Persons at work

This post will include a few images of various folk at work on tasks around our place. The tasks generally have a fairly vigourous physical aspect to them - none of that namby-pamby driving a desk stuff.

This shows Frances in the early days of her vegetable garden. It is in an area which was designed as a dog run and was a veritable mongrel to dig. I don't know why I only have one photograph of her working as she does a lot of stuff; some more will be added later (see below).

As well as the tyres, decsribed in my previous post, we inherited a large pile of prunings and other junk wood. On a cool moist day in June I sent them up. As you might gather from the distance I am from the fire it generated quite a bit of warmth. Needless to say three months later the pile is nearly back to the original size.

I didn't want to run out of firewood next year so invited Milton and his chainsaw around to assist with bonsai-ing a dead stringybark. We definitely defeated this tree, so took a big-game hunter shot.

A few weeks after the previous image was captured, firewood ceased to be in short supply following the intersection of a gale and a shallow rooted (well and truly rooted by this stage) yellow box. Here is Martin starting the tidy-up process.

Two days later and the job was almost done. Those with keen eyes may wish to check out the supervisor. He is likely to get a post dedicated to him and his adventures at a later date.

As promised, here is another piccie of Frances replenishing the tree supply. This was on day 1 of our attempt to regenerate vegetation in the bare paddock, covered in more detail in Greening Carwoola.

One of the issues we had to deal with has been pruning things (which is why the fire pile has regrown). We were able to work most of this out from books and TV programs (thank you Gardening Australia and Vassili's Garden) but the vines remained a black hole. Fortunately Carol and Rob turned up. Not only did they give lots of advice but wielded the secateurs to very great effect.