Garden growing
kathiemt on Jan 27th 2008
I’ve not been that active here for a few months. The latter half of last year got incredibly busy. I’d written and published a book and had no idea how much of my time and focus the book would take. Been exciting and interesting but meant some of my blogs lost my attention for a period of time. So I’m back!
The Australia Day weekend (long weekend for those outside of Australia) has given me opportunity to catch up with my blogging, to potter in the garden, take some new photos and just relax. The first 3 weeks of the year are usually quiet but that hasn’t been the case this year - good for work, not good for catching up on things!
You will see from a previous post ‘Filling Our Pond With Water Restrictions’ that we’d put in a pipe to feed our pond during rainfalls. This has been an excellent thing to set up. The drought is still with us and we’ve had long periods of dryspells but when the rain comes, it comes suddenly and fast and in a short time our pond is full again! I’m sure our poor fish, if they were capable of thinking, would be wondering what on earth is going on out here in the dry world. Anyway, thought you’d like to see how effective this has been for our pond!
Kathie,
We’ve been in a drought in my state as well for nearly two years. Every time I hear a news report, they keep telling us we have less than 30 days to go and then it rains a little bit.
My grass and flower bed have taken a major beating. My neighbors and I used to be in competition for the “best lawn” but now we in competition for “Got Green?”
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It was good to visit your blog and see your pond. My fish have to come inside in mid-October to spend the winter - the pond freezes completely over.
I think I miss it sometimes more than I miss the flowers … I love the way the fish come and greet me when I call to feed them. In the house, they are more wary of me.
Some summers we have drought here too - these past few years have been good, rain-wise. It seems to go in cycles, doesn’t it?