rivame plenty of tucker and water here at my place on the nth coast NSW
Australia your welcome to come n hang if ya like.havent had normal
rainfall for this locality we have not been affected to badly by the
drought .it was a full on job keeping the water up to my horticultural
efforts this summer.

Bye....

Thanks Kariz...its a lovely offer. Can I bring everyone in victoria as
we are all suffering.

As to your horticulture...hope all is blooming and budding as it
should

i guess youll just have to eat dirt and distill ya urine for a drink
jess. ive not consulted the critters their terratorial and if i
start inviting to many visitors to my wildlife refuge they might feel a
bit threatened and start bluin with ya

You are so right Kariz, territory, and imbalance...

The weather here in Ireland has been quite dry for a while now and the
farmers are complaining. I thought they always do anyway, but I think
things have changed here, too.

i think humanity could learn ****loads from my composting worms.

Thats the trouble in the world....everyone winges about
everything...because they can...then when real problems arise ..no one
listens.

A bit like the boy who cried wolf too often.

Morning Invisible and Jess

Morning Riva, or better good night, cause it's after midnight and time
for good girls to go to bed

And yes, I agree with you, the Irish farmer has been crying wolf once
too often and now nobody really listens anymore. But I can see the
change, even though it's subtle, in the colour of the land.

Morning world's cutest Koala..


Sometimes a message needs to come from a different angle...

For people to see and hear the big picture...

and get past the 'Cry Wolf' thing.

Farmers are tied to the land the seasons, they work with them, not
against them, and I know for me, when a farmer is concerned, and not
from over planting, or over-stocking his property, I sit up and take
notice.

The native animals, also, show with their behaviours when the seasons
are out of kilter..

We have a migration of ants...looking for water..always around the
basins and taps..

I hear you beautiful roo.

And your right about the ants. Here in Melbourne they are desperate
enough to come into my electric jug.

Birds that were once aggressive now just seem to hang about...looking
kind of sad....like they know something that we humans have yet to
learn.

Have you noticed the trees too?

Flowering out of season, kind of desperate to get their seeds out there?

To survive as a species?

And birds?

We have an invasion..a much encouraged one...we have basins of water for
them to bathe in, and drink from, and breakfast for them all..our deck
looks like an over crowded doctors surgery in the mornings, all there
waiting..

Something that we noticed as unusual, the native bees are coming in the
house, the tiny little stingless black ones, also hunting for water...

Hello my fur bearing, fluffy friends.

I live in a small farming community and we have a serious problem that
not many are paying a lot of attention to.
The bees are dieing off in huge numbers here. I know a few farmers that
have hives and they're really worried about it.
I AM TOO!
One checked his hives this spring and figured over 75% had died!
I hear it's a problem nation wide. Some areas worse than others.
Don't people realise that bees are necessary to pollinate the plants
that we eat. The wind and birds do their part as well but it is growing
concern!

Talking of trees. My favourite plum tree grew an abundace of fruit...but
due to lack of water it all just fell of without ripening...even the
birds didnt eat it of the ground

And Kid..hallo friend

I have noticed the bees not being around but we seem to have an
abundance of wasps.

We have had a lot more wasps also and they seem to be getting more
agressive every year. Nasty little things.

Are they european wasps like over here.?

They build their nests in my trees and I have to be really careful when
picking my leaves...ouch they hurt

We have several varieties, the worst are yellow jackets. They usually
live in fallen trees or in the ground. They are extremely agressive. I
was bitten/stung 14 times when I walked by a nest when I was younger.
Not a good time!
I have a crabapple tree in my back yard and I had all the apples fall
off before they were ripe last fall almost overnight. This drew the
wasps in. I couldn't use my back door for a few days until I could clean
them up at night.

i cant blow to many notes on a trumpet i read the writing on the wall
when i was a teenager.i droped out of the stupidity of the human rat
race back in the early 1970ies and all the predictions by eminent
scientits and environmentalists were ignored and thanks a lot monsanto
and thanks a lot ronald muckdonald thanks a lot religion thanks a lot
for wizzdomm dumb fuk world leaders weres ma hat ma
gandy seems to numb the severity of the situation im
taken care of my little patch as best i can

Whewwwwww. Bet your glad you got that of your chest Kariz.

know what your saying though

Wasps....we have them everywhere..paper wasp nests hanging off every
eve...and yes the european ones...

They are a bit tricky to get them out of the house..