Oz madness, well, kinda.

Posted by: Nic

It has been a busy week for Sal. She is trying to get ready to attend a Gordon Research Conference on Non-Linear Science, in Maine, whilst also spending every morning at the community garden volunteering at the Seedlings Kids Summer Camp.

I am less busy, having just hired workers to do all my work for me..., I mean help me with my work.

Unfortunately we don't have pictures of any of this, so instead here are some pictures of Trav and Jac Hatch (the Aussies), who visited us last week.

This is Trav and Jac at our place shortly after they arrived. Jac was still a bit jet-lagged.

We took them out to see the sites of Durham. The highlight was undoubtedly the dodgy Mexican joint down the road.

And in further community garden news I am am helping to build a large gate with our new friend Snooky, the carpenter.

No time for play

Posted by: Nic

It's been no time for frivolity. For starters, it’s canola harvest season, so I’ve been driving up and down to the coast a lot, and of course now that I’m project leader I’ve been busy with project management.

Firstly though, before stuff got nuts we went for a walk in the forest with friends. Now that the weather is more like Brisbane than Tassie it was a hot and sticky walk. It was nice though, as you can see.

The other interesting happening right now is that the fireflies are out! Chris Jones tells me that you do get fireflies in the rain forests of Qld, NSW and Vic. I was unaware of that, but I did know you don't get then in WA, so Sal and I think they are really cool. I tried to take a long exposure picture of them in our garden but they did't show up. So instead I had to take this picture from wikipedia.

Back to the canola harvest, the farm harvested their field of canola and were really happy with the result. I don't know where the snakes are going to live now though.

Unfortunately, we had small canola plots so we had to harvest them by hand using a mower, which you can see in the picture. I am so glad that work is over. Next year I am getting a small plot combine.

Finally, the day we harvested a pair of huge helicopters kept flying past. I managed to get a picture of them below.