Here's my nod to the farmers of the North Island and the drought they are grappelling with presently. I've nodded also, by way of the letters column in one of the coming day's editions of the Southland Times, where I've equated Fonterra's coal burning habit with the cow-dessicating droughts.
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I have forgotten what rain is like, I can't ever remember a dry, hot spell like this before.
All our native tree plantings are dieing and even established areas of bush are showing extreme water stress.
And still no sign of rain any time soon!
On the West Coast???!!!
Really!
What can be the cause of these prolonged periods of heat??
I hope your plantings do survive.Losing trees to dryness is dreadful, for a plantsman.
We now have water restrictions (the town water supply aquifer is drying up) so watering our plant 'babies' is becoming a loosing battle.
I've never seen anything like it, usually impassable large rivers can easily be walked across and the grass is all brown!
What worries me is that we are heading towards a very serious bush fire risk, there is an awful lot of native forest here that usually never gets this dry.
What's it like down your way?
Obviously the run of hot dry weather is caused by the labour and green parties, and the only cure is neoliberalism.
That, or its no one's fault and there's nothing we can do about it, so we will ignore it and hope it goes away.
It's looking pretty dry here too, Shunda, although my forest-garden isn't affected at all, what with all the resilience and that. Armchair Critic is correct, of course, the blaaardy greenies have caused this and they must be pointed at, by luminaries like Stephen Joyce and John Key, to show all right-thinking New Zealanders just who the real eco-terrorists are. Mike Joy too, he'll be behind it, along with that witch Lucy.
love your pinnochio pic of John Key
and HIS comments.
Couldn't link in to put this immediately underneath it.
Finally, Oct 17 2013, I've found a way to tell you I really appreciate your comments and your photos - just like Corokia Green has told you. But I've never been able to make a direct comment onto yours - for some reason. Anyhow - whenever you pop up on the side column of The Standard, I always look you up. thanks for the pics.
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