Category Archives: gardening

hot hot hot

Posted on January 23, 2013 by waggadventure

OK, so it’s been a bit too long since we posted anything. At the time of last writing, Lisa was in Canada and Dan had been left behind to keep blogging. And now, she’s back in North America for a … Continue reading →

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the yard is nothing but a fence

Posted on November 6, 2012 by waggadventure

With Lisa away, I need to fill some blogging space so I thought I would complain about our garden.  As I suffer through the horrible sunny high 20s/low 30s weather, she gets to enjoy the last throes of ‘superstorm’ Sandy … Continue reading →

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Digger Dan

Posted on July 21, 2012 by waggadventure

We quite often think of our situation here in terms of what things would be like in Edmonton, or even Ontario, six months off.  Like today, for example, where it is the middle of winter in Wagga. In Edmonton terms, … Continue reading →

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Happy anniversary

Posted on January 11, 2012 by waggadventure

One day last weekend, we realized that we have been here for 6 months. We actually missed the proper anniversary day – we might have celebrated it somehow (pizza and beer at Thirsty Crow?) if we had remembered.  But in … Continue reading →

Posted in aclimatizing, apples, Ballinaclash, birds, bug spray, cats, cheese, cherries, cold, cycling, gardening, spiders, weather | Leave a comment

red dirt girl

Posted on November 3, 2011 by waggadventure

One of the attractions of Australia, as we have mentioned ad nauseum, is the climate. We just got tired of the cold and snow in Edmonton. And we also got tired of planting flowers every year that didn’t do much, … Continue reading →

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Peter Parker to the rescue

Posted on August 6, 2011 by waggadventure

Every morning, Dan gets up, puts on his robe, shakes out his slippers and walks to the pantry, where he grabs a can of bug spray and goes on patrol, all the while singing Spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider … Continue reading →

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