jackhammered the rock into small pieces and shovelled them into the tipper then sent it to the surface. All in one week and with a serious rotator cuff injury… er; damaged shoulder.

how’s the shoulder now?

To be fair I should have taken myself to the Flying Doctor in White Cliffs. I still haven’t taken it to a casualty or to a doctor. However, it is slowly regaining most of the rotation. The pain has not been fun. In fact I could describe it as evil but I needed to continue functioning. ie; the money had been spent on getting to the opal mine so I needed to actually do some work. Again on my return the work was needing to be done because of various priorities including being able to find the money to put fuel in the car. Life goes on. It has been the most painful couple of weeks in a long time but it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

roughbarked said:

I wish there were more like you. The problem is that marketing doesn’t want the white opals. Therefore they don’t end up on display.

I have some milky stones in a ring, I inherited the ring…they are full of colour…no matter which way you look at them, there’s a flash…I would say good quality stone…

I did hear somewhere where marketing prefers the darker stones, and my mother had a blue opal…it never really took my fancy as the colouration was not as firey as the smaller stones on my ring…

roughbarked said:

The point is that 98% of opal found is potch. Loosely translated as looking more like shards of pottery or glass.
Very little of the opal found is actually precious in that the play of colour attracts the buyer.

ie: this trip I dug opal every day and brought home approx. eight kilos of opal. Not one piece of it is saleable. I shifted 50 tonnes of mullock to get that amount of opal.

Now that’s hard work!

roughbarked said:

it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

The older I get, the less I bounce…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

The older I get, the less I bounce…

I’m learning.. albeit slowly.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

When I say I shifted 50 tonnes. I mean that I jackhammered the rock into small pieces and shovelled them into the tipper then sent it to the surface. All in one week and with a serious rotator cuff injury… er; damaged shoulder.

how’s the shoulder now?

To be fair I should have taken myself to the Flying Doctor in White Cliffs. I still haven’t taken it to a casualty or to a doctor. However, it is slowly regaining most of the rotation. The pain has not been fun. In fact I could describe it as evil but I needed to continue functioning. ie; the money had been spent on getting to the opal mine so I needed to actually do some work. Again on my return the work was needing to be done because of various priorities including being able to find the money to put fuel in the car. Life goes on. It has been the most painful couple of weeks in a long time but it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

Knowing what I went through when I broke the neck of the humerus on my left arm I can imagine what you were going through.

I have had a reasonably productive day today. Dug over and manured a couple of beds ready for planting later, sowed more tomatoes, beetroot and silverbeet in punnets, raked over and planted one of the newer beds with sorghum and barley (half the bed each) and sowed a mix of seed which was originally bought as green manure seed in one half of my lucerne bed. There’s not much lucerne left and I need to oversow it when I can get some more lucerne seed. In the meantime the green manure mix will be better than leaving the bed fallow in the upcoming hot dry conditions I’m thinking, providing some of it germinates. I sowed it fairly thickly, so it will be interesting to see what happens.

I have been having trouble with birds (namely Rosellas and Magpies) pinching any seed that I have direct sown recently, so I have leanrt my lesson and covered the sown beds with fruit netting until the seeds germinate. Hopefully I’ll have some success.

Now I need to go and do a bit of housework before starting dinner. Sleepy won’t be home till after 8:30 (Cubs tonight) so I don’t have to rush. :)

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Arvo. I am trying to finish off a wedding cake, just a single tier and some cupcakes to match, but got GS here and his guitar giving us a screamingly funny Jonny cash impersonation.

I’ve had to chase all people out and shut the door, so I can concentrate, lol.

sounds like fun :)

It does, rather!!

It was fun! …until everything that could go wrong did. Not enough fondant, so had to go by some more. Then I couldn’t get ivory colour to match. Made do with a white layer under the ivory. Then the bloody cupcake rose on one side only. That batch went into the chooks scraps tub. The next lot came out ok. Saved enough ivory to go on them, then a black heart on top. This cake was for a friend of eldest daughter. I told my girl if the bride changes her mind one more time, then she could do it herself.
I was getting in a mood when I couldn’t find the pastry brush in the utensil drawer. Simple, tip it out on the floor. The whole drawer. GS came through the doorway mum mum mum,to ask me something and hubby grabbed him saying I wouldn’t go near the mumma if I were you! There’s been a cake disaster by the sounds!
LOL

Well at the end of the day the cake and the cupcakes looked lovely. All was well.

Until my daughter came over to pick it up, with her boyfriend, his sister and her best friend.. for a visit. Mid kitchen cyclone happenings. Then, making sure most of the family was there, announced that the wedding cake was for her!
WTH?
Yep, they are getting married tomorrow!! Well that just did me in. Tears and more tears.. they wanted a small registry office wedding with only 2 witnesses present. Then on Saturday the army bf will be back at his post in Qld. I was making their wedding cake all along.

Down the track we will have a restaurant bash with all the family and friends present.
I am pooped and in need of a stiff drink, or ten.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

When I say I shifted 50 tonnes. I mean that I jackhammered the rock into small pieces and shovelled them into the tipper then sent it to the surface. All in one week and with a serious rotator cuff injury… er; damaged shoulder.

how’s the shoulder now?

To be fair I should have taken myself to the Flying Doctor in White Cliffs. I still haven’t taken it to a casualty or to a doctor. However, it is slowly regaining most of the rotation. The pain has not been fun. In fact I could describe it as evil but I needed to continue functioning. ie; the money had been spent on getting to the opal mine so I needed to actually do some work. Again on my return the work was needing to be done because of various priorities including being able to find the money to put fuel in the car. Life goes on. It has been the most painful couple of weeks in a long time but it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

Oh no. I know that pain you speak of very well. It’s hideous.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

sounds like fun :)

It does, rather!!

That’s the second time recently that I have heard of offspring getting married like that, except in my friend’s case they didn’t tell her till after they were married!

It was fun! …until everything that could go wrong did. Not enough fondant, so had to go by some more. Then I couldn’t get ivory colour to match. Made do with a white layer under the ivory. Then the bloody cupcake rose on one side only. That batch went into the chooks scraps tub. The next lot came out ok. Saved enough ivory to go on them, then a black heart on top. This cake was for a friend of eldest daughter. I told my girl if the bride changes her mind one more time, then she could do it herself.
I was getting in a mood when I couldn’t find the pastry brush in the utensil drawer. Simple, tip it out on the floor. The whole drawer. GS came through the doorway mum mum mum,to ask me something and hubby grabbed him saying I wouldn’t go near the mumma if I were you! There’s been a cake disaster by the sounds!
LOL

Well at the end of the day the cake and the cupcakes looked lovely. All was well.

Until my daughter came over to pick it up, with her boyfriend, his sister and her best friend.. for a visit. Mid kitchen cyclone happenings. Then, making sure most of the family was there, announced that the wedding cake was for her!
WTH?
Yep, they are getting married tomorrow!! Well that just did me in. Tears and more tears.. they wanted a small registry office wedding with only 2 witnesses present. Then on Saturday the army bf will be back at his post in Qld. I was making their wedding cake all along.

Down the track we will have a restaurant bash with all the family and friends present.
I am pooped and in need of a stiff drink, or ten.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

how’s the shoulder now?

To be fair I should have taken myself to the Flying Doctor in White Cliffs. I still haven’t taken it to a casualty or to a doctor. However, it is slowly regaining most of the rotation. The pain has not been fun. In fact I could describe it as evil but I needed to continue functioning. ie; the money had been spent on getting to the opal mine so I needed to actually do some work. Again on my return the work was needing to be done because of various priorities including being able to find the money to put fuel in the car. Life goes on. It has been the most painful couple of weeks in a long time but it is something I could have avoided by not falling over in the first place.

Oh no. I know that pain you speak of very well. It’s hideous.

It sure is. I think roughbarked’s description of Evil is pretty close to the mark :(

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh no. I know that pain you speak of very well. It’s hideous.

It sure is. I think roughbarked’s description of Evil is pretty close to the mark :(

They were my words.. yes.

Happy Potter said:

Until my daughter came over to pick it up, with her boyfriend, his sister and her best friend.. for a visit. Mid kitchen cyclone happenings. Then, making sure most of the family was there, announced that the wedding cake was for her!
WTH?
Yep, they are getting married tomorrow!! Well that just did me in. Tears and more tears.. they wanted a small registry office wedding with only 2 witnesses present.

So your daughter is getting married, and you were not invited? I would be in tears too!

Happy Potter said:

I am pooped and in need of a stiff drink, or ten.

I should think 10!! That was a rivetting yarn!

bluegreen said:

So your daughter is getting married, and you were not invited? I would be in tears too!

They still got a 24 hours heads-up, BlueGreen, besides Happy Potter got to make the cake!

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

Happy Potter said:

Until my daughter came over to pick it up, with her boyfriend, his sister and her best friend.. for a visit. Mid kitchen cyclone happenings. Then, making sure most of the family was there, announced that the wedding cake was for her!
WTH?
Yep, they are getting married tomorrow!! Well that just did me in. Tears and more tears.. they wanted a small registry office wedding with only 2 witnesses present. Then on Saturday the army bf will be back at his post in Qld. I was making their wedding cake all along.

Down the track we will have a restaurant bash with all the family and friends present.
I am pooped and in need of a stiff drink, or ten.

Let’s try that again..with the quote in the right place :)

That’s the second time recently that I have heard of offspring getting married like that, except in my friend’s case they didn’t tell her till after they were married!

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

I am pooped and in need of a stiff drink, or ten.

I should think 10!! That was a rivetting yarn!

As usual ;)

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

LOL

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

LOL

We compromised and did the ceremony in her grandmothers garden.

Good morning Gardeners. For the moment the rain has stopped. I rather think my veggies will be revellling out there.

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

Sounds good to me…Which didn’t her mother fancy: the locale or the timing?

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

Haha!

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

LOL

We compromised and did the ceremony in her grandmothers garden.

Much better :)

Unless there’s a reason to elope, feral family and/or members don’t get along, it’s not good to exclude the parents. They only want their kids to be happy and a wedding is a happy.

In this case it’s the boyfriend who is not our most favourite person. But I told him, with hugs, that if she loves him, then we do too.

It’s about them of course, but I feel awful for having been excluded.

I sent the girl a text that said she’s got an hour to tell her sisters, or I will. They will be shattered.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

Sounds good to me…Which didn’t her mother fancy: the locale or the timing?

or the choice of partner? lol!

My parents were not impressed with mine. The response when we told them we were getting married was, “We are glad you have decided to do one thing or another”. Don’t think they liked our living arrangements prior to that.

Cold wet and windy. The weather befits my mood perfectly, I can tell you, lol.

Son in law Critter’s leg surgery is this morning. I hope the surgeons do their best and put his leg back together and all goes well. We will visit him tomorrow.

The veges and trees are loving the rain. I love that I don’t have to water them. A cold week coming up though and a couple frost risks, so I will pop some plastic bottle cloches over the eggplant seedlings.

Happy Potter said:

The veges and trees are loving the rain. I love that I don’t have to water them. A cold week coming up though and a couple frost risks, so I will pop some plastic bottle cloches over the eggplant seedlings.

Noticed that the frost her last week has caused damage to some new growth on some of my plants. No biggie though, a prune back (when the risk is over) and they will grow back.

Blowing a gale here again this morning; wind WNW 42km with 67km gusts. Temp only 24C though which is not too bad. Springwood/Winmalee have a higher temp and slightly lower winds so I pity the poor folk and firefighters there today :(

We had a bit of rain last night. Haven’t checked the rain gauge yet but I would expect there to be a few mms, might even be 5mm if we are lucky.

Too yucky to attempt much outside. I gave everything a good water yesterday and after the rain plants will be not too bad, hopefully, but I expect there will be a reasonable amount of wind burn.

Happy Potter said:

Son in law Critter’s leg surgery is this morning. I hope the surgeons do their best and put his leg back together and all goes well.

I hope so too. Lovely to see you’re getting soaking rain…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I had the marriage celebrant lined up to marry us at dawn in the National Park which is 80 km out of town.

Until her mother heard about it.

Sounds good to me…Which didn’t her mother fancy: the locale or the timing?

Both. The ceremony was rescheduled for a civilised time of 11 AM. They were happy to do it in the garden.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

The veges and trees are loving the rain. I love that I don’t have to water them. A cold week coming up though and a couple frost risks, so I will pop some plastic bottle cloches over the eggplant seedlings.

Noticed that the frost her last week has caused damage to some new growth on some of my plants. No biggie though, a prune back (when the risk is over) and they will grow back.

Bad news for the wine industry. Widespread frost damage on grapes. Row upon row of vineyards have browned off.

roughbarked said:

Bad news for the wine industry. Widespread frost damage on grapes. Row upon row of vineyards have browned off.

Oh NO! I had better buy up…

Apparently Air Crane Elvis is still going…

Head here

and at the time of posting, it’s the 4th photograph. It will have a hover-bot (that’s what I call them) … hover the mouse over the picture and a caption will present itself…

pfffft! URL not found!!

www.abc.net.au/news/

Copy and paste and it was one of the photos (numbers in top RH corner)…

I’ve had such a topsy turvey few days, stressers were building up, but hey I’m used to that, sort of.
The girl practically elopes, JJ has slipped into an awful depression, hasn’t worked or come out of his room for more than a few moments at a time for over a week. I’m dealing with that ok. Issues with GS and his health. I made appointments for him and will take him to our drs.

But I wasn’t thinking straight and had a houseful of visitors when I had to go to an appt at the vets with Max for a check up, and I went out in the car and left the chickens out, including all the young ones. I normally put them all back in their yard when I’m not home. Got back and a ‘keeper chick’, one I was definitely not going to part with, had drowned in the pond. It must have thought the surface pond weed was green grass.

That poor little bird just tipped me right over the edge.

Happy Potter said:

I’ve had such a topsy turvey few days, stressers were building up, but hey I’m used to that, sort of.
The girl practically elopes, JJ has slipped into an awful depression, hasn’t worked or come out of his room for more than a few moments at a time for over a week. I’m dealing with that ok. Issues with GS and his health. I made appointments for him and will take him to our drs.

But I wasn’t thinking straight and had a houseful of visitors when I had to go to an appt at the vets with Max for a check up, and I went out in the car and left the chickens out, including all the young ones. I normally put them all back in their yard when I’m not home. Got back and a ‘keeper chick’, one I was definitely not going to part with, had drowned in the pond. It must have thought the surface pond weed was green grass.

That poor little bird just tipped me right over the edge.

Oh HP, You poor thing. What a week :(

Happy Potter said:

I’ve had such a topsy turvey few days, stressers were building up, but hey I’m used to that, sort of.
The girl practically elopes, JJ has slipped into an awful depression, hasn’t worked or come out of his room for more than a few moments at a time for over a week. I’m dealing with that ok. Issues with GS and his health. I made appointments for him and will take him to our drs.

But I wasn’t thinking straight and had a houseful of visitors when I had to go to an appt at the vets with Max for a check up, and I went out in the car and left the chickens out, including all the young ones. I normally put them all back in their yard when I’m not home. Got back and a ‘keeper chick’, one I was definitely not going to part with, had drowned in the pond. It must have thought the surface pond weed was green grass.

That poor little bird just tipped me right over the edge.

Oh my dear. Wish I could be there to give you hugs. These will have to do.

((((((((((HUGS))))))))))

Happy Potter said:

That poor little bird just tipped me right over the edge.

There, there…we’ve all had that moment…

Have a good cry…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

That poor little bird just tipped me right over the edge.

There, there…we’ve all had that moment…

Have a good cry…

Thanks. Yeah I did.

All good, catching up on some shows I had lined up to watch ‘one day’.

Good morning Gardeners. Three degrees here. We’ve had over 50mm rain in the last few days. The veggies will start zooming along now.

Morning. I’m babysitting my granddaughter today. They have a large tricycle with a child trailer. Add in a 70 kilo golden retriever and there’s gunna be some hooning…

Then the man and I being taken out to tea tonight by the newlyweds to an Hungarian restaurant. Should be fun :)

Happy Potter said:

Morning. I’m babysitting my granddaughter today. They have a large tricycle with a child trailer. Add in a 70 kilo golden retriever and there’s gunna be some hooning…

Then the man and I being taken out to tea tonight by the newlyweds to an Hungarian restaurant. Should be fun :)

All looking up again…how is the broken limb coming along?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. I’m babysitting my granddaughter today. They have a large tricycle with a child trailer. Add in a 70 kilo golden retriever and there’s gunna be some hooning…

Then the man and I being taken out to tea tonight by the newlyweds to an Hungarian restaurant. Should be fun :)

All looking up again…how is the broken limb coming along?

We did have fun! I haven’t cycled that far for years. Now covered in mashed banana and vegemite toast, I have to go get cleaned up for tonight.

The broken legged one is doing ok. Working out his upper body with hand weights. He won’t be out for a while yet. he has an epidural in for pain relief. His op took 10 hours.

Happy Potter said:

We did have fun! I haven’t cycled that far for years. Now covered in mashed banana and vegemite toast, I have to go get cleaned up for tonight.

The broken legged one is doing ok. Working out his upper body with hand weights. He won’t be out for a while yet. he has an epidural in for pain relief. His op took 10 hours.

Obviously Grandmas have more fun than Mums…

Wowsers, that was quite an op, and obviously pain relief is streets ahead of what it used to be…

Spotted in the garden at work. I SOOOOOO love living in the country!

bluegreen said:

Spotted in the garden at work. I SOOOOOO love living in the country!

They did holes but yes, kind of thrilling to have your own backyard echidna…

:)

Hello Gardeners. Absolutely busy at work today. My receptionist had a day off to go to a Street Rod rally in Mildura for the weekend, so I had Mr buffy for a receptionist. He’ll have to do it more often so he has a better idea of our office practices. I was run off my feet, despite us keeping my bookings to only 2/3 of normal. It didn’t help that we had a lot of people picking up their glasses as well, which I had to attend to also. Still, today’s sales of spectacles has paid a good part of the cheque I sent to the tax office yesterday. We rarely sell a lot as my practice is largely consulting.

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. Absolutely busy at work today. My receptionist had a day off to go to a Street Rod rally in Mildura for the weekend, so I had Mr buffy for a receptionist. He’ll have to do it more often so he has a better idea of our office practices. I was run off my feet, despite us keeping my bookings to only 2/3 of normal. It didn’t help that we had a lot of people picking up their glasses as well, which I had to attend to also. Still, today’s sales of spectacles has paid a good part of the cheque I sent to the tax office yesterday. We rarely sell a lot as my practice is largely consulting.

Better to be busy, you enjoy your coffees more!

Good morning Gardeners. It is about 6 degrees and not raining, so off to Casterton we go to cut the grass. Due to rain again in the next few days, and the grass hasn’t been cut for a couple of weeks now. So it will have to be done. I might sort out some of the feral tomato plants while I’m over there too, they should be at more than two leaf by now.

Bought a new length of hose today, supposed to be sooper-dooper UV resistant…I needed an extra length to reach right down the back yard, the 50 metre doesn’t quite reach…this means I can get the green pick going in the little beds around the chooken pen…

Dinetta said:

Bought a new length of hose today, supposed to be sooper-dooper UV resistant…I needed an extra length to reach right down the back yard, the 50 metre doesn’t quite reach…this means I can get the green pick going in the little beds around the chooken pen…

15 metres, comes with brass fittings, one of which won’t accept the hose-to-hose connector.

Planarian worms, or flatworms. I have heaps here and they are interesting. A lady I know in the area posted about finding a dark blue coloured worm and wanted to know what it was.
I wanted to know too. They are predators of small insects and snails and drown their prey with slime.
The ones I’ve seen here are a pinky yellow, and I’ve seen orange ones too.

No wonder I don’t see many earwigs or slaters or snails in my backyard, like I used to.

Happy Potter said:

Planarian worms, or flatworms. I have heaps here and they are interesting. A lady I know in the area posted about finding a dark blue coloured worm and wanted to know what it was.
I wanted to know too. They are predators of small insects and snails and drown their prey with slime.
The ones I’ve seen here are a pinky yellow, and I’ve seen orange ones too.

No wonder I don’t see many earwigs or slaters or snails in my backyard, like I used to.

awesome!

Happy Potter said:

Planarian worms, or flatworms. I have heaps here and they are interesting. A lady I know in the area posted about finding a dark blue coloured worm and wanted to know what it was.
I wanted to know too. They are predators of small insects and snails and drown their prey with slime.
The ones I’ve seen here are a pinky yellow, and I’ve seen orange ones too.

No wonder I don’t see many earwigs or slaters or snails in my backyard, like I used to.

Wow!

compost turned. no snake this time.

Bet you were happy about that!

Back home. This weekend I’ve cleaned the rootstock shoots on 15,000 grafted young orange trees. hmm that’s like 150,000 shoots I’ve pulled off. Then I carried bundles of and installed a wire for each tree to tie the young tree to.

We have acquired more garden ornamentation. He is sitting under a venerable old redgum (E. camaldulensis), which seemed appropriate to me:

roughbarked said:

Back home. This weekend I’ve cleaned the rootstock shoots on 15,000 grafted young orange trees. hmm that’s like 150,000 shoots I’ve pulled off. Then I carried bundles of and installed a wire for each tree to tie the young tree to.

…bundles of???

buffy said:

We have acquired more garden ornamentation. He is sitting under a venerable old redgum (E. camaldulensis), which seemed appropriate to me:

It’s as if he belongs there…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Back home. This weekend I’ve cleaned the rootstock shoots on 15,000 grafted young orange trees. hmm that’s like 150,000 shoots I’ve pulled off. Then I carried bundles of and installed a wire for each tree to tie the young tree to.

…bundles of???

wire

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Back home. This weekend I’ve cleaned the rootstock shoots on 15,000 grafted young orange trees. hmm that’s like 150,000 shoots I’ve pulled off. Then I carried bundles of and installed a wire for each tree to tie the young tree to.

…bundles of???

steel wire

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

We have acquired more garden ornamentation. He is sitting under a venerable old redgum (E. camaldulensis), which seemed appropriate to me:

It’s as if he belongs there…

Yea verily.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Back home. This weekend I’ve cleaned the rootstock shoots on 15,000 grafted young orange trees. hmm that’s like 150,000 shoots I’ve pulled off. Then I carried bundles of and installed a wire for each tree to tie the young tree to.

…bundles of???

steel wire

Of course…thanks :)

Good morning. I am making sugarplum scone whirls and yo-yos. Some of the yo-yos seem to have burnt(ish) bottoms. Just as well I like them done that way. I’ll stick them together with chocolate icing and no-one will ever know.

:)

buffy said:

and no-one will ever know.

:)

That’s because you will eat them before we see them.

Marine park proposal for Antarctica

Morning all. I am catching up. I’ve a busy day, as usual. There’s a dozen silkies awaiting collection in a small pet pen on the patio. They are going to bendigo for on-selling. Mostly gold birchen’s, a couple splash and one white. All young. It looks quite bare in the silkies pen.

And I have some garden visitors arriving about lunchtime. Just as well it’s clean and tidy. There’s no chookies now in the rear mini orchard so I set about tidying it. The old raised chicken barley greens bed has been turned over and filled with compost and manures. Then I put a stake in each corner, then wire mesh fencing around it so I can throw bird netting over it. Then realized I didn’t leave a ‘door’ for me to get in. Lol, had to undo one part.
I planted out 5 banana yellow capsicums and two burnley beauty tomatoes in there.

Max’s ear probs still ongoing and weekly vet visits are needed. One ear is clear but the other not. I have also been documenting Max’s vestibular attack seizure’s, as they are completely random, duration too, and I noted with interest that while he is on cortisone therapy, the attacks stop altogether. The vet’s onto it and we’re going to do a sort of experiment with that and note attacks when he is off cortisone. He may need a continued low dose.

The broken legged son in law Critter is back home with his girls and feeling much better.

Here’s a pic of his leg and knee reconstruction. Reckons he will be able to kick arse with that, lol.

Happy Potter said:

The broken legged son in law Critter is back home with his girls and feeling much better.

Here’s a pic of his leg and knee reconstruction. Reckons he will be able to kick arse with that, lol.

Impressive collection of hardware there. I assume the rows of C shaped pieces are staples? Will the metal be permanent or will they be taking it out again? The staples obviously, the big bits I am talking about.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

The broken legged son in law Critter is back home with his girls and feeling much better.

Here’s a pic of his leg and knee reconstruction. Reckons he will be able to kick arse with that, lol.

Impressive collection of hardware there. I assume the rows of C shaped pieces are staples? Will the metal be permanent or will they be taking it out again? The staples obviously, the big bits I am talking about.

That it is!

Happy Potter said:

The broken legged son in law Critter is back home with his girls and feeling much better.

Here’s a pic of his leg and knee reconstruction. Reckons he will be able to kick arse with that, lol.

That’s quite a construction job. Will Critter need a licence to get through airport security now?

Here’s hoping for Max and his ear…

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

The broken legged son in law Critter is back home with his girls and feeling much better.

Here’s a pic of his leg and knee reconstruction. Reckons he will be able to kick arse with that, lol.

Impressive collection of hardware there. I assume the rows of C shaped pieces are staples? Will the metal be permanent or will they be taking it out again? The staples obviously, the big bits I am talking about.

It will stay in. Like my ‘scaffolding’ will continue to hold me up :)

Medical metal only beeps at airports if it’s weapon shaped. Hip replacements often beep.

Oh and yes the little circle bits on critters x-ray are staples.
We are off to visit him and the girls an have tea with them later.

I was wondering why I felt so bleerrrhh all day. I forgot to have breakfast.

Happy Potter said:

I was wondering why I felt so bleerrrhh all day. I forgot to have breakfast.

That would do it!

Happy Potter said:

Medical metal only beeps at airports if it’s weapon shaped. Hip replacements often beep.

Well there you go! I asked the question because a lass who had been hit by a car and had pelvic reconstruction (or whatever it is) now has a card so she can get through airport security. Quite a list on that card, too.

Happy Potter said:

I was wondering why I felt so bleerrrhh all day. I forgot to have breakfast.

I would not last the day without breakfast! Just saying…

I’m in the sick bay for a few days. Woke at 3 am with a sore face, couldn’t close my mouth , rolled over and went back to sleep. Then 8 am got up and I have bad pain and the rigors, uncontrollable shaking. I had to call hubby home from work and went to the drs. Only time I was glad for auto correct on the phone message as the message hubby got was goobldy gook so he rang me back. Blood poisoning from a wisdom tooth abscess. My skin is an awful gray colour. I didn’t even feel the horse sized jab the doc gave me.

I slept all day.

I was fine last night! Talk about quick onset. But why waste time eh lol, get it over and done with fast…next up seeing my favourite lovely no pain dentist, to fix that horrible tooth.

Happy Potter said:

Blood poisoning from a wisdom tooth abscess. My skin is an awful gray colour. I didn’t even feel the horse sized jab the doc gave me.

Lucky to be at home and not in l’hopital!

Yes these teeth jobbies can be quick, and have no respect for business hours…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Blood poisoning from a wisdom tooth abscess. My skin is an awful gray colour. I didn’t even feel the horse sized jab the doc gave me.

Lucky to be at home and not in l’hopital!

Yes these teeth jobbies can be quick, and have no respect for business hours…

I hate teeth! lol

Last time I had a tooth abscess I was six years old, face ballooned out and I was in hospital waiting to be seen. I was left there and sitting on my own and too scared to ask someone where the toilet was and didn’t want to wet myself, so I decided to walk home, in my pink butterfly pjs’. Only about 10 miles. And part of the way home was across the top of a newly built reservoir. I made it home and went to the loo. I started back..200 people were out looking for me.

Happy Potter said:

I’m in the sick bay for a few days. Woke at 3 am with a sore face, couldn’t close my mouth , rolled over and went back to sleep. Then 8 am got up and I have bad pain and the rigors, uncontrollable shaking. I had to call hubby home from work and went to the drs. Only time I was glad for auto correct on the phone message as the message hubby got was goobldy gook so he rang me back. Blood poisoning from a wisdom tooth abscess. My skin is an awful gray colour. I didn’t even feel the horse sized jab the doc gave me.

I slept all day.

I was fine last night! Talk about quick onset. But why waste time eh lol, get it over and done with fast…next up seeing my favourite lovely no pain dentist, to fix that horrible tooth.

you don’t go half measures, do you? Hope get fixed quickly and you feel better soon.

Happy Potter said:

I hate teeth! lol

Last time I had a tooth abscess I was six years old, face ballooned out and I was in hospital waiting to be seen. I was left there and sitting on my own and too scared to ask someone where the toilet was and didn’t want to wet myself, so I decided to walk home, in my pink butterfly pjs’. Only about 10 miles. And part of the way home was across the top of a newly built reservoir. I made it home and went to the loo. I started back..200 people were out looking for me.

I can relate to being left alone in hospital as a kid and needing to pee and too scared to talk to anyone. They didn’t really tell kids much about what was going on then.

Happy Potter said:

Last time I had a tooth abscess I was six years old, face ballooned out and I was in hospital waiting to be seen. I was left there and sitting on my own and too scared to ask someone where the toilet was and didn’t want to wet myself, so I decided to walk home, in my pink butterfly pjs’. Only about 10 miles. And part of the way home was across the top of a newly built reservoir. I made it home and went to the loo. I started back..200 people were out looking for me.

Those were the days…children were seen and not heard…I can fully relate…authority was scarey back then and they knew it, too!

Good morning Gardeners. Yet again we have 8 degrees and overcast. I could have done without the pager for Mr buffy at 11.00pm (just as I dropped off) and the fire radio blasting out of the kitchen just after 2.00am. The Royal Mail hotel in Dunkeld (very swanky) lost their convention building last night. I couldn’t quite pick up the radio traffic from the bedroom, in the end I came to the computer to see what was going on. It only gave a street, although I had picked “hotel” out of the radio noise. You really need to be in the same room and listening hard to understand the radio.

http://www.miettas.com.au/Australia/Victoria/Dunkeld/Royal_Mail_Hotel.html

buffy said:

http://www.miettas.com.au/Australia/Victoria/Dunkeld/Royal_Mail_Hotel.html

Always a shame when a business loses its’ premises…

Good morning Gardeners. We have 6 degrees but going for the twenties, I think. Very Spring, this Spring.

:)

Our local Aboriginal people have 6 seasons. This one, Spring, is described as “warmer days, weather still tempestuous” Good observers, those people.

:)