Haiku from the Hour of the Wolf

                                                     Welcome the Problem

                                                       Solutions come in Silence

                                                       Ponder the Reflections 

Haiku for December

 

                                                Call Day this Delight

                                                 Night's Rejuvinations

                                                Magpies' Sonatas

      

Sequel to Storm damage

Continuing on from my previous blog which showed photos of the tall Eucalypt torn apart by that horrendous storm we had, laying on the ground, it has since been cut up by my son Gordon into fire wood. I bought him a chainsaw as a welcome home present after he lost everything in that Gidgegannup fire in February 2021. Well, it has already paid for itself with all the cutting up of various other trees that fell down and as you can see, the trailer was filled with this latest tree by Kym and me last Friday.

This time we also put down recycled vineyard posts first so the fresh wood will have plenty of air circulation and dry out fairly quickly.

Kym has an artistic eye and the wood is stacked in a very pleasing manner which the chooks, on the other side of the fence ,enjoy as  a windbreak.

It will unfortunately take twelve months before it is ready to be used in the wood burner.

The other rather exciting thing that has taken place, is that Gordon, after a lot of patience and a lot of trial and error, got the little Chevi truck which he got just after he returned here to South Australia, to run and was able to bring it round from the shed in the paddock to the house under its own steam this week.!

It is the cutest little truck to look at and he wants to keep it as it is and not paint or restore it but keep its history plainly in sight.

I look at it and wonder who it may have been who had it first and how proud and pleased they would have been back in 1925.....

It zips along in first gear at an amazing speed and is really quite a comfortable ride...mind you, if it was on a dirt road the dust would be quite unbearable and in winter of course you would freeze to death....

 The photo of the Willy Wagtail was taken in the Pepper tree and I had been walking underneath it for well over a week with out seeing it as I went to feed the chooks. Normally they have been nesting in the Holm oak in the front garden so am not sure if this could be a new pair.

The Wood duck brought their little family of six around as well last week to have a swim in the pond....so who says country life is dull and boring....