Sunset cocky
This handsome fella enjoying the setting sun in a tree near the house. A pleasing bookend to the find of a dead elderly cocky in the small paddock earlier in the week (went straight into the burn pile). FYI, these guys can live up to 80 years old!
Jessie in Purple
New collar day! (in the correct size this time). Purple, because: queen.
Still breathing…
Still breathing…
Spring has definitely sprung
Ornamental grapevines enjoying the bright sun after 55mm (!!!) of rain fell in the last 36hrs.
Pobblebonks gonna pobblebonk
(Sound on!). Looks like a good crop of baby Western Banjo frogs (aka Pobblebonk frogs) coming up this season. Unfortunately probably means more snakes this summer? 😬
Covid-safe
Unfortunately buggerlugs’ ears, eyes, and nose form a perfect line so she can’t see with her mask on :(
30sq metres of clay
After shifting a previous fence line over a bit we gained an extra ~30sq metres of garden bed. Well, it needed to be painfully (and literally!) turned, into somewhat usable soil for two lime and two orange trees coming in the near future. . Also added a bunch of yellow sulphur powder to try to reduce the PH a little, as well as gypsum to break down the clay a bit, and sand to help with drainage. Add to that a heap of donkey pop and hay that was left over from the previous owners, and finally topped up with cypress tree mulch the lovely lads from the local council generously dumped a truckload of in our yard while doing routine tree cleanup earlier in the year. . I don’t cook much, but I hope this recipe gives us some good citrus in a couple years time 🤞😬🤞.