"len gardener" wrote in message
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great to see you mate you can chat with me anytime thru e/mail i'm all
ears, yup way things work i guess u never know it could change and we
could get to stay.

we impressed ourselves with how the pasture potential looks right now
without rain we have not only green grass but grass that is growing,
good stuff that pc and common sense hey? i could take all those pics
again and they would look even better. been slashing for fire breaks
and the create mulch that we desperately need and the grass won't stop
growing.

yep got your guest book message would like to have said hello but
we're chatting now that's what counts.

take care

len
Heyyy I'm supposed to be lurking :-)

We've just come through a drought year and what I reckon was the coldest
winter since the earth was born, but that could be just old bones feeling it
more.

Actually had snow blowing off of one of the mountain ranges we visited
recently (the Poms wouldn't call it real snow or probably even a mountain)
it was nearer than I'd ever wanted to get to that white stuff ever again.

During the drought our pasture actually improved in size and quality, the
"ex" worm beds are now a lush oasis of varied growth which I hoped would
have sustained a couple of pigs this year but I'd like it to get a little
bigger (in area) before I subject it to that. If sheep prices weren't so
high I would have a couple of lambs on there now, maybe next year will see
it feeding and housing a goose flock. till other stock are in my price
range.

We are still on (slight) water restrictions here even though the winter
rains were great, the "magic water" from our septic system has sustained all
the trees and salt bush windbreaks without needing any excess water and the
small horse paddock is the best its ever been due to better selective
grazing and better management. and of course the good rains.

The foxes ate all me chooks ... so I'm re decorating their old house to get
ready for some new girls.

The roo population has exploded and you can't drive at night anymore without
being pounced on or frightened half to death by a big red flashing (don't
start) past the bonnet of the car.

Spring feels like it has finally come and the mozzies are having to ask for
landing permission cos they are sooo big .... I feel like I've lost 2 pints
of blood this morning that's even through my pink catsuit (you know the one
you like to see me in)

But I digress........

We are goatless, pigless and now chookless ...been putting most of our
energy into some endurance hoss riding so the block has been taking care of
itself without any input from us, but with this season at an end now (for us
at least) I'll be making my presence felt in the tangle which was once my
raspberry bushes (is now a raspberry jungle) and forcing myself on nature by
slashing some snake havens down a bit... but apart from that mother nature
seems to have done a pretty good job of looking after the place for us while
we've been occupied.

take care Len, good to talk to ya again mate
Pete




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