The last month of the year and we all know what this month, don’t we?
Yep, it gets hot! lol
Happy Potter said:
The last month of the year and we all know what this month, don’t we?Yep, it gets hot! lol
Brain drain.. ‘what happens’ this month, even. I’ll go back to my drink :)
Happy Potter said:
The last month of the year and we all know what this month, don’t we?Yep, it gets hot! lol
We’re “broken in” already, up here!
Transplanted a rose this afternoon, thinking “where is PainMaster and his 120 dug up, potted and replanted roses?” … the position was too shady in summer, so it’s better now…not much of a root system but I had to break a couple of what amounted to “tap roots” because they went into the naturally occurring aggregate, which is hard to dig up without a crowbar…
Did anybody else have trouble getting on here earlier today?
Dinetta said:
Did anybody else have trouble getting on here earlier today?
Yes for most of the day. I was up early and it wouldn’t open, said page unavailable.
Happy Potter said:
Dinetta said:
Did anybody else have trouble getting on here earlier today?
Yes for most of the day. I was up early and it wouldn’t open, said page unavailable.
Thank goodness it wasn’t just me…altho’ I did get the jitters after a while…
I have the sprinkler on out the front and went to move it by torchlight.. this froggy decided to leap right into my face. I nearly sheeeeet I can tell you!
Both Holiday and Gardening forums seem to have been down from very early Sunday morning until around 5.00pm. I haven’t seen an explanation over there. Must have been maintenance or something.
And good morning. It is not cold here. It didn’t rain last night, so I’ve been watering, and I’ve harvested rhubarb, broad beans and carrot thinnings.
I have a day of pottering and sewing planned.
Happy Potter said:
I have the sprinkler on out the front and went to move it by torchlight.. this froggy decided to leap right into my face. I nearly sheeeeet I can tell you!
They used to do that to me when I was asleep at the old house…I really had no trouble persuading P to install / repair the house screens after one jumped on him…and I used to wake up and think to the frog: “Don’t pee on me! Don’t pee on me!”…
You’re lucky you’ve got frogs: we’ve gone from dozens here to none at all
:(
Yes. There has been a sad dearth of frogs in my area as well. Blame it on farmers being more efficient with water, Shires overcharging for water, mosquito reduction programs and etc.
I was going to snail bait the front, but now I’ve seen a frog I won’t be doing that. Do they eat snails? I will gently continue to pull weeds for chooks.
Happy Potter said:
I was going to snail bait the front, but now I’ve seen a frog I won’t be doing that. Do they eat snails? I will gently continue to pull weeds for chooks.
They’d have to be small snails. Ye olde blue tongue or striped skink is one of the better snail munchers.
Happy Potter said:
I was going to snail bait the front, but now I’ve seen a frog I won’t be doing that. Do they eat snails? I will gently continue to pull weeds for chooks.
No, I’m pretty sure they only eat what’s moving, e.g. scuttling or flying…
Your chooks would be happy with the extra protein!
And that’s something else we don’t have here that was in the old place: snails
:(
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
I was going to snail bait the front, but now I’ve seen a frog I won’t be doing that. Do they eat snails? I will gently continue to pull weeds for chooks.
They’d have to be small snails. Ye olde blue tongue or striped skink is one of the better snail munchers.
Stack up on rocks, lol! (so the skinks can hide from the chooks)…
Morning all. By the sounds of things it was just as well that I didn’t try to get on the forum yesterday.
I had some successes on the weekend. :) Harvested my onions, did some spud bandicooting and planted out rockmelons.
Found a few bunches of tomatoes already. Normally at this time of year my tomatoes are barely in the ground, let alone fruiting. The only trouble is I will probably end up with more fruit fly. Seems the earlier I put the tomatoes in the more fly I get.
I set up one homemade fruit fly trap, but I am going to have to make up some more I think.
I pulled my first couple of purple carrots today. They grew remarkably quickly, actually, although I picked small ones as thinnings. They sort of look like ordinary carrots with a bit of purple paint on the outside. It will be interesting to cut them and see the insides.
AnneS said:
Morning all. By the sounds of things it was just as well that I didn’t try to get on the forum yesterday.I had some successes on the weekend. :) Harvested my onions, did some spud bandicooting and planted out rockmelons.
Found a few bunches of tomatoes already. Normally at this time of year my tomatoes are barely in the ground, let alone fruiting. The only trouble is I will probably end up with more fruit fly. Seems the earlier I put the tomatoes in the more fly I get.
I set up one homemade fruit fly trap, but I am going to have to make up some more I think.
I’ve been getting the grape type tomatoes for a while now. I’ve removed all my fruit apart from the almonds and walnuts because I think the fruit fly would be wasting their time there.
Water is the real issue. My soil is extremely hydrophobic as it hasn’t had a decent mulch upgrade since the early 80’s.
I should go and see what it will cost to get some grape marc.
buffy said:
I pulled my first couple of purple carrots today. They grew remarkably quickly, actually, although I picked small ones as thinnings. They sort of look like ordinary carrots with a bit of purple paint on the outside. It will be interesting to cut them and see the insides.
Mine are purple on the outside and orange within.. THey are setting seed now.
AnneS said:
The only trouble is I will probably end up with more fruit fly. Seems the earlier I put the tomatoes in the more fly I get.I set up one homemade fruit fly trap, but I am going to have to make up some more I think.
Try the local Vinnies…in fact any Vinnies…they often have mosquito nets for gardeners…
roughbarked said:
I should go and see what it will cost to get some grape marc.
Shame you have to pay for it now…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
I should go and see what it will cost to get some grape marc.Shame you have to pay for it now…
roughbarked said:
Mainly transport costs.
Oh well that’s not too bad, still $$$ but at least you should have plenty to choose from? Competition still limited?
gossip
J2 has trimmed the brachychiton in their yard…I get a spiffing view of their back deck now…haven’t spoken for a week but last Wed was their day in the Magistrate’s Court…the lady copper came and interviewed me with particular interest in the sighting of any slapping / punching…I had to say no…but I did watch a mind-blowing tanty by a 32 year old feller attempting to destroy stuff…which I described to Lady Copper…
Curious as all-get-out here…I reckon it is my business if I see others hitting the neighbours or trashing their stuff…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Mainly transport costs.Oh well that’s not too bad, still $$$ but at least you should have plenty to choose from? Competition still limited?
They have been coming from Queensland to buy it for stockfeed.. droughts.
And here is what I finished making today…..
buffy said:
And here is what I finished making today…..
Noice! Love the colours.
I’ve been making pinnys with this pattern, but with a closed back.
http://www.indygojunction.com/patterns/adult_clothing/all_adult_clothing/easy-on-apron/
Rather.. https://www.indygojunction.com/patterns/aprons/easy-on-apron/
buffy said:
And here is what I finished making today…..
very nice :)
roughbarked said:
They have been coming from Queensland to buy it for stockfeed.. droughts.
That’s incredible…
buffy said:
And here is what I finished making today…..
A dress for dancing in…waltzes and such, I mean…
RoughBarked, somebody put up a photo of some boulder opal, on facebook…do you find much of it where you mine?
It looks like fossilised wood with flames inside…
Dinetta said:
RoughBarked, somebody put up a photo of some boulder opal, on facebook…do you find much of it where you mine?It looks like fossilised wood with flames inside…
If you could link the photo, I could see it. No. Boulder opal is more specific to Queensland, generally Winton. Nobbies of black opal come from Ligthning Ridge. Seam opal and shells comes from White Cliffs and South Australian fields. Most fields have opalised wood. The wood at White Cliffs is actually Antarctic Beech. Opalised gypsum pseudomorphs are known as pineapples and are only found at White Cliffs.
Boulder opal can usually be classed as dark based or black opal since it comes stuck onto hard stone.
To a lesser degree, a painted lady is a stone usually grey billy that has been broken by the forces of the earth and infilled with opal. Stones of this nature could be the closest that other areas get to simulating boulder opal. Painted ladies may be found on most opal fields, Andamooka more commonly.
It’s on this facebook page
Milky Way Scientists…
When you get there, go to Edit > Find on this page
and then type in “boulder”
Dinetta said:
It’s on this facebook pageMilky Way Scientists…
When you get there, go to Edit > Find on this page
and then type in “boulder”
I don ‘t have a facebook account. You’d have to link the actual image link here.
roughbarked said:
I don ‘t have a facebook account. You’d have to link the actual image link here.
me neither :)
no face book, twitter, identica, google+ or any of the myriad of these types of things, i just don’t have that much time.
i do have a home phone, if it rings i might pick it up :)
no smart phone, no tablet, no laptop, i just refuse to be chained to electronica like a lot of the zombies i see walking around.
i do have a simple mobile phone which i take with me in the tool box, for emergency only, and it is switched off 99% of the time, but kept charged.
Obviously I have a different mindset. I am a people person. I see all that electronica as things that set me free. And keep me safe; I’m not alone when I don’t want to be.
It lets me find information that helps me and do what I want to do, instantly if and when I need to. I can drive where I want not fearing I might get lost, have maps and directions at my fingertips. That used to be a big stress for me, but now I can go straight there saving time and mileage. And no giant paper map to try and re fold, lol. And if I still get lost, I can look up the person or business and ring them on the spot.
And facebook, joined to find out what’s local, connecting people, joined groups that enable me to do lots of things, people helping and communicating with others they want to connect with, seeking advice, services, give away things to those who do need it, gain things I want/need, less waste! Review things I’m looking at buying, reading others experiences of it, if it’s worth it or not, etc.
Keep up with what my kids post, who they are friends with and photos they share, who they work with/for, events they attend, etc. My youngins, being gadget masters, often show me how to get the most out of them. They sometimes post about stuff that they wouldn’t have bothered to mention otherwise. It’s not prying or they wouldn’t have added me to their contacts, but easier for me to see if they’re happy, or not. And friends. Easy to filter out fair weather friends.
When I want to be alone, as I sometimes do, it’s easy to switch it off.
trichome said:
no face book, twitter, identica, google+ or any of the myriad of these types of things, i just don’t have that much time.i do have a home phone, if it rings i might pick it up :)
sounds a bit like me.
trichome said:
no smart phone, no tablet, no laptop, i just refuse to be chained to electronica like a lot of the zombies i see walking around.i do have a simple mobile phone which i take with me in the tool box, for emergency only, and it is switched off 99% of the time, but kept charged.
no mobile here.
Happy Potter said:
Obviously I have a different mindset. I am a people person. I see all that electronica as things that set me free. And keep me safe; I’m not alone when I don’t want to be.It lets me find information that helps me and do what I want to do, instantly if and when I need to. I can drive where I want not fearing I might get lost, have maps and directions at my fingertips. That used to be a big stress for me, but now I can go straight there saving time and mileage. And no giant paper map to try and re fold, lol. And if I still get lost, I can look up the person or business and ring them on the spot.
And facebook, joined to find out what’s local, connecting people, joined groups that enable me to do lots of things, people helping and communicating with others they want to connect with, seeking advice, services, give away things to those who do need it, gain things I want/need, less waste! Review things I’m looking at buying, reading others experiences of it, if it’s worth it or not, etc.
Keep up with what my kids post, who they are friends with and photos they share, who they work with/for, events they attend, etc. My youngins, being gadget masters, often show me how to get the most out of them. They sometimes post about stuff that they wouldn’t have bothered to mention otherwise. It’s not prying or they wouldn’t have added me to their contacts, but easier for me to see if they’re happy, or not. And friends. Easy to filter out fair weather friends.
When I want to be alone, as I sometimes do, it’s easy to switch it off.
I find that nobody cares anyway. The all live their own lives, I don’t live in their pockets.
it is possible that in years to come, especially with the growing markets for cordless phones, smart phones, tablets and various other emr emitting devices (hair driers etc.), wireless access points in schools and introduction of smart meters in Vic. that electro-magnetic radiation will become the new asbestos.
most shrug it off for now, it is invisible so it doesn’t effect them :)
but there is growing evidence that there are real health risks associated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLWRdkxKXiw
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
It’s on this facebook pageMilky Way Scientists…
When you get there, go to Edit > Find on this page
and then type in “boulder”
I don ‘t have a facebook account. You’d have to link the actual image link here.
You can go there without a facebook account, pretty sure this is an open page that anyone can look at…try it…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
It’s on this facebook pageMilky Way Scientists…
When you get there, go to Edit > Find on this page
and then type in “boulder”
I don ‘t have a facebook account. You’d have to link the actual image link here.
You can go there without a facebook account, pretty sure this is an open page that anyone can look at…try it…
I can go there but.. Milky way scientists
is on Facebook.
To connect with Milky way scientists, sign up for Facebook today.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:I don ‘t have a facebook account. You’d have to link the actual image link here.
You can go there without a facebook account, pretty sure this is an open page that anyone can look at…try it…
I can go there but.. Milky way scientists
is on Facebook.
To connect with Milky way scientists, sign up for Facebook today.
the bottom of that page takes a bit of time to load, if on dial up it may not load as fast
trichome said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:You can go there without a facebook account, pretty sure this is an open page that anyone can look at…try it…
I can go there but.. Milky way scientists
is on Facebook.
To connect with Milky way scientists, sign up for Facebook today.
the bottom of that page takes a bit of time to load, if on dial up it may not load as fast
I waited but the page showed no assistance.
the Internet unfortunately really is dial up unfriendly these days, the web developers forget about some of the population.
we were going to get the nbn fibre to our homes, but the recently elected Gov. will stuff that up :(
trichome said:
the Internet unfortunately really is dial up unfriendly these days, the web developers forget about some of the population.
That’s two of us..
trichome said:
we were going to get the nbn fibre to our homes, but the recently elected Gov. will stuff that up :(
another fifty years..
RoughBarked, it takes time to load even on ADSL (45 seconds), so give it some time to load as it has a lot of pictures on it…you do NOT have to sign up for fb. If you do, give a fake name birthday etc and create a new hotmail account just for your log-in…
Once the whole thing loads, you can Page Down or arrow down or scroll down or whatever, and it should appear on the LHS of the fb page…
Please give it another try…
bluegreen said:
Clever! Good on you BlueGreen!
bluegreen said:
Ah. This was shown to me on the holiday forum. I asked if it was a Yowah nut but got no answer.
This looks like it could be a Yowah nut. Though it could easily be any boulder opal it could also be a piece of wood that was opalised. Many opal specimens are something that rolled on the floor of a shallow body of water before becoming fossilised. A lot would depend upon the scientists opinion that came with the image. If there was one.
roughbarked said:
Ah. This was shown to me on the holiday forum. I asked if it was a Yowah nut but got no answer.
This looks like it could be a Yowah nut. Though it could easily be any boulder opal it could also be a piece of wood that was opalised. Many opal specimens are something that rolled on the floor of a shallow body of water before becoming fossilised. A lot would depend upon the scientists opinion that came with the image. If there was one.
There wasn’t any text with the photo, except the “comments” of course, and some of those thought it was fossilized wood…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Ah. This was shown to me on the holiday forum. I asked if it was a Yowah nut but got no answer.
This looks like it could be a Yowah nut. Though it could easily be any boulder opal it could also be a piece of wood that was opalised. Many opal specimens are something that rolled on the floor of a shallow body of water before becoming fossilised. A lot would depend upon the scientists opinion that came with the image. If there was one.
There wasn’t any text with the photo, except the “comments” of course, and some of those thought it was fossilized wood…
In many cases what may appear to be wood is actually mud rolled into a ball in layers where the opal later infilled the cracks between the layers as they dried and compressed, creating bigger gaps.
roughbarked said:
In many cases what may appear to be wood is actually mud rolled into a ball in layers where the opal later infilled the cracks between the layers as they dried and compressed, creating bigger gaps.
More fascinating than diamonds, that’s for sure…
Been out shopping. Went into Mansfield to a shop where I had seen a particular baby suit I wanted to get for the new baby. They only had one left and it was the size I was instructed to get, and then the lady took $5 off because it was the last one. How good is that?
While I was there saw some fellows getting ready to bicycle up Mt Buller. Now it is cold today, with intermittent showers and downpours, and I was told by the lady in the shop that it was snowing up on Mt Buller. I’m thinking better them than me! You would have to be keen I reckon.
bluegreen said:
While I was there saw some fellows getting ready to bicycle up Mt Buller. Now it is cold today, with intermittent showers and downpours, and I was told by the lady in the shop that it was snowing up on Mt Buller. I’m thinking better them than me! You would have to be keen I reckon.
Might be OK cycling up, but it’s the way back down that’s the problem. Maybe they had a Plan B eg. ride around the back of this building here and go to the pub.
Speedy said:
bluegreen said:While I was there saw some fellows getting ready to bicycle up Mt Buller. Now it is cold today, with intermittent showers and downpours, and I was told by the lady in the shop that it was snowing up on Mt Buller. I’m thinking better them than me! You would have to be keen I reckon.
Might be OK cycling up, but it’s the way back down that’s the problem. Maybe they had a Plan B eg. ride around the back of this building here and go to the pub.
I asked them are you going up the mountain, and they said yes. I said, it is snowing up there, and they said, so we have been told.
bluegreen said:
Speedy said:
bluegreen said:While I was there saw some fellows getting ready to bicycle up Mt Buller. Now it is cold today, with intermittent showers and downpours, and I was told by the lady in the shop that it was snowing up on Mt Buller. I’m thinking better them than me! You would have to be keen I reckon.
Might be OK cycling up, but it’s the way back down that’s the problem. Maybe they had a Plan B eg. ride around the back of this building here and go to the pub.
I asked them are you going up the mountain, and they said yes. I said, it is snowing up there, and they said, so we have been told.
A group of men will often persevere with a plan which is no longer fun, appropriate or safe. Most of the time it just makes a good story for retelling. Hopefully they get this and no more today.
Speedy said:
bluegreen said:
Speedy said:Might be OK cycling up, but it’s the way back down that’s the problem. Maybe they had a Plan B eg. ride around the back of this building here and go to the pub.
I asked them are you going up the mountain, and they said yes. I said, it is snowing up there, and they said, so we have been told.
A group of men will often persevere with a plan which is no longer fun, appropriate or safe. Most of the time it just makes a good story for retelling. Hopefully they get this and no more today.
My parents were keen bushwalkers and once they decided they were going to do a trip they did it, no matter the weather. And dragged us kids along too. Overnight bushwalks in constant pouring rain with the threat of flash flooding were not fun in my books.
RIP Nelson Mandela
Happy Potter said:
RIP Nelson Mandela
an amazing man.
Happy Potter said:
RIP Nelson Mandela
:( We all have to go sometime and he used his life well.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
RIP Nelson Mandela
:( We all have to go sometime and he used his life well.
He did, indeed…a man of stature and I’m not talking about his height…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
RIP Nelson Mandela
:( We all have to go sometime and he used his life well.
He did, indeed…a man of stature and I’m not talking about his height…
Bowled on 95.. it was bodyline thta got him in the end.
Visiting him in Robben Island prison, where Fraser recalled Mandela endured the bitter winters with a blanket that was almost transparent.
“I can remember on one occasion he held up a blanket, and you could see through the blanket.”
Even under those conditions, Mr Fraser said Mr Mandela was clearly well informed – “but not as well informed about cricket as he wanted to be”.
“And before any business, he looked at me – he was a formal man – and he said, ‘Mr Fraser, can you tell me is Donald Bradman still alive?’
anyway, back to work..
What’s that stuff that looks like a weed?
Dinetta said:
What’s that stuff that looks like a weed?
rows of peach seedlings.. which weeds? I pull lots of those as I go along. The taller darker ones in the row one can see I haven’t worked on, is fat hen.
Back in the day of Don Mackay, police helicopters would land in peach stock nurseries and get out, sniff the leaves.
roughbarked said:
Back in the day of Don Mackay, police helicopters would land in peach stock nurseries and get out, sniff the leaves.
Lol..
It’s a housework day for me today, laundry to do, vacuuming, showers and loos.
But it’s sunny!
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:
Back in the day of Don Mackay, police helicopters would land in peach stock nurseries and get out, sniff the leaves.
Lol..
It is true. I was there. Still funny though. ;)
Happy Potter said:
It’s a housework day for me today, laundry to do, vacuuming, showers and loos.
But it’s sunny!
I had no less than four hailstorms from Wed eve to yesterday.. totalling 16 mm in all.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
It’s a housework day for me today, laundry to do, vacuuming, showers and loos.
But it’s sunny!
I had no less than four hailstorms from Wed eve to yesterday.. totalling 16 mm in all.
All that hard work by the weather, to not much avail…
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
What’s that stuff that looks like a weed?
rows of peach seedlings.. which weeds? I pull lots of those as I go along. The taller darker ones in the row one can see I haven’t worked on, is fat hen.
Well they all look like weeds…
roughbarked said:
Back in the day of Don Mackay, police helicopters would land in peach stock nurseries and get out, sniff the leaves.
Heh heh!
Hello Gardeners. I have been harvesting. I probably need more practice at my plaiting, but it doesn’t matter really.
And I just shifted one of the Gedye bins. I use them to put the dog poo, miscellaneous kitchen carbon stuff, dust, dog hair, grass clippings. They go on a garden bed and then get knocked down in situ. The worms!! I can’t believe the worms! Especially as it’s mostly dog poo. The chooks got a handful because there were so many to spare.
I took a spadeful to put into the bin in it’s new position. I feel like I am seeding it when I do that. I may be just massacring worms.
Oh my….I’ve never had much of an inclination to eat blueberries, but I put in a couple of bushes for mr buffy’s sake. I just picked the first 4 berries from the Reveille. I intended to sample 2 and keep 2 for Mr buffy. There are none left…
I also planted a Chinese blueberry, but it has failed to produce anything yet. Perhaps next year.
buffy said:
Hello Gardeners. I have been harvesting. I probably need more practice at my plaiting, but it doesn’t matter really.
mmmmmm!
buffy said:
And I just shifted one of the Gedye bins. I use them to put the dog poo, miscellaneous kitchen carbon stuff, dust, dog hair, grass clippings. They go on a garden bed and then get knocked down in situ. The worms!! I can’t believe the worms! Especially as it’s mostly dog poo. The chooks got a handful because there were so many to spare.
I took a spadeful to put into the bin in it’s new position. I feel like I am seeding it when I do that. I may be just massacring worms.
Must be getting something right there…wasn’t it Bon008 who had a worm farm just for the dog poos? Because supposedly the worms won’t eat that if they’ve got a choice?
buffy said:
Oh my….I’ve never had much of an inclination to eat blueberries, but I put in a couple of bushes for mr buffy’s sake. I just picked the first 4 berries from the Reveille. I intended to sample 2 and keep 2 for Mr buffy. There are none left…
I also planted a Chinese blueberry, but it has failed to produce anything yet. Perhaps next year.
Getting to like blueberries here, especially nice fresh ones…but it’s taken a couple of years for me to acquire the taste…
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Hello Gardeners. This morning I have planted out a little herb garden (garlic, chives, lemon thyme, thyme and oregano), weeded, dug, weeded, planted a lemon verbena, mowed with catcher and mulched a fairly large garden bed with the clippings and then spent an hour or so on the chipper tidying stuff up. Now I’m overheated and sitting down for a while before I wash up my mess in the kitchen, plant out a couple more plants and then head home. I’m thinking a nannanap this afternoon is definitely on the cards.
buffy said:
Hello Gardeners. This morning I have planted out a little herb garden (garlic, chives, lemon thyme, thyme and oregano), weeded, dug, weeded, planted a lemon verbena, mowed with catcher and mulched a fairly large garden bed with the clippings and then spent an hour or so on the chipper tidying stuff up. Now I’m overheated and sitting down for a while before I wash up my mess in the kitchen, plant out a couple more plants and then head home. I’m thinking a nannanap this afternoon is definitely on the cards.
Well done!
Dinetta said:
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Dead PC..needs a new hard drive..taking the time to do something about my internet addiction ;)
I’m on a little laptop and it’s a pain in the bum to use. I kept the link for the forums in my hotmail drafts and managed to find it..
Happy Potter said:
Dinetta said:
drops pinker-thunk-boing-boing-boing-boing-boing-
Dead PC..needs a new hard drive..taking the time to do something about my internet addiction ;)
I’m on a little laptop and it’s a pain in the bum to use. I kept the link for the forums in my hotmail drafts and managed to find it..
That’s alright then, when you’re gone that long I worry about family upheavals down your way…
I just cleared my cache, hoping that would work (but it didn’t) for the CC on iView, and lost all my “normal” URL’s, but for this one I just google “cb88’s gardening forum” and I know it’s tokyo3 in there somewhere…
Been MIA but am back again.
Yesterday drove down to Werribee and picked up three little chickens HP had for me, after spending some time there drove to Glen Waverley to help a friend celebrate her 60th. Popped the chikies down the back of the garden in a shady spot where they happily settled down and partied and caught up with friends until the wee hours then crashed on her spare bed. Left there about 10.30am and got home about 1.30pm, let out the chooks and ducks that had been locked up while I was away, checked up on the cockateils, who now have 3 babies! then had a lie down before heading down to the church for our 3rd annual Carols in Swanpool. Only just back again. I’m pooped!
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
Dinetta said:
drops pinker-thunk-boing-boing-boing-boing-boing-
Dead PC..needs a new hard drive..taking the time to do something about my internet addiction ;)
I’m on a little laptop and it’s a pain in the bum to use. I kept the link for the forums in my hotmail drafts and managed to find it..
That’s alright then, when you’re gone that long I worry about family upheavals down your way…
I just cleared my cache, hoping that would work (but it didn’t) for the CC on iView, and lost all my “normal” URL’s, but for this one I just google “cb88’s gardening forum” and I know it’s tokyo3 in there somewhere…
We did have an upheaval in fact. GS was here for the day to visit a game store to buy a remote controlled model car. We knew it was not going to end well, this expensive piece of machinery (over $300) was way over his abilities. He broke it, he cracked it and stormed out. At least he did that, but not without smashing stuff in the vicinety, being the patio, and on his way out, the carport and front garden. The ripped out daphne doesn’t matter but we will have to put back a section of the rock wall. I lost the 44 litre demijohn bottle though. I was so upset at this outburst. It hasn’t happened for a logn while. New rule, no visiting for 6 months, and def’ not when he just happens to be in town to buy something anway. We will visit him. Got to make a drs appt for a meds review too.
JJ and hubby took him home and JJ fixed the car and showed him how to use it. All quiet again.
Right now I’m out the door to pick up the returning home newlywed daughter at tulla’ airport.
bluegreen said:
Been MIA but am back again.Yesterday drove down to Werribee and picked up three little chickens HP had for me, after spending some time there drove to Glen Waverley to help a friend celebrate her 60th. Popped the chikies down the back of the garden in a shady spot where they happily settled down and partied and caught up with friends until the wee hours then crashed on her spare bed. Left there about 10.30am and got home about 1.30pm, let out the chooks and ducks that had been locked up while I was away, checked up on the cockateils, who now have 3 babies! then had a lie down before heading down to the church for our 3rd annual Carols in Swanpool. Only just back again. I’m pooped!
I bet you are! Glad the chickies settled down. Their nest mates were looking for them today. Last two girls will be picked up xmas week.
Morning. It was a late start for me after finally getting to bed in the wee hours. I won’t be going to tullamarine airport again, ever. All available free parking spots have been either fenced off or have no standing signs, forcing those who only need to drop by to do a 2 minute pick up to pay a hefty fee. Even on the side of a non busy road. They can go jump. Kiddlywinks will have to get the skybus. Or walk.
The adapter for the charger for the little laptop I’m on kept overheating, so I have it wrapped between 2 ice bricks which I wrapped with tea towels. All good and it’s staying on. The Heavens will have to try a bit harder to keep me from my internet addiction :D
Gardening stuff: Planted out dome more scarlet runner beans along the silkies run fence. It’ll hide their coop and provide food for them and us. And they keep coming back year after year and the pretty red flowers are a show on their own.
And planted out a heap more silverbeet and colourful chard.
Oh and thankyou Bluegreen for the beautiful cherries, they are so sweet!
Happy Potter said:
Oh and thankyou Bluegreen for the beautiful cherries, they are so sweet!
You’re welcome :D
Hello Gardeners. I have been outside since quite early as it is overcast and cool and has gently rained overnight. I am setting up a small veggie bed for Auntie Annie next door. I seem to have extended my purvue. It’s along the wire fence between our gardens, so she will get climbing beans, snow and snap peas, some tomatoes, a two bush rosemary hedge (I’ll take cuttings from her old one that is getting leggy), some looseleaf lettuces and some companion planting for the tomatoes – carrot, basil and marigold.
And I just planted out my tomato seedlings and forgot to keep a couple for her. I’ll just whack some seed in – it will germinate and catch up pretty quickly. My original plan for 14 varieties of tomatoes this year has been thinned somewhat by patchy germination. So I haven’t counted exactly but I think I have slightly more than twenty tiny baby plants in: Brandy Wine, Brown Berry, Grosse Lisse, Tommy Toe, Sweetie, Ananas Noir, Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, Rouge de Marmande and Periforme. Maybe Amish Paste too. Oh, so not that many failed completely. I know the Tigerella and Principe Borghese failed. And the Black Cherry. I’ve been planting them in pairs of a colour and a red, or a red and a cherry, something that I will be able to tell them apart when they grow. Quite a few have lost one of the pair though, so now I get to see what has actually survived when they fruit.
I am just going to make some scones to use up the buttermilk I bought last week, cook a couple of salmon cakes (supermarket freezer ones) and then get back out and actually plant up Auntie Annie’s while she is out. I snuck into her garden very early this morning to weed and prepare. I got permission from her a couple of weeks ago to plant on her side of the fence. She’s lost a lot of her get up and go lately, so perhaps if I get things sorted she’ll get her vibe back.
buffy said:
… then get back out and actually plant up Auntie Annie’s while she is out. I snuck into her garden very early this morning to weed and prepare. I got permission from her a couple of weeks ago to plant on her side of the fence. She’s lost a lot of her get up and go lately, so perhaps if I get things sorted she’ll get her vibe back.
how lovely!
The trouble about always being out grafting someone else’s trees or weeding them., means that my garden suffers.
This morning at 6:30 AM was infecting citrus orchard with dwarfing virus. That finished the last few days of that. Then to a nursery to bud weeping mulberries, this afternoon I’m re-planting an aboriginal bone in my garden..
That’s quite a day RB!
Yesterday I saw a beautiful weeping mulberry hanging over a fence that was trimmed to the fenceline :(
Vandalism!
podzol said:
That’s quite a day RB!Yesterday I saw a beautiful weeping mulberry hanging over a fence that was trimmed to the fenceline :(
Vandalism!
Most people prune their weeping mulberries like secateural abuse victims. ;)
Now I’ve got to get in the car and go looking for some redgum leaves for smoking ceremony.
Good luck with the smoking ceremony :)
podzol said:
Good luck with the smoking ceremony :)
Well, I’ve dug the hole and got the redgum..
bluegreen said:
Popped the chikies down the back of the garden in a shady spot where they happily settled down and partied and caught up with friends until the wee hours …
What lucky chickies…life with BlueGreen could be strenuous by the sound of it!
Happy Potter said:
I lost the 44 litre demijohn bottle
Bugga!! is that the one you had the fairy-light plans for?
Happy Potter said:
Kiddlywinks will have to get the skybus.
When I tried the SkyBus about…ooohhh…say is it 4 years ago now? the system was fan-freaking-tastic…but then there was a wait for a train to Werribee, I think (Sunday afternoon)…
roughbarked said:
This morning at 6:30 AM was infecting citrus orchard with dwarfing virus. That finished the last few days of that. Then to a nursery to bud weeping mulberries, this afternoon I’m re-planting an aboriginal bone in my garden..
Fascinating read there…dwarfing…infecting…replanting bones…
podzol said:
Yesterday I saw a beautiful weeping mulberry hanging over a fence that was trimmed to the fenceline :(
Ignorants!
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
This morning at 6:30 AM was infecting citrus orchard with dwarfing virus. That finished the last few days of that. Then to a nursery to bud weeping mulberries, this afternoon I’m re-planting an aboriginal bone in my garden..
Fascinating read there…dwarfing…infecting…replanting bones…
contrary to popular belief, a scientist lurks within me.
Anyway, the bone is now returned to the resting place where I uncovered it. It isn’t with the rest of the skeleton. The whereabouts of the remainder of bones is still a mystery.
It has been located by GPS and recorded on the list of aboriginal burials and all that stuff. We had a small and respectful ceremony of Aboriginal representatives and officials of the lands council.
Humble photographs will appear forthwith.
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:Popped the chikies down the back of the garden in a shady spot where they happily settled down and partied and caught up with friends until the wee hours …What lucky chickies…life with BlueGreen could be strenuous by the sound of it!
That sentence is a bit ambiguous. The chicks settled down, I partied and caught up with friends.
roughbarked said:
Anyway, the bone is now returned to the resting place where I uncovered it. It isn’t with the rest of the skeleton. The whereabouts of the remainder of bones is still a mystery.
It has been located by GPS and recorded on the list of aboriginal burials and all that stuff. We had a small and respectful ceremony of Aboriginal representatives and officials of the lands council.Humble photographs will appear forthwith.
awesome!
roughbarked said:
Anyway, the bone is now returned to the resting place where I uncovered it. It isn’t with the rest of the skeleton. The whereabouts of the remainder of bones is still a mystery.
It has been located by GPS and recorded on the list of aboriginal burials and all that stuff. We had a small and respectful ceremony of Aboriginal representatives and officials of the lands council.Humble photographs will appear forthwith.
Looking forward to them…what a tale for your Grandies when they’re old enough…
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:Popped the chikies down the back of the garden in a shady spot where they happily settled down and partied and caught up with friends until the wee hours …What lucky chickies…life with BlueGreen could be strenuous by the sound of it!
That sentence is a bit ambiguous. The chicks settled down, I partied and caught up with friends.
Ahahaha I thought somebody else may have picked it up before I did…as I read it I had this vision of chickens in party hats with those blow-out curly paper whistles and leaning coolly on the water dishes cheeping Whoopee!! in chicken-speak…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:What lucky chickies…life with BlueGreen could be strenuous by the sound of it!
That sentence is a bit ambiguous. The chicks settled down, I partied and caught up with friends.
Ahahaha I thought somebody else may have picked it up before I did…as I read it I had this vision of chickens in party hats with those blow-out curly paper whistles and leaning coolly on the water dishes cheeping Whoopee!! in chicken-speak…
lol!
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:I lost the 44 litre demijohn bottleBugga!! is that the one you had the fairy-light plans for?
Yes, it was. They aren’t cheap to buy either. Never mind.
I’m back on my pc, yay, but reloading it will take a coupla days. I did back up everything.
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:What lucky chickies…life with BlueGreen could be strenuous by the sound of it!
That sentence is a bit ambiguous. The chicks settled down, I partied and caught up with friends.
Ahahaha I thought somebody else may have picked it up before I did…as I read it I had this vision of chickens in party hats with those blow-out curly paper whistles and leaning coolly on the water dishes cheeping Whoopee!! in chicken-speak…
Hahaha!
Happy Potter said:
I’m back on my pc, yay, but reloading it will take a coupla days. I did back up everything.
I was a fanatic backer-upper and would you believe the graphics card died after I hadn’t backed up for a while…what’s worse is our “computer tech” backed up the terminal server TO ITSELF and of course it died in that state…I was unaware or I would have organised backups to an external HDD, they are not so expensive any more…
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:I’m back on my pc, yay, but reloading it will take a coupla days. I did back up everything.
I was a fanatic backer-upper and would you believe the graphics card died after I hadn’t backed up for a while…what’s worse is our “computer tech” backed up the terminal server TO ITSELF and of course it died in that state…I was unaware or I would have organised backups to an external HDD, they are not so expensive any more…
Arghh.
Well when I say I backed up ‘everything’, there was something I forgot to do.. export calendar dates. Lost all birthdays and other important event dates. And dates I am expecting chicks to hatch. There will be a few little surprises happening! lol. Good thing I can pretty much tell when the egg is due by candling it. When I can see the beak near the air sack, it’s usually the next day.
And also, the man had big probs getting the PC to recognize D drive. had the pc in bits but nup, the pc couldn’t detect it. So he re did everything, wiped it again! found ‘D’, re named it ‘E’ and partly reloaded it. Here I go again.
Happy Potter said:
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:I’m back on my pc, yay, but reloading it will take a coupla days. I did back up everything.
I was a fanatic backer-upper and would you believe the graphics card died after I hadn’t backed up for a while…what’s worse is our “computer tech” backed up the terminal server TO ITSELF and of course it died in that state…I was unaware or I would have organised backups to an external HDD, they are not so expensive any more…
Arghh.
Well when I say I backed up ‘everything’, there was something I forgot to do.. export calendar dates. Lost all birthdays and other important event dates. And dates I am expecting chicks to hatch. There will be a few little surprises happening! lol. Good thing I can pretty much tell when the egg is due by candling it. When I can see the beak near the air sack, it’s usually the next day.
And also, the man had big probs getting the PC to recognize D drive. had the pc in bits but nup, the pc couldn’t detect it. So he re did everything, wiped it again! found ‘D’, re named it ‘E’ and partly reloaded it. Here I go again.
I’m pretty thankful my laptop is still going well. It must be about 5 or 6 years old now. I don’t know what I’d do without it and I can’t afford to replace it if it dies.
bluegreen said:
I’m pretty thankful my laptop is still going well. It must be about 5 or 6 years old now. I don’t know what I’d do without it and I can’t afford to replace it if it dies.
Mine got that old but it wasn’t the ‘puter that died, it was the graphics card and “you can’t get them any more”…
G’day. Geez I wish the weeks would stop flying by so quickly. Here we are nearly at the end of another year! No doubt I have quite a bit of catching up to do on the LHC :(
AnneS said:
G’day. Geez I wish the weeks would stop flying by so quickly. Here we are nearly at the end of another year! No doubt I have quite a bit of catching up to do on the LHC :(
I generally just open the Topic and read that but sometimes, yeah, you miss the odd addition to a thread…
How’s the gardening and family, AnneS?
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:
G’day. Geez I wish the weeks would stop flying by so quickly. Here we are nearly at the end of another year! No doubt I have quite a bit of catching up to do on the LHC :(
I generally just open the Topic and read that but sometimes, yeah, you miss the odd addition to a thread…
How’s the gardening and family, AnneS?
So do I Dinetta. Perhaps if I looked in more often I wouldn’t have as much upon which to catch up.
The gardening is going well. I have been harvesting quite a few carrots, zucchinis and beans. Unfortunately my pumpkin vines have suffered from sun and wind burn from the days that I was away in Sydney and Sleepy was unable to water them. I am growing Sunflowers to provide temporary shade but unfortunately that wasn’t enough. Probably should have netted.
I recently planted out a few rockmelons along the chook pen fence, but the chooks escaped the pen and had a merry time digging up the seedlings. Back to square one with them :(
Family is not too bad. My brother is still grieving for his wife who died in early November, but the rest of us are hanging in there.
My granddaughter turns 5 next Sunday so there is great excitement as she prepares to start big school next year.
I am in the process of creating, and running out of time to complete before Christmas, a Alphabet book for my grandson along the lines of the one I did for his sister a couple of years ago.
Now that’s a good catch-up… I recall you doing the AlphaBet Book for the granddaughter a couple of years ago, it was a goodie…
Pumpkins are usually used for shading in a 3 sisters arrangement: they shade the corn and bean roots…however I have noticed that pumpkins do need a trickle of water through their mulch …. you’re not in a position to trickle, are you, unless you can get one of those 25 litre ex-detergent bottles, and fit a dripper-type tap there-to…
Dinetta said:
Now that’s a good catch-up… I recall you doing the AlphaBet Book for the granddaughter a couple of years ago, it was a goodie…Pumpkins are usually used for shading in a 3 sisters arrangement: they shade the corn and bean roots…however I have noticed that pumpkins do need a trickle of water through their mulch …. you’re not in a position to trickle, are you, unless you can get one of those 25 litre ex-detergent bottles, and fit a dripper-type tap there-to…
This photo is obviously before the leaves got burnt.
Up until I went away I was managing to keep the bed well hydrated, but as you know it only takes a day or two of hot, dry, windy weather to undo all your good work. I try to deep water as much as I can, but obviously wasn’t enough for the pumpkins. :(
Dinetta said:
Now that’s a good catch-up… I recall you doing the AlphaBet Book for the granddaughter a couple of years ago, it was a goodie…Pumpkins are usually used for shading in a 3 sisters arrangement: they shade the corn and bean roots…however I have noticed that pumpkins do need a trickle of water through their mulch …. you’re not in a position to trickle, are you, unless you can get one of those 25 litre ex-detergent bottles, and fit a dripper-type tap there-to…
This photo is obviously before the leaves got burnt.
Up until I went away I was managing to keep the bed well hydrated, but as you know it only takes a day or two of hot, dry, windy weather to undo all your good work. I try to deep water as much as I can, but obviously wasn’t enough for the pumpkins. :(
AnneS said:
Up until I went away I was managing to keep the bed well hydrated, but as you know it only takes a day or two of hot, dry, windy weather to undo all your good work. I try to deep water as much as I can, but obviously wasn’t enough for the pumpkins. :(
The hot dry winds suck, every time…I highly recommend those drip-bottles tho’: they were so good the council had to chain and lock them to the footpath trees they were starting in the new ‘burbs…
Oops. Don’t know how I managed to post that twice. Oh well 2 for the price of 1. :)
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:Up until I went away I was managing to keep the bed well hydrated, but as you know it only takes a day or two of hot, dry, windy weather to undo all your good work. I try to deep water as much as I can, but obviously wasn’t enough for the pumpkins. :(
The hot dry winds suck, every time…I highly recommend those drip-bottles tho’: they were so good the council had to chain and lock them to the footpath trees they were starting in the new ‘burbs…
When I transplanted a rather large tomato seedling recently I put a water tube around it because I was going away for a few days and it suffered no transplant shock at all. I was very happy with that.
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:Up until I went away I was managing to keep the bed well hydrated, but as you know it only takes a day or two of hot, dry, windy weather to undo all your good work. I try to deep water as much as I can, but obviously wasn’t enough for the pumpkins. :(
The hot dry winds suck, every time…I highly recommend those drip-bottles tho’: they were so good the council had to chain and lock them to the footpath trees they were starting in the new ‘burbs…
When I transplanted a rather large tomato seedling recently I put a water tube around it because I was going away for a few days and it suffered no transplant shock at all. I was very happy with that.
AnneS said:
When I transplanted a rather large tomato seedling recently I put a water tube around it because I was going away for a few days and it suffered no transplant shock at all. I was very happy with that.
Gee that looks good AnneS. I recall you saying you were going to give them a try…
I was thinking this morning, “that B&B of MrsB’s is good stuff…got the right aroma” then I found that Shadow had dug up Marion Mary…I growled at him and he looked upset…crawler…then I reburied her under the newspapers and placed the rose cuttings on top…then the ex-pallet slats…if he starts working a paw I’ll know he had another go and acquired a thorn for his troubles….
been wrangling bird netting around my peach tree. It is loaded with fruit and I have noticed the birds have been sampling already even though they are quite green. I have never done this before so it looks a sight! Hopefully bird proof, I know I will have trouble getting in to get the fruit now! I thinned the fruit a bit too as the branches are hanging quite low with the weight.
The remains were presented to the Griffith Police by Max Harris & Lawrence Clarke, Aboriginal Site Officer with the National Parks & Wildlife Service.
The remains were sent to Sydney by the NSW Police to the Department of Forensic Medicine for identification & further to the NSW Coroners Office.
The remains were examined by Dr Denis Donlon, physical anthropologist with the University of Sydney.
Once the NSW Coroner was advised that the remains where Australian Aboriginal in authenticity then the remains were released to the Dept of Environment, Climate Change & Water in 2011 for repatriation.
The remains:
Right femur
Determined it to be Aboriginal based on the condition of the bone being slightly mineralised (indicating that it has been in the ground for some time, excess of 200yrs). The physical anthropologist has not seen non-Aboriginal remains mineralised.
Sex was determined based upon the measurement of the head (or the ball part) which was 47mm. It falls in the range of male Aboriginal Australian.
It also has very strong muscle markings indicating it was male.
The femur is fused indicating an age over 18 years.
There is no indication of disease and there is no sign of arthritis.
There were old post-mortem breaks.
Ongoing Management:
This site will now be recorded as a burial site.
An Aboriginal site record will be completed and will be placed onto the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) or Aboriginal Site Database. The database is a legal database under Section 90Q of the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974. As part of the due diligence process anyone proposing to undertake activities that has the potential to impact upon Aboriginal sites/objects must refer to the database to ensure that they avoid any known site/object.
The site will be protected under the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974.
Off topic…but I’ve just come across it… what is a “retarding basin”?
“Old Joe’s Creek retarding basin for a week”… it’s a locale in Melbourne (I think)
bluegreen said:
been wrangling bird netting around my peach tree. It is loaded with fruit and I have noticed the birds have been sampling already even though they are quite green. I have never done this before so it looks a sight! Hopefully bird proof, I know I will have trouble getting in to get the fruit now! I thinned the fruit a bit too as the branches are hanging quite low with the weight.
You’ll probably fine-tune the net as you work with it, BlueGreen…I was thinking of Velcro openings or those little snap fasteners we used to have on our home made clothes…but at least you have a crop to look forward to…
roughbarked said:
The remains were presented to the Griffith Police by Max Harris & Lawrence Clarke, Aboriginal Site Officer with the National Parks & Wildlife Service.
The remains were sent to Sydney by the NSW Police to the Department of Forensic Medicine for identification & further to the NSW Coroners Office.
The remains were examined by Dr Denis Donlon, physical anthropologist with the University of Sydney.
Once the NSW Coroner was advised that the remains where Australian Aboriginal in authenticity then the remains were released to the Dept of Environment, Climate Change & Water in 2011 for repatriation.The remains:
Right femur
Determined it to be Aboriginal based on the condition of the bone being slightly mineralised (indicating that it has been in the ground for some time, excess of 200yrs). The physical anthropologist has not seen non-Aboriginal remains mineralised.
Sex was determined based upon the measurement of the head (or the ball part) which was 47mm. It falls in the range of male Aboriginal Australian.
It also has very strong muscle markings indicating it was male.
The femur is fused indicating an age over 18 years.
There is no indication of disease and there is no sign of arthritis.
There were old post-mortem breaks.Ongoing Management:
This site will now be recorded as a burial site.
An Aboriginal site record will be completed and will be placed onto the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) or Aboriginal Site Database. The database is a legal database under Section 90Q of the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974. As part of the due diligence process anyone proposing to undertake activities that has the potential to impact upon Aboriginal sites/objects must refer to the database to ensure that they avoid any known site/object.
The site will be protected under the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974.
Well done! Did you make the box? Did you say you were burying it on your block, and does that mean you are now NP&W?
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:The site will be protected under the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974.
Well done! Did you make the box? Did you say you were burying it on your block, and does that mean you are now NP&W?
Yes. In that it means a small part of my yard is now NP&W and the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) or Aboriginal Site Database.
The box is incongruously, a wall clock case. This is probably in fitting with the fact that I’m a watchmaker.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:The site will be protected under the National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974.
Well done! Did you make the box? Did you say you were burying it on your block, and does that mean you are now NP&W?
Yes. In that it means a small part of my yard is now NP&W and the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) or Aboriginal Site Database.
The box is incongruously, a wall clock case. This is probably in fitting with the fact that I’m a watchmaker.
Anyway, the time capsule comments aside.. The Reburial Probably will require right click and open in new window.
roughbarked said:
The box is incongruously, a wall clock case. This is probably in fitting with the fact that I’m a watchmaker.
Kind of like a time capsule, then…
roughbarked said:
Anyway, the time capsule comments aside.. The Reburial Probably will require right click and open in new window.
…and I thought I was being original…drat…thanks for the sequence of photos…made my day to see what happened…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
been wrangling bird netting around my peach tree. It is loaded with fruit and I have noticed the birds have been sampling already even though they are quite green. I have never done this before so it looks a sight! Hopefully bird proof, I know I will have trouble getting in to get the fruit now! I thinned the fruit a bit too as the branches are hanging quite low with the weight.
You’ll probably fine-tune the net as you work with it, BlueGreen…I was thinking of Velcro openings or those little snap fasteners we used to have on our home made clothes…but at least you have a crop to look forward to…
I’m thinking that the ripening will happen over a short period of time and that I will be bottling a lot of it, so harvesting may well happen in only one or two goes.
That’s assuming that it happens while I am here and not when I am in Melbourne for two weeks! In which case my house sitter will get to eat them.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:Well done! Did you make the box? Did you say you were burying it on your block, and does that mean you are now NP&W?
Yes. In that it means a small part of my yard is now NP&W and the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) or Aboriginal Site Database.
The box is incongruously, a wall clock case. This is probably in fitting with the fact that I’m a watchmaker.
Anyway, the time capsule comments aside.. The Reburial Probably will require right click and open in new window.
I think it is all pretty awesome and I am pleased to see that all due respect is taken for the remains.
Morning all.
It’s good thing to know a rabbit breeder, who offers to come over and weed your garden for you :D
Happy Potter said:
Morning all.
It’s good thing to know a rabbit breeder, who offers to come over and weed your garden for you :D
:D :D
they would like that you are organic and nothing has been sprayed.
bluegreen said:
Happy Potter said:
Morning all.
It’s good thing to know a rabbit breeder, who offers to come over and weed your garden for you :D:D :D
they would like that you are organic and nothing has been sprayed.
Yes, that was the reason. My front garden was ‘outed’ lol. Visitor must tread lightly for frogs, and ladybirds can be carried to the rose bush and cornflowers.
roughbarked said:
Anyway, the time capsule comments aside.. The Reburial Probably will require right click and open in new window.
Great stuff. Glad to hear the bone was reburied in such a respectful manner. Still lots of unanswered questions about what the roadworks disturbed though and who this person was…
podzol said:
roughbarked said:Anyway, the time capsule comments aside.. The Reburial Probably will require right click and open in new window.
Great stuff. Glad to hear the bone was reburied in such a respectful manner. Still lots of unanswered questions about what the roadworks disturbed though and who this person was…
Yes. Though I think we have narrowed it down. Another thing not mentioned is that there was no evidence of canine teeth marks. ie: no dingo dog or fox carried it there. The breaks being post mortem and likely later than the mineralisation suggests that it was broken by the activity of movement of earth surrounding it, probably by machinery.. The original mound was that of grader work. I topped it up with earth brought from a local sand dune. It was after this and subsequent planting of shrubs that the bone was found. We could look at the local sand dune, which is now largely citrus orchards and vineyard. There is one patch of remnant mallee community and this is likely where this bone was originally buried. I can say this because the area where my house block exists was once a camp for canal builders back in the late 1920’s early 30’s. Has been cleared, graded and ploughed then used for cropping and grazing long since.
Well me “Earring Aides” have arrived at the Earring Aide person’s office, I have sent the tax invoice to the health benefits fund and hopefully they’ll cough up before I rock to RockVegas for my next appointment…hopefully…otherwise I have to wait until after the new year…
Jumping out of my skin here…
Arvo. I’ve been very busy running around to other peoples gardens to help them prepare for when owners are away over Xmas. I will go water them a couple times a week. And I have a tableful of seedlings to mind. I get some freebie seedlings and fruit from trees out of it.
It keeps me off the streets ;)
Happy Potter said:
Arvo. I’ve been very busy running around to other peoples gardens to help them prepare for when owners are away over Xmas. I will go water them a couple times a week. And I have a tableful of seedlings to mind. I get some freebie seedlings and fruit from trees out of it.It keeps me off the streets ;)
…and out of trouble…
Morning. More garden stuff today, more planting, watering, picking and seeding and dirt works to do. Two more scarlet runner beans planted on the chookies fence.
Solar inverter all fixed with the right size cabling. It’s soaking up the rays and chugging it out nearly twice what it did before. The smaller 3 kW has 16 panels attached to it and the 5 kW has 26 panels. They used to run neck and neck but now the bigger one is in front by half again.
They used one of the 3 mt long bamboo poles I have, with a bit of duct tape and a cable tie fixed to one end to thread the cabling underneath two of the panels, removing the need to lift the panels out of the frame altogether. Less labor time and good thinking on their part.
They didn’t worry at all about the bee hive. The bees weren’t thinking of them either, there’s an abundance of passionfruit flowers opening daily. :)
Happy Potter said:
Morning. More garden stuff today, more planting, watering, picking and seeding and dirt works to do. Two more scarlet runner beans planted on the chookies fence.Solar inverter all fixed with the right size cabling. It’s soaking up the rays and chugging it out nearly twice what it did before. The smaller 3 kW has 16 panels attached to it and the 5 kW has 26 panels. They used to run neck and neck but now the bigger one is in front by half again.
They used one of the 3 mt long bamboo poles I have, with a bit of duct tape and a cable tie fixed to one end to thread the cabling underneath two of the panels, removing the need to lift the panels out of the frame altogether. Less labor time and good thinking on their part.They didn’t worry at all about the bee hive. The bees weren’t thinking of them either, there’s an abundance of passionfruit flowers opening daily. :)
Great when it’s all fixed…
Speaking of bees, did you see the Christopher Fry show, Keys of London or something…there is beehives on top of one of those sky scrapers and the bees are as busy as…
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
Morning. More garden stuff today, more planting, watering, picking and seeding and dirt works to do. Two more scarlet runner beans planted on the chookies fence.Solar inverter all fixed with the right size cabling. It’s soaking up the rays and chugging it out nearly twice what it did before. The smaller 3 kW has 16 panels attached to it and the 5 kW has 26 panels. They used to run neck and neck but now the bigger one is in front by half again.
They used one of the 3 mt long bamboo poles I have, with a bit of duct tape and a cable tie fixed to one end to thread the cabling underneath two of the panels, removing the need to lift the panels out of the frame altogether. Less labor time and good thinking on their part.They didn’t worry at all about the bee hive. The bees weren’t thinking of them either, there’s an abundance of passionfruit flowers opening daily. :)
Great when it’s all fixed…
Speaking of bees, did you see the Christopher Fry show, Keys of London or something…there is beehives on top of one of those sky scrapers and the bees are as busy as…
Yes I did, and there’s heaps in Melb’ and suburbs just the same. There’s many rooftop gardens being planted out to keep them healthy. Melb’ rooftop honey co, or similar they are called. And there’s others. It’s terrific.
I was out for a few hours this arvo and came home to one of the Sussex cockerels treading water in the pond. It couldn’t get out and was fading fast. Got it dried and warm, dropperd it some glucose water with vit c in it, and it’s back in the run tearing about. Now there’s a folding mesh panel fence around the pond.
Smacks hand.. although the chick is ok, I shoulda done that before I went out. Only prob now is Lottie and Dottie, who are older hens and know better, have been blocked from helping themselves to the azolla weed.
The solar panel inverters are kicking a%$e, even though it’s been very cloudy. Cool. Now to hang out some washing and think about tea.. only have to feed myself tonight. Peaceful :D
Hooray, we are back…I hijacked PainMaster’s thread over on fb…oh shame on me altho’ I’m beginning to think it’s genetic…a talent I was born with…
Dinetta said:
Hooray, we are back…I hijacked PainMaster’s thread over on fb…oh shame on me altho’ I’m beginning to think it’s genetic…a talent I was born with…
Oh good :) Only I switched the pc off for the whole day.
I used the time away wisely. I filled the raised net domed vege bed with compost, half bucketful by half bucketful from between the rows in the rear mini orchard. It took me nearly all day. Now it can rest while I pot up some lettuce and other salad greens.
The only break I had was for 30 minutes when I took off to find Max who had walked out the open gate again. JJ on his bike and me in the car, we went in opposite directions all over town looking for him. My heart in my throat, I came back home to the home phone ringing off the hook. It was the person one street away who grabbed him off a road and held him safe and rang the national pet register number on his green tag, to get my number. Much relief!
There’ll be a nice bottle of red with a thank you note on their porch in the morning.
New rule in my household for kiddlywinks and partners, gate now remains locked. They have to go through the house and use the front door instead.
Good morning. Cool here at the moment. Lovely outside. I went for a ride, breakfast of quiche at the cafe and I’ve watered the baby veggies.
After hoarding the loganberry haul for three days I now have 500g……so jam today. Yesterday we took up a friend’s offer to self pick from their abundant strawberry bed, so there is strawberry jam on the table and some strawberries waiting for some brandy and cream in a bowl. We don’t eat a lot of jam so I tend just to make small lots and put it into bowls in the fridge. Although last year I made heaps of blackberry jam for us and our friends (they’ve got abundant blackberry canes too!) We need to keep these friends.
:)
I am surprised that Max walked off, considering he doesn’t like to leave your side. Glad he was safe and sound.
bluegreen said:
I am surprised that Max walked off, considering he doesn’t like to leave your side. Glad he was safe and sound.
He was right beside me waiting for me to finish working in the area. But if I’m taking too long he will wander about sniffing out mouse holes and other interesting stuff. If I called him when he was hanging about in the carport he would have dashed back to me, but there’s too many interesting smells out the front, which leads to even better ones along the street.
Auto closer for the gate ordered :)
Happy Potter said:
New rule in my household for kiddlywinks and partners, gate now remains locked. They have to go through the house and use the front door instead.
Good rule, glad Max is safe!
The girl is baking and tearing about collecting pantry items. Everytime a hen raises the ‘I’ve laid an egg! chorus, she runs out to get it. Her excuse for messing up my lovely clean kitchen was ‘you raised me’.
LOL
So, I’ve checked all my pots of cuttings and things and repotted some stuff. A couple of years ago I took the bulblets off the tops of my white belladonnas and they have come along into small bulbs now. So I have 8 supertubes for the next twelve months. They may or may not flower true to colour and I won’t know for some years. I’ll probably put some into the garden at Casterton next year.
I’ve also split up my lemon grass. I’m not really sure why I grow it, as I don’t use it. I think it’s the challenge. And I had a piece of ginger sitting on the kitchen bench trying to grow, so that has gone into a pot too. I tried that last year also, but I think I might have baked it in the really hot sun. I’ll try the pot in a different place this year.
I have a pot with a label that says “Milkmaids?” and when I tipped it out there were indeed some little bulby things in there. So they have been repotted into a tidier pot. If they flower for me they can then go into the ground next year.
I’m feeling a bit tired, so I think I might make up the bed (it’s sheet changing day here) and have a nannanap. It’s been a somewhat stressful week with trying to sort out my Mum’s memory problems from 300km away and my receptionist’s 97 year old mother dying on Friday after nearly a week of failing.
buffy said:
I’m feeling a bit tired, so I think I might make up the bed (it’s sheet changing day here) and have a nannanap. It’s been a somewhat stressful week with trying to sort out my Mum’s memory problems from 300km away and my receptionist’s 97 year old mother dying on Friday after nearly a week of failing.
I find the “goldie” relatives more tiring than the kidlets ever were…very stressful when the aged just fade away like that…
Morning green ones. I haven’t a big list of things to do today, will be taking it easy, just some light yard clean up needed.
I’m going to have to apply for the disabled sticker for my car. Well poo. I get bales of hay and bags of grain and where I go normally they put it into the car boot for me while I pay the other person. This time though they were out of one thing, so I went to a pet warehouse. They got the bag out for me, but no such help getting it out to the car though, short staffed, and I got stuck with dragging a 25 kg bag across the carpark.
Here’s a pic of a duckling in my pond. Earlier the whole five hopped in and were having a delightful time swimming around and eating the pond weed. Mumchook Lin Lin was going off her nut, but they couldn’t get out, the sides are too straight and the rocks too high. But everytime I reached in to get one, they would swim to the other end. In the end I got my long reach pick up grabber and lifted the fat little things out one by one. They hightailed it back to mum and started preening themselves.
Disabled stickers are very hard to get in Qld, I hope they’re more aware down in Vic.
Loved the story about the ducklings….who are now preening themselves…
Happy Potter said:
Here’s a pic of a duckling in my pond. Earlier the whole five hopped in and were having a delightful time swimming around and eating the pond weed. Mumchook Lin Lin was going off her nut, but they couldn’t get out, the sides are too straight and the rocks too high. But everytime I reached in to get one, they would swim to the other end. In the end I got my long reach pick up grabber and lifted the fat little things out one by one. They hightailed it back to mum and started preening themselves.
What fun :D
Dinetta said:
Disabled stickers are very hard to get in Qld, I hope they’re more aware down in Vic.
I used to work with a fellow who was a C4 Quadraplegic and an amputee. He had to get a certificate from his doctor every year to say he was still eligible for disabled parking – just in case he got healed during the year.
Dinetta said:
Disabled stickers are very hard to get in Qld, I hope they’re more aware down in Vic.Loved the story about the ducklings….who are now preening themselves…
We’re really enjoying the ducklings while they are here. Hubby loves watching them and he is forever calling out to me to come and see this or that funny thing they are doing. Another week or two and they will go to the friends farm.
I have to ask my GP for the forms and get it signed off by my neurosurgeon. It’s not about walking, I need to, and do, walk 2-3 klms a day. It’s just about carrying things to the car from shops. If an item is under 10 kg I’m fine. A bit over that is ok too as long as I don’t lift it up from the floor, or carry it too far. I need to park the car closer.
I’m walking more and more with a slowish swaying half limping weird gait and can’t stand completely back rod straight for hip pain. I think my sports days are over…
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
Disabled stickers are very hard to get in Qld, I hope they’re more aware down in Vic.
I used to work with a fellow who was a C4 Quadraplegic and an amputee. He had to get a certificate from his doctor every year to say he was still eligible for disabled parking – just in case he got healed during the year.
LOL!
Reminds me of the Qld Justice Department, wrote and asked me if my nerve deafness had gone away so I could do Jury Duty….eejits…
To collect Mum, I would leave her in the shopping centre, go park the car in the Wheelie park, then go in and get her…so much safer…but I sure got some stares…I didn’t like to park full-time in the wheelie park as I figured there were others who needed it whilst Mum and I were shopping…
Happy Potter said:
I have to ask my GP for the forms and get it signed off by my neurosurgeon. It’s not about walking, I need to, and do, walk 2-3 klms a day. It’s just about carrying things to the car from shops. If an item is under 10 kg I’m fine. A bit over that is ok too as long as I don’t lift it up from the floor, or carry it too far. I need to park the car closer.
I’m walking more and more with a slowish swaying half limping weird gait and can’t stand completely back rod straight for hip pain. I think my sports days are over…
It’s a bummer not being able to heft the weights…one feels such a delicate petal which one is definitely NOT!!
I hope this gait gets sorted before any other “parts” start to show signs of unusual wear…
My sports days are definitely over…just gentle walking, cycling and swimming for me…I find it so hard to believe my calendar age…but I believe if I just persist with these gentle exercises it will pay off when I’m 90…
The worst part is going to do something I’ve done many times before, then realize I can’t and have to call for help or wait until there’s someone here. It hits me hard that I’ve become broken overnight.
Still, there’s a lot I can do so I’m concentrating on that.
I’m giving baked gifts this year and have the kitchen benches clear for all my trays and baked goodies. I’ve fruit mixes steeping in alcohol for individual fruit cakes and lots of ingredients out for other things. There’ll be pretty cellophane wrapped rum balls, yo yo custard bikkies, toasted marshmallows and shortbread. And some healthier bran and oat bikkie bites and a twining’s tea bag in cute packs for morning teas.
This morning I’ve been dragging the pond of the azolla weed and feeding it to the chooks and getting the yabbies’ out into buckets. The crabby things are going to be picked up shortly and on Wed the big goldfish are finally going to their new big pond home. This is in preparation to drain the whole AP system to get rid of those rotten snails. Once I have the ground pond wiped clean and completely dry, I will half fill it and add some saved pond weed that I have been de snailing. If that’s a word. I was told a few times once you have those snails in the system, they will be there forever. Pfft…don’t say ‘can’t’ to me.
Happy Potter said:
Pfft…don’t say ‘can’t’ to me.
I wouldn’t dare! lol!
The newlyweds will be here for tea. J’ID, as we will call my newest on in law, got leave and flew down practically 5 minutes later. Missing each other no doubt. Panic stations, what to cook..only thing left for a nice meal is two lamb racks I’d been saving for Christmas tea. But we’re having a breakfast picnic in the orchard Christmas morning, so I got them out, thawed, slathered with plum sauce and rosemary and pretty much threw them into the oven.
Rhubarb and ice cream for dessert. That’ll do.
J’ID is here now until the couple go back to qld early feb. My grandson will stay here with his dad, good! My daughter even has a job in the local hospital waiting.
I’ve already been looking up coach fares to brissy, about 300 return. Planning to go in June or July, all going well and I haven’t broken apart or anything.
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
Disabled stickers are very hard to get in Qld, I hope they’re more aware down in Vic.
I used to work with a fellow who was a C4 Quadraplegic and an amputee. He had to get a certificate from his doctor every year to say he was still eligible for disabled parking – just in case he got healed during the year.
LOL!
Reminds me of the Qld Justice Department, wrote and asked me if my nerve deafness had gone away so I could do Jury Duty….eejits…
Which reminds me. I need to get a doctors certificate to stop the NSW Sherriff’s office sending me jury duty notices. I have nerve deafness too.
Good morning Gardeners. It is 10 degrees and foggy here at the moment.
I’d quite like to do jury duty. But if I get on a jury and can’t work, it puts other people out of work (my staff), so I had to write and explain this. I know they say no-one is indispensable….but in a solo optometric practice, if the optometrist isn’t there, there is no generation of income to pay the staff.
buffy said:
Good morning Gardeners. It is 10 degrees and foggy here at the moment.
I’d quite like to do jury duty. But if I get on a jury and can’t work, it puts other people out of work (my staff), so I had to write and explain this. I know they say no-one is indispensable….but in a solo optometric practice, if the optometrist isn’t there, there is no generation of income to pay the staff.
Fair point. The last time they called me for Jury duty, they sat us all on the front fence for two days while the lawyers faffed about, then they didn’t pick me after all.
roughbarked said:
Which reminds me. I need to get a doctors certificate to stop the NSW Sherriff’s office sending me jury duty notices. I have nerve deafness too.
Sooner rather than later…although it gets so complicated these days with all the tests they “have” to do…
buffy said:
Good morning Gardeners. It is 10 degrees and foggy here at the moment.
I’d quite like to do jury duty. But if I get on a jury and can’t work, it puts other people out of work (my staff), so I had to write and explain this. I know they say no-one is indispensable….but in a solo optometric practice, if the optometrist isn’t there, there is no generation of income to pay the staff.
Very true Buffy…
I don’t think I’d like to do jury duty tho’…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Which reminds me. I need to get a doctors certificate to stop the NSW Sherriff’s office sending me jury duty notices. I have nerve deafness too.
Sooner rather than later…although it gets so complicated these days with all the tests they “have” to do…
You’d think they’d keep records. I’ve been deaf for almost 50 years.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:Which reminds me. I need to get a doctors certificate to stop the NSW Sherriff’s office sending me jury duty notices. I have nerve deafness too.
Sooner rather than later…although it gets so complicated these days with all the tests they “have” to do…
You’d think they’d keep records. I’ve been deaf for almost 50 years.
I meant, the tests they “have” to do to prove you’re hearing loss is as bad as you didn’t know it was…the cavity size, the tympana whatsit, the word recognition…apparently I mix “fig” and “pig”…you have to do all this before they say, oh yeah same as last time…wouldn’t mind a miracle … do you go to an audiologist or audiometrist? They can produce a little report along with all the graphs, that the layman can understand plus advise that it’s permanent…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:Sooner rather than later…although it gets so complicated these days with all the tests they “have” to do…
You’d think they’d keep records. I’ve been deaf for almost 50 years.
I meant, the tests they “have” to do to prove you’re hearing loss is as bad as you didn’t know it was…the cavity size, the tympana whatsit, the word recognition…apparently I mix “fig” and “pig”…you have to do all this before they say, oh yeah same as last time…wouldn’t mind a miracle … do you go to an audiologist or audiometrist? They can produce a little report along with all the graphs, that the layman can understand plus advise that it’s permanent…
This is true. Deafness is an invisible disability.
roughbarked said:
This is true. Deafness is an invisible disability.
It’s a social disability…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:This is true. Deafness is an invisible disability.
It’s a social disability…
Don’t I know that part very well.
I have put the nifty shade cloth up on the west wall. Ready for summer now, sort of.
bluegreen said:
I have put the nifty shade cloth up on the west wall. Ready for summer now, sort of.
You won’t regret it…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
I have put the nifty shade cloth up on the west wall. Ready for summer now, sort of.
You won’t regret it…
It made a huge difference last year.
bluegreen said:
I have put the nifty shade cloth up on the west wall. Ready for summer now, sort of.
Well done, and just in time for a scorcher tomorrow. On your own?
Arvo. I’m still cooking treats and baked gifts. The Scottish tablet fudge came out perfect. The only bit I had was a teeny dried bit on the spoon. Last up is white Christmas and orange yo yo’s with passionfruit icing filling.
I’m getting shade cloth lengths ready to cover seedlings for tomorrow’s expected 40C. Bottle ice bricks in the freezer for chooks and I cleaned the filters on two air cons inside.
Happy Potter said:
Arvo. I’m still cooking treats and baked gifts. The Scottish tablet fudge came out perfect. The only bit I had was a teeny dried bit on the spoon. Last up is white Christmas and orange yo yo’s with passionfruit icing filling.I’m getting shade cloth lengths ready to cover seedlings for tomorrow’s expected 40C. Bottle ice bricks in the freezer for chooks and I cleaned the filters on two air cons inside.
I’m travelling tomorrow…J2 has gone somewhere and J1 says she’ll brave the dog and check the chookens water…I just want the water clean and plenty of it…going to the vet’s to microchip Shadow this afternoon so will check waterers and feeders there…still struggling with the wire on the top of the fernery…
A lass from the family that’s been running their horses on our other place, has lost the first horse she chose, bought, broke in and got in foal. We think snake bite. The foal is about 3 months old, cute as a button and was happy to wear long “where’s Wally” socks for the family’s Christmas photos (and a santa hat)…It was very sad to read about the loss of the mare but the foal is in good hands. Just needs bottle-feeding now…
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
I have put the nifty shade cloth up on the west wall. Ready for summer now, sort of.
Well done, and just in time for a scorcher tomorrow. On your own?
yep. didn’t have to put the hooks up this time though. did that last year :)
Dinetta said:
A lass from the family that’s been running their horses on our other place, has lost the first horse she chose, bought, broke in and got in foal. We think snake bite. The foal is about 3 months old, cute as a button and was happy to wear long “where’s Wally” socks for the family’s Christmas photos (and a santa hat)…It was very sad to read about the loss of the mare but the foal is in good hands. Just needs bottle-feeding now…
sad about the mare but glad the foal is OK.
We lost at least 2 cats to snakes BlueGreen. Georgina, the Mother Cat, used to catch them, kill them, and (erk erk) eat them…then I ran over her…
Dinetta said:
We lost at least 2 cats to snakes BlueGreen. Georgina, the Mother Cat, used to catch them, kill them, and (erk erk) eat them…then I ran over her…
:(
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
We lost at least 2 cats to snakes BlueGreen. Georgina, the Mother Cat, used to catch them, kill them, and (erk erk) eat them…then I ran over her…
:(
I was traumatised…took her to the vet to make sure she was dead…so upset I couldn’t push the buttons on my phone…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
We lost at least 2 cats to snakes BlueGreen. Georgina, the Mother Cat, used to catch them, kill them, and (erk erk) eat them…then I ran over her…
:(
I was traumatised…took her to the vet to make sure she was dead…so upset I couldn’t push the buttons on my phone…
I understand.
Took Shadow to the vet to be microchipped…oh dear he already is…they offered to look up the microchip number but I thought it over and said well I am his 4th owner that I know of, I really don’t think he could cope with another change of owner, he gets very anxious when I have to leave him at home….and they said OK we’ll record that number as yours, on your card…
What I think has happened is somebody got a cute pup in Emerald, had the microchipping etc done, had to leave town but couldn’t take a large-ish dog where they were going, found him a good home, that person had to leave as well (very mobile workforce in Emerald), asked a friend to find him a good home, the friend’s nephews are good mates of my younger son and hey I have Shadow. Who is thoroughly pissed off with his constant change of pack by this time.
So we can get him registered and also I need to put a tag on his collar, phone number etc.
Have you all melted yet?
buffy said:
Have you all melted yet?
I keeping going outside to the minimum. A few chores in town this morning, ice blocks in the chooks water, wet towels over the galah’s cage and now hunkering down inside with the aircon on.
bluegreen said:
buffy said:Have you all melted yet?
I keeping going outside to the minimum. A few chores in town this morning, ice blocks in the chooks water, wet towels over the galah’s cage and now hunkering down inside with the aircon on.
currently 37.4 outside according to the beauro.
Only 39.2..
roughbarked said:
Only 39.2..
39.3 :P
I hear that Hobart has reached 37. Not often they get to these sort of temps.
Arvo. yep melting. I had a silkie hen collapse, she just fell over on the spot and couldn’t walk so I brought her inside. Dunked her in tepid water and fed her some frozen bread. She is ok now. The others got frozen treats too. And the sprinkler on the lawn and vege beds.
I’ve had a full tray of silverbeet seedlings come up in 2 days! Cos lettuce tray too.
I have the opportunity to enroll in a cake and pastry course, govt funded, goes for 20 weeks. I explained to the woman that called me about it, that I don’t work and have no intention of returning to work, my reason for doing it is for self improvement and I was told that was fine, so I’ll mail off the forms soon. What cakes and pasties I make well, I make very well, but there’s also quite a lot of baked things that elude me, so some training for the whole works would be great. I’ll know later on if my application is successful.
The girl is making tea tonight, pork schnitzel bites with salads and wedges :)
Happy Potter said:
Arvo. yep melting. I had a silkie hen collapse, she just fell over on the spot and couldn’t walk so I brought her inside. Dunked her in tepid water and fed her some frozen bread. She is ok now. The others got frozen treats too. And the sprinkler on the lawn and vege beds.I’ve had a full tray of silverbeet seedlings come up in 2 days! Cos lettuce tray too.
I have the opportunity to enroll in a cake and pastry course, govt funded, goes for 20 weeks. I explained to the woman that called me about it, that I don’t work and have no intention of returning to work, my reason for doing it is for self improvement and I was told that was fine, so I’ll mail off the forms soon. What cakes and pasties I make well, I make very well, but there’s also quite a lot of baked things that elude me, so some training for the whole works would be great. I’ll know later on if my application is successful.
The girl is making tea tonight, pork schnitzel bites with salads and wedges :)
hope you get to do the course.
hot, hot, hot here but a storm is about to blow over. My chooks seem to be OK but there are plenty of shady bushes here for them and I have had a sprinkler running as well.
It is still 40ºC now.
roughbarked said:
It is still 40ºC now.
You poor thing :(
I’ve got Earring Aides!!
buffy said:
Have you all melted yet?
No I believe it was quite cool today…the house was not like an oven when we got home about 20:30…
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:
Only 39.2..
39.3 :P
I hear that Hobart has reached 37. Not often they get to these sort of temps.
They’ll be gasping…
Happy Potter said:
Arvo. yep melting. I had a silkie hen collapse, she just fell over on the spot and couldn’t walk so I brought her inside. Dunked her in tepid water and fed her some frozen bread. She is ok now. The others got frozen treats too. And the sprinkler on the lawn and vege beds.I’ve had a full tray of silverbeet seedlings come up in 2 days! Cos lettuce tray too.
I have the opportunity to enroll in a cake and pastry course, govt funded, goes for 20 weeks. I explained to the woman that called me about it, that I don’t work and have no intention of returning to work, my reason for doing it is for self improvement and I was told that was fine, so I’ll mail off the forms soon. What cakes and pasties I make well, I make very well, but there’s also quite a lot of baked things that elude me, so some training for the whole works would be great. I’ll know later on if my application is successful.
The girl is making tea tonight, pork schnitzel bites with salads and wedges :)
Thank goodness you were able to save your hen in time…be good for you to develop your considerable culinary talents…
Longest day of the year on Sunday (22 Dec)
Good morning Gardeners. We are cool and drizzly. I love it. I’ve been for breakfast and weighed up ingredients for berry jam, florentines, shortbread and monkey faces. If I’ve still got energy this afternoon after that lot, I’ll make some yo-yos too. I’ll make the lemon/lime cheesecake on Monday to take to Melbourne on Tuesday.
Now I have to go back to the practice to finish off what I didn’t have time to do yesterday and see if there is anything in the unusual Saturday mail delivery. I hadn’t allowed for that when I did the mail redirection dates.
buffy said:
Good morning Gardeners. We are cool and drizzly. I love it. I’ve been for breakfast and weighed up ingredients for berry jam, florentines, shortbread and monkey faces. If I’ve still got energy this afternoon after that lot, I’ll make some yo-yos too. I’ll make the lemon/lime cheesecake on Monday to take to Melbourne on Tuesday.
Now I have to go back to the practice to finish off what I didn’t have time to do yesterday and see if there is anything in the unusual Saturday mail delivery. I hadn’t allowed for that when I did the mail redirection dates.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Good morning Gardeners. We are cool and drizzly. I love it. I’ve been for breakfast and weighed up ingredients for berry jam, florentines, shortbread and monkey faces. If I’ve still got energy this afternoon after that lot, I’ll make some yo-yos too. I’ll make the lemon/lime cheesecake on Monday to take to Melbourne on Tuesday.
Now I have to go back to the practice to finish off what I didn’t have time to do yesterday and see if there is anything in the unusual Saturday mail delivery. I hadn’t allowed for that when I did the mail redirection dates.
lucky buggers. All the rain is in Victoria. 37 here now and heading for 42.
no rain here :(
Just a bit of light rain starting here.
I’m mystified about a caterpillar eating into immature citrus. I’ve never seen it before and I can’t seem to find any info on it. This tiny green grub pulls a leaf over to a marble size fruit and encloses itself in with webbing, then eats the skin of the fruit. It seems it only eats the skin as I can’t see a hole into the flesh.The holes start off small then spread to about the size of a five cent piece. When I pull the leaf away the grub scurries to the ground.
Even stranger, one valencia orange tree is affected and I can’t find it on any other citrus in my garden and there are plenty of varieties. None on the navel orange. I have never seen this pest before.
Now another lady is asking whats with a grub eating the skin of her immature citrus.
What could it be?
Happy Potter said:
Just a bit of light rain starting here.I’m mystified about a caterpillar eating into immature citrus. I’ve never seen it before and I can’t seem to find any info on it. This tiny green grub pulls a leaf over to a marble size fruit and encloses itself in with webbing, then eats the skin of the fruit. It seems it only eats the skin as I can’t see a hole into the flesh.The holes start off small then spread to about the size of a five cent piece. When I pull the leaf away the grub scurries to the ground.
Even stranger, one valencia orange tree is affected and I can’t find it on any other citrus in my garden and there are plenty of varieties. None on the navel orange. I have never seen this pest before.
Now another lady is asking whats with a grub eating the skin of her immature citrus.
What could it be?
rerobdnirsurtiC er, um; Citrus rindborer.
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/137723/11-lemon-pests.pdf
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/objtwr/imported_assets/content/pw/gard/citins.pdf
citrus rind borer
Adoxiphyes templana (Pagenstecher)
is found only in these two states.
roughbarked said:
citrus rind borer
Adoxiphyes templana (Pagenstecher)
is found only in these two states.
or should the link on the gif indicate that the presence of citrus rind borer has not been verified as existing in the other states by the CSIRO.
Damage
* The caterpillar bores inside the fruit and feeds on the rind tissue. * Young fruits attacked by rind borer often drop while mature fruits develop lumps.Control
* 1. Observe sanitation in the surroundings. * 2. Spray with the use of insecticide during the pre and post bloom stage.roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
citrus rind borer
Adoxiphyes templana (Pagenstecher)
is found only in these two states.
or should the link on the gif indicate that the presence of citrus rind borer has not been verified as existing in the other states by the CSIRO.
:(
Well it does. I’m going to remove all the fruit into a plastic bag and leave it in the sun.
Rind borer moth 
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
citrus rind borer
Adoxiphyes templana (Pagenstecher)
is found only in these two states.
or should the link on the gif indicate that the presence of citrus rind borer has not been verified as existing in the other states by the CSIRO.
:(
Well it does. I’m going to remove all the fruit into a plastic bag and leave it in the sun.
You should be reporting its existence to the CSIRO and your Dept of Ag.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:or should the link on the gif indicate that the presence of citrus rind borer has not been verified as existing in the other states by the CSIRO.
:(
Well it does. I’m going to remove all the fruit into a plastic bag and leave it in the sun.
You should be reporting its existence to the CSIRO and your Dept of Ag.
Yes I will, after Christmas. Thankyou for your help RB.
If I have to go the insecticide route, what one do I need?
http://www.citrusaustralia.com.au/_literature_94980/Season_Update_May-June_2012
That’s a bummer for you Happy Potter…
RoughBarked, do these grubs have a natural predator(s), like birds or mud wasps or even paper wasps?
Re: ‘Observe sanitation in the surroundings’, what does that mean exactly? I mean picking up the fallen, diseased or rotting fruit is a given, but is there anything else I can do?
In the same area with the valencia, the closest other tree is an almond, then further away a lime, a lemon, a pear and an apple tree and two comfrey plants. Chickens graze often.
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said::(
Well it does. I’m going to remove all the fruit into a plastic bag and leave it in the sun.
You should be reporting its existence to the CSIRO and your Dept of Ag.
Yes I will, after Christmas. Thankyou for your help RB.
If I have to go the insecticide route, what one do I need?
To prove its existence you’d need to provide samples. So collect some and preserve them in metho. Send or deliver them in urine sample bottles, in metho.
It isn’t wise to use insecticide sprays during blooming period as this also kills pollinating insects. I’d attempt to avoid allowing the insects to pupate by removing and destroying the affected fruit.
Contact insecticides such as Malathon will work if the insect is contacted.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:You should be reporting its existence to the CSIRO and your Dept of Ag.
Yes I will, after Christmas. Thankyou for your help RB.
If I have to go the insecticide route, what one do I need?To prove its existence you’d need to provide samples. So collect some and preserve them in metho. Send or deliver them in urine sample bottles, in metho.
It isn’t wise to use insecticide sprays during blooming period as this also kills pollinating insects. I’d attempt to avoid allowing the insects to pupate by removing and destroying the affected fruit.
Contact insecticides such as Malathon will work if the insect is contacted.
I’ve been inspecting it several times a day and squashing any grubs I see and taking the affected fruit off. I have clean specimen bottles and metho, shall collect and keep them until I find out where to send. I’ll go look at my friends tree too.
Happy Potter said:
Re: ‘Observe sanitation in the surroundings’, what does that mean exactly? I mean picking up the fallen, diseased or rotting fruit is a given, but is there anything else I can do?In the same area with the valencia, the closest other tree is an almond, then further away a lime, a lemon, a pear and an apple tree and two comfrey plants. Chickens graze often.
Keeping trees healthy is usually the best method of discouraging pests and diseases.
What if it’s not that citrus rind borer? According to this qld site and photo, it’s the codling moth of the citrus world.
http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/72252/Citrus-Citrus-fruit-borer.pdf
But, this is a photo of my friends citrus rind damage. Lower pic. ‘S’ put the photo in asking about general probs in her garden including a plum with hail damage. This is what that damage on my citrus looks like when the attached leaf is pulled away, large part of the rind only chewed away with the white pith clearly visible. It can also be a grouping of immature fruit joined with webbing with both, or more, damaged.
Happy Potter said:
What if it’s not that citrus rind borer? According to this qld site and photo, it’s the codling moth of the citrus world.http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/72252/Citrus-Citrus-fruit-borer.pdf
But, this is a photo of my friends citrus rind damage. Lower pic. ‘S’ put the photo in asking about general probs in her garden including a plum with hail damage. This is what that damage on my citrus looks like when the attached leaf is pulled away, large part of the rind only chewed away with the white pith clearly visible. It can also be a grouping of immature fruit joined with webbing with both, or more, damaged.
Meant to add too, this caterpillar is green, not unlike to a cabbage moth grub on a brassica leaf. According to the above site it’s brown-ish.
Happy Potter said:
Happy Potter said:
What if it’s not that citrus rind borer? According to this qld site and photo, it’s the codling moth of the citrus world.http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/72252/Citrus-Citrus-fruit-borer.pdf
But, this is a photo of my friends citrus rind damage. Lower pic. ‘S’ put the photo in asking about general probs in her garden including a plum with hail damage. This is what that damage on my citrus looks like when the attached leaf is pulled away, large part of the rind only chewed away with the white pith clearly visible. It can also be a grouping of immature fruit joined with webbing with both, or more, damaged.
Meant to add too, this caterpillar is green, not unlike to a cabbage moth grub on a brassica leaf. According to the above site it’s brown-ish.
The citrus rind borer is in Australia. I am not so sure that the fruit borer is.
Well I managed to snip one off with the grub and rind damage. Under the bigger fruit there’s a similar hole. Not photographed though so I didn’t wreck the web. Now alln a jar in metho.
There’s a mealy? bug in there too.
Boo! Christmas Eve is here.
Santas only visiting the grandies this year. The rest of us are over the hype already. We are looking forward to our breakfast picnic in the park, time together :)
I don’t know if JJ will be joining us though. I just picked him up from work sick. He doesn’t look good, every bone in his body hurting he said. Lost his voice and can only speak in whispers. He’s tucked up in bed. Drs visit at the clinic this arvo, if I think he looks worse.
Good wind turbines. I want one! I reckon one’s all we’d need!
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-tops-house-urban-windpower.html
Good morning Gardeners. We had a great day on 24th, my sister who lives in Houston, Texas arrived a couple of days before in Melbourne, she caught the train to Warrnambool with her son and we picked them up and travelled the Great Ocean Road….being tourists in our own backyard. We’d never done the Otway Fly treetop walk, and it is definitely worth doing. My legs are complaining a bit about climbing the 40m tower to a total height above the ground of 75m. The walkway is already about 30m off the ground. We had done the treetop walk in SW WA a couple of times and loved it. Mr buffy liked this one better. I’m not sure. I just liked them both.
I’ve been talking with my sister. A lot. This morning her partner is arriving, so she and Dad will go to the airport to pick him up. I’m going to take the chance to chat to Mum on her own. She is a bit overwhelmed with everyone being around and I have to say, my sister has regained all her former bossiness since divorcing her controlling husband. So she is bossing Mum too. I guess she has to be able to order people, she works with teenage intellectually disabled people, so she has to be firm quite a bit. She may be being a little over zealous. But it won’t do any harm.
This afternoon our mission is to keep R awake to counter jetlag. So Mr buffy and my sister and R will be touring Mt Dandenong and then the whole lot of us are meeting at my youngest brother’s house for pizza and Dr Who. My youngest brother and his family are actually not there, but my Hobert brother has taken over the house for the week. Sort of house sitting, I guess.
My Hobart/engineer brother is trying to organize us all into stuff he wants to do, like Bond exhibitions and 3D Hobbit and stuff. My sister is rebuffing him on the stuff she isn’t interested in. The two 16 year old boys (my sister’s and my Hobart brother’s) are getting along very well, and Mr buffy is an honorary 16 year old boy too. They seem to accept him….
:)
It sounds like it is all happening there buffy. I am at my daughter’s waiting for baby due at the end of the month :) Will probably go and spend some time with my other daughter today too.
Woo dizzy heights re 75 mt off the ground. Glad it was you and not me :) My eldest girl loves the tree top walks and tries to find one wherever she is visiting.
Me and the man are just chilling here. He’s eating, going through leftovers. I’ve got some yard stuff to do so just spending the arvo pottering about.
The kids gave us a pressie, despite us explicably telling them not to. It’s a full weekend in an hotel apartment in the big smoke on the date in April when we go to see Mrs browns Boys show. They said not really an xmas present as a thank you for all the yummy foods.
They’ve lined themselves up to take a turn to stay over for a day and a night to look after animals. Beautiful kids.
Max’s ear infection is chronic and will need constant treatment, with not much break between bouts of medications. Poor thing, I’ve told him he has to make another year at least, and between us and the vet, we will keep him well.
Goodness me, everyone here must have real lives to lead.
We took my sister, her son and her partner to Healesville Sanctuary early this morning, before the crowds. I think my nephew is an animal whisperer. They all seemed to come towards him, look at him, or just be in the right place for him. We say the male lyrebird, the female was feeding the baby lyrebird, the wombat wandered around for us, and in most exhibits we had a really good look at the animals. By the time it got to midday for the free flight birds the crowds were really building up. We wandered around a bit more after that, although we were through the gates by 9.30am, so we had seen a lot already, and then headed back to Box Hill. I’m seriously thinking about going to the sanctuary midweek in Winter when we should have it mostly to ourselves.
I hope you are all enjoying yourselves. I will be back to my garden in a few days and will be able to report how it survives tomorrow’s heat without me there to give it drinks morning and evening….
still waiting for baby to decide to come. technically not due until NYE.
bluegreen said:
still waiting for baby to decide to come. technically not due until NYE.
Any movements yet?? :D
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
still waiting for baby to decide to come. technically not due until NYE.
Any movements yet?? :D
not yet…
Morning all. I’ve been having a blast with a sort of online reunion on FB with people I knew as a child in outback SA from camp towns along the TAR, Trans Australian Railways line.
It’s been fun remembering things we did and seeing faces of kids I went to outback school with. I have spent the best part of 40 years looking for one school friend and I at least now have a photo of her. But no one knows where she may be now. My search continues.
When I was 12, I ‘borrowed’ a yank tank from an American fellow who drinking with my parents and other parents, piled it full of kids and we took off to port augusta, went swimming off the pier, then drove back that evening, some 50 miles. We had a ball and we never said a word about where we’d been, siblings sworn to secrecy. But only the yank was suss’ and thought he was going mad when I pointed out his missing car was in the same spot it was earlier.
Now I’ve found that fellow on fb and I think it’s high time I owned up to him that it was me who stole his car, lol!
Happy Potter said:
Morning all. I’ve been having a blast with a sort of online reunion on FB with people I knew as a child in outback SA from camp towns along the TAR, Trans Australian Railways line.It’s been fun remembering things we did and seeing faces of kids I went to outback school with. I have spent the best part of 40 years looking for one school friend and I at least now have a photo of her. But no one knows where she may be now. My search continues.
When I was 12, I ‘borrowed’ a yank tank from an American fellow who drinking with my parents and other parents, piled it full of kids and we took off to port augusta, went swimming off the pier, then drove back that evening, some 50 miles. We had a ball and we never said a word about where we’d been, siblings sworn to secrecy. But only the yank was suss’ and thought he was going mad when I pointed out his missing car was in the same spot it was earlier.
Now I’ve found that fellow on fb and I think it’s high time I owned up to him that it was me who stole his car, lol!
The yank tank would have shown a remarkable decrease on the fuel gauge. This would alert the owner to the fact that someone has either moved my car or has been milking my petrol tank.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Morning all. I’ve been having a blast with a sort of online reunion on FB with people I knew as a child in outback SA from camp towns along the TAR, Trans Australian Railways line.It’s been fun remembering things we did and seeing faces of kids I went to outback school with. I have spent the best part of 40 years looking for one school friend and I at least now have a photo of her. But no one knows where she may be now. My search continues.
When I was 12, I ‘borrowed’ a yank tank from an American fellow who drinking with my parents and other parents, piled it full of kids and we took off to port augusta, went swimming off the pier, then drove back that evening, some 50 miles. We had a ball and we never said a word about where we’d been, siblings sworn to secrecy. But only the yank was suss’ and thought he was going mad when I pointed out his missing car was in the same spot it was earlier.
Now I’ve found that fellow on fb and I think it’s high time I owned up to him that it was me who stole his car, lol!The yank tank would have shown a remarkable decrease on the fuel gauge. This would alert the owner to the fact that someone has either moved my car or has been milking my petrol tank.
Ahh, I filled it, with money nicked out of my stepfathers wallet. Another dubious trick I learned, running around in the outback LOL
Happy Potter said:
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Morning all. I’ve been having a blast with a sort of online reunion on FB with people I knew as a child in outback SA from camp towns along the TAR, Trans Australian Railways line.It’s been fun remembering things we did and seeing faces of kids I went to outback school with. I have spent the best part of 40 years looking for one school friend and I at least now have a photo of her. But no one knows where she may be now. My search continues.
When I was 12, I ‘borrowed’ a yank tank from an American fellow who drinking with my parents and other parents, piled it full of kids and we took off to port augusta, went swimming off the pier, then drove back that evening, some 50 miles. We had a ball and we never said a word about where we’d been, siblings sworn to secrecy. But only the yank was suss’ and thought he was going mad when I pointed out his missing car was in the same spot it was earlier.
Now I’ve found that fellow on fb and I think it’s high time I owned up to him that it was me who stole his car, lol!The yank tank would have shown a remarkable decrease on the fuel gauge. This would alert the owner to the fact that someone has either moved my car or has been milking my petrol tank.
Ahh, I filled it, with money nicked out of my stepfathers wallet. Another dubious trick I learned, running around in the outback LOL
Very resourceful ;)
Hello Holidayers. We are home again. Numerous loads of washing are on the line – some is already inside and awaiting ironing. Tomorrow’s plan involves a bike ride, watering, grass mowing, weeding. Thursday and Friday I am working. Then on 2 weeks leave.
And just a few minutes ago, something very special happened here.
I went outside to hang clothes on the line (yes, in the twilight/dark). Happily hanging away and a large bird buzzes me. The fact that the wings were completely silent alerts me to it being an owl.
Get torch. Actually, it’s a tawny frogmouth. Still sitting out there on the branch it selected to watch me. There have been tawnies here before, but not for a couple of years. I wonder if it intends to sing tonight…