Rain
November 7, 2008
It’s raining, it won’t be enough for the farmers but every bit helps. It’s been a cool, dry spring in Sheffield. The ground is cracking and I’m watering daily. The dam has dropped a couple of feet. Actually the dam needs to be addressed soon, it has no planting around it or on it. I few well chosen aquatic plants will slow down the evaporation and a good variety of water edge plants would be welcomed by the huge population of frogs we have here. It would be nice to make the dam look a bit more natural as well. I planted a few snow gums near the spring run off but I’ll need to put in a few shade producing trees around the banks of the dam too. There’s a good natives nursery at Liffey so I’ll plan a trip out there when we have a spare day.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller
I found a kookaburra sitting inside one of the tree guards the other day. Very odd. Don’t know how long he’d been there and I don’t know how he managed to get in there but he sure couldn’t get out. He must have got bored because he ate my tree. He was very relieved to be set free, poor thing. Now I feel I have to check the tree guards all the time incase something else gets trapped in one.
