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Too dry. Need rain desperately. But still fucking glorious.
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These two have moved in and are very bossy. I haven’t got them to take seed from my hand yet, but I don’t think it will be too long.
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Only day 10 of fighting the Second Wombat Invasion. To say I am over it would be an understatement.
3 wombats in the yard last night and this morning.
Probably another 2-3 hours of repair work on the fence involving digging up boulders to fill holes, dragging in the moved dirt, reinforcing with star pickets.
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In case anyone is interested (you should be, in a general and food security sense), here is the kind of information I'm dealing with as a board member of Dairy NSW. Dairy is just one agricultural sector that DPIRD has done climate vulnerability assessments for.
https://www.dpird.nsw.gov.au/dpi/climate/climate-vulnerability-assessment/
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A word of advice: *do not* accidentally wash your expensive LEDLenser head torch with your clothes. You will *fuck* the battery, even after a night of the battery and torch sitting in a tub of rice.
I've ordered a new battery, and I *think* it will work again. TBC.
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Just rural road things.
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More #bushlife content. Here’s the neighbour’s semi-feral (mostly feral) sheep visiting before breakfast this morning. He’s actually moved away as he got too old to manage his place any more, but the sheep are still roaming the valley. Midwinter here is very dry-we’ve had about 5mm of rain in 2 months. Decisions about buying water will need to be made soon in case the dry doesn’t break in late spring.
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Bang bang bang lever lever lever thump wreeeeench skreeee BANG!
All with a doof doof background.
Yes, tradies are here, pulling my house apart to determine just how significant the significant termite damage actually is. At least they aren't listening to racist talkback radio. A big win. 😏
I'll soon know how much it'll cost to fix—will it be renovate or *detonate*? Hopefully fixing. Rebuilding is very exxy in fire zones (here).
Anxiety levels extreme!
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I'm spending more of my spare time writing material for TTRPGs, and the words and ideas are beginning to flow.
In the interests of trying to do this in a more professional way, I've launched a little Patreon that will showcase that game development work (and the occasional diversion into life in the bush).
I'd be delighted if any of you chose to follow my efforts. You can find me at https://www.patreon.com/cw/forestvalleygames.
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We have a planned power outage of up to 6 hours today. Right now, our PV and battery is doing the job we paid it for.
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Orion in the eastern sky, looking NE. 5:30am 26/7/2026. 10 second Night Mode exposure on iPhone 16.
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Dairy. 3am. Bega is on the other side of the hill.
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That’s an efficient day’s work done. 0400-0930 with the cows at the farm, then home to harvest a fallen tree, stacking the logs in storage, and then splitting a week of firewood and bringing it to the rack by the back door.
It hasn’t rained in a few weeks, so I’m also dropping about 10,000l of water from our header tanks up the hill to the house, but gravity is doing the work there; I just need to watch the gauge and shut the valve when it’s time. -
Phase 2: 7 jars. Ready for the local community food swap tomorrow. Given how many oranges I have, I will be doing weekly marmalade for a couple of months. #cooking #preserving #bushlife
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Cooking Day Phase 1: citrus tree that has never fruited until this year has decided to produce a proliferation of small, very bitter, seed-heavy oranges. I assume it’s a Seville, but I’m not 100% convinced.
I filled a 10L bucket with fruit that had fallen on the ground outside the fence. There are more inside the fence and hundreds on the tree.
Anyway… marmalade!
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Apparently there is a local queer choir. How lovely!
#bushlife #lgbtqia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/pandemonium-choir-lgbtq-community-candelo-nsw/106801774 -
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EXTREMELY glad I inspect my chainsaw every time before using it. This snapped off tooth and pin surround is asking for a sudden chain breakage incident. This one goes straight to the bin.
cc @liamvhogan @jpm @Kels_316 @phs and other power tool and safety folks.
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Moments after this shot, the goshawk flew off with the body of its prey dangling—a brown cuckoo-dove. No pic, it waited till my phone was in my pocket & I'd started to turn away. 🤣
I've seen a few goshawks hunting brown cuckoo-doves—they seem to find them tasty, or other birds are better at escaping.
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New hat. Legit going to be able to pass as a local now.
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Currawongs aren’t typically flocking birds, but here, hundreds of them fly through every morning headed west and evening headed east to wherever they spend their time.
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I’m all for hazard reduction burns, but given the lack of wind, we’re in day 4 of high smoke and particulate pollution. A bit over it.
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HR burns in the national park next door and no meaningful wind = stinky smoke everywhere and high particulates. Yay.
Hoping for a little wind today.
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Spending a couple of days in Camden on Sydney’s rural outskirts for Dairy NSW board meetings and meetings with NSW farmers.
As cities overtake these formerly separate towns, and they transform into semirural exurbs, you wonder what they become as pressure to be more city than country increases.
The hotel we’re at is clearly a community, social, and business hub and is busy every day. It obviously performs an important role here.
As a former city person, the cycle of rural life, the very significant effects felt because of political disconnect and geopolitical instability, the “vibe” of rural towns, and the gap in culture between city and country is something I still feel very clearly; I urge my city friends to ask their country family, friends, and acquaintances how they’re doing and what lies topmost in their concerns, because they’re very different to those in the city. -
It's fallow deer breeding season on our place, and they're keen for a punch up. Unfortunately for the big chocolate fellow here, his day ended early as part of our conservation and control efforts.
Older animals need to be taken out of the gene pool so that younger animals get opportunities to breed, and as they are an invasive species, we need to put some effort into control and reduction in numbers.