It is raining out in my little boney city garden. Light rain-drizzle. I am calling it boney (the garden) because I am creating this garden as art from the bones outwards. And it is still bones.
I am going to paint that porch pole black – it is always in the center of my shot. Grr.
Today I will buy two feijoas trees/bushes?. They don’t grow very big so I am not sure if they are classed as a bush or a tree. And even though we are surrounded in fruit thieves I figure if I plant the feijoas close to the fence (to the right in the image above) I can net the trees or bushes as the case may be when the fruit begins to ripen.
These 👇🏽 are sulphur-crested cockatoos. They are huge birds. Sulphur-crested cockatoos typically grow between 44 to 55 centimeters (17.5 to 21.7 inches) in length. And when they fly they audibly beat the air with their wings.
And have a mad incredibly loud squawk. Plus this strange purring sound like an idling badly tuned truck. You can hear a little of it in the above video.And they are master fruit thieves.
There are so many in our suburb presently. They are not migratory, simply move about the city depending on what fruit trees are ripening. Maybe they move to whichever trees they will nest in – come spring.
Meringues
I baked meringues this week to see if this oven and meringues are a good fit. They came out beautifully.
Here is the link. I will write this recipe up for my mini food book with just a few tweaks for an electric oven. Electric ovens are best for meringues. And I am in possession of a huge electric oven.
The revised recipe will be in our Sunday Newsletter.
Bedtime Stories
If you are following my narration of The Blue Castle go HERE. 👈🏽 This page is solely for the book and is updated with new chapters three times a week. It is a perfect book for your siesta or as a bedtime story or if you awake in the middle of the night and just need a calm voice to read you back to sleep.
We are about half way through reading The Blue Castle. But you can listen from the beginning on that 👆🏽 page.
Have a lovely day!
Celi
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20 responses to “drizzle . meringues . bedtime stories”
I get your point about painting the pole black – I’d probably just edit it out, but that’s time consuming and requires Photoshop.
I’ve got 8 new sage plants popping up with wrinkled leaves!
I’m not big on pudding, so when I use an egg yolk, typically for ailloli, I try to use the white for coating fish with flour or in scrambled eggs.
I was in Queensland for a few months (a hundred years ago) and was astonished, watching the fruit bats eating from the fruit trees at night.
to get that wide shot I have to stand in the doorway. Hence the bloody pole. I think black would be better than white – no pole at all would be better! Though we will be seeing this view often. One day – after everything else on the list – I will paint it
I’m with you on painting it black – it would be better 😉
My grandmothers Meringue recipe I have somewhere I hope. She used Cream of tartar in her meringues. I think the last time I made them I was in High School. That was over 50 years ago. We would cut a brown paper bag and place it on a cookie sheet to cook the meringues on in the oven. Now I need to hunt for her recipe and hope I still have it.
Yes! I hope you do! Maybe your cream of tartar morphed into my mother’s baking powder. Interesting. Let us know if you find that old recipe!
I paint my poles. They then disappear. Visually, that is 🙂
As long as I can still see them in the dark!! 😂
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Gooday….Ceci……I have always had a garden….not full of vegetables mind you…..but always full of plants and flowers. You know the old saying , “God laughs in flowers.”
Thanks for sharing with us about your life down under.
Stay well
Jo
You know, Jo, I have had an epiphany of a thought that I can grow flowers now. For the longest time out on the farm it was all about the crops and now I can grow flowers! So I have put anemones and ranunculus and roses and freesias into the garden and some posts just because I can. I have the time to grow beautiful things now!
It is lovely.
God laughs in flowers – I love that!
Add some dwarf marigolds and nasturtiums, flowers are lovely in salads and look pretty with the greens and tomatoes with their yellow, gold and orange petals, nice and peppery with the nasturtiums and the marigolds are more herbal, you can toss in some rose petals too.
I was hoping we’d be able to put in a small garden but the landlord refused to allow it no containers either, so that’s the end of that. Only the tiny window box which will have marigolds and nasturtiums. No other window boxes either. Still waiting for a functional faucet in the bathtub, an unbroken bathroom sink and roof repairs – not holding our collective breaths.
Whenever it stops raining for a bit I’m on the hunt for a fejoia too. I have a spot on think it will do well here, as do other guava which we are at least able to eat, unlike our Brazilian/Suriname/Pitanga cherries which the ants are onto to before they are even ripe. Your suburban garden is looking great… and inspiring me to look forward to when I can get out into mine.
what is a fejoia? I know it’s a fruit, but…? sounds like a good plan and the cookies look delish!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoa_sellowiana
Feijoas are the tastiest guava-like soft fruit. New Zealanders love them!
ooh! thanks –
How good was that rain last night – everything received a much needed drink. Enjoy those sweet meringues and sleepy bedtime stories. 🌸
That was a lovely drop and delivered in such a light drizzle – just right for my seedlings!!
The cockatoos, as well as the meringues, are lovely. Patti
Those cockatoos look a bit meringue like!