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Im a Lurker :)
Just thought that I would let you guys know that there are probably more
than just a few of us out here... Im from West Australia (origionally from Canada). I am a new recruit to the permaculture way....It is a way of living that has always facinated me....Here to learn......Nice meeting everyone.... Laura |
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Im a Lurker :)
g'day laura,
welcome aboard, give us all the gossip on what you are doing we don't mind listening and offering advice. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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Im a Lurker :)
"Bugsy" wrote in message ... Just thought that I would let you guys know that there are probably more than just a few of us out here... Laura There are indeed :-) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 29/09/2003 |
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Im a Lurker :)
is this me old mate from the south? g'day pete, lurking is what
happens lots around here nowadays. take care len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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Im a Lurker :)
"len gardener" wrote in message ... is this me old mate from the south? g'day pete, lurking is what happens lots around here nowadays. take care len 'fraid so Len :-) , did ya get my guestbook message? Your place is looking great, pity things haven't worked out as you'd have liked. Pete --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 29/09/2003 |
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Im a Lurker :)
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 snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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Im a Lurker :)
"len gardener" wrote in message ... 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 29/09/2003 |
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Im a Lurker :)
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 snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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Im a Lurker :)
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 snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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