mullbery trees.

Mulberry trees scientifically known as Morus were very valuable  in early civilizations.
They were great fruit trees because of there delicious berry's and were good for feeding the animals like cows, sheep and silk worms they were also easy to grow from seed or cutting and were very hardy making them very useful. 

 The silk trade was important in the ancient civilizations in great demand for fabrics and rug's.  The caravans of camels that traveled the silk road from Turkey to China brought world civilizations in contact eachother, to trade valuable products back and forth and the more silk worms the more silk the more commerce and goods.

The black mulberry is native to S.W. Asia, and it was imported to Britan in the 17th century to help the silkworm the black mulberry is above,the red mulberry is native to Eastern N.America,The white mulberry is native to an east Asian species.



I really enjoy climbing the trees, and our trees are covered in lichen, and the fruits are delicious to eat.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/lichen/

Living in a tent

My brother and I have been living in a tent, it's a big tent it has three rooms.

 We have had some good adventures in that tent, and we can set it up well now with two big tarps, one the roof  and one beneath the tent. We have had some wet and windy weather, and we have had to make some adjustments to make sure it stays safe and dry in the wind it blows around, and I can hear the tarp blowing and flapping and see the walls moving .

Waking up in  the tent I straight away know what the weathers doing and sometimes it's cold, and I want to stay in my bed and on the days it's warm, and I quickly run inside or else I get really hot.  My mum told me there was an owl perched above me, and he was a boobook, we also have lots of frogs once a little frog got into my brothers room it was really funny . the insects like the tent as well and we found a cocoon on the outside of the tent, and there was also a big huntsmen spider on one of the tarps last week. I like lying in bed and seeing things on the roof in silhouette. 

We have been living in the tent while our new bedrooms are being built in the house.

                                                             

Clarence in flood

Recently we got lots of rain and were flooded in and we couldn't get in to Copmanhurst to go to the little shop. The water was higher than we have ever seen it and it was awesome. 

We  like a nice flood, our house never goes under but one of our neighbors homes that never goes under actually flooded up to the rafters this time.

 Its amazing how high it is this time and our poodle liked it because all the dog owners walked past our house and that's nice and cute.

.We had water all around us it was nice because you can walk out of the door and see water everywhere. The water was covered  in spiders and insects, I had to save some Grasshoppers from the spiders because they were being eaten and we just couldn't have that so I saved them.
We set up  a rain gauge that I got for Christmas and it got 134 mills in less than 24 hours.

 The river rose faster than ever before here and also at Lilydale.
 THE MIGHTY MIGHTY Clarence river
 flooded over Lilydale bridge and Rogans bridge.

 Grafton had areas that were being evacuated , areas behind the levee bank that are normally safe, but because the first flood was rising so fast and moving so quickly  the authorities wanted people to safe

   

We have actually had three floods now in five weeks the 2nd and 3rd were much smaller than the 1st but the 3rd was really just localized flooding water running off from the paddocks plus all the dams creeks and reservoirs were full because their was much water around.

Moving house with Pets

We have recently moved back up to the north coast and we
brought my fish, our birds and our poodle they just had to come with us.

To move the fish we put them in a in a special  foam box from the pet shop.
We put them into our van 'Sunny' and on the way here their box started to leak. I was very worried because they are my fish and the drive is very long and very bendy and very hilly,  but when we got home I was happy to see the fish were okay. One bad thing was the car carpet smells from the leak.

The birds were in there cages with a tarp on the floor, to stop the poo going on the carpet,they travel pretty well although it was a long drive  they got here safely and the mother and father are having free flight and they definitely are enjoying it and like us, are glad to be home.

Of course Indi was easy, he comes with us in the car a lot anyway.

We have two Homes

We came Home recently.

Our family home is on the north coast where my brother & I grew up
On the mighty mighty Clarence river, our home is between 2 huge and old old fig trees.

It is where the trees are full of lorikeets,the air is full of green tree frogs calling each other and the night skies are full of bats and owls and moths and stars.

It is where we have climber trees to feast on mulberries,

 grown huge patches of corn and just reached in to pick a cob and munch it in the garden, actually I eat lots of things in our garden like fennel and mint, snowpeas and strawberries,carrots and macadamia nuts.

It is home.

Our dad has got a job in the  Pillaga though,so we have been living out there, but really mum,my brother and I all rather it here. Our doberman and our cat are still in the Pillaga with my dad, so he does not get too lonely and we will visit him and he will visit us, that house out there with daddy is still our home though we just have 2 homes now and live in them both.

Home on the north coast it is just better!
 There's more wildlife here and we've got friends here to which is even better and we have Fig trees, and gum trees here that were around before captain cook came here!!

Siding Springs Observertory

We went to the Coonabaranbran Observatory
and it was awesome! 
Every year they have an open day and it is really worth doing.

They have lots of the telescopes open for a visit

 and the astronomers and all the other people
who work up there doing fantastic science are there to talk to the public.

We went too the control room of one of the huge telescopes and
  it was so full of computer's and we met an amazing lady

 who does a lot of the computer technician work.
These enormous pieces of scientific equipment are all operated by computer.

We met a man who has discovered comets.

They had a shuttle bus to drive you around the complex and it is just a beautiful place to visit anyway, the views are spectacular and there is so much to see.

Zombies

I woke up yesterday feeling Zombieish 

and decided to be a Zombie!

So I ate my Mum's and my Poodles brain's 

just for breakfast and after that my
 Dad's brains were pretty good.

 I've also got back in to drawing and I drew a Zombie!!

 It is out of the Plant's vs Zombies game
there is a trial version and one that you can play online

For my drawing I followed a tutorial and the site was very good ,
 I reckon that you should go there and have a look at the pictures.