Happy Birthday America!

Have a great and wonderful 4th of July!

It's good news week?

Sao Paulo hails hydrogen-powered bus.

This sounds encouraging!! What do you think?

Brazil's biggest city has unveiled plans to introduce Latin America's first hydrogen-powered bus, which from August will plough the city's thronged streets, spewing water vapor instead of carbon dioxide. Read more.

Wind Gusts to 70 km/h

It's a fair bit on the windy side around here today (I hate windy days) so I'm guessing I'll spend part of tomorrow putting the garden back together.

So it looks like a good to try out my new casserole dish.

I have plenty of kale and kohlrabi in the garden so they will be getting a run.

Now what else?

Station Details

Name: TOOWOOMBA AIRPORT

Lat: -27.54

Lon: 151.91

Height: 640.9 m

Data from the previous 72 hours. | See also: Recent months at Toowoomba

Date/Time EST	Temp °C	App Temp °C	Dew Point °C	Rel Hum %	Wind
					Dir	Speed km/h	Gust km/h	Speed knots	Gust knots
03/11:30am	12.9	2.0	1.6	46	WSW	48	70	26	38
03/11:01am	12.8	2.8	2.4	49	WSW	44	63	24	34
03/11:00am	13.2	3.4	3.3	51	WSW	44	61	24	33
03/10:30am	12.2	2.4	2.4	51	WSW	43	63	23	34
03/10:10am	11.7	1.8	2.7	54	WSW	44	63	24	34
03/10:00am	11.6	1.5	3.6	58	WSW	46	61	25	33
03/09:30am	10.6	0.0	2.9	59	WSW	48	67	26	36
03/09:00am	10.4	0.7	3.0	60	W	43	61	23	33
03/08:42am	9.7	-0.2	2.6	61	W	44	63	24	34

Lucky Me

Hi folks,

I've been banging on to the Good Wife about wanting a decent casserole dish for months, bemoaning the fact I'm always short of money and can't afford one.

So yesterday my wife went on one of her regular trips to the Gold Coast to see her daughter (Hi Ky) and visit our old family Doctor and unbeknown to me came back with this little number.

Now I'd left for work last knight and didn't see my wife when she got home, so much to my delight I come home at 2 this morning and find them all neatly wrapped up for me.


Lucky me.

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning Satan shudders & says: "OH S***, She's awake!!"

Not the deadly

I had to hand in my enrollment paraphernalia for my prep course at uni today so I hopped on the deadly and rode out there.

It's about 9k's each way and mostly up hill on the way there and obviously down hill on the way home.

And for my 47 year old ex squash playing knees that don't do much more than lean on a brake peddle or accelerator in the taxi, I gotta tell ya that's a long way.


My plot at the Toowoomba Community Organic Gardens is on the way home, and as seen as I haven't been there since the last lot of rain I popped in to see how things were going.

When I first got my plot I planted some Violet Sicilian Cauliflower by seed which I planted in a spare raised bed close by. (behind the bike in the above photo)

They're doing well but I've got to get some blood and bone and sulphate of potash on them, as well as some mulch.


The peas are still growing well and will need to be stakes soon (I think I said that last time as well).













Weeds? What weeds?

This is a red cos lettuce the seeds of which I got from diggers. Never grown them before but they look good so far.








Leeks and spring onions.

I'm growing the leeks on at the moment, when they get about 200mm high I divide them up in to individual plants for growing on.










These are the broad beans I planted for a green manure but I'm finding myself attached to them and not wanting to turn them in.

When I get chance I'll ask the pres if I can have some more space for my potato planting plans and then I can keep the BB's.









Cabbage is doing well





















Broccoli Romanesco, same as the Violet Sicilian Cauliflower I planted some of these guys up.

They seem a little slow off the mark, but look healthy enough.

And same again, I've got to get some blood and bone and sulphate of pot ash on them, as well as some mulch.








Also after the recent rain the weeds are having a ball. Looks like wipper snipper time.

Well that's it for now, after having little to do for the last month the veggie gardening jobs seem to be piling up so I'd better get cracking and get into it.

Cheers,

Stewart

DEAD AS A DORENAIL

Ever wondered where the expression DEAD AS A DORENAIL came from.

This web site has some ideas. World Wide Words

And what started all this? Simple, Little Farm in the City asked on her blog, "Do you think it's dead", and after a visit to see what she was talking about I replied, "As a dorenail", which gots me to wondering where the expression may have come from which lead me to the World Wide Words web site.

Well that's my fun for today, I'd better be getting backs to working.

Hooroo, cheers and have a nice day.
Stewart