This strange looking Eucalyptus sp is growing behind one of the local carparking buildings.
Strange because it’s so dimpled. Never seen a tree trunk like it. Don’t know whether it is natural or an attack by something like a virus.
It’s losing its bark rather early. In Sydney and environs that used to happen nearer to November.
The canopy, what there is of it, is rather statuesque.
Big try out this … it’s a bit rough, but at least we’re back in the game … forgot the title I see. It’s part 16 … OK, no I see it in the header. And sorry, forgot to take my notes for the template from the end. I said it’s rough.
We definitely have not yet hit our goldilocks moment with cat litter!
Who knew there would be so many brands and types available. I started with my usual arrogant save-the-world attitude and bought a large 10kg bag of recycled newspaper pellets. This being possible because someone else was carrying it to the car and from the car to my apartment. Newspaper pellets go sludgy.
Second was hemp pellets, left overs from the process of producing hemp for rope, hemp-crete and other products, this was another product that was going to save the environment. Hemp pellets disintegrate into a fine dust difficult to clean up and very bad for my allergies.
Third was a gravelly product made of tofu and pea flour. It is meant to ‘clump’ and so be easier to keep the litter box clean. It does clump but is also easily transported into the rest of the house by sticking between the poor cat’s toes, and is nearly as bad as the proverbial Lego block to stand on when walking around on bare feet. And why wouldn’t I?
Fourth is a tiny vermicelli-like extruded pellet made of coconut fiber and charcoal. This was probably the worst purchase yet. Very sharp, and I soon picked up a piece in the sole of my foot. Have been wearing a big band aid for a week. Apart from that, the stuff ‘clumps’ only reluctantly. The one thing going for it, it does work wonders on odors.
Above, a mix of fresh litter containing all four of the recalcitrant litter types. As by then I’d been buying a new sort every time I went shopping, and since I can carry home only the stuff I can fit on my walker, the average bag of litter weighs 5 kg.
At the present we’re trying out the mix of sawdust and wood-splinters. And when I go shopping in a few minutes I will probably–out of sheer pernickety recalcitrance–buy yet another of the still untried possibilities.
Having to send untold bags of used cat litter to land-fill is also not ideal. Before, when I lived in freestanding houses, the used cat litter went into the compost bin, or was buried in the garden and helped to build up my low-lying yard. I’ll be asking Brisbane City Council why apartement blocks don’t get green bins. It’s not as if we don’t produce any organic waste!
There has got to be a better way!
The old woman has got me hunting for my kibbles now.
Here I am on the balcony, washing draped around me drying, ah found some.
I know there are some nearby. I can smell them.
Ah … found them!
The Golden Trumpet Trees along Bamchory Court are a glorious spectacle as I come out for my walk
I typed this on a parkbench, too difficult to get the Latin name , wikipedia will have if you are interested
There are a dozen and they have been flowering in batches.
They are a South American Tree and it seems like every country there has its own species. The leaves are like hands with five fingers … new growth
The noisy miners crazy about them and ensure, by pollinating them, that we get to see the seed pods too. I had to pick one to ‘see’ it properly instead of confusing the camera with a pencilthick object against the humungous blue sky. Furry as you can see …
I’ve been a fan of HTTP status codes, and in particular 4xx client errors, since I discovered this April Fool joke one year when I was directed to a “418 I’m a teapot” page. See quote below from Wikipedia …
418 I’m a teapot (RFC 2324, RFC 7168) This code was defined in 1998 as one of the traditional IETFApril Fools’ jokes, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and is not expected to be implemented by actual HTTP servers. The RFC specifies this code should be returned by teapots requested to brew coffee.[18] This HTTP status is used as an Easter egg in some websites, such as Google.com’s “I’m a teapot” easter egg.[19][20][21] Sometimes, this status code is also used as a response to a blocked request, instead of the more appropriate 403 Forbidden.[22][23]
From there it was only a short distance to HTTP 404 pages, some of which are great advertisements for their parent sites, some have games you can play, and others are just plain fun. A few for you to try … (Don’t be surprised if some don’t work) … LOL, so far, I’ve only ‘experienced’ a few 404s and the one 418, but my ambition is to see examples of all of them over time …
http://wildlifeqld.com.au/bird-conflicts/plover.html
https://www.netflix.com/NotFound?prev=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2F404
https://www.cloudsigma.com/404-error
https://thisjungianlife.com/404
One of the best I’ve seen was on Ecosia but cannot find it again to show you. They get cagey when you try to catch them just for fun …
Thursday 12 September, day 11 of the build, there were two excavators on site … one that began ripping out concrete in the northern corner to the side of Carinya.
Just visible behind the tree, filling up one of the trucks with chunks and slabs.
The second excavator squated desolate in the upper section apparently suffering a break-down.
The operators here seen washing the great steel animal down, as if thinking they might as well use the down-time for something useful.
A little later they had a repairs truck on site, the doctor coming to see the patient. There can’t have been any resolution because it sat there all through Friday ( day 12) and was left behind when the working machine was carried away at the end of the day by low loader.
Saturday morning it was also taken away.
Leaving just a spare scoop sitting by the side of the access road. And that was that for the week.
Rita de Heer 