Our great southern migration

  We have been moving a water tank instead of fetching water. But we definitely had hills involved.  Note the two tanks below the retaining wall on the lower right of the image above. There is third tank up by the house. But, since, we are mostly using rain water and we are in a fire zone, we want more water on hand. Those lower tanks are in the spot where we want to put the larger concrete tank. We just emptied and moved the white one. This involved Scott doing a lot of digging to free it from the surrounding grasses (tenacious things) and then careful dragging it to the new site. The new site was on a hill so we moved sand from the first area to the new one and packed it under the tank.  Betty (the truck) again came to the rescue and we were able to tilt the tank just enough to work sand under it.  We haven't yet tried putting water back in it. Hoping the travel across the lawn didn't damage the bottom! My legs are saying it is time for a break.  While Scott w...

       This blog is in honor/honour of the females that are brown or faded green while their mates are colorful/colourful! Many of these birds are not readily recognizable! I have now downloaded but not yet sorted my Korea pics so didn't want to wait on those. Hopefully this weekend! Note: these could be juvenile males; they look like the females. But we are going with these are females.  The image above is a golden whistler. It does whistle but isn't very golden. You can see the male on J is for jellyfish. This little lady (pretty sure she is a lady) is a female scarlet robin. Looks brown and orange to me! Her mate was on the  Gang's all here The female fairy wrens are great at incognito. They could be superb or variegated. In some instances, I swear they are red-browed fire tail finches. However, those juveniles are all brown and don't have red eye patches. The fairy wren boys come in various blue shades. See More fairy tails . The females are bolder...

  Most of the Australian jellyfish are also full of toxins. The main ones to worry about are those that hae been beached. Stepping on them is still painful! The blue-bottles (aka Portugese Man o'War) is apparently four creatures merged into one. From the Australian museum website : The float (pneumatophore) is a single individual and supports the rest of the colony. The tentacles (dactylozooids) are polyps concerned with the detection and capture of food and convey their prey to the digestive polyps (gastrozooids). Reproduction is carried out by the gonozooids, another type of polyp.  J is also for journey. The waiting list for cardiology evaluations is just as long here as in the US. Because my pacemaker was no longer under remote monitoring, they found me an earlier appointment - in Canberra. We could and did do it and I feel more comfortable that I will soon have it back under an alert system. However, it was a 3 hour trek each way (over the mountains). We stopped at a nati...