Life goes on...

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

~ Martin Fraquhar Tupper ~

I think this has been the longest gap I've had between postings. When I started blogging in November 2010, I was eager to build up a stock of posts so that anyone visiting my blog, were I destined to be lucky enough to have any followers, would at least have found something to read.  That objective has certainly been accomplished, as I see my last post clocked up at number 85.  That means, for anyone who hasn't been following me since Day 1, and that's all of you, there's enough to sift through...if you happen to feel like a visit, but you've already read the most recent posts ;)

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In three words, I can sum up what I've learned about life: It goes on! 

~ Robert Frost ~

Alternatively, you can always work steadily through the list of blogs I follow. Either way, I too have learned that life goes on...whether I blog or not. There is such a huge world out there and so many incredibly interesting and talented bloggers that for anyone wanting a bit of diversion, the choices and options are endless.

While I'm off hunting for my next meal of earthworms, the rest of the world continues doing whatever it's off doing...

I go about my business and everyone else goes about theirs...

And now I think it's time for a nap!

This Hadeda (Glossy Ibis) visits our garden regularly, but I think it's peeved of late as there is now paving where before there was lawn and it has clearly been staging a protest, judging by the size of the splats that have been left. I've also noticed that it's taken a sudden interest in my pots.  Any resident earthworms are unlikely to stand much of a chance against that beak! This particular bird lands very noisily on the roof of my greenhouse, which sets Milo off barking every time. The bird is disdainful of our hysterically yapping pup and haughtily looks down at him from the safety of the roof, although Milo wouldn't stand a chance against that beak either, were there to be a contest of wills.

Since my last posting, life has been very busily 'going on' in our household. I have been making steady headway in the garden and spending oodles of time with the dogs outdoors. From Sunday, rain is forecast, which is about time...our dams have fallen to a little above 50% which is 20% down on the same time last year. We need to start playing 'catch-up' in terms of storage ahead of our next summer season. The weather has cooled down considerably and we had our first load of firewood delivered earlier this week. Lighting a fire first thing in the morning and keeping it going throughout the day has become a winter ritual in our home and one which I love!

Autumn colour in our garden...the Liquidamber growing beside our pool.

Without the cover on the pool, all of these leaves would be in the pool...

The fallen leaves of the Japanese elm will turn into a lovely mulch...we do not rake our garden beds at all.

There is a privacy about winter which no other season gives you...only in the winter can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savour belonging to yourself. 
~ Ruth Stout ~ 

YAWN...this is just about the most boring post you've done...I think I'll join that Hadeda for a nap!

Sorry, Toby! Hopefully anyone paying my blog a visit won't find it quite that bad!!! If they do, I'll suggest they pop along to visit Linda @ The Squashed Tomato  [ http://thesquashedtomato.blogspot.com/ ]...her life has been a lot more interesting than ours this week! She's been having fun in a professional kitchen watching one of South Africa's top chefs in action and tasting some truly gorgeous-looking food. No, Toby, they won't allow you into the kitchen!