If you're still about @Hostafan1, I've found some more new plants today, near the well, one looks fine and is obviously a Hosta, and is quite happy where it is.
The other has been trampled on by the builder, but I also think possibly a Hosta? Can you confirm for me please? I will try and dig it up if it is and move it to my new Hosta bed, I want the well area to be just for Empress Wu.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Wow, that took me ages to read back. But glad to know what you’re all doing. We are experiencing minus mornings here, but the days are up to about 18c.
DD, I’m amazed at the difference you’ve made in your place. Well done you.
Obelixx, I simply love reading about your chooks and wish I could do something similar for rescued chooks here, but we are not big egg eaters and we have problems with foxes and eagles etc. which would make it very difficult. I’ll just let you do all the work and enjoy your fires progress. 😂😂
Nanny Beach, I’m glad you’ve made progress on the eighbour issue. Hopefully it’ll fade away in time.
Wonky, lovely to hear about your generous help for the family. I hope things even out soon.
Dove, your ice photo could have been taken here, except the bird bath has been splashed all over by the parrots and I haven’t been out to refill it.
Speaking of “those” phone calls, I’m getting at least 3 a day and am getting a bit rude to them. My daughter has put a loud whistle next to the phone and she blows a very loud noise in their ears.😃
I was getting fed up with the bowl of roadside apples that my son and I picked several weeks ago, so sliced them all up yesterday and when Hubby came back, I said maybe you’d like to do something with these. We now have heaps of apple pies and turnovers in the freezer.😂
Good morning all 😊 no ☕️ yet ... I’ve been watching a beautiful almost full moon sink down beyond the horizon.... I was woken by blackbirds ... it’s that time of year ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oooh hello @Pat E 😊 you snuck in there while I was posting ... I’m just going to tiptoe down and put the kettle on ... I won’t make one for OH ... he’s still sleeping deeply and doesn’t have to go to work today, so I’ll try not to wake him ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’ve noticed at least two spelling mistakes on my past message. 😡 darned spell checker gets in before I notice.
Obelixx, not sure what “fires” was supposed to be. 🤔 Nanny Beach. I meant neighbours!
After reading all the comments about heating issues, I’ve thought about our situation.
If we wanted gas, we’d have to pay a truck to cart large gas cylinders out from town which is a 50 km return trip, so we’re not doing that.
When we first put the solar panels on, it was an expensive outlay, ($13,751 in 2010, but the electricity company was paying us 60c per kw hours to pay us for the power we were generating. The pay back has now dropped to 12c but we had caught up with our original outlay by the end of 2011. So even though they are cheating us out of some of the power we generate for them, we broke even after a couple of years. No real complaints.
We burn wood in the wood heater in the cold months and that is what we collect from our own 100 acres. While I realise that burning wood is burning fossil fuel, in our situation it’s important to keep bushfire control on our block as much as we can, so we clean up as much as we can. 🙄
We don’t have water mains in our village and have to supply our own water. That means collecting rain water when we can. We don’t use the river water. We haven’t forgotten the anecdote from our neighbour who told of the time he visited a farmer up river from us and found him with his trailer and spray tank straddling the river and cleaning out his spray tank after weed spraying. 😳
such fun on the farm. 😁
On a happier note, I rescued some Viola tricolour and Allysum that had self seeded and I transplanted them into a little pot. I like looking out of the window each morning when I draw back the curtains and enjoying their bright faces.
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The other has been trampled on by the builder, but I also think possibly a Hosta? Can you confirm for me please? I will try and dig it up if it is and move it to my new Hosta bed, I want the well area to be just for Empress Wu.
Obelixx, I simply love reading about your chooks and wish I could do something similar for rescued chooks here, but we are not big egg eaters and we have problems with foxes and eagles etc. which would make it very difficult. I’ll just let you do all the work and enjoy your fires progress. 😂😂
Nanny Beach, I’m glad you’ve made progress on the eighbour issue. Hopefully it’ll fade away in time.
Wonky, lovely to hear about your generous help for the family. I hope things even out soon.
I was getting fed up with the bowl of roadside apples that my son and I picked several weeks ago, so sliced them all up yesterday and when Hubby came back, I said maybe you’d like to do something with these. We now have heaps of apple pies and turnovers in the freezer.😂
no ☕️ yet ... I’ve been watching a beautiful almost full moon sink down beyond the horizon.... I was woken by blackbirds ... it’s that time of year ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Obelixx, not sure what “fires” was supposed to be. 🤔
Nanny Beach. I meant neighbours!
We burn wood in the wood heater in the cold months and that is what we collect from our own 100 acres. While I realise that burning wood is burning fossil fuel, in our situation it’s important to keep bushfire control on our block as much as we can, so we clean up as much as we can. 🙄
We don’t have water mains in our village and have to supply our own water. That means collecting rain water when we can. We don’t use the river water. We haven’t forgotten the anecdote from our neighbour who told of the time he visited a farmer up river from us and found him with his trailer and spray tank straddling the river and cleaning out his spray tank after weed spraying. 😳
such fun on the farm. 😁
On a happier note, I rescued some Viola tricolour and Allysum that had self seeded and I transplanted them into a little pot. I like looking out of the window each morning when I draw back the curtains and enjoying their bright faces.