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summer in New Zealand

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

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25 Jan, 2014
Piersdad

Glass house for the winter

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

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22 Mar, 2013
Piersdad

giant sunflower

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

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26 Jan, 2013
Piersdad

just starting the spring garden

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

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6 Dec, 2012
Piersdad

2 years after the christchurch earth quake

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

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28 Nov, 2012
Piersdad

garden ferris wheel

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

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8 Jul, 2012
Piersdad

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...

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26 Jul, 2010
Piersdad

birds and more birds

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

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23 Jul, 2010
Piersdad

monarch butterflies

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

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19 Apr, 2010
Piersdad

frozen peas

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

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3 Apr, 2010
Piersdad

hot cross buns

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

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2 Apr, 2010
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st patrics day

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

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17 Mar, 2010
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