What can be found the fence post?

May 15, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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!

Food

What shall we eat today?

May 14, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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.

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Flying visitor,

May 13, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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.

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Corroborree

April 17, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

Time again for the pod to gather on lot 10 to duke it out!

Vegetables

Patch 1, ready for autumn

April 17, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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.

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April 11, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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.

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After the flood

March 22, 2017 aussiebarons Leave a comment

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.

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