In this episode, we explore the darker implications of some unexpectedly unseasonal summer rains… Everything was dry as dust. The soil here is dust - or very little structure to it, anyway, even though things do seem to grow in it fairly well. I was trying to mow what little grass there was, as required by local by-laws here - the bushfire-risk is all too real - but the mower was getting jammed up all the time with dust and dry leaves and not much else.
And then the rains came...
And then the rains came...
And then the rains came...
In this episode, we explore the darker implications of some unexpectedly unseasonal summer rains… Everything was dry as dust. The soil here is dust - or very little structure to it, anyway, even though things do seem to grow in it fairly well. I was trying to mow what little grass there was, as required by local by-laws here - the bushfire-risk is all too real - but the mower was getting jammed up all the time with dust and dry leaves and not much else.