House

Well it wouldn’t be a blog without some kind of “renovation post”, so here goes.

I’m sick to death of the damn palm trees out the back. They would have to be one of the most useless trees around, providing no shade and continually dropping palm fronds on the ground.

Got them booked in to be chopped down in the next few weeks which will be great. Also getting the mango and macadamia nut trees cut back. Seem’s like a full time job keeping the gardens in order. Doesn’t help that it’s so hot in Rocky that the last thing I want to be doing is gardening. Maybe during winter.

I’m also tired of the wireless internet in the house, so I’ve got a fella coming around to give me a quote on running ethernet. With all the network devices running in here, it seems like a logical thing to do.

Will hopefully let me centralise my storage so I don’t have to have a bunch of external hard drives sitting around plugged into everything. Just have a network device plugged in with all the computers / ps3 / beyonwiz accessing the central store. Good times.

The tree out the back has been producing fruit for a few months now but for some reason the fruit kept falling off the tree when it was still green.

This afternoon I went out and took another look at it and it seems the fruit is now ripening on the tree. I managed to get 17 mandarins off it which actually taste really good.

I’m not sure why they were falling off the tree before while still green. Possibly season / temperature related?

The roses out the front of the house bloomed again recently.

Melanie was so lucky! She got so many roses!