Going for a walk and ...

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Going for a walk  We were up early the other morning, so we decided we would walk up "Mt Martin", which while the named indicates some grandeur, is really little more then a hillock.  We walked up the road, through the bush and across the ridge to to north, parallel with the back boundary of our property, to the top of the mountain, spotted the Survey Station on top Plaque on Survey Station Mt Martin Survey Station Slashing We had Dave...

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the garden...

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Toni has been doing a heap of work in the garden, while I have been busy out on our Mountain Bike Trails, today's jobs where doing up a new bed to plant the strawberry runners we had donated to us by Jan Scott from the Wilderness Rescue group we volunteer with, thanks Jan.  All the new Strawberries were planted. Preparing the new Strawberry bed Plenty of other jobs getting done today as well; compost made, preparing the slug traps using old beer from the nearby...

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Fruit, glorious fruit

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We have a couple different fruits being harvested at the moment, particularly Persimmons (a non astringent variety) and Guavas. Unfortunately I don't like either but Toni is enamoured ! Persimmons Guavas and other fruits on the way, hopefully some Paw Paw's! yum yum! Paw Paw, fingers crossed we don't lose them ! and one of the Mandarin trees has fruit that are colouring nicely. Wit the huge amount of rain we had, we were convinced we'd...

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