Post #9 – where this tired writer contemplates hard work
Spent some time in the bush over the weekend and enjoyed some respite from the regular routine of normal weekends. Nice to wake up to the Kookaburra’s call and then watch a wallaby slowly make its way up a slope quietly grazing and stopping to listen every now & then. A coffee and some chocolate and then into some hard work dropping some dead trees and cutting them up in manageable pieces. There were a few of us, so lots of talking, thinking and planning about how to get these large trees down without taking out too much other bush. It was good to work as a team and with the appropriate tools we were efficient and managed to get quite a bit done in a few hours. We’ll be planting new trees shortly and will be looking forward to see the forest regenerate after being denuded by Koalas. For now though, I have some aches & pains from the exertion.
Another example of teamwork and collaboration were a number of strange little chimney shaped piles of sand excavated by ants. An amazing flared shape that is built grain upon grain through the efforts of individual ants to create an entry to their burrow. It seems a shame how transient these beautiful structures are – once it rains, the shapes get washed away and the ants have to start again. Hard work, but necessary.
An amazingly shaped excavation in sand by industrious ants…
Word of the Day is: ‘strident’, and if you want to know what means – why don’t you go and look it up!
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The ants must get annoyed with the grass creeping through – at least there are no rope snakes!
hehe, too cold for snakes in the grass, but I wonder if the grass might actually help support the structure?