Burra Maluca

I love this.

It's short, it's sweet, and it shows the transition from organic to something very permaculture-ish.



And remember, always eat from the garden...

Yeahbutt my son has inherited my total utter tightwad genes...

He won't buy a replacement shade if the one he rescued is still functional. He'll just take a perverse delight in the pink frilliness and wind people up about it if they say anything. He already has a supply of pink paint he puts on all his tools because it's the only colour that none of the other workers will be seen dead with so there's far less chance of any of them ending up in the wrong home.

I suspect the only scenario in which he'd buy another shade is if one of the ones on the chandelier itself gets broken, then he can use the one on the lamp to replace it and he might need something to replace the one on the lamp. But then, my own tightwad genes might kick in and I might make him one out of bits of bent wire and paper and pressed flowers. If I'm feeling sensible, which is unlikely, they might even not be pink ones!

I think the one lesson I really learned from all this is why they do NOT recommend that you use borax in your grey water system. A regular dose of just a teaspoon or two is soon going to add up in a small garden!

4lb is approximately 1.8kg

An acre is 4047 square metres

So 1800/4047 is 0.44, so that's the number of grams you need per square metre. Which isn't far from 10 square feet, assuming you don't really mean 10ft x 10ft.

I'm guessing a teaspoon would weigh around 5g, so you'd probably only need fraction of a teaspoon around your tree.

Or maybe I'd just wash my glassware with some borax to shine it up a bit then sploosh the greywater around the tree.

Edited because some days I'm a total dumbass...

Sometimes I'm so grateful for the metric system...

OK so one 65 litre barrel lasted two people and an occasional visitor a little over six weeks before we had to change it.

In the same time we would normally have used ten 20-litre buckets, so there is a very definite space-saving going on using a larger container.

We're still going to have to source more barrels though...

Remember the pink frilly chandelier that my son got from a job-site? Now they've given him a matching pink frilly table lamp to go with it!

Apparently the guy is a glass-blower and I suspect it may offend his sensibilities. My son, however, isn't that sensitive and considers it to be a perfectly good, functional lamp. Pink frilliness notwithstanding...

The job seems to be at the painting stage, judging by the background clutter...

Rice and lentils with mushrooms and galega cabbage. Sausages. ~

And he even remembered the parsley this time!

It's raining today, with heavy rain forecast.

The prickly pear are bursting into life as the weather warms up, but the rain is encouraging the brambles to take over.

That corner of the garden is exceedingly prickly...

In Wales I became very attuned to the blackbirds' calls. They have different ones for aerial threat and ground threat and I'd find myself checking the gate in case of visitors when I heard one call and checking the skies in case my chickens were at risk when I heard the other.

In Portugal the local blackbirds are even more territorial and complain incessantly when I go out to the garden, insisting that I am the threat and telling me to go away. I scold them back, but they never listen and we generally bicker the whole time I'm out there.