Housinge!

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House!



The lounge room with its slow combustion wood heater and bar. The house has a reverse cycle split system in this room, so it's unlikely we'll need to like the fire often. There is also a swamp cooler on the roofwith ducting to all rooms
90 degree panorama


Kitchen


Purple and Orange room! It's mostly white-ish now. Sorry Ace. Pete says he'll take this room as his. I seem to have acquired the main bedroom. The pink room is also mostly white-ish.


The back yard





Garden shed and dog kennel


One of the aviaries left behind


The fish pond and fish left behind


And something else left behind.

I think I'll deny the existence of the rabbit, and when visitors say "You have a rabbit!" I'll say "What rabbit?"

Comments

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Our bottle brushes have brilliant red flowers that look like - uh - bottle brushes.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Likely the same plant then! I absolutely adore those, they're hearty (even I can't kill 'em), and so pretty. I don't know if you have hummingbirds there, but ours attract them.

Oh! We have bats now! I need to build a bat box ASAP so they'll stay.

And an oddball question (actually two): do you like cast iron cooking things and do you have a Wal-Mart nearby? Fox insists they have them in Australia but I've never heard any of my Australian friends mention them.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

We don't have hummingbirds, but we do have honey-eaters of all sizes that love bottle brushes. The flowers produce vast amounts of nectar.

I bet you've always had bats, but they have just made themselves known to you. 8) Bat boxes are a good idea but don't expect residents to move in immediately. Also, plant some night-flowering plants in the garden. they attect insects which attract bats. Bats in North America need a lot of help at the moment; a desease is sweeping through the colonies on the East Coast with a 90% mortality. It's pretty dire.

Cast Iron Cooking things: love them! Wal-mart: there may be a few stores in Sydney or Melbourne, but they're not known generally. I haven't seen a store anywhere in country areas of the state. We have Big W (a Woolworths non-food division) Mitre 10 and Bunnings for all our cheap things needs.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Cool that you have Woolworth's there. I remember shopping at that store when I was much, much younger. They still had a soda counter :D


All my stuff got converted to cast iron. I won't cook on anything else.

I'll bet the bats would come; it's almost like they're looking for a place to be. We have a big colony on the University of Florida campus but these are local guys.

I have night blooming jasmine, moonflowers, and who knows what else out there. I scatter the wildflower packets to let them bloom where they may.