My day

[freddie*rooster]

After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this

[sandypas]

Good morning everyone.  I'm a bit tired this morning because of the snoring .  Oh well, not doing that much today - walking this morning then preparing for a bbq tonight - I'm going to make a chocolate ripple cake.

(Still haven't wrapped - will try and do some today).

Hope today is a good one for you all ....

[aps1080]

Bushie

I have just sent you a message with a list opf desert plants that I have put together that are drought tolerant.

Plus some links to web pages for more information.

Use Google to look them up for a picture.

I have the drought tolerant / desert / dry requirement so we have similar needs. Not so much the frost though.

[lloydslights]

Aps.

I notice you have a sideline to your life in the NT.  Does your textbook learning still apply in a work environment with the Degree hanging on the wall?

Both of my siblings who have Master's Degrees in Mathematics are still working in that field "to a degree" but quite dissimilar environments. 

Don't have to answer, by the way.  Just interested in people.

DEB

[bushies.girl]

Thanks aps, will take a good look at it .... I get quite heavy frosts here in winter, so they must be able to cope ..... I wont be doing the re vamp until around April, need to wait for cooler weather as the re vamp includes building new house steps etc and this isn't the time of year for digging post holes

[aps1080]

To be honest, I think a degree in Psychology, Sociology (with minors in Statistics and Politics) never leaves you.

but textbook learning in ANYTHING only gets you so far. You have to apply it to the real world.

You don't go around analysing everyone but you can look at some behaviour and go, OK, I understand why they

are doing that, why they are projecting their anger onto that etc etc.

I live in Western Suburbs of Melbourne. The "life in the NT" is the sideline !!! Just something I do every year. No TV, No internet,

No or few mod cons - although it does have a carp air con in the (very old) caravan, that's it.

Re Degree hanging on the wall, LOL, mine is still rolled up in it's tube, the same as the other things I have

earned (Commssion) or been awarded over the years !!! I have never put any of them up.

"Both of my siblings who have Master's Degrees in Mathematics"

Funnily enough, aths was my worst subject at school (failed), then TAFE (passed 2nd time), until I went to uni and

I passed Statistics for 3 years and end up with a C (credit)

Hope that all makes sense !

[aps1080]

"and this isn't the time of year for digging post holes "

Digging post holes ?

Get a farmer with a fence post hole digger to do it !!! LOL

Or hire one for the day.

[lloydslights]

Morning Bushie, 

I don't know why, but I bought packets of seeds the other day.  I'll make up some seedling trays and scatter the seeds on them.  If they work, okay.  If not, that's it.  

At the old home, the neighbour was a nurseryman who supplied Woolies, Bunnings with "Pots O Color" plants. He was forever watering and spraying and adding to the pots with fertilizer pellets prior to sending to the stores.  I was allowed to take his "not fit for store presentation" seedlings and had a pleasant rainbow amongst the roses.

I remember my mum at one stage, finding all the "bargain" seed packets she'd bought over a couple of years.  She levelled out a couple of areas between shrubs and just scattered the seeds around.  "Let them sort it out amongst themselves, she said"  So a jungle of zinnias, marigolds, cosmos and some other things brightened up the areas for awhile.

I think some of the newer varieties of seedlings (hybrids) are not "hardy".  The old fashioned varieties seem to do better.

DEB

[bushies.girl]

I often wonder re uni degrees, Mr B has 3  .... Engineering, Theology and Arts makes for some interesting covos here at times

lol re hiring a post hole digger, not so easy when one lives in the bush but yeah we will be asking around to see if someone has one we can borrow when the times comes 

[aps1080]

Re what to plant, to an extent, I say look around you, both in other people's gardens and the bush.

Then you have to take away those that were "fads at the time" or what the local store stocked at the time the houses were built.

This Yellow Diosma being a damn good example. Nice plants but when everyone has them, it gets a bit boring.

[aps1080]

"lol re hiring a post hole digger, not so easy when one lives in the bush but yeah we will be asking around to see if someone has one we can borrow when the times comes "

The bush is where you are most likely to find one. You don't think all the holes for corner fence posts (the strainers)

were dug manually do you ?

Most farmers have one, even a manual thing that looks like a very big cork screw, turned manually.

Still hard work but it beats using a spade !