FOH: A Week In Pictures.

[loose_axle]

On 8/12/2024 at 7:08 AM, JohnS said:

Celebrated my wife's birthday with my extended family this weekend...

Many happy returns to her!

What restaurant did you hit up? Looks lovely. 

[JohnS]

4 hours ago, loose_axle said:

Many happy returns to her!

What restaurant did you hit up? Looks lovely. 

Thank you. The restaurant is Rocksalt in Menai, Sydney.

[Connoisseur Kim]

On 8/12/2024 at 7:08 AM, JohnS said:

Celebrated my wife's birthday with my extended family this weekend...

Happy Bday to your wife 🎂

[JohnS]

5 hours ago, Connoisseur Kim said:

Happy Bday to your wife 🎂

Thank you, Kim!

[BrightonCorgi]

Tomato picking season starts.

[BrightonCorgi]

On 8/17/2024 at 6:25 AM, BrightonCorgi said:

Tomato picking season starts.

The tomatoes are from left to right: Queen of the Night, German Pink Basket, and Apricot Zerbra. There is one lone Jersey Devil also pictured on the left.

[Li Bai]

13 minutes ago, BrightonCorgi said:

The tomatoes are from left to right: Queen of the Night, German Pink Basket, and Apricot Zerbra.  There is one lone Jersey Devil also pictured on the left.

Lucky you, mine are so late this year 😩

[BrightonCorgi]

3 hours ago, Li Bai said:

Lucky you, mine are so late this year 😩

Our cucumbers have been a bounty this season. Around a 100 cucumbers or more. We've been juicing them. Take 3 good size cucumbers for 24 oz of juice.

[Li Bai]

The weather here in France has been awful, too much rain...

Only a fair amount of figs, plums and pears, a little bit of strawberries and raspberries but that's pretty much it.

[BrightonCorgi]

On 8/18/2024 at 5:54 AM, Li Bai said:

The weather here in France has been awful, too much rain...

Only a fair amount of figs, plums and pears, a little bit of strawberries and raspberries but that's pretty much it.

Here's one of my fig trees so far.  2nd season since planting.  I thought it died over the winter.  There was only a 1' dead twig where the tree was.  Out of no where it rose like Lazarus.   We are zone 6 and this Italian fig tree is suppose to make it through, so far it has.  I don't know if the figs will be consumed by birds before I get to them.  I hope not.  I plan to dehydrate what we do not eat fresh.

[Li Bai]

4 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Here's one of my fig trees so far.  2nd season since planting.  I thought it died over the winter.  There was only a 1' dead twig where the tree was.  Out of no where it rose like Lazarus.   We are zone 6 and this Italian fig tree is suppose to make it through, so far it has.  I don't know if the figs will be consumed by birds before I get to them.  I hope not.  I plan to dehydrate what we do not eat fresh.

We had the most wonderful fig tree in our backyard until 8 years ago, such a shame we had to cut it down when we expanded our house but we planted cuttings right away.

The tree was from a cutting itself and lots of other cuttings were given to friends and neighbours over the years, each one of them gave birth to an incredible tree giving dozens of kg of figs twice a year, year in year out.

What an amazing tree 😍, I hope you have the same luck with yours 🤞 

[Ford2112]

Moons

[ha_banos]

My fave photo from recent trip to Spain, Pamplona.

 

[Li Bai]

On 8/20/2024 at 9:42 PM, Li Bai said:

We had the most wonderful fig tree in our backyard until 8 years ago, such a shame we had to cut it down when we expanded our house but we planted cuttings right away.

The tree was from a cutting itself and lots of other cuttings were given to friends and neighbours over the years, each one of them gave birth to an incredible tree giving dozens of kg of figs twice a year, year in year out.

What an amazing tree 😍, I hope you have the same luck with yours 🤞 

There :

[BrightonCorgi]

2 hours ago, Li Bai said:

There :

Looks healthy. Very nice.

I haven't pruned the fig trees at all yet. My other fruit trees (pruned a few times a season) are all branching out well so far (this is the 3rd season). I don't plan to prune them again this season.

[El Presidente]

On 8/21/2024 at 4:38 PM, ha_banos said:

My fave photo from recent trip to Spain, Pamplona.

 

 

Great to see you relaxing on vacation 

[MAT]

Today's vintage car festival in the gardens of the local castle ...

[westg]

2nd last day of a four month project in the West Australian Pilbara. Will miss the beautiful morning 🌄 sun rises.

[riderpride]

Hike on Prairie Mtn last week with the 6 year old. 8.4kms with ~700m elevation, and other hikers were shocked with his performance.

 We ended up less than 100m from the summit till he got hungry. The mission was to have fun, so we turned around and went to lunch.

We're revisiting this weekend 

[Chibearsv]

We met our oldest daughter and her bestie in Vegas. Had a lot of fun and good eats but the slots weren’t kind. 

[ThePolskiOgorki]

A few from some back country camping in Ontario,Canada.

[westg]

At one of the most remote Australian mine sites I have ever been too. A gigantic BHP demobe. You do not drive through this place to get anywhere. It is baron isolated and through out the course of the day just brutal. Early mornings however....so beautiful! Lands of the Ngaanyatjarra people.

[BrightonCorgi]

22 hours ago, westg said:

At one of the most remote Australian mine sites I have ever been too. A gigantic BHP demobe. You do not drive through this place to get anywhere. It is baron isolated and through out the course of the day just brutal. Early mornings however....so beautiful! Lands of the Ngaanyatjarra people.

I worked as a consultant at BHP.  Haven't heard that name in a bit!

[westg]

On 9/22/2024 at 6:25 AM, BrightonCorgi said:

I worked as a consultant at BHP.  Haven't heard that name in a bit!

West Musgrave operation. It is mind blowing to see the amount of money piled in. And then brought to a grinding halt. At least for a year or two.  

[Lamboinee]

That's what we call boat pillow talk baby.