Shane come down just before lunch on Sunday and spent the afternoon and much of today working on our creek reveg project. Late yesterday afternoon he set fire to the two big piles of old weeds and privet bush that he and the boys had removed a few weeks ago. I think we are going to have to have a bonfire in the next month or so. Big fires like this are so enthralling. While Shane was hard at work with the weeds, Steve and I went up to the Billen Cliffs community to visit Anton and his wife, Abby and their two kids, who live just 6 minutes away from us. Anton was a student of mine between 1991-1993 and I bumped into him at the Rural Buying Service in Lismore just before Xmas. He told me he had moved up here a couple of years ago, was living literally five minutes away from me and worked in HR at Lismore Council.So we finally managed to visit him yesterday. It turns out that be basically lives on the other side of a ridgeline we can see clearly from our place and that our little creek that flows into our bigger creek actually forms one of his boundaries, so we are kinda connected. He cleaerly loves living on his 5 acres, he's extendning his house, he's built a composting toilet, grows lots of plants, and he's just installed a solar system that supplies all of his energy needs. He also gave us 3 pasionfruit plants, some tree ferns and a few other plants and some avos (avocados). Hopefully the will come and visit us in the not too distant future.
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