Any time you see Lola sprinting inside with her tail between her legs and a yelp or two, you know Robin Hood has attacked her.
Seems like Robin Hood doesn't like Lola’s herding instincts and occasionally take offence.
What a weird farm we have!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Crowing cock
Well Robin Hood decided that crowing at 4am is normal. So for now the chickens are sleeping in a box in the trailer. The theory is that if he cant stand up he wont crow.
Ja right. He starts crowing as soon as he hears us moving around. I let them out at about 8am. So at least the neighbours don't get a 4am wakeup call!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Veggie garden #3
So with the pending bad weather arriving we decided to take the afternoon off and move the last of the 2 tons of soil from in front of the garage into the back garden. Veggie garden # 3 is now complete.
Needless to say I am crocked moving 2 tons in a week. Hopefully the veggie patches provide us with great vegetables over the next few months.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Veggie garden #2
So veggie garden #2 is now complete. There is bad weather on the way so there is a rush to get the mound of soil in front of the garage into the garden.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Weird family
So the chickens are quite at home in our house. Robin hood even decided my foot is a nice perch to sit on.
Of course Lola is always guarding them. Poor Amy gets a tongue lashing when she gets too near to the chickens.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Kayra lost her 1st tooth
Kayra’s wiggle tooth has finally come out (with a little help from mom). She was too excited to show the kids at school, so the tooth fairy might only come tomorrow night!
Of course Jorja is up in arms because none of her teeth are coming out.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tim’s farm
With all the holidays we managed to spend a lot of time in the garden. I have been crocked for most of the week. The 1st veggie garden bed is now complete.
We have used all our compost up and I cant make it fast enough. So we bought 2 tons of bush/manure mix that was dumped on the flat let's drive way. I now have to prepare the remaining 4 veggie garden beds and wheelbarrow it around to the back. So I am going to be crocked for a while!
Friday, June 17, 2011
The week
What a week! With all the disruptions and a public holiday on Thursday and schools closed on Friday I didn't get must done.
Grandpa George was admitted on Saturday for an emergency blood transfusion, his Hb was 5, its supposed to be around 12 or 13. He was quite a handful in hospital and was restrained for most of the time. Luckily his care giver was there at night to help.
He came home on Monday, but as usual was very confused and very loony. He also battled to walk so he missed the toilet all the time.
He took a bad turn on Tuesday, a bad reaction to the new blood. So from Wednesday he had care givers there day and night. What a help because Shirley and I were taking strain.
He is still not back to his old self. He can hardly walk and is using the wheelchair all the time. Next week we will be trying to get him into a frail care close by.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Robin Hood now crows
We have been woken at sparrow fart by what sounded vaguely like a crowing. Well this morning he actually got it right.
I guess I am now going to make modifications to coup to stop him crowing in the early hours of the morning!
You can hear him here
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Chicken’s parents
Well the chickens have been named Robin Hood and Marion.
Below are pictures of father Henry (Brahma) mother Queens (Silkie) and the offspring.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Grandpa George is back home
George was admitted to hospital on Saturday afternoon for a blood transfusion. His Hb was only 5.
He was discharged this morning. I am sure the hospital were happy to see him go because he cause quite a few problems for them.
He is now at home, mad as ever, so we are going to be in for an interesting few days!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Garden clean-up
In preparation for all of the vegetable beds we decided to cut down some alien trees and clean up the garden a bit.
In true Shirley style a small job ended up being a long hard slog!
The kids managed to get me to repack the pile so that they have a house under all the branches.
At least we have a huge pile for a bond fire.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Vegetable garden
The veggie garden went onto the back burner whilst Topsy the terrorist was here. She is now gone so this weekend was the start of the vegetable garden project.
Shirley of course thought that moving 4 cubes of soil is no problem at all. Needless to say I will be stiff and sore for a few days.
We are running out of compost, so we also have redesigned our 4 compost heaps to try and hasten the process.
Thankfully it looks like the drought might be over, so we will be irrigating these beds from the municipal feed first, then later from rainwater tanks.
This is the 1st of 6 vegetable beds. So the work is cut out for me!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Chickens
So our lovely optometrist Liesl (The Bay Optometrist) phoned Shirley to say she had something for the kids. She arrived back with 2 baby chickens, obviously I had lots to say in the matter.
The kids and Lola were in love. Of course they had to sleep inside the 1st night.
Saturday they clean out the cage and made it more chicken friendly. While that was going on we let the chicks range around the garden. We had to lock Lola up, because she wanted to lick them to death.
They are now settled into their new abode. The kids are permanently begging to play with them, they are now rationed to two 15 minute sessions a day, and a 1/2 free range in the back garden.
For those in the know, the father was a Brahma and the mother a Silkie
This place is getting more like a farm every day!
The week
So after last week’s hard work sanitizing the list of 3954 harvested ascidian publications they are now in the database. Our database has changed as follows:
| Before | After | Change | |
| Authors | 3378 | 7655 | 4277 |
| Publications | 981 | 1907 | 926 |
| References | 3732 | 7265 | 3533 |
| Referenced Authors | 6849 | 18844 | 11995 |
So a rather productive week. Now to find and remove the duplicates!
Luckily I rediscovered the Soundex function in TSQL, its helping tremendously to highlight names and titles that sound the same but are spelt differently, i.e. a good candidate for a duplicate.
Night nurse
So George got a night nurse. She is there to help him at night, especially getting dressed and undressed, and his nappies on and off.
Well he fought with her the whole night. This is the man that begged for someone to help him. She handled it well, hopefully tonight goes better!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Jorja and the Rs
Jorja has had a problem with the Rs. We thought she is going to end up like mom and oupa and ‘brei’. Last year she managed to get the words starting with R right, but couldn't do a prrrrr, or grrrr, much to her sister’s delight.
Well she now can and for the last couple of days all we hear is prrr or grrr!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Week 5
This week has been a bit of a slog. I harvested the references for all publications regarding ascidians for the last 20 years. That was the easy part.
The hard part was sanitizing this data. I started doing it manually, but after about and hour your brain switches off and you make more mistakes than you are fixing.
So I wrote a quick and dirty program to sanitize the references. There were about 5 versions of it, each one sorting out another weird case.
The result is that it now takes about 10 minutes to process 100 references where it used to take about 2 hours.
Next week I have to write a program to import and merge these references into our ascidian database. Should be fun!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Topsy the terrorist #5
So Topsy decided that my grass is too level and proceeded to dig a hole to China. Jorja stood in the hole and it takes her to her hips. Is Topsy digs any further she might get buried in there!
Kayra is losing a tooth
Kayra’s bottom front tooth is finally loose. There is a tooth behind pushing through, so hopefully it wont be long before the tooth fairy has to come around!
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