A day at the fair

[BT Humble]

This weekend just gone I visited my parents and attended the Boorowa Show.  I took pics of all the stationary engines on display, as I thought they'd be of interest to some folks here.

There's usually a dozen or so antique tractors, but there were only two this year.  Maybe there was a clashing event somewhere else?

Anyway, hope you like the pics.

http://www.humbletown.org/boorowashow2009/index.htm

BTH

[richhagen]

How did your jam fare at the fair?  Here in the northern hemisphere, I just recently started seedlings for tomatoes and peppers under solar powered LED lighting, they will remain indoors until about mid May.  It will be quite a while before I am canning anything here.  Rich

[BT Humble]

How did your jam fare at the fair?



I scored first prize for "Dark Plum Jam", and another first prize for "Light Plum Jam".

My veggie garden is winding down for the year, the frosts will arrive in about 6 weeks or so.  I'll take a picture of the jam/preserves cupboard sometime, it looks pretty impressive.  We've also provided a couple of hundred jars of assorted preserved fruit to a local old folk's home that my auntie lives in.

BTH

[Bruce S]

BT;

 Nice pics. Ity looks as if a lot of those stationary motors are wood gas types.

The strange looking one with the radiator looks like it might be to have hot water as well. Would've loved to have been there to see those.

I'm like Rich; with winter still hanging around except for the teaser 70F days, have started the garden seeds just recently. Tomatoes were so good last year using raised beds we're hoping for a repeat this year.

Hydroponics had to shut down & be completely bleached :-( a gift flower basket brought a whole slew of spider mites and aphids in and infested the whole lot before getting anything under control.

I have some new chili pepper seeds a very good friend sent me; I'm anxious to get growing and try out.

Plum jam? YUMMY that should be like having a summer's day when you open one in the middle of winter.

Cheers

Bruce S

 

[BT Humble]

Nice pics. It looks as if a lot of those stationary motors are wood gas types.

The strange looking one with the radiator looks like it might be to have hot water as well. Would've loved to have been there to see those.



Some of them may well have been run on wood gas during the war, but so far as I know they were all intended by their makers to be run on petrol (gasoline).

The water-cooled engines would normally have had a fair-sized water reservoir bolted to their tops if they were to be run all day long, I think they get left off for events like this to make them more portable (and only run for a few minutes at a time).

I'm like Rich; with winter still hanging around except for the teaser 70F days, have started the garden seeds just recently. Tomatoes were so good last year using raised beds we're hoping for a repeat this year.

Sounds good.  We had a high of 28C here yesterday, but it looks as though the weather is finally starting to cool down - low 20s are forecast for next week.

Hydroponics had to shut down & be completely bleached :-( a gift flower basket brought a whole slew of spider mites and aphids in and infested the whole lot before getting anything under control.

Sounds like you need to establish a quarantine station somewhere outside your front door! ;-)

BTH