Tuesday : project fix the dunny

Gonna try to write a bit more often here. A bit of diary.

We have a lot of projects going on or listed. Before winter we started on setting up bathroom. We ended up going to the toilet all winter outside anyway. We set up a temporary shower just outside the verandah. It all worked out fine. Then one day after winter was over we got hold of vinyl flooring and glued half of it down. Put the toilet in there and voilá at least we are inside. But still no door. Windows will only be netting so the shower steam will go out easily. Anyway the sink is almost done and now we have started to work on the bathroom again. But we have to move a big pile of wood that lay under the verandah/bathroom so we started doing that before we can get under and figure out to position the drainage between the floor beams.

We have been sawing for two days and sorting and stuffing and pulling nails. There is still some under the floors and another pile that we might as well move while we´re at it. But we crawled under the floor and one on top to measure out where we shall fit the drain. And then it got too hot so we stopped and went to the creek instead.

Then we made ice cream. Just an experiment. The second Ice cream trial. It turned out yummy but need a bit of tweaking.

Our Magpies are still two but it seems to be two girls now. Or the mom and a baby who is either going to be a girl or is a not grown boy. Interresting. Magnus himself is gone but we call them all Magnus now. We have two kookas again and one has a sort of halfass laugh.

The wild fires are out except one and it is over in Taylors Arms upper. Right now we have thunder and a bit of lightning. We hope and hope it does not set fire to the bush. If it does we are in trouble with all the dry bush and grass around. Please give us rain!!!!!

Blooming and ripening 8 Nov

The garden is full of birds flying here and there eating from the nectar giving flowers.

Plants that have flowers right now:

Aloe
Aloe
The survivor of the three trees we relocated last spring
The survivor of the three trees we relocated last spring
Hibiscus-heterophyllus-subsp.-heterophyllus-Native-RosellaNative-Hibiscus.
Hibiscus-heterophyllus-subsp.-heterophyllus-Native-RosellaNative-Hibiscus.
Blooming for the first time
Blooming for the first time
Bottlebrush
Bottlebrush
Dill
Dill
Lomandra
Lomandra
Our first strawberries
Our first strawberries
Silky Oak
Silky Oak
Do not know these
Do not know these
White Clover
White Clover

No more Loquats. Now we will put the net over the grapes. We did a pretty hefty pruning on the grapes. We will see if we get more grapes than last year. Odd with grapes that fruit in the summer though.

Grapes ripening
Grapes ripening

They are working on the big road. Wonder how it will look when it is finished. Flat as Holland hopefully but first rain and a lorry and it will be back to 4-wheeling.

They are working on the big road. Wonder how it will look when it is finished. Flat as Holland hopefully but first rain and a lorry and it will be back to 4-wheeling.

The grass is mowed, the patches are weeded, the trees are pruned, the avocados are planted and most is coming to flowers or fruit so we only have to wait now and keep an eye on things. We can start working on other projects. Back to the bathroom for example and do some work on the new spot for the water tank. I want to get a patch for the wild raspberries (Rubus rosifolius,) and some blackberries that already grows there in order too. A new projects that we are doing is transforming the temporary shower cabin to a garden tool shed. Ohh there is never a moment without womething to do and figure out the best way of doing it.

Woah, just seeing two Rainbow Lorikeets in the Silky Oak! Nice having them around. They can get quite friendly. We are keeping an eye on our patches too. We might have to put netting over 3 and 4 by and by.

 

We are also keeping an eye on the bush fire that is slowly growing but allegedly under control. Luckily the wind is next to nothing otherwise it would probably not be under control.

Also we are trying to dry dill to store in jars instead of freezing.

Drying dill

Dill drying in a net

Avocado with barbed fencing Here is one of the avocados we have planted. It has a natural barbed wire so the wallabies will not eat the leaves until it has grown a bit. The barbed wire are wild lime trees.

Avocado with barbed fencing

 

This we have no idea but this year we have some flowers and seeds fruit whatever
This we have no idea but this year we have some flowers and seeds fruit whatever
This is our Macadamias beginning
This is our Macadamias beginning
Creek Sand paper fig is ripening
Creek Sand paper fig is ripening They are edible but pretty tasteless and tiny.

 

 

Fight for the meat

We threw two bones with some meat on it in the paddock for Magnus and Maggie who are nesting. They got competition straight away. Bruce the goanna finally even dragged the bones to it´s nest in an old tree.

But meanwhile Willie Wagtail, a raven, the magpies and the goanna fought over it. It is fun to see the little wagtail nipping at the big goanna and birds to chase them away. To no avail of course. dsc00982Magpie in the tree wondering what to do.

dsc00981Goanna is eating my food!

Crow gets some feedNow raven is also eating my food!

Maggie is helpingI need help! Maggie comes to help.

Where is he going?Bruce the Goanna wins!

dsc00971Brings all the bones to his nest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lazy Willie Wagtail

Haha lazy Willie Wagtail is stealing insects from the spiders web! Or is there a nest up there??

The garden is full of birds flying here and there eating from the nectar giving flowers.

Hard to take pics because they are up there in the tree tops against the sun.

Woah, just seeing two Rainbow Lorikeets in the Silky Oak! Nice having them around. They can get quite friendly. We are keeping an eye on our patches too. We might have to put netting over 3 and 4 by and by.