Here's a few consecutive notes that I'll swap at face if anyone's interested other wise they'll go back in the pond in a week or so, so please let me know ASAP if interested :ok: (http://i42.tinypic.com/2utpzbr.jpg)
bit more zoom sorry (http://i43.tinypic.com/2gsmq1d.jpg)
Nice to see you active AJ!!!!! :yahoo:
Hey uni, thanks mate..been a bit too active and that's the trouble :winkextra: I hate being old :laugh2:
Hey A.J., greetings from the Robster household.!!
Welcome back AJ. Nothing much has changed.
Hi AJ :)
welcome back young possum :wavemulticolor:
XX Robbie
AJ!!!!
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Whups... wrong AJ.. sorry. ;) :diablo:
Welcome home AJ :)
:welcome: back AJ. You should let us know if/when you're going AWOL. :winkextra:
:give_heart: Hello my lovelies and other beautiful peoples :)
If it's still crappy weather tomorrow I'll take a few pic's of what I've been doing even though there's still a bit to do, I was going to take some when it was all done..but ya get that on the big jobs :winkextra:
And I finally read "the shadow" :good: good read, but reading really knocks me around these days, as do most things :heat: :Alvarin_33: :lazy2: but I just keep pluggin away :) and I have too many things to do and I'll get back to the keyring holders soon as well :winkextra:
Good to see you back mate :good:
Ok not a bad day but I'm rooted so thought I'd take a few of my crappy pic's so here's one project that's getting close but still have the gutter, down pipe and old wheelie bins for tanks to set up yet and a few other things to finish it off and add benches and scored this 4.4m ss bench and used heaps of my hoarded stuff :good:
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Just got the gutter up..5 or 6 years and I should have it done :mocking:
I reckon she's lookin' good AJ!!!
Mine is still in a state of absolute despair!!!
Thank uni, should be good when I get it finished with benches and water..and might have to put some doors on but have to see what the bloody cats do :dodgy: how long do ya reckon till those pups are ready to deal with cats :winkextra:
You guys need to watch a few episodes of Grand Designs. :)
:blink: what's wrong with me taj mahal of shadehouses, I thought it's been a good effort for a :crazy_pilot: like me :winkextra: lot of freebies there and even gettin to use a lot of stuff I've had laying around for years :laugh2: I reuse heaps of things :good:
umm froggie
dumb question, maybe
what is it gonna be?
a green house?
a men's shed?
an indoor jacousie frog pond mansion?
an indoor jacousie frog pond mansion?
:laugh2: you kill me robbieg
Yes it's a greenhouse/shadehouse as we need it here in summer :heat:
I'll have to change my avatar again soon so here's a few more pic's
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and then released (http://i42.tinypic.com/34riy3o.jpg)
AJ excellent froggie pics!
We're in the same world as far as construction goes. If you might use it, keep it. If someone puts it out for collection and you can build/do something with it, grab it. It takes me about 3/4hr+ to get to anywhere that sells anything so hoarding comes (partly) from necessity. If I need to make something I'd usually have something that will do the trick ...... somewhere.
Fixing up my glasshouse is on the agenda for this year.
here's a few more trippy things (http://i39.tinypic.com/330yb1y.jpg)
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and here's a link to this (http://i40.tinypic.com/ddg9ky.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U
Go AJ .....
Is the first one one of the critters that traps ants? Or perhaps a rhino bettle?
Second one, no idea, but cool as and a great pic.
Third one, cicada lavae / grub ?
We're in the same world as far as construction goes. If you might use it, keep it. If someone puts it out for collection and you can build/do something with it, grab it. It takes me about 3/4hr+ to get to anywhere that sells anything so hoarding comes (partly) from necessity. If I need to make something I'd usually have something that will do the trick ...... somewhere.
Fixing up my glasshouse is on the agenda for this year.
Yep don't thro nothin out 'cause ya never know and yeah it takes up a little room but can save a fair bit :good: and I hate it if you do have a clean up and sure as sh*t in a cat you'll want something you've tossed out :(
Mate a glasshouse..big job so I hope it's not to run down..see ya local secondhand joint, I got a half a ute full of timer for free and a few other odds and ends that cost me $20 but if I got it from bunnings it would of been hundreds as a lot was hardwood :)
Now to you questions, yep it's one of those ant things..all those little pieces all over it are bits of dead ants. I'm not sure if it's an antlion getting ready to make a cocoon or a different insect :scratch_one-s_head:
the next is a green lacewing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopidae and here's another link about antlions and lacewings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlion and ya hit the nail with the last one :)
Found these two last spring ......
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sweet they're pretty cool :good: I've only ever seen one black one out in the bush and didn't have a bloody camera and seen a couple around here so I'll capture them next time I see'em :) but ours aren't as nice as them :(
so what can ya do with one of these pie tins?? thro them out (http://i43.tinypic.com/o8gl6q.jpg) I'll go take a close up of the posts on the greenhouse as bloody bunnings wanted near $4 for a plastic cap so my little pea started to tick :laugh2:
sorry it's not such a good pic but you can see the little tin there :) (http://i39.tinypic.com/n3wu9s.jpg) dob of liquid nails and a few clouts and bobs ya uncle
great pics guys
i'll post my praying mantis pics
pie tins AJ
I used mine in the veggie garden to deter the maggies
so of course I have a photo of the maggies standing beside the hanging pie tins sparkling away
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cool pic RG, I so love their eyes :good: I wonder if it could talk if it'd say...peek a boo, I see you :) so the tins work as well as bottles of water on the lawn :dodgy:
oh
do the bottles work?
yeah - the tins or CD's are everywhere in this town on the fruit trees in summer
they look pretty groovy really
Great photo Robbiegal!
cheers
unfortunately that mantis is R.I.P.
after the hubby accidently sat on her in the bedroom (think the hubby still feels awful that he killed me little green pal)
she hung in there for a few hours but even with tender loving care from nurse Robbie, alas, just wasn't enough
Amazing little creatures who seem like they are sizing you up for their next meal.!! :dodgy:
Yesterday, 07:59 PM Post: #29
robbiegal
Posting Freak
RE: SWAP - Poly notes
oh
do the bottles work?
yeah - the tins or CD's are everywhere in this town on the fruit trees in summer
they look pretty groovy really
No the bottles don't work..well not here anyway and I'd try the CD's but I also have to contend with the bloody bats so i pick my mangos when they just start to get colour, got about half dozen milk crates last year so not expecting as many this year :( but have to find somewhere to put these two that struck so I wacked them in pots and lookin ok :)
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there's two..well three things that annoy me at mango season and that's rainbow lorikeets, bats and the fact that the bastards take one or two bites and stuff the fruit and move to the next. I wouldn't mind so much if they ate the hole thing and left the others but they don't :( I find I harvest a lot of things either green or when they just get a little colour :good:
Today, 11:14 AM Unread post Post: #32
Robster
Wine Taster.
RE: SWAP - Poly notes
Amazing little creatures who seem like they are sizing you up for their next meal.!!
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They are Robster, they are :-/ lucky for us they have little mouths eh :)
a lot of the oldies here put a fine netting over the fruit trees
mangoes ripen up ok after being picked a bit green
we bought a electric dehydrator when we lived up north and I'd spend days drying out crates of picked mango for the kids
now here, I use the dehydrator for apricots & apples mostly
I bought one with inner liners & trays as well, so I whizz up the raw fruit add a bit of fruit juice and make fruity chews - anything goes into the mix
would be easy to do with banana and mango
but it might be a chick thing (or rather - a mother hen thing ha ha)
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='23615' dateline='1375408415'the fact that the bastards take one or two bites and stuff the fruit and move to the next.
They do the exact same thing to our figs. Not the persimmons though.. nothing left of those at all. This year's harvest was a big fat zero, and I actually went out and bought some instead. :(
Quotethe fact that the bastards take one or two bites and stuff the fruit and move to the next
Sounds like the grandkids to me :laugh2:
all the first lot of notes are gone back into the pond now :( so here's the next lot to go if anyone's interested
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Why were you keeping the BC's and EE's? Are they UNC?
And pencil me in as a maybe. :)
No worries just let me know, BC cause they're consec (both have one fold) and yes the others are in very good nick :good:
EE in good nick sorry :)