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Carolyn Cordon with Buster the Dog
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25.01.2022 This hot weather being experienced in South Australia in these days between Christmas and the New Year are so challenging. Keeping things going and growing means going outside into the heat, to water the garden than means a lot to us. At the moment, I'm watching birds outside looking for water, and finding it in the pots and saucers the pots are sitting on, on the front veranda, where there is shade. [ 393 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com/20//27/hot-weather-hell-p/
24.01.2022 Buster the Dog is thinking a little more deeply about things lately, and has come up with an interesting piece that is going to be in the September issue of the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. I'm hoping that issue will actually come out at least online, in September, but the hard copy version will definitely have to wait until October. It will happen though!
23.01.2022 Hi friends, Buster the Dog hasn't been doing much lately, but he's still around, and thinking about life. His life, and the lives of his many friends. Summer is being kind, with fewer long stinking hot heat waves, and of course, staying inside is always a good idea in really hot days. ... Buster the Dog is looking forward to sharing his words of wisdom again, every month, in the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle!
21.01.2022 I wonder if Buster the dog is going to work out that when a cat slowly moves it's tail from side to side, it's not wagging its tail ...
20.01.2022 Buster the dog over Christmas, for him it's even better than Easter. At Easter, there is all of that chocolate, which is nice but Buster is a smart dog, and he knows chocolate is bad for him, and could kill him if he ate too much. Christmas is much better, because there will be lots of different kinds of food, even including roast meals, and ham, yum! And if Buster has been a good, or at least a good enough dog, he might get some Christmas presents!
20.01.2022 This locked in life is giving be a better understanding of what it might be like to be a dog. You have breakfast, then you rest, you go to the toilet, and you rest. then lunch happens, maybe another toilet break and you rest. People might speak to you, and you either talk with them or you just rest a bit more. And there might be a bit of really full on racing around outside, chasing things, or there might be some hunting or something like that. Or there might just be a day of mostly resting, and hey, if that's what a dog's life is like, then maybe this current situation isn't terrible it's just what it is, just how dogs look at it. I think ...
18.01.2022 So South Australia, Northern Adelaide Plains, an unpleasantly hot and gusty day. This intrepid birdwatcher ventured outside, nonetheless, to adopt usual viewing position, and watch, and then come inside and report! So what different birds did I see? Well, there was not a lot of activity actually in the bird bath closest to me, but I did see two different Murray Magpies have a drink there, and a Crested Pigeon. [ 598 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com//hot-days-a-birds-seen-re/
18.01.2022 I realise not everyone has lots of 'Nature' options in and around their home. I am sorry for those people, because i know how much joy there is, if you can live your life, connected with Nature. I live on one and three quarter acres of land, in a rural area, with cropping farms around the place, and around 45 trees at my place. [ 616 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/haiku-at-home/
17.01.2022 Yes, it's Summer in Australia, and we get hot days for sure, but the heatwave that's going to hit South Australia in the coming week is looking like being particularly bad. Starting tomorrow (Monday) the days will get hotter and hotter, ending on Friday with a real stinker, with the maximum temperature forecast for Roseworthy, which is the closest weather forecast location. [ 327 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com//beware-the-heatwave-come/
16.01.2022 Today I took advantage of an earlier than usual start to the day, and the cancellation of my usual Friday outing, and went outside to see what I might see. The weather bureau forecast a stinking hot day for South Australia, this first Friday of the new year, but it wasn't too hot just yet, I figured, so off I went! [ 618 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com//another-randomish-bird-r/
16.01.2022 At the moment, South Australia is sweltering, suffering from overly 'summery' Summer. Heat waves and fires are common, many people facing the decision on whether to stay and fight fire, or go to a safe place instead. A tough decision that one. I will always go, instead of stay and fight. At the moment, my husband is outside watering some of our plants, the ones in pots, at the front of our house, on the veranda, which at the moment is shady, but will get sunshine once the sun begins to go down again. [ 414 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com///hot-hot-hot-poor-plants/
15.01.2022 Buster the Dog is going to write something about friends, for the September Crossroad Chronicle, I look forward to seeing what it is!
15.01.2022 You might think Buster the Dog has disappeared, he's been absent for so long, but he's been thinking, thinking hard, about his next book, and he's getting kind of excited, and kind of worried. Sharing his Buster the Dog thing with a human to get the words down, and then another human for the pictures, certainly proved to be a good idea, with three books written, and published. And the idea of getting another human involved seemed OK, at the start. But there's talk of wsomet...hing else, something that makes Buster's hackles stand up, all along his spine! Grrr, a cat! They want to bring along a cat! Buster is certainly not convinced about this, not at all. The humans are all keen though, and they keep saying the cat won't be a bother. Not a bother? It's a cat! Can Buster the Dog overcome his suspicions and instincts, and manage to work with this McTavish the Cat creature? Time will tell ... It may take some time, but it's hoped there will be a book to launch, some time in 2021, the fourth book in the Buster the Dog series.
13.01.2022 Buster the Dog has to think hard now, I need him to give me some wise words, for me to put in the next issue of the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. I wonder what he's going to come up with this time? Whatever it is, he'd better get a move on ...
13.01.2022 I've written a blog post on my Gardendog blog, and here, if you want to take a look, and maybe leave a comment. It is about our new pond ... and a bit about our sad other pond, that died, here is the link: https://gardendog.wordpress.com//a-good-pond-just-what-i-/ I hope this new pond has a happier life than our first one.
10.01.2022 Buster the Dog has been squeezed out of my mind a bit, but I know he's still there. He gave me another thought for the upcoming May issue of the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle last week, and I was grateful for that. I'm always grateful for all of the people who help me with things to go in the Chronicle.
10.01.2022 Buster the Dog is enjoying having a regular spot in the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle, sharing his canine wisdom with readers of this newsletter. It's interesting the way dogs see things differently to humans, sometimes, but sometimes the differences are smaller ...
10.01.2022 I'm sitting on the seat on the front veranda at home, listening to, and looking for birds. Only in a casual way though, simpy sitting here, ready to observe any birds that come along to visit ... I'm not expecting a huge variety of different birds, just stoically prepared to delight in whatever I see. There's been mostly both male and female Sparrows so far, no surprises there, they the most prolific bird in every count I ever do, at home. [ 944 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com//18/which-birds-will-i-see/
05.01.2022 There are lots of trees at my place around 45 of them, as far as I've counted. That's including bushes higher or wider than metres, as well as real, ridgy didge trees like the two gum trees here. Oops, Eucalyptus, I mean. But it's OK, gum trees are Eucalyptus, they're the same thing. So, I don't know what kind of trees the Eucalyptus around us are, apart from beautiful ones. [ 227 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/i-love-trees/
04.01.2022 Buster the Dog is feeling restless, knowing the scent of smoke may bring ill deeds to many. He may not be able to do much, but I can. I am raising money for the a charity dealing with the terrible fires in NSW, on my own personal Facebook page. If you can, please go to my page and give, Buster the Dog and I will say thank you. And Buster the Dog and I have decided we are going to donate $10 from every one of the current books in the Buster the Dog series, and a proportion of any other monies made from these three books. I have ideas about dogs, and gardens, and all kinds of other things. If you are ever in need of a humorous speaker on many things, contact me! Give me a topic,and I can talk about it!
04.01.2022 I have written on this blogsite about my mandarin tree in the past, and today I'm writing about the same tree again. I'm not celebrating a bumper crop of lovely mandarins, but this time, mourning the damage of the measly crop we had growing on the tree. The fruit on the tree, currently, consists of three small and badly sun scorched mandies, that are actually dead and discoloured, instead of green and waiting to grow bigger, and become orange in colour. [ 394 more words ] https://gardendog.wordpress.com//nature-is-beautiful-but-/
02.01.2022 Buster the Dog and I did some work today, and we now have the piece written for the August issue of the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle, and that always feels good, when I begin to have things to go in to the next issue, when the time comes to begin working on the issue in earnest. That time is tomorrow ...
