Hi all:
Lindybird: I responded to your post at the end of the last Weekly Chat.
Hey AQ: Well your post didn't read oddly, so not to worry. Three hours of water a week? Wow. That's hard; do you save your gray water (from showers, etc.) for plants (not sure how good that is for them). We did that back in the 70s during a really bad drought - no washing down of anything; odd/even watering, etc. I remember going to a conference in Washington DC with a bunch of West Coast colleagues and we all spent our spare time taking very long showers. Do you typically get much rain in the summer? Or are you like us - nothing between March and October? Lovely to hear about Aurora australis - and how wonderful to to be able to see something like that from the farm. Hope the birthday get together is fun.
We get very little rain in summer. Our climate is described as Mediterranean and I would guess similar to yours. Last summer we bailed the grey water from washing machine and spread it around assorted plants, shrubs. Wow!!! that's the best they have ever looked. Obviously they were getting more than previously LOL. Note we have 'grey' water <grin> We have different spelling to USA.
Oh yes, I did catch up with the Stag yesterday. It was quite late in our day. I still haven't adjusted to when dawn is over there. Nope, not yet. Probably when I am getting tea, bother.
AQ: It took me a while to succumb to US spelling. It's 10:30 p.m. in California; dawn in the UK should be in about another 45 minutes. The stag was up and around early this morning (yesterday morning?) I try not to get too hooked on the cams late at night or I just stay up too late.
Well, managed to sort out the credit card bill, so off to bed. Have a nice Saturday folks!
Right now, 8:30 AM UK time, you can see the stag, a hind, and a younger female (yearling?) together right in front of the camera (when it is panned in their direction). http://www.newforestgateway.org/Wildcam/LiveCameras/tabid/117/Default.aspx
<<Annette said:
OG. Hope you enjoyed the music - what was it? Is this a woodpecker that's been poorly? Sounds like he might be over the worst of it.>>
Here is a (not very good) picture of two of them feeding last February! (Can't guarantee that "Neckie" is one of them!)
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
AQ a question for you:
How do you get italics into your posts? Do you create in Word and then copy, or is there a simpler way??
I know you might have packed up for the day where you are, but maybe you would reply your tomorrow: our tonight!!!
Hi, original goldfinch. I don't think AQ will mind if I answer your tech question. She can yell at me if she does.
To get italics: Press down your Ctrl key. At the same time, press down the i key. (You have to press both keys simultaneously.) Then you will be typing italics. To release the italics and go back to normal font, just press the Ctrl key and the i key again, at the same time.
To get boldface: Press down your Ctrl key. At the same time, press down the b key. Then you will be typing in bold. To release the bold and return to normal font, just press the Ctrl key and the b key again, at the same time.
I assume that the RSPB tech staff will tell us if using these fonts creates a problem here.
The shed and the fence are now dark oak ,water based nature friendly. It is another glorious day here although out of the sun it is a bit chilly. The Scotsman has a bit about the killer whales that were shown on Autumnwatch last night so nature is beginning to be taken seriously now that daily newspapers are reporting things more if only politicians were a bit quicker to realise that most people are really concerned about what is happening to our world but all they do is talk about it. Last year public opinion stopped oil transfer in the Forth but their is still no law to stop this happening because government does not like to upset large business organisations. I will now get off my soap box.
george g