I just had a bit of a chuckle at a comment I found in my spam folder.
“Great post! I am facing a couple of these problems.”
The thing that caught my fancy was that it was in reply to the post ‘Chook Poo’ Really… the mind boggles! 😀
Anyway – time and space. I seem to be running out of both! Anyone want a working holiday in Tassie?? haha. Side benefits? Raspberries. Soon.
I had to say goodbye to this patch of parsley. Its all going to seed, and there is enough in other parts of the garden to more than satisfy my needs. And I needed space.
I now have over 30 tomato plants scattered about – not including all the self seeded ones in the hothouse that I want to try to relocate out somewhere.
I am not sure if this is excessive yet or not. I will be cursing myself when I am knee deep in tomatoes and trying to process them all!!
Well – if they do well I hope I can sell a lot of the excess anyway.
So… onto my next space issue. Where to put 4 more zucchinis without having to hurt myself with weeding (that pretty much means I was not in the mood to tackle the duck yard today)
One of Margie’s sons, Simon, dropped our trailer back today full of Ruby’s old fence! Both the boys have been working hard around Ruby & Margies place cleaning up.
So this is another job added to my list – cut and split ready for next winter! I made a small start by emptying the trailer
I spent quite some time doing the rounds watering this evening. Some hand watering and other spots, letting the sprinkler do its thing. Its so lovely to have the bore water so I don’t feel bad about giving out every drop from our limited tank water supply (although they are still full due the the high rainfall)
It was a beautiful hot day! I enjoyed every second.
One more day and then its SUMMER!!!
Hope your day was also great
Cheers
I am always amazed by how much work and weeding you get done every day, and then you document it all for us! Careful about joking about the working holidays- when I began reading your blog and I was telling my husband about your adventures and Tasmania, he asked me if Tasmania was now on our bucket list of places to travel, ha ha! We have always wanted to visit New Zealand and that is on the same side of the world as you. Maybe once the children are out of the house, only another 14 years, LOL. I’m sure you will still have lots of projects even then ? And raspberries and ice cream are always a good wage for a hard day’s work.
lol – Chuck Tassie on your bucket list! Do it sooner and bring the kids! haha Goodness knows what we will be up to in 14 years! I don’t know what my plan is for tomorrow let alone next year 😀
NZ looks so beautiful, although I have never travelled there. My husband is really interested in going someday – more doable for us since its pretty close.
Its not raining again – yay. Better get a wriggle on and get outside!
Hahaha! We just got back from visiting the in laws in Ontario. I accidently broke two of my mother in law’s bowls then ran over their mailbox with her SUV, I don’t think I make a good houseguest LOL. All accidents though! I’m starting to reconsider NZ though, just saw photos of the 15′ tall wall created by the last earthquake.
Oh no!! You really had a bad run there! 🙂 The last person that ran into our letterbox had a massive dint in their car and not a scratch on the letterbox! (Its pretty sturdy lol)
Yes -NZ has had a bad run in recent times. Tasmania is more stable 🙂
Yeah. My in laws are super kind and laughed and forgave all. Their mailbox was very flimsy and they already ran over it themselves in the past so it barely left a mark on the bumper. My husband was able to stick it back into the ground but it definitely leans to the side now. Good to hear about your mailbox being so sturdy! And your island! I was wondering if you got a lot of hurricanes and earthquakes. I live on the prairies and we don’t have to worry about earthquakes.
lol – oopsie. Glad the letterbox kinda survived!!
I think we have felt a tremor once here, which really surprised me. I just thought it was a truck rumbling by. But we don’t get them like NZ We just get mad never ending wind!
What is it like on the prairies? (besides earthquakeless) 🙂
It can be very windy too. We live in a little bit of a forest so we are sheltered more but it makes the trees dance and sometimes fall over when the wind is crazy. I live in Central Alberta so we have flatter land and rolling hills, it is beautiful land. Our trees are pretty skinny and not thick and sprawling like the massive hardwood trees in Ontario or BC. The winters can be pretty cold (-25 deg, usually with a week of -30 every winter and even down to -40 with the wind chill, or even just that cold), but the sun still shines so your spirits can stay up. In the summer the sun finally goes down around 11 and starts to rise again before 4 am. Summer weather can be scorching hot (high 20’s and so on). Some snow, some rain, sometimes too much or not enough of both. We do have tornadoes and floods but no earthquake fault lines. We have a slough (a stagnant pond of water) and moose come in a lot to drink so we try to sneak up on them and watch them. We have mountains within a 4 hour drive to the West and land as flat as a ruler 4 hours to the South. I have seen snow in every month of the year here in Alberta, but it’s not a normal thing in the summer. How can you tell I’m an Alberta girl? Hahaha!
Thank-you! And wow. I can’t wrap my head around -40. haha – Scorching hot in the high 20’s? I can’t tell whether that after the cold weather of winter that high 20’s seems crazy hot for an Albertian, or if you are being gently sarcastic because high twenties isn’t so madly hot but thats as high as it goes in that state. Winters here generally aren’t close to that cold, but the summers I am used to (on the mainland) are early to mid 40’s – a dry heat too.
Everything where you live sounds so different to where we are! It would be amazingly cool to see a moose wander up to your watering hole!! 😀
Well, here it can get into the low 30’s in the summer and baking hot as well but this summer was so wet that I don’t remember us getting too hot for too long. We joked that we lived in British Columbia instead of Alberta. I know I walk around with a silly “Farmer’s Tan” from being outside so much in the summer so I do bake. The weathermen predict a very snowy and freezing winter so I’ll keep you updated, LOL. I think my area is rated a 2 for the zones for growing plants and I know that we had a random freezing night in the middle of June that killed my tomatoes and squashes. The children asked me today when spring will be here and I told them another 6 months.
The moose are amazing, they are my favourite animal. When you see a bull up close it is like watching a tree move, they are that big. When I am in the forest I smash and trip into everything and almost poke my eyes out on branches, but watching a moose run in the forest is like watching a ship smoothly plough through, even with their massive antlers! It’s awesome. Last spring a cow and her calf from the previous year were about 30 metres from our dining room window and played there for about 20 minutes before they took off, it was a lot of fun to watch. They look like the ugliest horse you’ve ever seen at first but after a few years they’ve grown on me. Ha ha!
The mainland is Australia, right? The place with 7 of the 10 world’s deadliest snakes? Yes, it does look pretty hot and dry on the TV. Does Tasmania get hurricanes and floods?
And my hens have finally begun to lay, yay!
The moose sound amazing! I have never seen one in real life. They seem huge even on tv! I like the way you describe them moving through the forest …. haha, and you! I also crash & fall my way indelicately through the bush! lol
lol – mainland Australia is just the rest of Australia. Tasmania is a state of Australia – just happens to be detached. And yes. I had one of those animals hanging out in the bathroom a couple of years ago!! (Tiger snake) (But its only 6th on the list of most deadly, so no worries)
Yes – we get hurricanes (mostly north in Australia) floods (in our yard this year) and quite bad flooding with freak weather. Fires are our big issue. Have had some pretty bad ones in the last few years.
Oh! Congratulations on the eggs! Isn’t it totally exciting???
I’ve told some of my friends about our conversation and we all agree that the high 20’s are pretty hot, LOL. And how your nonchalant attitude about the Tiger Snake is pretty crazy. The consensus is that we really enjoy the lack of horrifically poisonous (and large) snakes and bugs, and that the long, cold winters are a small sacrifice. Ha ha! We have had a lot of problems with forest fires too lately but not where I live though. And yes, the first egg was super exciting!
LOL – Snakes would be frozen solid up your way!! I caught a baby tiger snake in a bucket that was too close to the house and relocated it into the paddock… it was probably the one that grew up and ended up in the bathroom!