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!
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!
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!
20170408 Saturday. Easter week is coming. Tomorrow is going to be a sunny day so we are planning to do laundry. Did a tour of the vegetable patches to see what has survived and where we can sow new greens. The vegs are slowly coming to life but sadly only slowly due to all the rain. We have had intermittent rain since the drought. Poor Mick was hoping to become at least summer vegan but no…. ok autumn vegan? Sorry no….. The ground is super soggy everywhere you go. Only grass is growing like crazy but we are not cows. The appendix is not working the way it should since generations back. Todays harvest is lots of parsley, broccolini – mainly the leaves but some tiny florets, 2 carrots, 3 wax beans and some Chinese cabbage – type pak choy.
After the flood
Today we went to Kemp to bulk up on food and visit the library.
Yesterday we walked up the slope with a shovel and a pick on P`s to check out the ruts and bog holes. We dug some ditches to lead the water off the road and thought we did a pretty good job.
Today on the way to K we brought the shovel and both chain saws. The little one that is new did not even start. Anyway we had to clear some branches big and smaller, some trees with vines on and one bigger which craved the big chain saw. Some larger stones had to be pushes off the edge too. Further on on the Kemp- Armidale road a big part of the mountain had slid down over the road but had just been cleared. Like: oh my gawd! After that it was just like any other day. Had a different lunch. Usually we have fish and chips because that was sort of a delicacy but now we have found not too expensive frozen barra in the store (not always) so fish is not a biggie anymore. Had a good salad and ribs at the pub. No visit to Bunnings today. On to Woolies and then home again. It took a big part of the day anyway since clearing the bush road took a bit of time.
Checked on the creek later and took a dip even. It was a bit milky greenish. The sand and beach have changed a lot again. It will be exciting to see how much.
Puny harvest during drought
Beets, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, parsley and lemongrass.
