March highlight reel
Someone wise said you shouldn’t compare yourself to others’ facebook highlight reel. However, I’m getting very little time to write long blog stories nowadays, so [...]
Water
Sticks and stones – P Project part V
It’s getting to the pointy end of the project. We really wanted to get this done so we can introduce the birds at the start of the school holidays. It’s slowly getting [...]
Waterworks – P project part IV
The weekend was dedicated to waterworks. We’re using copper pipe because we don’t want plastic pipe inside the aviary where the birds can gnaw at it. And there’s a [...]
P Project Part II
And so the saga continues. I don’t really know why I called it the P project. It’s actually the A project – a big spacious walk-in aviary for small parrot type birds. A [...]
First winter rain
As we are busy experiencing our first bout of winter rain, it seems a good time to reflect on the strangest summer we have had – with regards to rainfall, anyway, since we [...]
Saturday Saturday Saturday
With compliments to sir Elton John… so, now you know what my kids get me into, or me them, I’m not too sure who can be held responsible. With the still relatively new [...]
Tumbling down
Wednesday dawned a bit brighter and clearer than the previous smoke-hazed days. It was a bit more pleasant out while setting the irrigation and letting the ducks and chooks [...]
Tanking up
Last summer was a costly one for us, especially at Dreamland. We had a newly planted edible forest garden, with new grass and clover paths, and it was blazingly hot and dry. [...]
Shelter from the storms
We’ve had a lot of rain last week, in addition to the previous big rain. In fact, we’ve now had four sunny days and our driveway still has so many puddles of water that [...]
Rabbits – grrrrr
I guess every place has their “pet” pests that you just battle to live with. Through my permaculture studies I have learnt a lot about integrated pest management, and we [...]