Piersdad's Blog archive

summer in New Zealand

My neighbors landlord needed to do extensive repairs to the 1930s house and helped...

Glass house for the winter

the north seems to be getting blasted by a severe winter so i am being proactive...

giant sunflower

planted some sunflower seeds in different parts of the garden to see where they...

just starting the spring garden

winter is over here and planted a number of sunflower seeds. these flowers generally...

2 years after the christchurch earth quake

Greening the rubble is now the job of many volunteers making the bare patches into...

garden ferris wheel

had a bright idea and thought about a ferris wheel sort of garden ornament so basically...

birds and more birds 2

after puting out a total of 4 kg of lard for a flock of birds i can only count about...

birds and more birds

most of the summer here ( 45 degrees south of equator) we seldome see the small birds...

monarch butterflies

my lovely swan plants have been totally covered by these hungry beings so i watched...

frozen peas

65 years ago one of my weekend jobs was to help the local farmer to pick the pea...

hot cross buns

was invited to daughters place for Easter morning tea and she had baked some buns. used...

st patrics day

some year ago i had a very realistic rowing boat that was radio controlled the 2...