Spring and other things.............
Charlie
It's spring, Amber has grown, Tagasaste trees are flowering and the
oaks are starting to move. We have had some rain and the world looks
brighter for this season at least. We have four individuals of our
native wildlife in care at the moment. Amber, as seen in the picture
attached and also Percival, Jake and Titch, three wombats of various
weights and sizes whose pictures will have to be posted in another
missive. Late night telephone calls, trips that carry us into the early
mornings to rescue a baby, and two three and four hour feeding regimes
keep us in one day of light and dark and sleep and eat as we can,
though the most arduous of these routines don't fall to me directly in
most cases.
I hope that everyone is well, mailing list traffic has been slow and
the world turns without a great deal of improvement. But there is some
which can be detected and this where it matters most, in peoples
thinking. More and more people are looking at the climate and
wondering, is this really climate change of just a dry/wet year? The
answer can't be known for certain, but with so many people populating
the planet and so much change which is revolutionary instead of
evolutionary we have to accept the fact that people are making a
difference, but as some of us will know, a difference in the wrong
direction. It can be altered, so we continue to live by example and
hope we're not being too reclusive or subtle so that no one notices.
Stay well,
Charlie
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Steve
Your garden looks good! Would you be willing to post a few more
photos of it sometime?
When is you last frost date, usually?
We're just trying to get a bit of a fall/winter garden going..
Bermuda doesn't freeze, so if it's a mild winter, one can be fairly
productive.
No direct hits by hurricanes yet (knock on wood).
Peace,
Steve.
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the
establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever
governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people,
they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army
upon their ruins."
~ Elbridge Gerry
Charlie
alltrees-allpeo...@googlegroups.com put these thoughts to
the keyboard and sent:
>Hi Charlie,
>
>Your garden looks good! Would you be willing to post a few more
>photos of it sometime?
>
>When is you last frost date, usually?
>
>
>We're just trying to get a bit of a fall/winter garden going..
>Bermuda doesn't freeze, so if it's a mild winter, one can be fairly
>productive.
>No direct hits by hurricanes yet (knock on wood).
>
>Peace,
>
>Steve.
>--
>"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the
>establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever
>governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people,
>they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army
>upon their ruins."
>
>~ Elbridge Gerry
>
Hello Steve,
Nice to hear from you again and yes, will post more pictures of our
garden. You must have a lovely and productive garden yourself. I can
only imagine from what I've seen on television and from my own
experience of cyclones and cyclonic conditions the havoc a hurricane
can wreak, not only to a garden.
Our garden is a constant and unpredictable dynamic like any living
entity, but out of step with the rest of the land around it. Mainly
because we do water it, mainly from the small dam on the property, when
it contains water, and rainwater tanks when we have spare of that which
is usually saved to fight bushfires.
Apart from that we get frosts as late as the start of summer, and
extremes of both hot and cold. Frosts are unpredictable and can come at
any time. It's not unusual but really frustrating to have frosts
and/or snow on the higher peaks round about at Christmas. You will
know our Christmases is usually hot - really hot, even here in the
mountains.
We have three main garden areas, picking the eyes out of the best soil
types on the place:
* The shearing shed garden in the gully. Which is Ambers home till she
is ready to go further afield and return as long as she likes, and
finally stay away when ready.
* The cottage garden, this in front of the cottage again in the gully.
* The upper dam paddock, which is really an orchard and houses our two
geese.
* The vegetable garden.
There is the bridge yard, but we really do very little with that area
other than harvest grass for the native animals that we rescue and
succour.
All these are accessed by our many Pekin bantams and all have various
trees in them.
The poultry fertilise the garden and keep the grass and weeds in check
to some extent. They also keep the insects down to reasonable numbers
with the help of the small native birds, silvereyes and weebills who
love aphids.
Attached is a pic of of the apple trees and Lucy and Geoffery's night
time security pen in the upper dam paddock, and looking along the path
of the shearing shed garden.
Be well,
Charlie
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the
first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as
he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not
foretell how he would behave then.....Henry David Thoreau
