2 Sep 2017
Rex has eaten a toilet roll, and my female yellow parrot "Bonne Bonne" is devouring a post-it note on my shoulder while biting my earlobe for attention (every time she drops the post-it note), and I have run out of beer. But I did finish spraying the top orchard on one tank (1000L water and chemical) in only 2.5 hours. Another post-it note. OUCH. Now she has shat on the floor.
So some awesome breeding news...we have Ringneck eggs, 3 in fact. And the female who laid them is a FERAL LITTLE BITCH!! Yes she bit me - just as well Bonne Bonne is comical. Post-it note number 15. Not sure when these eggs will hatch, or even if they are fertile, but the amount of parrot porn on the porch was enough to make a movie...so we should have baby parrots in about 4 weeks. And the weather is now warm enough to leave them uncovered at night.
(Eat the sticky tape - leave my bloody earlobe alone. This parrot is testing me seriously).
The weather is hotting up during the day, and the orchard is stressing for more water, so this afternoon I put water on for a good 8 hours. Was so good to see the sprinklers in action. The work load is increasing as the season progresses, with spraying every two weeks, and somewhere in between I need to cut the grass for bush fire season too.
There was a bushfire last weekend at Caloundra, houses burnt down at Noosaville and another fire out back of Kingaroy, so they are in area and fire prep for the season is serious work. Along the property boundary in particular. It would take only one careless cigarette butt out a car window to catch the boundary alight. Macadamia trees are high in oil, especially the nut, but the wood is also highly volatile. Oh well just another program of work to manage.
Rex is now snoring - must have been that tasty toilet roll. He has taken to being my Tractor Guide, and no matter what time of day or night I am out working he trots along in front of the cab, keeping the coast clear for me, in between a quick dip into the dam, which is now nearly empty. Eeek.
Anyway his night time antics are increasing too, whether its more foxes or they are just getting more game and coming closer to cottage (and chicken coop). Maybe they have had babies too? But it is very satisfying to know he is out there, telling the world he owns his little patch of soil, and barking at everything that moves after dark. Moths included.
I have a sea of shredded post-it notes at my feet.
Rex has eaten a toilet roll, and my female yellow parrot "Bonne Bonne" is devouring a post-it note on my shoulder while biting my earlobe for attention (every time she drops the post-it note), and I have run out of beer. But I did finish spraying the top orchard on one tank (1000L water and chemical) in only 2.5 hours. Another post-it note. OUCH. Now she has shat on the floor.
So some awesome breeding news...we have Ringneck eggs, 3 in fact. And the female who laid them is a FERAL LITTLE BITCH!! Yes she bit me - just as well Bonne Bonne is comical. Post-it note number 15. Not sure when these eggs will hatch, or even if they are fertile, but the amount of parrot porn on the porch was enough to make a movie...so we should have baby parrots in about 4 weeks. And the weather is now warm enough to leave them uncovered at night.
(Eat the sticky tape - leave my bloody earlobe alone. This parrot is testing me seriously).
The weather is hotting up during the day, and the orchard is stressing for more water, so this afternoon I put water on for a good 8 hours. Was so good to see the sprinklers in action. The work load is increasing as the season progresses, with spraying every two weeks, and somewhere in between I need to cut the grass for bush fire season too.
There was a bushfire last weekend at Caloundra, houses burnt down at Noosaville and another fire out back of Kingaroy, so they are in area and fire prep for the season is serious work. Along the property boundary in particular. It would take only one careless cigarette butt out a car window to catch the boundary alight. Macadamia trees are high in oil, especially the nut, but the wood is also highly volatile. Oh well just another program of work to manage.
Rex is now snoring - must have been that tasty toilet roll. He has taken to being my Tractor Guide, and no matter what time of day or night I am out working he trots along in front of the cab, keeping the coast clear for me, in between a quick dip into the dam, which is now nearly empty. Eeek.
Anyway his night time antics are increasing too, whether its more foxes or they are just getting more game and coming closer to cottage (and chicken coop). Maybe they have had babies too? But it is very satisfying to know he is out there, telling the world he owns his little patch of soil, and barking at everything that moves after dark. Moths included.
I have a sea of shredded post-it notes at my feet.
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