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Lucky in the Sunshine
It's a beautiful sunny winters day here today!
Lucky Dog is making the most of it.

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Ivy Leaf Geranium
This is one of my favourite forms.
With variegated leaves and pink flowers.

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Pruning Time
The fruit trees are nearly ready for Doc to prune now.
Here the Stella Cherry will be pruned to fit the net cage.
Ready for the netting to go over in Summer. See Here.

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Fog
We woke up to a foggy morning today.
This is both ends of our street.
Should clear quickly to a sunny day though!

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Island
During heavy rains in the north of our state
this 'lake' would be full of water.
Now it's a dry salt pan with an island in the middle.

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Long Road Home
We left Roxby Downs this morning to travel nearly 500kms home.
It's a long , long road with very little for kilometre after kilometre...



...until we saw this...



... which lead to this.

These massive pylons carry power to the mine site at Olympic Dam,
just north of Roxby Downs.

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Maggie

We have been visiting our Son and Partner in their new home this weekend.
Meet his cat Maggie.
Don't let the sweet facade fool you; this cat is a fluffy monster!!

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Lucky "Licky" Dog
Our dog Lucky just loves to clean the chooks bucket.
On these cold mornings I leave her some Warm Mash.
Bucket comes up spotless!!

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"The Great Beanie Swap of 2007"
At the Aussies Living Simply site.
This is my beanie that arrived from P in Victoria.
It's a snugly warm polar fleece hat.
Just right for these chilly mornings we are having!

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Chooks Feeding
The chooks are having a great time with their winter greens!
They have Barley, Rye and Oats greens to nibble at.
They can't scratch the plants up with the crates over them.
See Here

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Doc's Toys
Some of the toys that Doc has been busy making.
The instructions for some are on his blog. Here
The others will appear shortly.

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More Ice
No frost today but this is from the weekend.
Not sure why this shape appeared on a container of water!

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Gecko
A close up photo of the gecko I rescued yesterday.
He was living in a straw bale that I had to move.
See here for more info.

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Ninja at the Bird Bath
Ninja likes to sneak a drink at the bird bath.

But not this morning at -5C,
The water was frozen solid!!

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Winter Fig Tree
Leafless fruit trees of winter.

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Old Speckles
My oldest chook.
She's 13 years old now!

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Apple and Rhubarb Pie
Doc was busy on the weekend: see here
He made this very yummy pie.
Guess who got the big piece!!!

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Frost On a Log
We have frosts forecast all this week.
This morning's -3C was just a taste.
Winter is here!!

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Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
It's seed head contain many seeds.
I don't see these plants as weeds...
...I see them as chook food!

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Busy Bee
The sun was out today for the first time this week!
So the bees were very busy on the Pink Rosemary.

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Russian Red Kale
(Brassica napus Pabularia Group)
This kale 'bush' is so healthy this year.
When the flower buds appear in Spring,
they can be eaten like Broccoli.

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Correa pulchella - Pink form

Often called the Australian Fuchsia;
Very hardy plant that always seems to have flowers on it!

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First Broad Bean Flower
It's very brave to be flowering with these light frosts we've been having!

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Compost Cat
Yesterday the minimum temperature dropped to 0C.
So I thought I'd check if the compost was warm enough.
Guess I found the answer!

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Toscano Kale
Does well right through winter.
Doesn't mind the frosts!

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Winter Jonquils
It's the fourth day of winter
and the first Jonquil is out!!

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Frost!
As this lump of ice on the Brussels Sprouts shows,
we had another frost this morning.

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Straw Bales
Ninja loves to sleep on these bales of straw out in the garden
but they are beginning to sprout wheat.
This morning they were wet too!
Ninja was not amused!

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Tomato Flowers in June
It's the first day of winter here.
These Tomatoes are flowering in my little hot house.
(The blue background is from a window cover)
I don't really expect these flowers to set fruit though.