Lettuce Eat!

Harvested enough lettuce for an egg salad, along with parsley and chives. The tomato is not home grown unfortunately.

One serving with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, the other with Caesar salad dressing.

A yummy lunch

1..2..3..GROW!

Finally the last building of our grow trio has been completed
Scavenging and assembly was done by moi all on my pat-malone with no male supervision interferance or assistance.

I have a sink outside and inside shelves for seeds, pots and bins for soil mixes.

Come autumn will be busy taking and striking cuttings for all the landscaping plants we need and there are HEAPS of them!

Rrrrrrr-ibbit!

Went to take my sunhat off the hook that hangs just inside the door of 'Ourgunyah' and this is what I found

A Green tree frog. They are in one of the original water tanks, the shower, the rain gauge, anywhere it is damp.

 Needless to say, I went without my hat!

If Ya Ain't Got a Landy Ute. . . .

You're Just Not Really Country

Around here a Toyota Landcruiser Ute is almost compulsory. 

The uniform consists of Akubra hat, check shirt, moleskins or jeans and boots. To complete this uniform is the Landy.

For extra points you need:-

1.  A bullbar

2.  An antenna farm mounted on said bullbar

3.  A snorkle

4.  R M Williams mud flaps

5.  Gympie Muster stickers

and

for extra pizzaz

6.  A large hound of doubtful parentage who threatens to 'rip ya arm orf' if you get any closer that a metre to the Ute.

We have a Landy Ute.

The "bullbar' is a piece of gate.

The only antenna we have is for the radio
Snorkle are for Jacques Cousteau

Mudflaps were an optional extra

The stickers on the back are too faded to read and

Our dogs will lick you to death.

On the plus side it has the lowest k's on the clock of all our vehicles and we have the original owners service manual.

She's a bit rough and rusty, and like all Landys is built like a brick out house. Suspension as hard as a rock, no power assisted anything, spartan minimalist interior.

The old girl has sat here for about 6 years, unstarted, so we bled the brakes, then the clutch, replaced some fuel lines and finally coaxed her into life. She'd idled but wouldn't rev. 

Our virtual mechanic - phone-a-friend Jim Harris, said to dump the fuel which was no longer fuel after all that time. He also suggested a clean and new gaskets for the carby. Jim was going the Helensvale to collect some aviaries and dropped carby off.

Mr H came through like a beauty and had the carby ready the next day.

With a clean carby she starts and runs smoothly - thanks Mr H

Although we own a Landy Ute no one will ever know we are real country. The old bus is not and never will be registered, so will never be driven into town.

When the locals look suspiciously at us sitting in the Landrover Discovery, we just smile because we know we are real country

How Does My Garden Grow

The silver bells and cockle shells are a no-show and the pretty maid went to seed years ago!
But

The tomatoes are powering ahead.

In fact they have flowers in little furry hats developing.

The chives and parsley are quickly filling the pot

We are growing Cos lettuces because our favourite Iceberg, go not do well in the hot weather and bolt to seed. They also need to be harvested in one go and we do not have the refrigeration space, so we will be able to take just as many leaves as we need.

My little patch of corn. It will only yield us a few ears, but fresh corn is too good to not to plant.
Behind the corn are some purple carrots. will have to see how I feel about eating purple carrots when they are ready to harvest.

Finally the cucumbers are starting to grow the coiled tendrils and will soon begin their voyage up the lattice.
All this incredible growth has taken place in just 4 weeks