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this is Carefree Way.  my physical address.  Which is required for some Things,  even tho it means Nothing.  See it?  to the right?  the dirt road?  But….maybe it doesn't mean nothing.  Google maps can find it.   Up from here is the neighbor Dave.  And up from him is a travel trailer and i don't know.  But that's it for Carefree Way,  on "our side".  Across Carefree Way are the people who own land   "over there".  They have a real road at the front of their Places.   They use Carefree Way at the bottom of their Places.

 


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this is the meadow.  Next to campsite A .   Alyssia's Place,  where the wall Garden is.    It's twice of what you can see here in this pic.  Native grass grows there.  Which is Beauty Full and flammable.  

 

 


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on the outside of that fence.  Today i planted two of  these.   Deer ate branches of Alyssia's Asian Pear.  They don't live here,  the deer,  but just now and then go through and in their now and thening,  they ate branches from her pear tree.    On the hill slant there outside the fence grasses grow that are Fire Food.  And so.  The experiment.  What might not feed fire and also not be eaten by deer?   

it says   "excellent  nectar source for bees and humming birds. and not that interesting to deer."    Not that interesting to deer…i smile.

Native to Australia.  Flowers late summer through spring.

There is so much to do here.  I think….enough for 7 Generations.  and it relieves me.   I do this much.  I start it.  Just this much.  As much ,  as i can.  Just as much as i can.

A Hawk sat.  In the tree,  just over from the Feed Shed.   I hadn't seen Talkie for a while.  I wandered and looked and called and no Talkie.   But then there…she WAS,  behind the Doe Goat Shelter,  doing her thing.  

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13 responses to “enough for the 7 Generations”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    Grevillea lanigera is a good groundcover, stays low and spreads to about a metre wide, when I lived out in the bush we planted a hedge of fire retardant Grevillea rosmarinifolia on the edge of the gully that we kept slashed with a brushcutter for the firebreak.

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  2. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Lovely. I’m just checking if my comment is received. Can’t check Jude ’cause she has comments disabled.

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  3. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Deer will eventually eat everything. I know. 27 years experience.
    I use chicken wire to protect. And blood meal. the deer don’t like it. Husband puts it into containers with tiny holes hangs them in the planters and trees.. the scent gets out. Deer stay away. No one dies.

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  4. Acey Avatar

    always love how pleased and expansive the plants’ energies become once they’re out of the pot and into the ground. Had to do some google image searches and a bit of reading as I was unfamiliar with the flowers mentioned on your description tag and wanted to see them.
    Here on the brink of more snow in the morning I also did a bit of planting today – a trough full of dead nettles I chose to dig up in September so they wouldn’t get trampled by house painters. Went to re-plant them last month and they vibed their desire to be the last thing I put in the ground for the season. So okay. They are now in the ground at the point of later autumn where gardening chores involve a different kind of physical labor and answer to rapidly shifting levels of prioritization and execution. I am ready. So far anyway.

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    here in Texas wildfire does sweep quickly through dry grasses, but then they rebound (an acre of burned land in our old neighborhood has done just that in the past month) … what we were cautioned to do when we first moved in was to remove brush that can act as ladder fuel, enabling fire to climb into the tree canopies … of course, all bets are off once the fire reaches the canopy and the wind carries it where it will …

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s an experiment. the only way to know is to try it.
    If it works, we’ll get more.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…it didn’t work at a point this morning, but i
    asked Typepad again and got more to try and tried,
    and i’m hoping now we’re good.
    I’ll be watching for you

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    will write that down. The deer only come once in a while.
    Last time was i think about this time of year last year.
    It’s funny because they don’t bother the Plumcot that is
    only a few yards away from the Pear.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it seems so strange to me to be planting so much when
    it’s November. New Mex, it’s down into the teens at
    night.
    and yes….there is a very palpable “sigh” when lifted
    out of the pot.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    we have a lot of downed branches. a LOT. No one has
    ever lived here before.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    except First People

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  12. Nanette Avatar

    I have that Grevillia in my garden, I planted a couple of them as part of my bird corridor, and these, to bring in tiny finches, so they have somewhere safe to perch and hide near the bird bath. It worked, I have the tiniest of finches come to drink and enjoy nectar. Talkie might’ve been hiding from the hawk, she could make a nice lunch.
    Loved seeing your home meadows.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s a very BeautyFull plant Being…i hope it can do ok
    in the soil out there.
    There is a big Front and Back to being a free range
    chicken. This was the first time a hawk perched in
    so close a tree, right there in the middle of everything.
    and yes. lunch.
    as soon as there is Rain, that whole meadow will be
    green.
    Love to you….

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