After a month of mist, fog and rain, life in Torrisdale has been very much like living in a cloudforest. The trees and flowers are in full bloom and vegetation is swollen and so green. The thousands of ponticum flowers which gave the landscape a purple tinge have given way to the pink flashes of …
Wedding at Torrisdale
We had our second wedding at Torrisdale on Saturday. David Macmillan and Janice Macintosh tied the knot on Saturday with a small party of ten. They braved the weather and had the civil ceremony outside, umbrellas went up and Janice’s heel was sinking into the soft ground but there were smiles (and tears) all round …
Fungi and Water Pipes
A very wet, muddy morning helping Donald and Tony lay a new water pipe. The water to Torrisdale Square and surrounding properties was starting to look like milky coffee so a new pipe was needed to run under the forest track to access clean water from above the forestry operations. After a lot of dragging, …
Timber extraction
The guys have started taking out the spruce with one huge complicated looking harvester and a forwarder for loading. There is some 3000 tonnes of timber to be removed, and the ground is already churned up in week one. One load will be off to Campbeltown in the next week, to be transported by boat …