Here are some general photographs from that time...
The above picture shows the posts and mesh in the trench to the depth of 1m..
Ray's tent city with the pen partially constructed.. just to the left out of the picture is the shed..
This shows the same corner but from further back.. and about a month after the fire. To the left of the pic is the aviary which house(d) my galah Strewth (he's back in Gisborne now) which stands alongside the shed.. The fruit trees are planted running parallel to the left side of the fence (inside it, naturally) which also has the gate in it. The trees are too small to see as this pic was taken in Dec 06.
The CFA had to uproot and turn over the Fairy Stump during the fires, which I was most annoyed about.. they didn't put it back the right way! How are the fairies going to live in an upside down house?? After righting a wrong, and putting it back the way I think it went, all seems to be well. Their little mossy pools are up the right way again and their waterslides go down again, not up!
The upside of having all your pasture burnt out is that you get to see things that you might normally miss. We discovered this hole full of eggs just near the dam. I think they'd be some type of reptile, but we didn't get to see what emerged.
Our gorgeous chookies.. when Ray relocated back to Gisborne in May 07 these fluffy ladies went to a new home in Ballarat. We plan to have chooks again, probably Australorps, but not until we are close by.
6 comments:
Hi Lolly. Love your blog it looks great. Just one question. What are the extended fence posts for? Are you planning on putting in barbed wire or something? (My dad's been a fencer for about 45 years, so I'm curious about these things). All looks fantastic. Keep on bloggin'.
Love
shamaroo
The high walls are designed to house everything.. the chook house, the fruit trees, vines etc so that was the thinking behind it.. it will eventually be fully enclosed and roofed. I'm glad to know there's a fencer in the extended EG family, we might be asking for ideas in the future! :) Thanks for your comments.
Hey Lolly. Any advice you need, just give me a shout. By the way, the galvanised posts can be used to construct just about any structure you like. We built a shadehouse and a garden shelter out of it, just using the pipe and some downey fittings. It's great for temp structures. Just use it like mechano.
Funny, that's what Ray said last weekend! It's like a big meccano set. It will be interesting to see how the top section and the roof evolve.
Hi Lolly. Great blog. Bummer about the grass fire. I think the reptile eggs are long necked tortoise. I've seen them in dams up your way. I guess the fence won't suggest 'Ararat Prison' when it's covered in snake beans or hardenbergia, but I get the joke. Don't do things by halves, do ya? ;)
Hi Scot.
You were right about the Tortoise, we have seen him/her swimming in the dam several times.
We have named the Tortoise "Henry" on the assumption that it is a boy...if we are proven to be tortoise-gender-dysfunctional we will rename it "Henrietta" :-P
Ray
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