Ribh's D'Coopage

[Aussie-Chookmum]

So when people tell me "go back where you came from" I give it genuine consideration: hmmm,

Yep MJ, I can't tolerate intolerance! I find that most of the people who spout that rubbish Australian ancestor's go back, at the most just 250 years. Like, get off your high horse, we are all immigrants!

 

[MaryJanet]

MJ, I'm gonna change subjects on you... Have you ever done anything in SharePoint? That's my latest struggle. Wow how it's changed. But I think I'm winning, but won't know until it's deployed to the full user population.

All I know is my admins keep making me use it. Sorry

It's funny. We have a huge drinking culture here ~ & I don't. Most of it is migraine inducing for me so we are pretty much social outcasts.

When I was a bajillion years younger I used to drink on weekends with my mates, but these days it's very rare that I'll do more than one in an outing and almost never alone - I have one or two martinis each summer if I've had a great day.

Yep MJ, I can't tolerate intolerance! I find that most of the people who spout that rubbish Australian ancestor's go back, at the most just 250 years. Like, get off your high horse, we are all immigrants!

Yes!!

 

[MaryJanet]

It's so good to be home with the chookies

 

[rjohns39]

Evening folks

Mj that's a cute pic.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

@Aussie-Chookmum : Any chance of a virtual tour of your garden? The pictures look wonderful!

Here are some shots of the not too daggy bits @Ribh

^ Not much is flowering yet but the banksias are putting on a show! ^

^ Our Magnolia stellata puts flowers out and the wind picks up a couple of days later and blows all the petals off ^

^ I think this is Banksia spinulosa ^

^ I'm very proud of this grass tree (Xanthorrhoea autralis) which I planted about 15 years ago when it was only a few leaves. It looked like a bunch of pine needles then. Still hasn't flowered though. That's the trunk of an Angophora costata behind it, not a flower spike!

^ Even the Philotheca (Eriostemon) myoporoides has started flowering. The bees love this one. I have to clean out my bee hotels to encourage the local natives.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

@Aussie-Chookmum : Any chance of a virtual tour of your garden? The pictures look wonderful!

...and some of the daggier bits too.

This the fenced off chicken pen with their coops in the background.

You can see some tyres in the third shot which I've planted herbs in and have kept covered until they get established. My girls love picking at the parsley and it needs a rest occasionally.

^ Notice the remains of a grevillea (dead branches) in the background. It took up this whole area before it curled up it's toes, which is why this part of the garden is kinda bare. Now it makes great perching space for the girls and not a bad spot for hanging a waterer.

Once I've planted more around the wire and my annuals come up , I'll post more "after" photos.

 

[BY Bob]

G'day Bobs (and everyone else)

Morning all

 

[BY Bob]

Funny thing from Saudi.... The Aussies got a tea ration (two 1/5th per month) that were worth $450 USD on the black market... They'd sell their tea rations and buy my stuff for $26 USD/liter and were quite happy. When I got ready to leave, I sold all of my equipment to a single buyer who gave me an idea to sell a cook book. I printed 100 copies and sold out in a day at $100 USD per.

I like research and history, so I studied the history of boose from it's origins and was able to replicate a lot of things that tasted way better than bathtub gin. My rum, vodka, gin, and bourbon were huge hits with the Aussie community... And it was finely aged at 30 days I have a Kahlua recipe that costs about $7 to make vice the $25 store price and you get twice as much. It's all about research. And we had lots of time for that when I was there.

MJ, I'm gonna change subjects on you... Have you ever done anything in SharePoint? That's my latest struggle. Wow how it's changed. But I think I'm winning, but won't know until it's deployed to the full user population.

Didn't Microsoft terminate support for SharePoint? I thought that was a dead product? Not that my company isn't trying to use it as well.

 

[BY Bob]

Here are some shots of the not too daggy bits @Ribh

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^ Not much is flowering yet but the banksias are putting on a show! ^


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^ Our Magnolia stellata puts flowers out and the wind picks up a couple of days later and blows all the petals off ^
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^ I think this is Banksia spinulosa ^
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^ I'm very proud of this grass tree (Xanthorrhoea autralis) which I planted about 15 years ago when it was only a few leaves. It looked like a bunch of pine needles then. Still hasn't flowered though. That's the trunk of an Angophora costata behind it, not a flower spike!

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^ Even the Philotheca (Eriostemon) myoporoides has started flowering. The bees love this one. I have to clean out my bee hotels to encourage the local natives.

Very nice. Thanks for the walkthrough. Flowers even in winter must be nice.

 

[rjohns39]

Didn't Microsoft terminate support for SharePoint? I thought that was a dead product? Not that my company isn't trying to use it as well.

Nope and they're beefing it up for Office 365 and all things cloud.