LUNCH on a brilliant Tassie Summer Day + #Snowcone

A late lunch after spending some time in the garden, the vegetable patch and a full morning for me in the studio. Roast pork, potatoes, homity pie and lettuce and tomatoes. 

 The plastic bag on the table is to take down to #Snowcone after we finish ours. She gets the outer leaves of vegetables out of the patch and tomatoe tops, potato skins and other kitchen scraps. 

 #Snowcone is quite the feature on our youtube channel. She is such a sweet natured dairy cow, now in retirement; my first experience with such a thing, at close quarters. When we feed her hay and pellets and I take down kitchen scrap snacks every couple of days to her, she is surrounded by turbo chooks and Walter our one-eyed wallaby.

A couple of videos of #Snowcone below.

Happy with these plants recently planted in various placements on the front block. I am now getting confused with my norths and souths so, I know which is the eastern block but this one out front is being called the front block as it sits next to east block but further the other way ... and then there are other blocks which i am yet to 'sort out' what to call so i know where i am !

  a lovely looking gum tree that was all of 4 inches high just a few weeks back - obviously happy in this environment that is full of gum trees (of a different variety to this one). This one looks to be quite showy with beautiful flowers attached to its gums and the leaf structure is different to the ones on the block.

yay ...this lovely japanese maple has returned .... day 1 it was planted and the wallabies striped it of its leaves ... i put the cage around it and watered and talked to it .... all good now by the looks of it. most pleasing.

the lovely belladonnas - a nice surprise when we arrived - they are jam-packed in there and the bulbs do need lifting and dividing which we talked about, a lot, and never got around to. hopefully this next season we will get to it - its on my TODO list. meantime those that are flowering look so lovely in this mass planting.

another yay ... we got the house number up ! (neaarly a year after moving in) after a big discussion about what to mount it on. (below)

The Eastern Block

 At the edge of a forest of gum trees behind wattle trees

along the creek line

from where the sun rises

you will find a set of gates

and on an old carpet, 2 metal chairs with a table

rusting.

Another glorious summer, along with which comes a drying of the blocks of pasture. Soon, the rains will come and all will green up again - the nature of cycles.

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ANOTHER MODEST HAUL & Tonight's stitching

 I see our first modest haul was a week ago which i posted here and yesterday was our second modest haul ... such an odd looking carrot .... twas very very sweet but i think the soil was too hard? it didnt go deep and become a 'pretty' carrot ... it grew wide. (as if the ground didnt allow it to go deep?). any ideas ?

The cabbages are being picked but here too (learning curve) ... i found a few were very small in comparison to the larger ones that grew and the little ones have a dusty kind of mould through the outer layers. the heart is good and #Snowcone gets the rest so all is not lost ... just a learning thing as we go along. Hoping to improve at it.

and tonight's stiching

MIA - I havent seen this guy in ages

 This echidna came walking down the drive at the front of the house ... walked right by my feet ... when you see him go into a ball (at the 11 second mark) its because he hears the click of my camera ... you can hear it too if you listen.

so many wonderful characters of wildlife here. such a joy to experience.

Later in the same week i found him amongst the plantings in the turning circle.

Happy FIsh

this image of my goldfish - titled 6 seconds as that is the time it took as the fish was moving across the outdoor tank. more about the fish & image here

I have 2 goldfish that have been with me for many years ... 'big red' has been around for nearly 20 years and Blondie about 12 years.  They live in an outdoor concrete tank - the tank, originally created for plantings but i plugged the hole and made it a space for the fish.  

another one here of happy fish