We went to the bush after breakfast. We cut down 3 trees and cut them up. One tree we only cut up half. We will do the rest tomorrow. There is one huge tree that fell over the road in the drought. We have been cutting it bit by bit. Maybe our chainsaws are too small now. Home for lunch. More cutting after lunch. Then home again and have tea. Then we started chopping up the wood. We took turns. Sometimes we must take a break for Magnus to eat some ants that came out of the wood. We had two meetings in the bush. Greg came and honked in the morning. In the afternoon Jay came by and waved like crazy and looked very happy. Some wine and pasta for dinner.
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Rainy day
No frost in June this year. That´s nice. But we need some sun. Veggies started out nicely but needs a bit more of Nature´sTLC.
Made Key Lime Tart. Just waiting to taste. 4 egg whites left over. Mick is making Coconut foam thingies.
Started trying to crack the black walnuts. Think I am getting some kind of hang of it but think they need to dry up a bit more like the macadamias. So I will leave them a bit longer. The trick is to lightly smash them on the right side and then they should come out nicely.
Anyway while they are drying a bit more it´s time to shell off the macadamias from their green soft outer part and let them dry a bit more.
A pademelon came all the way up to the house and jumped into the citrus grove. We had not seen them in a long time but they are back now.
Since it is raining a lot of clothes that needed mending and had piled up got fixed.
All is well in Comara.
Ingen frost i juni i år. Det är trevligt. Men vi behöver lite sol. Grönsakerna började bra men behöver lite mer av Nature’s vänlighet.
Gjorde Key Lime Tart. Väntar bara på att få smaka den. 4 äggvitor blev över. Mick gör Kokoballur (kokosbollar på isländska).
Började försöka knäcka de svarta valnötterna. Tror att jag har kommit på hur man gör men tror att de måste torka lite mer som makadamianötterna. Så jag kommer att lämna dem lite längre. Tricket är att lätt krossa dem på rätt sida och då ska de komma snyggt ut.
Hur som helst medan de torkar lite mer är det dags att peta av makadamierna sitt gröna, mjuka yttre del och låt dem torka lite mer.
En pademelon kom hela vägen upp till huset och hoppade in i citruslunden. Vi hade inte sett dem på länge men de är tillbaka nu.
Eftersom det regnar så blev det tid att laga lite kläder som börjat bli en hög.
Allt är bra i Comara. O yum nu får ja slicka skålen!
Sunday in June
Had a very productive Sunday.
Another day on the job
Jättetvätt på morgonen. Efter middagen började jag klippa gräset. Började nere vid bäcken. Hann upp till tvättlinan. Flyttade på de gamla rören från gamla vattenledningen från bäcken, sen flyttade på fyra stolar, sen fyllde på bensin, sen fyllde bensin från stora dunken till lilla dunken, sen var det dags för solen att gå ner bakom bergen så då måste tvätten in annars sätter den tunga daggpunkten in och gör den fuktig igen. In med tvätten alltså och in med bensindunkarna och in med två av stolarna som är tyg och metall. Sen var inte all tvätt torr så måste hänga upp den ena blöta pläden över vedspisen. Då åkte hela konkarongen i golvet och skruvarna ur träeet och då kom Mick in. Han hade varit uppe vid takförrådet och dragit upp lantanarötter. Alltså in med stegen och montera upp torkanordningen igen. Men först en kopp te och kolla hoppisarna som började komma ut ur vrårna. Och sen tillslut en dusch och en kopp te till.
Did a humongous amount of laundry this morning. After lunch mowed the lawn. Started down by the creek and worked up toward the house. Had to move some branches. Got to the laundry line. Had to move the old pipes from the old pipeline from the creek to the tank. We intend to try and use them to hang netting on for one of the new patches we have measured out. Mowed a bit more and had to move 4 chairs. Two of which had laundry on them. Then the sun began setting behind the mountain and as soon as that happens the dew sets in and the laundry gets damp so down with that and into the house. Then tried filling the small gas can from the bigger cannister. Took soooo long. After all this was done there was no use mowing any longer. Waved to one of the “gravel guys” who drove by. Took everything inside and put away pans and buckets. Then tried to hang one of the wetter wraps over where the wood fired stove is. then whole contraption came down and just then Mick stepped in. He had been pulling up Lantana roots by the Storehouse. So in with the ladder and fix the contraption and up with the wet wrap. A cuppa on the verandah, then shower and the day is done!
Tittut
Peekaboo
(Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus)
What can be found the fence post?
One day we were sawing up old half eaten fence posts that we had dug up. They were posted oddly under a tree. We put one on the saw horse and it seemed to have a loose heart sort of. It moved away but that is common with termite stricken wood or wood that is eaten by ants. We sawed it and were we lucky! The inside that moved was this little bottle! Who put it there and why? We will never know. Someone must have set it on the post and with the years it rotten down to the bottom. Or maybe put it there not knowing the post was hollow and it fell to the bottom and could not be retrieved. Oh well. Could have sawn right into it with the chainsaw. Scary!
What shall we eat today?
Most of the time food is not planned in advance. This year especially we have to make up everything as we go since it is not growing well in the patches. We have not made any home made salsa or cucumbers, those amounted to only two whereas last year we ate cucumbers coming out of our ears. So in the morning we decide what to eat. What is in the fridge and what is ready to be harvested in the patches.
Freezer prawns, rice fried with egg, swede, carrot, basil & parsley.
Next. We have many butternut pumpkins/squash this year. They are not big but have become a staple. Better like butternuts! Here is the days butternut soup with, again, prawns and some homegrown red capsicum and fresh oregano. There is something more green in there, might be green capsicum that was laying around in the fridge.
Kronan på verket. Nya rätter att göra av squashen? Halvera squashen och skåra den. Pensla med något gott fettigt. Kör i ugnen tills den är mjuk och fin, ca 1 tim. Senap, ost, hackade nötter som man gillar, örter som man har hemma och gillar och strö på och in i ugnen en kvart. Mumsmums. Eller vad man nu vill strö på.
Det gav idéen att köra squashen med något sött på istället, som sirap och nötter och lite smör eller liknande. Hmmmmmmm.
Flying visitor,
This guy came along one day. Usually he soars high up above the mountain range in circles, sometimes they are two. Two black flying spots.
Today it flew low down and sat down in the high grass for a while. 
Then came up and flew around our house in big circles for a while before disappearing up into the skies again.
Most probably a Spotted Harrier.
Corroborree
Time again for the pod to gather on lot 10 to duke it out!
Patch 1, ready for autumn
Här är ettan. Vi har snyggat till med brädor runt om. Här växer vitlök och längre bort några eftersläntande rädisor. Sen kommer oregano och persilja och bakom den växer två av basilikorna som vi fick på parkeringen i Kempan. Längst bort växer sötpotatis men det finns inga potatisar i marken ännu fast den har växt där så länge. 
Här är grönsakslandet från andra hållet. Vi har grävt upp resten av plädarna som låg i jorden eller under jorden. De hänger därborta på staketet och ser ut som ett dött djur.
Några dagar senare har vi sått lite till : Pak choi, Granat kål, purjo, rödbetor, bok choi, och mer rädisor. Av dem har redan rädisorna, bok choi’en och betorna tittat upp. Vädret är just nu som svensk senvår / försommar.