Good time for a vegie garden, and a full water tank

[bob10]

Already have the hoses on to divert water from the shower and washing machine onto the flower garden. Have enough tank water for a month or two of selective watering of vegies.[ tomatos and beans] The chooks are laying, bees producing honey, circle the wagons, we'll wait this out. Then we'll probably get a flood. [bighmmm]



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[DiscoMick]

Already have the hoses on to divert water from the shower and washing machine onto the flower garden. Have enough tank water for a month or two of selective watering of vegies.[ tomatos and beans] The chooks are laying, bees producing honey, circle the wagons, we'll wait this out. Then we'll probably get a flood. [bighmmm]



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Yes, at Maleny we have 32,000 litres of water tanks, but they are only half-full, so I think we will have to book a water truck soon.
Chooks are laying well. Vegie garden needs work, but we are getting some fruit. Grey water goes into the septic, which is keeping the natives in the front garden happy.
Its going to be a long hot summer.

[bob10]

What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.

[POD]

Wish I could send you some of ours. We have 140,000 litres of water storage that is overflowing, since the last of our kids married and moved out a few months ago we can't use the water fast enough and are heading into spring with everything full. I'm going to have to install a bigger overflow system to prevent the roof runoff flooding my firewood shed.

[bob10]

Wish I could send you some of ours. We have 140,000 litres of water storage that is overflowing, since the last of our kids married and moved out a few months ago we can't use the water fast enough and are heading into spring with everything full. I'm going to have to install a bigger overflow system to prevent the roof runoff flooding my firewood shed.

best you keep it for the bush fires mate.

[Saitch]

Yes, at Maleny we have 32,000 litres of water tanks, but they are only half-full, so I think we will have to book a water truck soon.
Chooks are laying well. Vegie garden needs work, but we are getting some fruit. Grey water goes into the septic, which is keeping the natives in the front garden happy.
Its going to be a long hot summer.

I reckon someone's pinching your water, Mike.

[Toxic_Avenger]

Yeah... he should evict them.
It's your front garden, after all.

[DiscoMick]

The natives are plants, not people. [emoji4]

[DiscoMick]

So Warwick and Stanthorpe are close to running out of water, and Dubbo's dam is down to 4%.

'I don't know how we come back from this': Australia's big dry sucks life from once-proud towns

'I don't know how we come back from this': Australia's big dry sucks life from once-proud towns | Environment | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/14/i-dont-know-how-we-come-back-from-this-australias-big-dry-sucks-life-from-once-proud-towns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard)

[Bigbjorn]

The natives are plants, not people. [emoji4]

It is Maleny so they are probably ferals not natives much like Nimbin.

[bob10]

It is Maleny so they are probably ferals not natives much like Nimbin.

We've been to both Nimbin, and Maleny. Nimbin was definitely alternate lifestyle, Maleny more yuppy than anything else. Perhaps after dark the ferals come out, but we didn't see any.

[DiscoMick]

Last time I went to Nimbin I barely had one foot out the door on the road when a sleazy bloke asked, "Want some dope?"
Wouldn't happen in Maleny.