I think I met the clicking frog…Mum will know what I mean. There's a frog that lives somewhere in the pond that makes a clicking noise-loudly, and sporadically so you can't get used to it. Shane likes to imitate it just as I think its stopped when I'm trying to go to sleep. I was feeding the fish and this little one jumped to the rock in front of me-I stared at it and it stared at me gamely not moving while I was pulling out weeds above it. I did warn it it better not click. The melons seem to be growing every day-I've started putting some stockings over them to hopefully support them as they grow. I've still got no idea what the hairy melons are-they are getting bigger, but are still just green and covered in fur. The citrus trees have been looking sad-thinking it must be some sort of deficiency. I sprayed them with liquid fertiliser and put some slow release fertiliser, Epsom salts and urea around them-hopefully that will perk them up. The cucumbers were looking sad too-I think it turned too warm for them. We pulled them up and pulled off all the fruit. The puppies ate some-Horse then must have come inside to wipe his face on their new bed. It took me a moment to work out all the white bits were cucumber seeds ;) The sweet potato in the small bed is still growing well-I went to pull up a small potato to have with dinner and what I got was closer to a soccer ball! The new sweet potato just keeps spreading-and some of the vine stems are getting thick. Our Sunday drive this week was to Spicers Gap part of the Main Range National Park. The drive up the mountain was through an odd blend of tropical plants and gum trees. The road ended at the Governors Chair car park. We went to the lookout first-it was beautiful, and scary. The path opened up to a stone outcrop sloping slightly towards the cliff edge. It was totally unfenced and a sheer drop off-made it seem really high up. I didn't venture too close to the edge and had to sit down for a bit when I started feeling dizzy looking at the drop off. Shane meanwhile was happily wandering along the very edge! We then went about halfway along the Heritage Trail-the old road that they closed down due to erosion. There were lots of birds about-wrens and bronze wing pigeons, and small birds too fast to identify. I could hear whip birds and bell birds too. There were a lot of bell birds about, and I have to disagree with Nana-they still sound nothing like bells when they are all calling together. Pretty yes, but not like bells. There were some huge gums along the track- I was taking photos of them for Nana. There were lots of Grass Trees too which by their size would have been around when they were originally building the road. The fences around the boundaries were really neatly done-we took some photos for ideas for the front fence at home. We had a look at Moss's Well and the Pioneer Cemetery. The walk in to Moss's Well was pretty-like a tunnel through the trees. It just led to a natural spring which had been edged in concrete. There wasn't much of a cemetery-just a monument. It was lovely and cool-I was wearing a cardigan even in the middle of summer.
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With the new 4WD the plan was to get out and use it more-and so far we’re sticking to that. On Sunday morning we went for a drive out past Gatton to Glen Rock National Park. It was a pretty area-though there wasn't really any walks or anything. The information centre was a lovely timber shack-I mostly admired the building and couldn’t really tell you what the information posters were about. There were several mother cows with their babies gathered on the road-some of the calves were very cheeky and attempted to head butt the car as we went past. Another little calf chased after us looking hopeful-I think the owner must drive in and feed them so they expected us to stop and give them food. We also went to look at some Indigenous rock carvings Shane had read about. It was a pretty drive in on a winding road between hills, but it kinda ended at nothing. The path to the rock carvings was very overgrown, and it was difficult to tell what the carving was meant to be of. The sandstone it was carved on was very pretty though. In just a week our melons have grown-the plants have spread out more and the fruits have been forming. One is a weird furry fruit-we're not sure what type it is-a honeydew maybe? I think the other two are rockmelon and watermelon. Our tropical apples have been ready for picking too. For such a small plant it's produced good size fruit.
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