Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

roughbarked said:

Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

Sign of how quiet it is here these days… the whole month’s chat in the lhc.

We had some great rain a fortnight ago, so we threw some fert around and laid a new bed of mulching straw around the vegies. Everything stood up and appreciated the extra attention. But then the night time temps this week have been nudging 10º and pretty much everything has stopped.

Some of our curcubits are happy though…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

Sign of how quiet it is here these days… the whole month’s chat in the lhc.

We had some great rain a fortnight ago, so we threw some fert around and laid a new bed of mulching straw around the vegies. Everything stood up and appreciated the extra attention. But then the night time temps this week have been nudging 10º and pretty much everything has stopped.

Some of our curcubits are happy though…

Some of my nightime temps nudge 10˚ but I mean up towards. Whatever is in the garden when winter comes, may grow or may simply turn black.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

Sign of how quiet it is here these days… the whole month’s chat in the lhc.

We had some great rain a fortnight ago, so we threw some fert around and laid a new bed of mulching straw around the vegies. Everything stood up and appreciated the extra attention. But then the night time temps this week have been nudging 10º and pretty much everything has stopped.

Some of our curcubits are happy though…

Some of my nightime temps nudge 10˚ but I mean up towards. Whatever is in the garden when winter comes, may grow or may simply turn black.

This is our best time of year to get things going… daytime temps are 24-30º, but it is interesting to see that our “relatively” chilly night time temps do slow things down.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Sign of how quiet it is here these days… the whole month’s chat in the lhc.

We had some great rain a fortnight ago, so we threw some fert around and laid a new bed of mulching straw around the vegies. Everything stood up and appreciated the extra attention. But then the night time temps this week have been nudging 10º and pretty much everything has stopped.

Some of our curcubits are happy though…

Some of my nightime temps nudge 10˚ but I mean up towards. Whatever is in the garden when winter comes, may grow or may simply turn black.

This is our best time of year to get things going… daytime temps are 24-30º, but it is interesting to see that our “relatively” chilly night time temps do slow things down.

Same here. Best time because the moisture is here. Flat out getting anything going when the humiidity is 10%

off to vote

roughbarked said:

Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

Thank you.

AussieDJ said:

roughbarked said:

Thought I’d save AussieDJ the effort.

Thank you.

No probs. It wasn’t difficult.

It is this time of year again.

When dry arid places suddenly become green.

think pink

painmaster said:

off to vote

And still waiting on a result. Although my electorate has been Liberal since Malcolm Fraser won it back in 1955, so there will be no surprises here.

buffy said:

painmaster said:

off to vote

And still waiting on a result. Although my electorate has been Liberal since Malcolm Fraser won it back in 1955, so there will be no surprises here.

My electorate stayed the same. Still National, though the empty square where Labor should have been simply meant that vote went to the next person on the card.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

painmaster said:

off to vote

And still waiting on a result. Although my electorate has been Liberal since Malcolm Fraser won it back in 1955, so there will be no surprises here.

My electorate stayed the same. Still National, though the empty square where Labor should have been simply meant that vote went to the next person on the card.

I just wish any party would be seen to bee’ngreen.

oops I meant to post this..

roughbarked said:

It is this time of year again.

When dry arid places suddenly become green.

loverly.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

It is this time of year again.

When dry arid places suddenly become green.

loverly.

It truly is magic when some wet stuff arrives.

only 4mm here today, but a drizzly kind of Scotch mist which makes the plants happy.

Zuchinnis are looking good.

Cool fungi shot Roughy…

only 4mm here today, but a drizzly kind of Scotch mist which makes the plants happy.

Zuchinnis are looking good.

Cool fungi shot Roughy…

Going under the knife next week :(

Got a tumour in the lung (no, I have never smoked and it is not that sort of cancer) and it’s got to come out.

bluegreen said:

Going under the knife next week :(

Got a tumour in the lung (no, I have never smoked and it is not that sort of cancer) and it’s got to come out.

Hope it goes according to plan BG, sending wishes your way.

painmaster said:

bluegreen said:

Going under the knife next week :(

Got a tumour in the lung (no, I have never smoked and it is not that sort of cancer) and it’s got to come out.

Hope it goes according to plan BG, sending wishes your way.

Best wishes from me too.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

bluegreen said:

Going under the knife next week :(

Got a tumour in the lung (no, I have never smoked and it is not that sort of cancer) and it’s got to come out.

Hope it goes according to plan BG, sending wishes your way.

Best wishes from me too.

Thanks

best wishes from me too bg.

trichome said:

best wishes from me too bg.

thanks trichome

We are still waiting for the specialists to determine what type of treatment to apply to this resurfacing of the lymphoma that Mrs rb was in remission from. The specialist seems to think that things have changed dramatically and they’ve not yet informed us. Thus treatment has been delayed from beginning for weeks.

Sometimes the hardest part of not being 100% is the not-knowing component…

painmaster said:

Sometimes the hardest part of not being 100% is the not-knowing component…

It ain’t easy, this is true.

roughbarked said:

We are still waiting for the specialists to determine what type of treatment to apply to this resurfacing of the lymphoma that Mrs rb was in remission from. The specialist seems to think that things have changed dramatically and they’ve not yet informed us. Thus treatment has been delayed from beginning for weeks.

It’s very hard when you don’t know what is happening and you are just waiting on results. I know. I have been going through that too. I would get a scan of some sort and think, a couple of days and we will know, only to find out that they still don’t know and you need another test or scan.

Well, the specialist called and said that another meeting will be held tomorow but that he will be starting Mrs rb on a trial of bendamustine-rituximab to treat the resurgence of follicular B-cell nonhodgkin lymphoma.

roughbarked said:

Well, the specialist called and said that another meeting will be held tomorow but that he will be starting Mrs rb on a trial of bendamustine-rituximab to treat the resurgence of follicular B-cell nonhodgkin lymphoma.

So, the waiting to finalise a decision on treatment continues.

G’day green ones.

BG I’m thinking of you, hope all goes well and they get it out in total. You too RB.

I had a bcc, basal skin carcinoma on the bridge of my nose. Just a sore that wouldn’t stop weeping and wasn’t healing, stung and bled when touched. Off to the doc for a few appts..skin scrape done and initial dx confirmed. I went home with a wad of paperwork, specialist referral and a skin cream to help take the fire out of it. They would cut the bigger area out and replace the upper boney bridge of my nose with bone from my hip.
Just the thought of more drs more hosp stays and horrible pain medication, money for specialists, recovery, argh, no way. I didn’t follow up.

For every ailment that mankind can put a name to there’s an alternative natural treatment/ cure.

Apart from ditching sugar, eating apricot kernels and bombing myself with vit c, I used a home made plant extract oil. Not legal so I can’t talk about it. My doc is on board and is watching with more than a little interest. I was advised to get a juicer and drink smoothies made with my own fruit and veg. But I don’t like juicing everything together, I’d much rather eat whole fruits and vegetables.

One week the sore disappeared. I kept up the ointment for three weeks. That was months ago and there’s nothing to see on my nose anymore, just normal skin.

Oh and I planted more fruit trees, an apricot, two pomegranates (ben hur and.. can’t remember the name of the other one) acerola cherry, and two figs one white fig and a genoa.
Been getting visits from foxes but they can’t get through the pens we’ve built. We put a solar nightlight on the big pen, just enough light to pick up whatever moves in and around the pen on a light sensitive cam.
And more salvias, lots of different colours. Love the fire engine red flowers of the pineapple sage.

Happy Potter said:

I had a bcc, basal skin carcinoma on the bridge of my nose. Just a sore that wouldn’t stop weeping and wasn’t healing, stung and bled when touched. Off to the doc for a few appts..skin scrape done and initial dx confirmed. I went home with a wad of paperwork, specialist referral and a skin cream to help take the fire out of it. They would cut the bigger area out and replace the upper boney bridge of my nose with bone from my hip.
Just the thought of more drs more hosp stays and horrible pain medication, money for specialists, recovery, argh, no way. I didn’t follow up.

For every ailment that mankind can put a name to there’s an alternative natural treatment/ cure.

Apart from ditching sugar, eating apricot kernels and bombing myself with vit c, I used a home made plant extract oil. Not legal so I can’t talk about it. My doc is on board and is watching with more than a little interest. I was advised to get a juicer and drink smoothies made with my own fruit and veg. But I don’t like juicing everything together, I’d much rather eat whole fruits and vegetables.

One week the sore disappeared. I kept up the ointment for three weeks. That was months ago and there’s nothing to see on my nose anymore, just normal skin.

There is research into Euphorbia peplus. It’s quite promising actually.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10184.x/abstract;jsessionid=904B97BD4E91955E6BB02F558A77FF82.f01t03?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

buffy said:

Happy Potter said:

I had a bcc, basal skin carcinoma on the bridge of my nose. Just a sore that wouldn’t stop weeping and wasn’t healing, stung and bled when touched. Off to the doc for a few appts..skin scrape done and initial dx confirmed. I went home with a wad of paperwork, specialist referral and a skin cream to help take the fire out of it. They would cut the bigger area out and replace the upper boney bridge of my nose with bone from my hip.
Just the thought of more drs more hosp stays and horrible pain medication, money for specialists, recovery, argh, no way. I didn’t follow up.

For every ailment that mankind can put a name to there’s an alternative natural treatment/ cure.

Apart from ditching sugar, eating apricot kernels and bombing myself with vit c, I used a home made plant extract oil. Not legal so I can’t talk about it. My doc is on board and is watching with more than a little interest. I was advised to get a juicer and drink smoothies made with my own fruit and veg. But I don’t like juicing everything together, I’d much rather eat whole fruits and vegetables.

One week the sore disappeared. I kept up the ointment for three weeks. That was months ago and there’s nothing to see on my nose anymore, just normal skin.

There is research into Euphorbia peplus. It’s quite promising actually.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10184.x/abstract;jsessionid=904B97BD4E91955E6BB02F558A77FF82.f01t03?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Yes that’s a great one too :) I also steeped dried calendula petals in olive oil for several months, then strained and added beeswax and made skin salve blocks in small moulds with a little cotton string, a lar soap on a rope.. fab on dry skin. Olive oil would do that on it’s own, but the calendula helps keep an even skin tone and is healing. I love it.
Next is making olive leaf extract with a friends small distiller.

Happy Potter said:

buffy said:

Happy Potter said:

I had a bcc, basal skin carcinoma on the bridge of my nose. Just a sore that wouldn’t stop weeping and wasn’t healing, stung and bled when touched. Off to the doc for a few appts..skin scrape done and initial dx confirmed. I went home with a wad of paperwork, specialist referral and a skin cream to help take the fire out of it. They would cut the bigger area out and replace the upper boney bridge of my nose with bone from my hip.
Just the thought of more drs more hosp stays and horrible pain medication, money for specialists, recovery, argh, no way. I didn’t follow up.

For every ailment that mankind can put a name to there’s an alternative natural treatment/ cure.

Apart from ditching sugar, eating apricot kernels and bombing myself with vit c, I used a home made plant extract oil. Not legal so I can’t talk about it. My doc is on board and is watching with more than a little interest. I was advised to get a juicer and drink smoothies made with my own fruit and veg. But I don’t like juicing everything together, I’d much rather eat whole fruits and vegetables.

One week the sore disappeared. I kept up the ointment for three weeks. That was months ago and there’s nothing to see on my nose anymore, just normal skin.

There is research into Euphorbia peplus. It’s quite promising actually.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10184.x/abstract;jsessionid=904B97BD4E91955E6BB02F558A77FF82.f01t03?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Yes that’s a great one too :) I also steeped dried calendula petals in olive oil for several months, then strained and added beeswax and made skin salve blocks in small moulds with a little cotton string, a lar soap on a rope.. fab on dry skin. Olive oil would do that on it’s own, but the calendula helps keep an even skin tone and is healing. I love it.
Next is making olive leaf extract with a friends small distiller.

Calendula is a great healer of any layer of skin. Skin is only skin deep? Calendula heals from below the skin up.

buffy said:

There is research into Euphorbia peplus. It’s quite promising actually.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10184.x/abstract;jsessionid=904B97BD4E91955E6BB02F558A77FF82.f01t03?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Petty Spurge tends to be found anywhere the ground has been disturbed.

I’ve used petty spurge on a suspect recurring sore. It took 2 goes but it has cleared.

Hello, I survived the operation. Now I have just got to survive the hospital food! Actually it is not too bad. I am in Royal Melbourne.

bluegreen said:

I’ve used petty spurge on a suspect recurring sore. It took 2 goes but it has cleared.

Hello, I survived the operation. Now I have just got to survive the hospital food! Actually it is not too bad. I am in Royal Melbourne.

Good. :)

Lachanalias, miniature daffodils, heliotrope, and violets all out now.

Have been spending enjoyable time tying up snow peas. A bit of pruning and all that.

got stuck into the jungle today and a few dead trees were removed and a few live trees were placed into the ground…

I’ve been out to the bush. Pruned bracken back from the fence with the hedging shears. Remarkably efficient. Also photographed fungi and a nodding greenhood orchid.

bluegreen said:

Hello, I survived the operation. Now I have just got to survive the hospital food! Actually it is not too bad. I am in Royal Melbourne.

Hello BG, wishing you the best :)

I have miles of repotting to do, best make a start on it tomorrow, a good clean up is required :)

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

Hello, I survived the operation. Now I have just got to survive the hospital food! Actually it is not too bad. I am in Royal Melbourne.

Hello BG, wishing you the best :)

Thank you. They are saying I might be going home today (to my daughter’s.)

bluegreen said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

Hello, I survived the operation. Now I have just got to survive the hospital food! Actually it is not too bad. I am in Royal Melbourne.

Hello BG, wishing you the best :)

Thank you. They are saying I might be going home today (to my daughter’s.)

Excellent.

fantastic to go home from hospital, hospitals are such a busy place, you might get some rest at your daughters :)

got some repotting done today, miles more to go

trichome said:

fantastic to go home from hospital, hospitals are such a busy place, you might get some rest at your daughters :)

My first night was not fantastic. I am sure they will get better. Something to be said for having staff wait on your every need 24/7.

sorry about that, I hope they get better soon

Finally after all sorts of retesting and a barrage of think tanks, the specialists have now come to a conclusion on what treatment to give, though it isn’t on the PBS so I should say charge. Anyway the upshot is that Mrs rb is now getting teatment.

roughbarked said:

Finally after all sorts of retesting and a barrage of think tanks, the specialists have now come to a conclusion on what treatment to give, though it isn’t on the PBS so I should say charge. Anyway the upshot is that Mrs rb is now getting teatment.

I hope it is effective.

I am home now, with my younger daughter here to look after me.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Finally after all sorts of retesting and a barrage of think tanks, the specialists have now come to a conclusion on what treatment to give, though it isn’t on the PBS so I should say charge. Anyway the upshot is that Mrs rb is now getting teatment.

I hope it is effective.

I am home now, with my younger daughter here to look after me.

Good to hear you are home. And you have someone there to care for you. Speedy recovery BG!

painmaster said:

bluegreen said:

I am home now, with my younger daughter here to look after me.

Good to hear you are home. And you have someone there to care for you. Speedy recovery BG!

ditto. :)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

bluegreen said:

I am home now, with my younger daughter here to look after me.

Good to hear you are home. And you have someone there to care for you. Speedy recovery BG!

ditto. :)

thanks

I suppose gazillions of drowned worms, mostly of baby size, means the soil is now waterlogged. I noticed the creek was just breaking the banks last night as I drove home. Going to Hamilton shortly. I’ll see how things are going there. There was some rain during the night.

buffy said:

I suppose gazillions of drowned worms, mostly of baby size, means the soil is now waterlogged. I noticed the creek was just breaking the banks last night as I drove home. Going to Hamilton shortly. I’ll see how things are going there. There was some rain during the night.

It means that some worms drowned, yes.