Surveyors

The surveyors finally turned up last Monday - said should have map by Friday but not yet. They spent most of the day tramping around the top corner taking measurements, then tried to decide exactly where the stream, which is really a complex of different channels and waterholes, actually is since I have to keep wastewater disposal 100m away which could be tricky to achieve.

Who's been eating in my garden?

All that was left of my two rockmelons. Not sure if a kangaroo hopped over the fence, seems likely since the tops of tomato, carrots and peas were also chomped off. Might be a bandicoot which will be harder to keep out.

Rosella jam

I had a try at making rosella syrup - cooked it a bit long so ended up with jam. Rosella fruit consists of a round green seed pod surrounded by five dark red fleshy
calyxes.

Tree mounds

I bought some trees including 3 avocados but when I read up how to plant them discovered they hate wet feet and after heavy rain the water just lies on top of the clay soil here. So I've built mounds in the hope of improving the drainage. I've dug two only 4 more to go!

Passionfruit has started flowering and setting fruit. Solar system not keeping up with fridge now its autumn so I bought another panel.

Good morning roos

Bad mobile phone photo sorry but these two wallabies were the first thing I saw when I sat up, and with daylight saving over its nice and light at 7am. I have bought mobile broadband (Optus 1G/month for a year $199 including modem) so will be able to update more often. Hope you are all enjoying your Easter break.

Happy Easter

This is the rosella flower.
I'm doing a chainsaw course with the SES - should come in handy for clearing trees and chopping up fallen trees.