Mrs. Australian King Parrot

Mr. Australian King Parrot

After rain Lilies but we still do not get enough rain.

So it is summer and Jul. We decided to combine hem this year and probably in the future. Midsummer-Yule wreath.

Here is the old Rudolf from Torrance, still going strong with his pointsettias and added some summer roses and tulips. We know tulips are spring flowers but so what.

Here is the smaller Yellow Guava starting to bloom. It has really come into it´s own since we took down the Liquid Ambar.

Here are the pointsettias Maki and Kalle gave us last Jul. They wre tiny tiny then. Thinking of relocating them into the garden one day but they do not really belong in the bush. We´ll see. Gardenia in the background.

Watered early in the morning, did laundry, dishes, made lunch and let it get cold before we ate. Sat mostly on the veranda and read or stared at the sky. Then we got clouds and they got darker and the we had some showers but they did not amount to more than 2.5 millimiters. Found an old James Bond in the drawers and watched that. Tried a Tarrantino first but it had the wrong area code. Hate area codes. Had boiled and chilled egg on sandwich in the evening. Yup it is that hot.

Oh yea sat around in the creek for a long long time. The creek is getting slimy and green with algae.

Did a big laundry, dishes, painted the bathroom vanity, filled water tank, began raining lightly and intermittently. Warm and humid day. Got not much more done. Made a yummy pasta prawn egg salad and had it cold for lunch. Had Tex Mex for din.

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!!!!!

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

Plants that have flowers right now:

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.

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.

Dill drying in a net

 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.