tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84413044177969042062024-01-10T01:50:51.786-08:00Badger FarmDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-84558918402612812442016-08-20T19:21:00.001-07:002016-08-20T19:21:10.463-07:00Catching up with an old friend.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Catching up with an old friend.<br />I think Dianne was the first friend I ever made outside of my family.<br />Here she is on the right of this photo, at my birthday in 1977, when I turned 17.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left is Ross, Harold, David, me in the shadows, Julie on Mister the horse, Bernie holding him and Dianne on the right.</td></tr>
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And so I caught up with Dianne recently through facebook.<br />We exchanged emails and then spoke for a couple of hours on the phone, she is in WA and me in VIC.<br />It was so great to talk and reminisce about our childhoods together, so many wonderful memories.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me aged about3 maybe 4. This was the age I was when I met Dianne, actually I think the photo was taken by her parents and given to me. I love and an thankful they took it as I have none others of myself till I was in my teens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and my dog Susie C1973</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs Lardi, our next door neighbour, she was special and a gardening inspiration for me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My brother Neil on the left, my now husband Martin in the middle and Gubba on the right.<br />This was the first time I met Martin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me around the time I met Martin, no wonder he fell in love with me at that time.</td></tr>
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So Dianne, here is a collection of photos from around the time I knew you best.<br />Such good times.<br />Thankyou for coming back into my life again after about 40 years.<br />Dayla<br />
<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-31116460579074064702016-07-12T22:50:00.001-07:002016-07-12T22:50:53.565-07:00 Simon just asked me about the polypipe we used to make our frames for net over veg gardens and fruit trees.<br />Here are pictures of another structure we made using the polypipes and star pickets.<br />
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It is a fenced area to display plants for my roadside plant stall. Keeps thieves and deer off the plants.<br />I saw the idea in an old grassroots mag. It has many uses, such as a vine covered cool place to sit in summer. Put the bbq in it.<br />Put chooks in it or an aquaponics system.<br />You could cover the top with net or with a more solid stuff.<br /><br />The only down side or error we made was cutting the pipes too long, we cut some at 8m long but they bowed down in the warm weather and were unsightly and useless.<br />So we experimented and found that 4m lengths over star pickets spread at 2.1 to 2.3m apart was perfect.<br />The taller the star picket the higher the structure, still need dwarf fruit trees if using them in a line. Also bolting them to the picket keeps them from slipping down and being shorter but you can work that out for your self. Am happy to answer any questions.<br /><br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-78629493323638740452015-05-27T04:54:00.001-07:002015-05-27T04:54:25.708-07:00Hello to anyone reading this.<br />
We had a fabulous sweet potato harvest recently. 24.7kg of orange sweet potatoes or Kumaras I think they are called.<br /> This year was very good for them here in the mountains of Victoria. Last year we got none, the year before, our first we got a big basin full.<br />
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I am asked how do I grow these, well here is my secret.<br />I have a plant growing all year in my polytunnel, yes it dies down over Winter but it doesn't rot off like they do outside in the ground.<br />And in Spring when it warms up quicker than outside I take cuttings and get them rooting early and plant them out when the ground has warmed a bit, around November.<br />Some mushroom compost dug into a spot and plant away. They do like a fair bit of water but that's ok, more water more tubers, its an investment.<br />Don't worry if you don't have a polyhouse or glasshouse, just take some cuttings in early autumn, grow them in a big pot and keep it in the house over winter. Very little water, none really but keep it protected from the elements and the roots should keep over Winter, put it in a sunny window as the weather warms, give it a bit of water and wait for the shoots to appear. You can always up end it as Spring approaches and check to see if there are roots in the soil first.<br />Have a go!Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-37155473834354020882014-12-18T00:53:00.000-08:002015-05-27T04:43:53.869-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We lost our lovely Plumpet today.<br />
I cried and cried, she was such a fantastic little chook, the foster mother to nearly our entire flock of 15.<br />
The fox jumped the 1.8m fence at about 10am and killed her and Rosie
wheaten marans and possibly Arya Isa brown, she is hanging on.<br />
Very sad.<br />
Her 5 chicks are old enough to survive but will find it harder without
her guidance, they will sleep with the big chooks tonight and will get
pecked a bit, but its safer that way.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
We spent all day adding another 40cm of wire to the top of the fence,
leaning out like a prison, or as Martin puts it, a fortress.<br /> We will have to be vigilant because he will try again.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just about weaning time for her ducklings in march this year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plumpet and her french wheaten marans chicks born September 2013. The roosters are dark coloured but the hens are the ginger ones in the centre, the darker if these was Rosie who also died today.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lavender Aracaua chick peeking out from under Plumpets wing. Oct 2012</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">along with the Aracauna were 3 silver Campine chicks. We gave the aracauna away as he was a rooster and a facebook friend needed him for a breeding program, lucky him. We sold the campine rooster known as Chanty pronounced shonty for $50. He was a lovely bird.<br />
The two girls have been wonderfully fecundant laying the lovely white eggs that some of you may know. Both of the girls had their feathers ruffled by the fox, I do hope he did not get his teeth into them or they could sicken and die.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lavender aracauna rooster nearly grown up.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And in March 2012 she gave us her first hatching. Fertile eggs from a neighbour, we got 5 chicks 2 roosters which were delicious and 3 hens. We still have 2 of the hens, one died earlier this year of some thing.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">So these are all of Plumpets broods, she was an amazing mum and sweet little chook, we were just talking about getting some eggs of her breed for her next hatching as more like her would be very welcome.<br />I shall miss her.</span>Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-57805999190234794312014-03-18T03:35:00.001-07:002014-03-18T03:35:07.806-07:00Polyhouse shadecloth on and off.Hi again,<br />making a habit of it aren't I?<br />Its that time of the year when the temperature won't go up to 30 C till
next Summer. So time to take the shadecloth off my polyhouse and let the
Sun in.<br />
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All the afters are before the befores.<br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Easy
to take off and easy to put on. We just tie some rope on and throw it
over the top and pull it over and tie down. Makes such a difference.
Plants would cook without it over summer.<br />Dale</span></span>Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-41779451866227914312014-03-13T02:41:00.003-07:002014-03-13T02:41:44.623-07:00Back for a visitHello anyone who is still connected, I took some lovely photos of my garden and just have to share them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were trialling a vine screen out the front of the house to keep the sun out in the afternoon. It works really well so we will extend it for next summer.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead Sheep!? No we were given a bag of fleece, no good for spinning but good for mulch and I threw the skull on top. A great conversation starter!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-61713256009088296792013-08-23T23:35:00.002-07:002013-08-23T23:35:53.112-07:00Au revoirDear Blog,<br />
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It has been a while since I visited. I have thought about you and have wondered why I haven't been as attentive as in the past.<br />And think I have been seduced by facebook. <br />Sorry about that but I have found some fabulous group pages and met some great people.<br /><br />So heres the thing, the reason I began here is because I had found a wonderful place where I could talk to my self about my life. I could post relavant photos of what I was up to and any friends far and wide could share in those photos and stories. And I had a ball.<br /><br />But I can't force myself to come back so I think the time has come to say goodbye. I won't close you down, I might come back from time to time and have a look. Or I might get the bug again and get blogging, but my new love has me for now.<br />Au revoir!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Kevin and Crumpet, crumpet has gone back to Doris place to be a friend to another lonely bantam.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-75500765331442098622013-05-20T03:34:00.002-07:002013-05-20T03:34:12.358-07:00unusual vegetablesCheck out this carrot!<br />
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DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-53203150216570224052013-05-20T03:18:00.003-07:002013-05-20T03:18:38.179-07:00City Farm in East PerthI was really taken by this place. I have been to community gardens before, even had a plot in one in Canberra many years ago. But this was vibrant and alive. We entered through the gardens, greeted by beautiful mosaics.<br />
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Viv and I wandered through the gardens and looked at the beds growing all sorts of produce in varying stages of growth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A strange looking rooster, <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">This
poor chap was very ugly. A silky bantam rooster with no feathers on his
head, only purple black skin. I believe the Chinese really like these
black skinned chickens. Very good for ladies problems!</span></span></td></tr>
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I found this place really great. It had gardens for those who wish to garden. It had an area for those with disabilities to come and pot on and get into some gardening. It had a cafe full of local business people all busy discussing high flying business. There were more buildings and areas for functions and all sorts. It was vibrant and full of potential being realised. A great place to visit.<br />
DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-50002788533094263172013-05-16T18:35:00.001-07:002013-05-16T18:35:21.847-07:00East PerthHi there,<br />
here are some lovely shots of a very pretty park I visited whilst in Perth. I am not sure if it had a name but it was lovely and had some enormous trees.<br />
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can see the Burswood casino building across the river. White and like a
pyramid without the cone on top. Left of that are some enormous
apartments being put up.</span></span></td></tr>
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development is all fairly new. The site was industrial for over 100
years I think. The East Perth power station building was near here.<br /> I
was told that fish in this area are not for eating and a quite deformed
due to the pollution in the ground. Sad that we have done this and sad
that they allowed the river in so it can pick up the poisons and move
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DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-15922107335244839622013-05-16T05:07:00.002-07:002013-05-16T05:07:27.364-07:00Kings Park in PerthHi there, here are some photos of Kings Park in Perth when I was there earlier in the year. I am fond of this park, it is special.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shot is a copy of one taken of me when I was 22 years old pointing to my Uncle Fred who is on the wall here in the War memorial.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A development to let the river into an area so some apartments have a waterfront. I think thats how it goes!</td></tr>
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Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-43239780417056961412013-05-14T03:09:00.001-07:002013-05-14T03:09:14.667-07:00Betty's Jetty!Betty's Jetty in Perth. Otherwise known as Elizabeth Quay. But as my resident friend there told me West Aussies love to shorten and make nick names for everything possible!<br />
Here are some photos of where we parked the car and then went on a trip down memory lane and to see the new sites of Perth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See here Waroona District Highschool. Where I went to school. All WA schools have a mention on pavers here.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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This is the spiel in the bell tower that I failed to get a photo of. Telling about the bells, including St Martins in the Field.<br />
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-24849369054888853672013-03-12T21:32:00.000-07:002013-03-12T21:32:17.855-07:00The Art of Jelly Making!Jelly jelly, good for the belly!<br />We used to say that, as kids when mum gave us jelly for dessert.<br />
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Well I have been making lots of jelly but a slightly different kind.<br />Jelly for putting on toast or a teaspoonful in your bubbly if its too dry!<br />This time its pear, apple and nectarine jelly. I had the fruit sitting around and it was starting to get old. A great way to preserve old fruit. Make sure some of it is apple as it has lots of pectin in it and you need that to make it jell.<br />
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Roughly chop the fruit. No peeling or coring required just cut off any bruises or coddling moth damage. Cover with water and boil till soft, about an hour, you want it pretty soft so the juice runs out of the fruit readily.<br />
Pour it into a cheesecloth suspended over a large bowl or pot and hang it there overnight or for 2 days, till it finishes dripping. Don't squeeze the pulp or your jelly will go cloudy. An upside down stool is good. I use a towel rack.<br />
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You can reboil the pulp again with more water and have a second lot.<br />
I did this recently and added the second lot to the first lot which I had sitting in the fridge.<br />Actually I didn't turn all of it into jelly. I poured some in a glass with ice and some vodka and cold water or soda water. Mmm what a nice drink.<br />
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So when you are ready to make the jelly, add roughly 1 cup of sugar per cup of liquid. I try to put less than that, particularly if it is already sweet.<br />
Boil it up in a big pot, no need to stir like jam as no pulp to get stuck to the bottom. So boil for some half hour or more. It should start to bubble up to the top of the pot, watch it doesn't boil over. When its at the top get your clean jars into the oven on 150C for 10 minutes or more of heating. Lids in a saucepan of water and bring them to the boil.<br />
Have a saucer in the freezer all the time for jam and jelly making.<br />
Put a few drops of jelly onto saucer, wait a mo and then push it with your fingernail, if it wrinkles its ready. If it globs and starts to jelly up, its ready.<br />
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Get your jars out of the oven and have them close to the pot. they are incredibly hot so be careful.<br />
The lids should have boiled. Use some of that water to sterilise funnel, tongs and ladle. Your tea towels on the bench under the jars should be fresh and clean too.<br />
Use tongs to take the lids out and turn them onto towel to dry.<br />
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Now focus, here is the scary bit. Well not really but be careful.<br />
Ladle the jelly into the funnel over your jars, sometimes it fizzes and can boil in the jars and even boil out the top. If it rises poke it with your funnel to break the surface.<br />
Fill the jars quickly or the jelly may set in the pot and then its impossible to get it into the jars and have it look nice.<br />
The idea is to not have any bubbles suspended thru the jelly. Get good and you can win a prize at the show!<br />
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Yum.<br />
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Dayla <br />
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-60105627960142461012013-03-09T18:49:00.002-08:002013-03-09T18:49:42.687-08:00preserving again!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Hi there, I have been preserving again, or should I say still. This is a jar of pinot noir grape and wild apple jelly held up to the window so you can see the dark red loveliness. <br />On the window sill are jars of fermenting tomatoes that I will collect the seed from for next years crop. Fermenting helps to kill any pests and pathogens that are in the fruit and will affect next years crop.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the jars I made just now. All sizes for interest. These will go down onto my roadside stall to sell. <br />I was bloody lovely to eat, sweet and delicious.<br />I reckon a teaspoon full in a glass of bubbly would be awesome.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Actually I kept some of the uncooked juice out and put it in a glass with a slug of gin and some ice blocks. A bit of soda water and it would have been sensational but I didn't have any. It was still really nice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is some tomato ketchup I made yesterday. Using 6 kg of tomatoes I made 11 Jim Beam and cola stubby bottles of sauce. Should sell well I reckon!<br />You heard that Rosella is gone out of business? Well I have to make my own sauce now as I only liked Rosella tomato sauce. Actually I hardly ate it but if I was to that was the one.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Cheers<br />
DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-64616119686033757562013-03-02T20:27:00.000-08:002013-03-02T20:27:34.953-08:00Pinot Noir WineHey there,<br />
my wine making has been energised. A friend was given 50kg of Pinot noir grapes that were left over from their winery harvest. She gave me 2 buckets of them.<br />
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M helped me squish and squeeze them in our hands to make enough to fill a demi-john which holds a gallon.<br />
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Here it is in our demi-John with yeast and yeast nutrient. An airlock fitted and within an hour it is gurgling as the yeast gives off carbon dioxide and turns juice into wine.<br />
I am enthused and eyeing off some ripe pears on the table. I even read a recipe for parsnip wine? Wonder what that would be like?<br />
Dayla<br />
<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-51432589986877609662013-03-01T18:08:00.001-08:002013-03-01T18:08:59.793-08:00water bathing your tomato sauce<span class="userContent">And so after you have separated the skins and
seeds out of your tomato sauce. Put it on the stove in a big pot and add
your flavourings. I use onions, garlic and grated zucchini (as I have a
glut of them at the moment), also lots of basil. <span class="text_exposed_show">I
saute the onions and garlic in some butter for more flavour. I cook
this for a while until it is nice and thick. Then I decant it into large
jars that I have washed in hot soapy water, rinsed and put into the
oven for 20 minutes or so on 150 degrees C to sterilise them. I boil the
lids in a saucepan to sterilise them. Make sure you sterilise any other
equipment that may come into contact with the sauce like ladles and
funnel.<br /> Then put the jars carefully into a largest pot with a cake
rack in the bottom so jars aren't sitting straight onto the pan bottom.
Fill with hot water. You are trying not to shock your hot jars, so don't
add cold water. Bring to the boil gently, can take an hour. Allow to
gently boil/simmer for 20 mins. No hard and fast rule here, a friend of
mine brings it to the boil and then turns it off and allows them to cool
in the pot. I have read you should do it longer in the water and then
take them out with special tongues and leave them to cool.<br /> The lids should pop inward as they cool.<br />
When they are cool if the lids haven't popped in then they will not
keep. Either redo them, get new lids or decant into plastic containers
and freeze or eat!<br /> Here is a picture of mine just put into the bath.
These will keep for a year or two, who knows how long our always get
eaten before then.<br /> Give it a go!</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Here is some I did recently along with 2 jars of zucchini soup.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">zucchini and onion soup, Yum!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my white onions, I love to plait them and hang them around the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the zucchini plague continues. But we don't really mind.</td></tr>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">cheers</span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Dayla</span></span>Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-38760606294072882772013-03-01T15:06:00.000-08:002013-03-01T15:06:03.051-08:00Tomato TimeHi there,<br />
Yes its that time of the year when I am glued to the kitchen, processing our produce for use later in the year.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aren't they beautiful?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mostly cocktail tomatoes in this bowl. I will try to sell some at the front gate on Sunday.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are called Giant Pear tomatoes, well that's the common name. I have no idea what they are called in official circles. I had never seen them before last year when my neighbour gave me some. I saved the seed and grew my own this year. I love them, they are sweet and have little juice. Lots of flesh, good for sauce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a collection of tommies I am saving for seed. I have romas, italian roms which are longer, giant pear, another flat fluted large variety, black russian, black Krim, yellow pear, a small red one which is sooo hardy, an apricot sized and coloured one, and a green zebra.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freezing tomatoes is a great way of softening them up so they go through my wizz bang machine for separating the skins and seeds from the flesh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant pears compared to a pear.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here is the star of the show!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feed soft or cooked tomatoes in the top and turn the handle, one side has juice the other seeds and skins. Fabulous.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Then when that is done I cook it up to reduce some of the liquid, add onions, garlic and lots of basil. This year I am adding some grated zucchini as I have lots.<br />When its cooked to a nice consistancy for putting over pasta, ladle it into large sterilised jars and put them into a water bath.<br />
More of that in the next post!<br />
cheers<br />
DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-39110643539021135012013-03-01T14:50:00.001-08:002013-03-01T14:50:05.536-08:00A babe was born!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This sweet colt was born just down the road from us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here he is running with his mother only 2 days old!</td></tr>
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DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-80532427964828899982013-03-01T14:48:00.002-08:002013-03-01T14:48:32.082-08:00Garden Photos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Hi there,<br />
just some random garden shots from Spring 2013.<br />
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DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-83021565695695072112013-01-17T16:43:00.001-08:002013-01-17T16:43:35.102-08:00Our babies are growing up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our 3 silver Campines at 2 months old</td></tr>
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Hello,<br />
its been a while, I've been busy as I am sure you have too what with Christmas and New year and all. But I thought it time I should come and have a look at whats happening here.<br />
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Its been a different Summer from last years so far. Last year we got lots of tropical rain right thru Summer but the Monsoons haven't started yet so its been dry. Which is how it should be here in Southern Victoria, Australia. We're in the mountains where it is green most of the year. But it continues to dry out. Who would have thought Marysville would burn to the ground 4 years ago. Lush green wet cool temperate rainforest. Mountain Ash Eucalypts don't regenerate after fire, they die. So this area is not used to fire historically. <br />
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Anyway it is drying out here too. We still have patches of green grass around but not too far away it is tinder dry. Not sure how we would cope if a fire came through. Now that sounds dumb on our part. We have done a workshop with the CFA Country Fire Authority and have decided that we will get out if a fire comes. But saying that there are all kinds of fires that could happen. Black Saturday was cataclysmic. No one can hope to survive that without luck and a good escape plan. But small grass fires on still hot days can be controlled.<br />
Saying that though, you need water and a means to squirt it. They tell us when fires break out the power generally goes off. So no electric pump. Mains water pressure drops so no help there. Unless you have a fire pump, they tell me Diesel is the best, then you should get out.<br />
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We have good insurance, so we'll get out. Hope this doesn't happen as I would hate to lose our chookies.<br />
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We have a phone tree for fires in the neighbourhood. And a good neighbour rings me and I pass on the info to the next person on the tree. We have had 2 calls this Summer but they were small fires and not that close. I am worried a bit though, as a suburban refugee I don't have experience with bushfires.<br />
We have cut the grass short and cleared away sticks and leaves from buildings, so the fuel load is minimal. That's all we can do I think.<br />
Well till next time, bye for now.<br />
DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-6651916202565327372012-12-22T14:53:00.002-08:002012-12-22T15:37:31.171-08:00Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!Well its that time again!<br />
Time for the fever of Christmas, the shopping and consuming!<br />
Well I haven't felt that and I don't usually, our Christmas is low key
and I like it that way. Might be because I am a long way away from my
family and have been for 20 years. I miss having Christmas with them but
know it is not going to happen very often because of the distance and
the cost of flights at this time and all that happens in my own life
here, where I live.<br /> <br />
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A funny thing did happen to me about a fortnight ago. I put up my Christmas tree quilt that I made a few years ago. Much better than a real tree in my opinion, takes up less room in our small house.<br />
So I put that up and then we had a cold snap and had to light the fire again for a day or two. I noticed that I had a strange feeling when I looked at this scene. A nice feeling but new to me. Next day the fire was lit again and I had the feeling again. Then it came to me what it was. It was seeing a fire next to a Christmas tree. It was a northern hemisphere Christmas! And it felt like an old memory trying to surface, but I have never been to the northern hemisphere. My ancestors came from there so perhaps it was an ancestral memory? Nice thought aye!<br />
And anyway, my mind is once again thinking about what is it to have an Australian Christmas? What is it that symbolises Chrissy here?<br />
My friend D says it is the beach and surfing, it sounds pretty good but I'm not 100% sold on the idea because I don't think of the beach at this time of the year. I'm sure lots do, don't get me wrong but lots don't also. Particularly those who may live inland. I love the mountains!<br />
I don't like those Christmas cards with koalas in Santa hats and the like.<br />
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So what is it about this wall hanging? A man dressed in clothes too hot for this country. Surrounded by holly which doesn't have red berries on at this time of the year and is an environmental weed in this country in case you didn't know. Ok lots of presents and a cute puppy, they're ok I suppose.<br />
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I made Santa sacks this year for my on-line shop. Sold 2, that was great. But have a look, snow! Ok I had to light the fire a fortnight ago, but no way was there going to be snow here! Pine trees, also another environmental weed when they self seed away from plantations.<br />
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This apron my sewing partner made depicts doves of peace, that's nice with holly in their mouths, mmm and some nice words. Not so Australian though. No slight on your apron T, its lovely and I am surprised it didn't sell.<br />
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These two table mats are all about stars, so the religious side of Christmas emerges here. The colours also are symbolic of Christmas, red, green and white. That's the red berries of holly, green pine trees and snow!<br />
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I don't mean to sound like a Grinch or anything, I just would like to work out what Christmas means to Australians. What would you put on a card to an Australian in Australia and think of Christmas?<br />
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Well I have made my mini plum puddings, the best yet my friend D said. I put in half a cup of brandy which had been sitting in a jar with cherries for 4 years. I put in half the jar of cherries too. Wow! Adults only and no driving when you have had a couple of these.<br />We have a rolled pork roast from locally sourced organically grown rare breed pig. Oh it is so nice. Also a turkey breast, rolled and stuffed with cranberries and something, I can't remember now. Locally sourced also and free range. <br />
<br />We usually have duck for Christmas but Pepes the supplier have been fined $400,000 for sourcing ducks from a place that was treating them badly, so no more Pepies. "Open range" they have on their ducks wrapping but they are kept in a shed. No openness or ranging. Labelling in this country is incredibly poor.<br />
Take free range eggs. The suggested (note suggested not legislated) amount of birds per hectare is 1,500. The egg board wanted to up that to 20,000 birds per hectare!!!!!! Might as well put them into small cages for the amount of room they'll have. And where does the green grass and bugs come from with that close proximity. That's how the eggs get omega 3 from green grass and bugs and sunshine.<br />
Well I have been grumbling today and no mistake.<br />
But on this note I would like to wish all my readers, 2 of them I think, a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.<br />
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-25947374417235501852012-12-14T23:54:00.001-08:002012-12-14T23:54:34.100-08:00A walk in the Garden<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Come for a walk in the garden with me on such a lovely day.<br />I love Calendulas or pot marigolds. I grow them everywhere I live and then they grow themselves for ever after.<br />
Coming up in cracks and in garden beds, raising their bright heads for most of the year. And you can make cosmetics and remedies from them too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our second fruit tree section. With 2 cherries, a quince, Plumcot, Apricot, Bay, Fejoia. Plus the blueberries in the last post and some raspberries and loganberries. All young and in need of mulching and netting.<br />
We'll get there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What garden is complete without nasturtiums? My husband thinks they'll take over the world, but I'm not sure of that. They are great weed suppressants, you can eat the small leaves and flowers in salads. They are great decoy plants for pests and they look lovely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just a couple of spears, the last for the season I think. They were very good this year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is a garden without Basil. mmmmm new plants coming on and ready to be picked!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorry slightly blurred but you get the picture. We have had about 2kg from only 4 pickings so fay. loads more to come and they are delicious. Thornless blackberries, everyone should grow them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tree onion or Egyptian onion or walking onion. Choose your name?</td></tr>
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Well here ends another walk around the garden. Hope you enjoyed it.<br />
DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-301983987499552072012-12-14T23:45:00.000-08:002012-12-14T23:55:54.547-08:00My Colonoscopy AdventureHi there all you brave ones who want to read this blog,<br />
I want to take you on an adventure into the medical world of Endoscopy.<br />
I had a colonoscopy! I won't go into details about bowel movements so don't freak out, I just want to write down what happened to me.<br />
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So before I start I'll just say I went for a wizz around the garden (not what you think!) and took a whole lot of photos of what is flowering, so I can pop them in between the text as a breathing space for you.<br />
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Here goes.<br />
The 2 day adventure starts with a good breakfast and eating as much as possible including lunch until 12 noon. Well I ate as much as possible because I was to 'fast' for over 24 hours and I thought I might get hungry.<br />
After 12noon its only drinks, without milk. At 5pm I started drinking the 3 litres of bowel cleansing solution. This liquid actually gathers all thge liquid in my body into my bowel to wash it clean. amazing!<br />
I was told it was really bad and makes you gag! But that didn't happen to me. I had a new one out with lemon flavour. I drank it with a straw so it didn't contact too many taste buds. But really it was just like gatorade and the like.<br />
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I had to drink 1 litre in the first hour and then the other 2 litres before 9pm. Well this was probably the hardest part for me. I felt so full of drink I thought I would burst. Had to keep sipping all night, it felt like. At onwe point my swallowing reflex was refusing to work as I was so full I had to force it down.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Globe artichoke getting ready to open.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the first hour things started to move, if you know what I mean. I
won't go into details here except to say it was most strange to be
drinking so much liquid and not peeing at all. No bladder action! </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first Dahlia.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well the evening went by and I was tired so went to bed. My bowel was
empty and all the liquid gone. The notes I was given said I must drink
other drinks too or I could become dehydrated. I couldn't fit any other
drinks in!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blue lobelia</td></tr>
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My appointment at the Endoscopy was for 11am. The notes said I was not to drink anything for 4 hours leading up to the procedure. So I asked M to wake me at 6.30am.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">red geraniums, they make a great weed barrier from next doors.</td></tr>
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So I woke up and drank 2 glasses of water and went back to sleep.<br />
Felt strange all morning, not hungry at all but starting to feel a bit woozy in the head through lack of food.<br />
Off the the clinic we went.<br />
Before I move on with the story I have to say the nurse that interviewed me beforehands name was Ayla! You know from 'clan of the cave bear'!<br />
This is why I call myself Dayla!<br />
Anyway she was very nice, everyone there was very nice and gentle and caring. I must send them a card of thanks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love Aquilegias. Did you know they grow wild in Yellowstone National Park. Whole fields of them, amazing!</td></tr>
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So I'm waiting in my paper gown and plastic slippers for them to call me, feeling very apprehensive but a bit dopey in the head due to lack of food. This helped me get through the nerves I think. In I go and onto the bed/table. I look away whilst they put the needle into my elbow pit. Can't bear needles, never been able to. A childhood fear from immunisations!<br />
Doctor comes in and introduces himself. He is very nice too, well I hope so, when he is going to be sticking a long tube up my bum, you do hope so don't you!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lace cap Hydrangea.</td></tr>
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The anaesthetist then puts 2 tubes of stuff into my elbow and I am gone. It was beautiful really to go off like that. Like that moment of going to sleep but you are fully conscious and can really feel yourself going off. I dreamt too, nice dreams, can't remember them now but I was amazed I dreamed. Didn't think you did under anaesthetic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">campanula and man</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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So then I am being urged to wake up, takes them 2 goes before I put in the effort of waking up. Lying there coming to I realize I am full of gas, oh so full! I roll a bit to my side and let rip! A great long line of pops, ah that feels better. Moments later I have to do it again. Ah bliss!<br />
Shortly after a nurse comes and helps me up then pulls away the curtain round the bed and guess what?<br />
The room is full of people and I have been having a farting festival in my little curtain cubicle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calla lilies</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Well actually I didn't realise this at the time. All those in the room were at different stages of recovery from their own procedures and sitting on recliner rocking chairs with a cup of tea and a biscuit.<br />
I was placed in one of these and had an apple juice to start off. Lots more gas made itself known but I couldn't let rip in public. Anyway nurse to the rescue and I was taken to a loo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chamomile growing in a crack in the path.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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So that's about it. Only afterwards did I realise my fopar, but everyone else must have been doing it too.<br />
It had continued into the next day right up until normal movements were resumed, if you get my drift.<br />
I don't feel much different, which is good, means the old bod was working ok before hand.<br />
Results are good, so a happy ending for the end!<br />
One more:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephant garlic flower.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Happy days.<br />
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<br />Daylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441304417796904206.post-82502036998354394282012-11-18T21:36:00.002-08:002012-11-18T21:46:55.743-08:00Wonderful to be alive!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Rhodie just coming out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put rosemary in here to keep the weeds down and soften the hard edge. It needed help so in went a whole lot of red geranium cuttings. Starting to look better. I tucked in some yellow sedum, a type of succulent underneath. Will grow low and the yellow will compliment the very blue rosemary and the red G.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our white chooks, Dumb and dumber we call them and Big J also known as Julia. They are standing on a chook fodder cage I made out of rigid mesh. I sowed and planted their favourite foods in here. They grow and as they poke their heads through the chooks eat them. But the chooks cannot scratch and kill the plants, so they have greens all year round.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are our Blueberry plants, all 8 of them. Loaded with fruit and in need of netting. Soon precious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blasted Choughs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are mad about our windows. Not to try to fly through but to attack reflection rivals. This one is on a decoy mirror we put away from the house. It goes at it for ages.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crumpet and baby doing well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Serena getting ready to lay an egg.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plumpet and her brood are doing really well. She is taking them out to mix with the big girls now. A few altercations, mostly Plumpet getting belted up by her grown up brood. Seems strange but there you go!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the Lavender Aracauna in the front. Starting to get its head crest of feathers. Lovely grey legs it has too.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Thanks for looking.<br />DaylaDaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544561530618570093noreply@blogger.com1