only for, Robbiegal is a pain in the bum

[robbiegal]

ha ha

yeah - I wouldn't want to scare the horses!!

[Fulvio]

I find timber all over, second hand dealers and friends padocks and sometimes garage sales..some timer looks like crap until you play with it a little and a coat of clear to bring out the grain and bob's ya uncle

Heh, every year this stupid persimmon fails to produce (or maybe the scumbag possums strip it before it can), I look at it and think "That's some pretty fine wood you got there, sunshine...". One of these days I'll carry through the implied threat and chop the bastard down.

[robbiegal]

meanie

i love persimmons
do they need another tree to cross pollinate?
they grow really well here in the ACT

i have been told that the plum tree too has a nice wood to it
we have a couple in the back yard that the hubby keeps threatening to chop right down

[coxsp]

I've recently moved to an old timber town and have access to some amazing Tasmanian specialty timber. Surprisingly cheap given the high quality. My house has 5 King Billy Pine fire mantle places. Such beautiful wood and craftsmanship.

[robbiegal]

sounds divine  
it's a bit chilly here tonight (-1.2 here at the moment) and I could do with 5 fire places - right here in the study!! ha ha

[Fulvio]

do they need another tree to cross pollinate?

Believe so. This one seems to manage a crop about every 3 or 4 years, though even then its a race with the wildlife to actually get any.

I usually end up buying them cheap, since not a lot of people seem to really understand them, and judge the fruit on their looks rather than taste.

[coxsp]

Interesting that wildlife take to persimmons. I thought they had a small window of being ripe, which would require some very alert wildlife.

5 fire places, but only one wood box. The open fires are just too inefficient.

[Fulvio]

I've recently moved to an old timber town and have access to some amazing Tasmanian specialty timber. Surprisingly cheap given the high quality. My house has 5 King Billy Pine fire mantle places. Such beautiful wood and craftsmanship.

Tasmanian timbers are awesome I reckon. I stayed with an artist down there who was one of the few to have a permit to harvest Huon Pine. At dinner, he served wine in Huon goblets which were so fine you could flex then by pressing on the rim gently. He had a display cabinet full of all sorts of awesomeness made from beautiful timbers, rare and not. Sadly, it was before digital photography, and I have NO idea where the photos I took disappeared to.

[robbiegal]

the hubby grabbed two huge ones a few weeks ago at the markets for me & i had them on the window ledge for a couple of weeks
it was just fabulous to wait until they were perfect and indulge as i'm the only one in the house who eats them, so there's no competition either!

my neighbours have trees and the former neighbours always gave some to me
but the new neighbour cut the tree right back last year

i picked one of the (only) two pumpkins in my pitiful veggie patch today
i had popped one pumpkin into a cardboard box about 5 weeks ago - 2 reasons, 1. to protect from the frost 2. to protect from mrs possum who lives near by
one year she ate a pumpkin so that it looked just like an eaten apple by the time she finished with it!

[Fulvio]

Interesting that wildlife take to persimmons. I thought they had a small window of being ripe, which would require some very alert wildlife.

Seems to be possums mainly. Perhaps other rodents as well. In a year when they produce a crop, you can pick them while still firm and let them ripen indoors. You run out of horizontal surfaces since there are hundreds or even thousands of fruit. But even so, you often find just the end caps on the tree. No sign of half-eaten fruit, the whole thing's gone.

Once of twice when there was no crop, I had seen flowers, but they all disappeared, presumably eaten. Other years I haven't really taken note, but it just didn't produce anything.

one year she ate a pumpkin so that it looked just like an eaten apple by the time she finished with it!

Why DO we protect horrible, nasty species in this country anyway? If you've ever shared dinner with a possum, you'll know they're really little s**ts of things, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Oh wait, they're native... the way the conservation mindset goes, even cane toads would be protected if they were native.

[robbiegal]

my hubby chats me when i leave out food for mrs possum and her huggy baby

i think she is beautiful

and we have enough stone fruit to share & mrs possum doesn't strip the trees bare (at our place)
but the parrots ... that is another story, they destroy entire crops of fruit
sounds like you have a monster tree Fulvio - i'm jealous!

[Goldseeker]

sounds divine  
it's a bit chilly here tonight (-1.2 here at the moment) and I could do with 5 fire places - right here in the study!! ha ha

Put your jeans back on.   That might help   hehehe

[robbiegal]

ha ha

that is clever!!

[robbiegal]

:heart::give_rose:

thank-you ausjack
you are a sweetie
great packaging as well!! arrived safe 'n sound tonight at the post
darker shot is closer to the real colour - lights were reflecting a bit

[ausjack]

it's truly my pleasure robbie, just glad you like it

and hope it's not too much trouble for him :winkextra:

I really like the grains and colours you get in it :good: