Mystery winner… and some philosophy!
Thanks to everyone for playing my Mystery Photo this week!!
And we have a winner… the answer…drum roll please!
… is WATER CRYSTALS!!!
Well done Julie from Australia!!
While I do admit it looked quite like ice, like where some yobbo emptied the esky after a big barbie (have we lost any Americans yet?) the “things” featured in this image are actually a water-saving tool for Aussie gardeners.
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Julie is apparently as garden-savvy as me (she told me so!) and she too relies on water crystals, to make up for the lack of constant water on her garden (well, this is all just assumption, this is actually what I do in my poor neglected flower patch).
Water crystals, for the uninitiated, resemble sugar crystals when dry and are dug into normal garden or potting soil to assist in water retention.
Shocking things happen when children and water crystals come into contact however…
Like unnoticed handfuls get left adjacent to actual garden beds. Then it rains. And weird jelly-like “ice” appears in unexpected locations. Like this…
But it gets worse.
If said children grab handfuls of crystals and stuff them in their pockets the result after a bout in the washing machine is not pretty! Jelly ice through clothes and the machine… yeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!
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And in something not completely unrelated…
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And in something not completely unrelated…
How is that children are that little bit more loveable when fast asleep, and the view so much more delightful when the heaven’s have opened??
Some more of life’s little mysteries…
BB
4 Comments
Jayne
Congrats Julie! 🙂
Julie in Aust.
Whoo hoo…thanks BB and Jayne. Ah Yes…water crystals!Was poking and prodding the things for hours the first time I saw them, convinced they fell from outer space! Have used them for years now because of the water restrictions here in NSW. Love to see where they will pop up after it rains and usually find a few on the pavers or grass in the spot we last potted.But never in my washing machine…thats a doosey!Good one kids!
jeanie
What a gorgeous shot of TLW – it is so much easier to love unconditionally when they sleep!
Karen
Yeah, “yobbo” and “esky”? Thanks to Crocodile Dundee, I at least know what a “barbie” is *grin*. So, do the water crystals start out small and hard, or are they always gelatinous. I’ll have to see if I can order some online …