From our 4 varieties of Cherry trees only planted last year, I did not expect to harvest anything. However, we did manage to get a few hundred grams of yummy cherries. Yum
Category Archives: Around the house
Wild weather
Another 40 odd mm of rain last night combined with the 64mm in 2 hours last Friday means there’s only 3 words I have: wet, wet, wet. Unlike our neighbors, we didn’t have our paddocks, driveways, and sheds wash away, although we did experience some scouring in the bend of our drive as the torrent came through. Our emergency trenching when we had the 90+mm downpour on that day in August has served us well…
Little things
Having a play with the flash with a bounce card and 85mm macro lens. The cricket was from a while back, but the spider (lots and lots of bugs, creepy crawlies & spiders right now) decided to cast its web over the back door threshold which ends in the dual result of my screaming high pitchedly like a teenage girl, and then almost immediately thinking that I should get the camera. I discovered a few dead moths cleaning up in the shed (I was cleaning the shed, not the moths)…
Courtyard progress
Anna & her mum are hard at work preparing & pebbling the courtyard. As well as the preparation, they finished the rock work: about 4 tonnes in all (very bendy ute suspension!)
It must be Christmas
Only the 3rd of December and already have been to 2 Christmas functions. At least the manic nature of being a retail proprietor is no longer on my shoulders (Christmas planning in the industry starting around June/July!) Here’s some sunset pictures from the northern shore of the lake at the Friends of Mt Leura Chrissy event.
Walk around the wetland
I thought some assorted wetland photos would be nice to use for my DSLR course homework (this week aperture & shutter speed). Spotted ducks, red-beaked swamp hens, masked lapwings, herons and willy wagtails. Heard lots of frogs.
Spitfires on the move
As the 13 year old who stayed with us recently (yes, you, Thea) might be moved to say: “Ewww…”
So much for a quiet Sunday
The morning calm was interrupted by the incursion of cattle into the wetland. Upon closer inspection, an old cypress which has been progressively dropping limbs had taken out a section of fence (thus allowing opportunistic bovine to access yummy greens).
Red Back Spider
Here’s a critter you don’t want to find investigating your clothes horse full of freshly laundered apparel (which is in fact where I discovered it)
What a difference rain makes
The wetland started filling after the deluge of 10 Aug 2010, having been dry for almost 4 years. Ducks appeared the very next day. No nesting swans yet.
