yeh a good chat will tempt a lurker everytime hey mate?

sounds like you've done wonderous things down your way as well or at
least helped or caused nature to do so, if we do get to stay a couple
of carves will be on agenda as we begin to grass fatten them to table
standard. we are chookless, gooseless and duckless at present as we
agve them away when we decided to sell 'cause we had so much other
work to do. shooda kept the chooks tho' with 20/20 hind sight.

we only ahve to deal with the eastern grey roos here not quiet as big
but we have our resident mob who like the food we provide through
improved grasses, plus our resident scrub wobblies, along with oodles
of birds have you checked my list it just keeps growing. we had a pair
of grebes nest on the dam for the first time this year they produced 2
yuong but the other night something (most likely someones cat) got 2
of them so we are back to 2 now, 1 missing bird must have been eaten
or carted off to show it's cough cough owners, the other looked like a
typical feline thrill kill.

our magpies have forgotten the art of nest site selection and nest
building, last year they built in the first fork of a qld blue gum 'um
red gum for the mex's south of the border, and the channel billed
cuckoos decimated the nest and killed 2 just ready to fledge birds, in
their plight to find a brooding pair of birds to hatch their eggs.
this year they built their flimsy nest in the most precarious site
higher in anotehr of those blue gums, but the nortehrly winds we've
had of late are destroying the nest so one 1/2 way to fledging bird
ended up on the ground dan the otehr 2 are hanging on precariously, so
hope they last through the night. meanwhile we are parenting the
yungen that ended up on the ground, something new for us it will got
to a carer on wednesday in gympie.

the only snkaes we've seen this season so far are 2 olive tree snakes
haven't seen any of the venomous buggers yet. we are lucky with
mossies unless they blow in from somewhere's else usually on
nortehrlies from up ted's way or fraser island we don't grow many of
our won so to date haven't need the mossy net and i don't look any
good in pink, seems to suit you better lol only joking only joking
knowing me i'm most likely enviouse.

we could use more rain but we have sufficient water all our own so any
restrictions are what we impose, did well with the brassicas still got
some coming along got our summer seeds up now. and we had our worst
frost every i tagged it as a bo-derek++ that's a 10++, even singed
young native eucalypts etc and the cabbages. ut then that's the price
we pay for removing all those trees west of the range.

you take care to pete, great chatting with you, like i say i'm all
ears.

did you note that my web addy has changed?

haven't got time to proof read this so the typo's will be B.A.D

len

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