Morning. It’s Decemberrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And we all know what that means… SUMMER..is apon us.

Happy Potter said:

Morning. It’s Decemberrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And we all know what that means… SUMMER..is apon us.

and so is Christmas.

Morning. It’s a bit cooler today. Thank heavens. Just picked 2 tomatoes. Not exceptionally big but they weigh just under 600grms. They are very solid. Don’t know the breed though because we bought them as seedlings and the tag said ‘Tomatoes’ which is always most helpful. Depending on flavour we might have to try seed saving. Probably our most successful tomato crop since we have been growing vegies. Full credit to D.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. It’s Decemberrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And we all know what that means… SUMMER..is apon us.

and so is Christmas.

I left that out deliberately lol. It’ll be a quiet small one for us this year. Kids are all split between partners parents this year so hubby and I are spending it with GS at his flat. We will have a picnic in a park :)

pomolo said:

Morning. It’s a bit cooler today. Thank heavens. Just picked 2 tomatoes. Not exceptionally big but they weigh just under 600grms. They are very solid. Don’t know the breed though because we bought them as seedlings and the tag said ‘Tomatoes’ which is always most helpful. Depending on flavour we might have to try seed saving. Probably our most successful tomato crop since we have been growing vegies. Full credit to D.

Lovely :) My tomadas are just flowering.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. It’s Decemberrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And we all know what that means… SUMMER..is apon us.

and so is Christmas.

I left that out deliberately lol. It’ll be a quiet small one for us this year. Kids are all split between partners parents this year so hubby and I are spending it with GS at his flat. We will have a picnic in a park :)

We are in for a traditional one at #1 daughters house. 25 people attending. Not my idea of a thrilling time but what the heck. there will be another chance in 12 months.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

and so is Christmas.

I left that out deliberately lol. It’ll be a quiet small one for us this year. Kids are all split between partners parents this year so hubby and I are spending it with GS at his flat. We will have a picnic in a park :)

We are in for a traditional one at #1 daughters house. 25 people attending. Not my idea of a thrilling time but what the heck. there will be another chance in 12 months.

I don’t know what’s happening here but if I get the choice we’ll be having a picnic again. Just MrBL and the boys and I.

A very sick puter here so I may well disappear.

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

bluegreen said:

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

I’m so glad for you, and Chester.

bluegreen said:

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

Good news :) Run Chester run! lol

I’ve been running about all day now time to stop for a cuppa and rest.
Silly eldest daughter.. she parks her car at hoppers crossing station and catches the train to the city to work, only she’d half spilt the contents of her handbag out and didn’t see that her purse was left sitting on the front seat in view of all passing by. She didn’t realise until she got to work and no purse, that she remembered what she did. So, a distress call to mum and dad and we ended up driving to the carpark, saw the purse there, then drove to the city and got her car keys and went back to her car. Hubby took her car to her place, her bf is there atm, and we went home. Silly bugger, she won’t do that again.

Happy Potter said:

I’ve been running about all day now time to stop for a cuppa and rest.
Silly eldest daughter.. she parks her car at hoppers crossing station and catches the train to the city to work, only she’d half spilt the contents of her handbag out and didn’t see that her purse was left sitting on the front seat in view of all passing by. She didn’t realise until she got to work and no purse, that she remembered what she did. So, a distress call to mum and dad and we ended up driving to the carpark, saw the purse there, then drove to the city and got her car keys and went back to her car. Hubby took her car to her place, her bf is there atm, and we went home. Silly bugger, she won’t do that again.

can’t do without her mum :)
at least you didn’t find the window smashed and the purse gone.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I’ve been running about all day now time to stop for a cuppa and rest.
Silly eldest daughter.. she parks her car at hoppers crossing station and catches the train to the city to work, only she’d half spilt the contents of her handbag out and didn’t see that her purse was left sitting on the front seat in view of all passing by. She didn’t realise until she got to work and no purse, that she remembered what she did. So, a distress call to mum and dad and we ended up driving to the carpark, saw the purse there, then drove to the city and got her car keys and went back to her car. Hubby took her car to her place, her bf is there atm, and we went home. Silly bugger, she won’t do that again.

can’t do without her mum :)
at least you didn’t find the window smashed and the purse gone.

Yes, thats what we were all worried about, damage to the car to get the purse would have been worse.

pomolo said:

Morning. It’s a bit cooler today. Thank heavens. Just picked 2 tomatoes. Not exceptionally big but they weigh just under 600grms. They are very solid. Don’t know the breed though because we bought them as seedlings and the tag said ‘Tomatoes’ which is always most helpful. Depending on flavour we might have to try seed saving. Probably our most successful tomato crop since we have been growing vegies. Full credit to D.

What time did you plant them?

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I’ve been running about all day now time to stop for a cuppa and rest.
Silly eldest daughter.. she parks her car at hoppers crossing station and catches the train to the city to work, only she’d half spilt the contents of her handbag out and didn’t see that her purse was left sitting on the front seat in view of all passing by. She didn’t realise until she got to work and no purse, that she remembered what she did. So, a distress call to mum and dad and we ended up driving to the carpark, saw the purse there, then drove to the city and got her car keys and went back to her car. Hubby took her car to her place, her bf is there atm, and we went home. Silly bugger, she won’t do that again.

can’t do without her mum :)
at least you didn’t find the window smashed and the purse gone.

Yes, thats what we were all worried about, damage to the car to get the purse would have been worse.

A long time friend of mine who owns a photography studio travelled to Italy and purchased a new SLR camera and accessories duty free rather than take one of his work cameras. He parked and entered a shop for a few minutes came out to find window smashed canera stuff all gone. He’d only had it a couple of days.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Morning. It’s a bit cooler today. Thank heavens. Just picked 2 tomatoes. Not exceptionally big but they weigh just under 600grms. They are very solid. Don’t know the breed though because we bought them as seedlings and the tag said ‘Tomatoes’ which is always most helpful. Depending on flavour we might have to try seed saving. Probably our most successful tomato crop since we have been growing vegies. Full credit to D.

What time did you plant them?

Probably about August. They’ve taken a while to mature but in winter their garden is pretty shaded so I would’nt expect them to grow quickly. Had one with our dinner and they taste wonderful. Seed savers here we come.

Bubba Louie said:

A very sick puter here so I may well disappear.

You seem to be gone Bubba. It must have happened.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Morning. It’s a bit cooler today. Thank heavens. Just picked 2 tomatoes. Not exceptionally big but they weigh just under 600grms. They are very solid. Don’t know the breed though because we bought them as seedlings and the tag said ‘Tomatoes’ which is always most helpful. Depending on flavour we might have to try seed saving. Probably our most successful tomato crop since we have been growing vegies. Full credit to D.

What time did you plant them?

Probably about August. They’ve taken a while to mature but in winter their garden is pretty shaded so I would’nt expect them to grow quickly. Had one with our dinner and they taste wonderful. Seed savers here we come.

I just scrape some seeds out while preparing or slicing them and place them on the top of teh coffee jar.. A place I often check. When they are ready.. i put them in an envelope. plant later

bluegreen said:

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

I knew he’d make it.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

I knew he’d make it.

Look a simlpe way since budgies are more often kept as pets.. is to buy a book about keeping budgies. It applies to all parrots.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

What time did you plant them?

Probably about August. They’ve taken a while to mature but in winter their garden is pretty shaded so I would’nt expect them to grow quickly. Had one with our dinner and they taste wonderful. Seed savers here we come.

I just scrape some seeds out while preparing or slicing them and place them on the top of teh coffee jar.. A place I often check. When they are ready.. i put them in an envelope. plant later

I will do similar to that. I’ve read how you’re supposed to put them in water to ferment etc. etc. No need up here. From experience. I’s hard to stop them from germinating actually.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

that’s sad to hear about the two doctors bubba, it will be a blow for the town for sure.

Chester Galah is still improving. I had to chase him around the room to give him his injections this morning :)
back to the vet for a follow up this afternoon and they will probably change over to oral antibiotics in his water.

I knew he’d make it.

Look a simlpe way since budgies are more often kept as pets.. is to buy a book about keeping budgies. It applies to all parrots.

I don’t keep any of them. I do sit back and watch them though. Right now the Rainbows are in abundance because lots of native trees are in flower. They’re noisy little buggers too. And fight!

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Probably about August. They’ve taken a while to mature but in winter their garden is pretty shaded so I would’nt expect them to grow quickly. Had one with our dinner and they taste wonderful. Seed savers here we come.

I just scrape some seeds out while preparing or slicing them and place them on the top of teh coffee jar.. A place I often check. When they are ready.. i put them in an envelope. plant later

I will do similar to that. I’ve read how you’re supposed to put them in water to ferment etc. etc. No need up here. From experience. I’s hard to stop them from germinating actually.

My method above// allows them to be treated by the chemicals in their own juice.. as would the fermenting process.. It is more that you don’t use seed that you have washed clean and dried before it has had time to dry in the juice, slowly, near a place where a boiling kettle often operates in an otherwise humid kitchen.. rather than in an air dryer.

Back to when you planted tomatoes.. I did it in August too. and I’ve had two ripen as well. Normally, I can get them to ripen much earlier. Too cool this season.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

I just scrape some seeds out while preparing or slicing them and place them on the top of teh coffee jar.. A place I often check. When they are ready.. i put them in an envelope. plant later

I will do similar to that. I’ve read how you’re supposed to put them in water to ferment etc. etc. No need up here. From experience. I’s hard to stop them from germinating actually.

My method above// allows them to be treated by the chemicals in their own juice.. as would the fermenting process.. It is more that you don’t use seed that you have washed clean and dried before it has had time to dry in the juice, slowly, near a place where a boiling kettle often operates in an otherwise humid kitchen.. rather than in an air dryer.

Gotcha I understand. I just let them dry in their own juice?

roughbarked said:

Back to when you planted tomatoes.. I did it in August too. and I’ve had two ripen as well. Normally, I can get them to ripen much earlier. Too cool this season.

That’s an angle I hadn’t thought of. We had a long cold winter too.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

I will do similar to that. I’ve read how you’re supposed to put them in water to ferment etc. etc. No need up here. From experience. I’s hard to stop them from germinating actually.

My method above// allows them to be treated by the chemicals in their own juice.. as would the fermenting process.. It is more that you don’t use seed that you have washed clean and dried before it has had time to dry in the juice, slowly, near a place where a boiling kettle often operates in an otherwise humid kitchen.. rather than in an air dryer.

Gotcha I understand. I just let them dry in their own juice?

yep.. 100% germination.

Morning.
Bleary eyed me can’t wake up this am. We were cleaning until late and I will probably not be around until mon night because there’s so much to do. I’m talking a major clean up from the front to back and floor to ceiling and a garden clean up too. I get to do my arm excercises washing cupboards and sweeping floors. The garden will be easier, it’s just a sweep.
Sewing room paint goes on today, finally, and as soon as the second coat is dry all the funiture will go back in, cleaned and cupboards wiped out and filled with my materials.
Many hads make light work though and any available kids will be here to help.

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Bleary eyed me can’t wake up this am. We were cleaning until late and I will probably not be around until mon night because there’s so much to do. I’m talking a major clean up from the front to back and floor to ceiling and a garden clean up too. I get to do my arm excercises washing cupboards and sweeping floors. The garden will be easier, it’s just a sweep.
Sewing room paint goes on today, finally, and as soon as the second coat is dry all the funiture will go back in, cleaned and cupboards wiped out and filled with my materials.
Many hads make light work though and any available kids will be here to help.

Where do you get your enthusiasm? Could you send some of it to me for Chrissy?

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Bleary eyed me can’t wake up this am. We were cleaning until late and I will probably not be around until mon night because there’s so much to do. I’m talking a major clean up from the front to back and floor to ceiling and a garden clean up too. I get to do my arm excercises washing cupboards and sweeping floors. The garden will be easier, it’s just a sweep.
Sewing room paint goes on today, finally, and as soon as the second coat is dry all the funiture will go back in, cleaned and cupboards wiped out and filled with my materials.
Many hads make light work though and any available kids will be here to help.

don’t overdo it with your shoulder HP

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

I’m not sure if it is because the medication is diluted, or that the particular bug they get is hard to kill.

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

I wish someone would feed me chocolate for 42 days. Talk about Heaven!!! LOL.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Bleary eyed me can’t wake up this am. We were cleaning until late and I will probably not be around until mon night because there’s so much to do. I’m talking a major clean up from the front to back and floor to ceiling and a garden clean up too. I get to do my arm excercises washing cupboards and sweeping floors. The garden will be easier, it’s just a sweep.
Sewing room paint goes on today, finally, and as soon as the second coat is dry all the funiture will go back in, cleaned and cupboards wiped out and filled with my materials.
Many hads make light work though and any available kids will be here to help.

Where do you get your enthusiasm? Could you send some of it to me for Chrissy?

Stopping for a coffee an a bikky. It’s just a late spring clean and because things get on top of us being busy with other things, it ends up to be an overwhelming mess. If we set ourselves a deadline and aim for that like it’s the end of the world, we move faster lol.
There’s bags and bags of clothing for the charity shop, easy stuff like that I can do.

I’m sorting Christmas recipes. Wat I would like to make. What I need to make and what I have to make.

Some Christmas goodies are just expected to be around according to our family. Some you have to have or it just isn’t Christmas. Ten there are those recipes that I find that I really want to try out.

It’s all a bit silly and I use blocks of copy paper copying all sorts of recipes. I am the family joke actually and they are all dreading the day I throw in the towel and somebody has to go through my collection of printed paper. Won’t worry me.

pomolo said:

I’m sorting Christmas recipes. Wat I would like to make. What I need to make and what I have to make.

Some Christmas goodies are just expected to be around according to our family. Some you have to have or it just isn’t Christmas. Ten there are those recipes that I find that I really want to try out.

It’s all a bit silly and I use blocks of copy paper copying all sorts of recipes. I am the family joke actually and they are all dreading the day I throw in the towel and somebody has to go through my collection of printed paper. Won’t worry me.

Thse couple of typos can be blamed on the puter/monitor/mouse. Something is playing up and the screen keeps going blank. D has had a look at it and thinks it’s the monitor. I’ll be like Bubba and be off air if it crashes big time.

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

Do you use a crop needle?

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

Want a bet??? I’m on a 3 month course.

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

Do you use a crop needle?

point 2 of a mm by syringe.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

I wish someone would feed me chocolate for 42 days. Talk about Heaven!!! LOL.

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

I’m sorting Christmas recipes. Wat I would like to make. What I need to make and what I have to make.

Some Christmas goodies are just expected to be around according to our family. Some you have to have or it just isn’t Christmas. Ten there are those recipes that I find that I really want to try out.

It’s all a bit silly and I use blocks of copy paper copying all sorts of recipes. I am the family joke actually and they are all dreading the day I throw in the towel and somebody has to go through my collection of printed paper. Won’t worry me.

Thse couple of typos can be blamed on the puter/monitor/mouse. Something is playing up and the screen keeps going blank. D has had a look at it and thinks it’s the monitor. I’ll be like Bubba and be off air if it crashes big time.

I have MrBL’s laptop when he’s not working.

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

Do you use a crop needle?

point 2 of a mm by syringe.

I had to do that every day with our budgie. It was traumatic for both of us.

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

Do you use a crop needle?

point 2 of a mm by syringe.

I had to do that every day with our budgie. It was traumatic for both of us.

I had to use a crop needle.

http://www.kimani.com.au/crop_needles3.html

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

point 2 of a mm by syringe.

I had to do that every day with our budgie. It was traumatic for both of us.

I had to use a crop needle.

http://www.kimani.com.au/crop_needles3.html

I guess that makes sure it all gets taken in!

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

I had to do that every day with our budgie. It was traumatic for both of us.

I had to use a crop needle.

http://www.kimani.com.au/crop_needles3.html

I guess that makes sure it all gets taken in!

It does, but you’ve got to be taught how not to get it down the windpipe.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

Want a bet??? I’m on a 3 month course.

oh wow…

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

Want a bet??? I’m on a 3 month course.

oh wow…

I can beat that. I was on them for one year. I’d looked after a little boy who turned out to have spinal tuburculosis and everyone in the flats (talking 30 yrs ago) had to be tested. I didn’t catch it, but my blood test showed that I had no immunity to it and could possibly go on to develop the nasty thing. Solution was one tab a day for 12 months and the only condition was that you are not allowed to drink alcohol. Suited me fine.

Arvo break and a cold drink. Phew, my legs have had it. I have sweated buckets cleaning different rooms, bedrooms bathrooms, and laundry and raided the freezer for a lasagna and popped it into the oven. Four more bags of clothes to the salvos, and three boxs of various books and magazines and all mirrors are sparkling.
I told the youngest girl to take her dry clothes off the clothes horse and put them away.. she sort of moaned. So I said thats ok love, I will clear them for you and pop them into the salvos bag. She knows I will do it and without hesitation. She ran to save them. I don’t do argueing.
Le Le is painting my sewing room as I type :D :D

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

holy moly! 42 days? Of antibiotics? He is such a little bird! Us humans are massive and we don’t need antibiotics for a month and a half! How diluted is that stuff? I guess vets know more then I…

Want a bet??? I’m on a 3 month course.

oh wow…

It’s a bummer. No food 1/2 hour before and 2 hours after, ditto calcium tabs, and it increases my sun sensitivity.

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Want a bet??? I’m on a 3 month course.

oh wow…

I can beat that. I was on them for one year. I’d looked after a little boy who turned out to have spinal tuburculosis and everyone in the flats (talking 30 yrs ago) had to be tested. I didn’t catch it, but my blood test showed that I had no immunity to it and could possibly go on to develop the nasty thing. Solution was one tab a day for 12 months and the only condition was that you are not allowed to drink alcohol. Suited me fine.

I’ve had a few UTIs in a row.

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

year

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

Congrats BL son! way to go :D

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

yeah, well done :)

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

yeah, well done :)

and I’ve met him! :D

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Chester is behaving like he is in full health even though his droppings are still green. It is good to see him with so much energy again although I think he is getting a little stir crazy in the temporary cage. He saw me coming with the gardening glove on and the medicine and tried to avoid taking it but I prevailed. It is only going to get harder I think and I have another 42 days of medication to go! A shame he doesn’t like it and take it willingly. I don’t know why not, it smells like chocolate! There is no accounting for taste!

I wish someone would feed me chocolate for 42 days. Talk about Heaven!!! LOL.

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

Did you have to say that Bubba?

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

I wish someone would feed me chocolate for 42 days. Talk about Heaven!!! LOL.

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

Did you have to say that Bubba?

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

Happy Potter said:

Arvo break and a cold drink. Phew, my legs have had it. I have sweated buckets cleaning different rooms, bedrooms bathrooms, and laundry and raided the freezer for a lasagna and popped it into the oven. Four more bags of clothes to the salvos, and three boxs of various books and magazines and all mirrors are sparkling.
I told the youngest girl to take her dry clothes off the clothes horse and put them away.. she sort of moaned. So I said thats ok love, I will clear them for you and pop them into the salvos bag. She knows I will do it and without hesitation. She ran to save them. I don’t do argueing.
Le Le is painting my sewing room as I type :D :D

Isn’t le le one of your chooks? Only kidding! It just sounded like Lin Lin at first.

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

hard

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

I wish someone would feed me chocolate for 42 days. Talk about Heaven!!! LOL.

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

Did you have to say that Bubba?

Yep.:P

pain master said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

Did you have to say that Bubba?

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

You NEVER keep good chocolate in the fridge. And the boys would find it there.

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

I thought with guitarist of the TEAR award…

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

I thought with guitarist of the TEAR award…

Oh I see. LOL

pain master said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

I’ve got a box of Belgium chocolates hidden under my bed.

Did you have to say that Bubba?

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

You must keep your chocolates close by incase……………..

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

She just makes everybody else cry. LoL. Sorry Bubba.

And the boys would find it there.
—————
Exactly.

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

a bit teary eyed were we?

No, I’m not a crier. :)

I thought with guitarist of the TEAR award…

Ha Ha @ BG’s joke. I never even noticed the spelling.

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

All you can do is encourage him to get better and better and if nother guitar is the go, what can you say?

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Did you have to say that Bubba?

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

You NEVER keep good chocolate in the fridge. And the boys would find it there.

chocolate doesn’t require refridgeration here… doesn’t last long enough. And as for those who are not meant to eat it, then you should consume in front of them…. the whole box. Sharing is for the foolish sometimes.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

All you can do is encourage him to get better and better and if nother guitar is the go, what can you say?

We’re a push over. :)

You do realise what a good guitar costs??????

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

It was youngest sons music school concert today and he won the guitarist of the tear award. :) :) :) :)

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

so now that he won Geetar dude of the tear with the old geetar, it is now worn out???

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Did you have to say that Bubba?

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

You must keep your chocolates close by incase……………..

I keep my chocolates in my stomach.

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

All you can do is encourage him to get better and better and if nother guitar is the go, what can you say?

We’re a push over. :)

You do realise what a good guitar costs??????

wait until he wants a great guitar.

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

and why under the bed? Surely the fridge would be a safer spot!

You must keep your chocolates close by incase……………..

I keep my chocolates in my stomach.

Me too when ever I get the chance. Christmas is a good time for chocolate. Yeah!!!

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

All you can do is encourage him to get better and better and if nother guitar is the go, what can you say?

We’re a push over. :)

You do realise what a good guitar costs??????

Price doesn’t come into it. You’ll do it like we all did.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Arvo break and a cold drink. Phew, my legs have had it. I have sweated buckets cleaning different rooms, bedrooms bathrooms, and laundry and raided the freezer for a lasagna and popped it into the oven. Four more bags of clothes to the salvos, and three boxs of various books and magazines and all mirrors are sparkling.
I told the youngest girl to take her dry clothes off the clothes horse and put them away.. she sort of moaned. So I said thats ok love, I will clear them for you and pop them into the salvos bag. She knows I will do it and without hesitation. She ran to save them. I don’t do argueing.
Le Le is painting my sewing room as I type :D :D

Isn’t le le one of your chooks? Only kidding! It just sounded like Lin Lin at first.

Le Le is Leigh, youngest girls boyfriend :)

Wall before.
And believe me, this particular wall was the best one and repairable.

Same wall after.

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Wow, that took some time!

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

Good on him. Congrats to Mum and Dad too. He wouldn’t have made it without you two.

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

so now that he won Geetar dude of the tear with the old geetar, it is now worn out???

It’s a technical issue.

His is a Jackson soloist and it has a floating something or other that makes retuning a major job. It has to be sort of taken apart to do it. The band he’s joined uses a different tuning than his lessons and he can’t keep changing the tuning. He’s been using his brothers Jackson for band practice and his for lessons.
Obviously that can’t go on forever so he needs a second one of his own for the band, plus a stage amp and a wa-wa pedal. $$$$$$$$

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

All you can do is encourage him to get better and better and if nother guitar is the go, what can you say?

We’re a push over. :)

You do realise what a good guitar costs??????

wait until he wants a great guitar.

He alreay owns a $7000 one.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Arvo break and a cold drink. Phew, my legs have had it. I have sweated buckets cleaning different rooms, bedrooms bathrooms, and laundry and raided the freezer for a lasagna and popped it into the oven. Four more bags of clothes to the salvos, and three boxs of various books and magazines and all mirrors are sparkling.
I told the youngest girl to take her dry clothes off the clothes horse and put them away.. she sort of moaned. So I said thats ok love, I will clear them for you and pop them into the salvos bag. She knows I will do it and without hesitation. She ran to save them. I don’t do argueing.
Le Le is painting my sewing room as I type :D :D

Isn’t le le one of your chooks? Only kidding! It just sounded like Lin Lin at first.

Le Le is Leigh, youngest girls boyfriend :)

Wall before.
And believe me, this particular wall was the best one and repairable.

Same wall after.

Love it. Great colour too.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Wow, that took some time!

You’re telling me. I had already decided we would keep it even it it was forever flowerless because they are lovely shade trees anyway.

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Pics when it flowers pleaseeeee!! send to me and I wlll upload :D

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

so now that he won Geetar dude of the tear with the old geetar, it is now worn out???

It’s a technical issue.

His is a Jackson soloist and it has a floating something or other that makes retuning a major job. It has to be sort of taken apart to do it. The band he’s joined uses a different tuning than his lessons and he can’t keep changing the tuning. He’s been using his brothers Jackson for band practice and his for lessons.
Obviously that can’t go on forever so he needs a second one of his own for the band, plus a stage amp and a wa-wa pedal. $$$$$$$$

I already knew ther would be a million reasons why he should have a second one. All genuine I’m sure.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Pics when it flowers pleaseeeee!! send to me and I wlll upload :D

Thank you HP. I might even do that.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

It’s our money he needs. LOL

He’s aiming at another guitar now too.

so now that he won Geetar dude of the tear with the old geetar, it is now worn out???

It’s a technical issue.

His is a Jackson soloist and it has a floating something or other that makes retuning a major job. It has to be sort of taken apart to do it. The band he’s joined uses a different tuning than his lessons and he can’t keep changing the tuning. He’s been using his brothers Jackson for band practice and his for lessons.
Obviously that can’t go on forever so he needs a second one of his own for the band, plus a stage amp and a wa-wa pedal. $$$$$$$$

I understood.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

We’re a push over. :)

You do realise what a good guitar costs??????

wait until he wants a great guitar.

He alreay owns a $7000 one.

was it signed by Jimi Hendrix?

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Pics when it flowers pleaseeeee!! send to me and I wlll upload :D

my neighbours Delonix.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

wait until he wants a great guitar.

He alreay owns a $7000 one.

was it signed by Jimi Hendrix?

And I hope you didn’t pay the $7G for the current one. That kinda cost should only be incurred by the lad working hard at a full time job and sweat and tears and should never be a charity from parents.

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

NEWS. I’ve got some news to tell. Won’t thrill any of you as much as it has me but you have to know. I found some buds on our Poinciana tree. Poincianas are a blaze of red all over the country and I just fingured ours was going to take another year to get it’s first blossom. This arvo I found 6 tiny green buds.

This tree is all of 15yrs old and it is finally flowering. I’m in love all over again.

Pics when it flowers pleaseeeee!! send to me and I wlll upload :D

my neighbours Delonix.

Mine will be every bit as good as that.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

wait until he wants a great guitar.

He alreay owns a $7000 one.

was it signed by Jimi Hendrix?

Shoulda been Hey but… :P

pain master said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

He alreay owns a $7000 one.

was it signed by Jimi Hendrix?

And I hope you didn’t pay the $7G for the current one. That kinda cost should only be incurred by the lad working hard at a full time job and sweat and tears and should never be a charity from parents.

We bought it from his teacher for 1/2 price only used on Sundays. LOL

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

pain master said:

was it signed by Jimi Hendrix?

And I hope you didn’t pay the $7G for the current one. That kinda cost should only be incurred by the lad working hard at a full time job and sweat and tears and should never be a charity from parents.

We bought it from his teacher for 1/2 price only used on Sundays. LOL

then he can learn the value of it by selling it for what it is worth and buying himself a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul… One for lessons and one for the detuned Band.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

And I hope you didn’t pay the $7G for the current one. That kinda cost should only be incurred by the lad working hard at a full time job and sweat and tears and should never be a charity from parents.

We bought it from his teacher for 1/2 price only used on Sundays. LOL

then he can learn the value of it by selling it for what it is worth and buying himself a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul… One for lessons and one for the detuned Band.

No way. He loves that guitar and we only got such a good deal because his teacher knew that. He wouldn’t be impressed if we sold it.

When he gets another one it wont be that expensive. His brothers was $1000+ and he’ll probably get something similar.

Happy Potter said:

Wall before.
And believe me, this particular wall was the best one and repairable.

Same wall after.

nice :)

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

We bought it from his teacher for 1/2 price only used on Sundays. LOL

then he can learn the value of it by selling it for what it is worth and buying himself a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul… One for lessons and one for the detuned Band.

No way. He loves that guitar and we only got such a good deal because his teacher knew that. He wouldn’t be impressed if we sold it.

When he gets another one it wont be that expensive. His brothers was $1000+ and he’ll probably get something similar.

American made Strat and Les Paul??? Huh?? Huh??? Better deal then that metal-death-axe….. perhaps he’ll learn to play?

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

then he can learn the value of it by selling it for what it is worth and buying himself a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul… One for lessons and one for the detuned Band.

No way. He loves that guitar and we only got such a good deal because his teacher knew that. He wouldn’t be impressed if we sold it.

When he gets another one it wont be that expensive. His brothers was $1000+ and he’ll probably get something similar.

American made Strat and Les Paul??? Huh?? Huh??? Better deal then that metal-death-axe….. perhaps he’ll learn to play?

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

No way. He loves that guitar and we only got such a good deal because his teacher knew that. He wouldn’t be impressed if we sold it.

When he gets another one it wont be that expensive. His brothers was $1000+ and he’ll probably get something similar.

American made Strat and Les Paul??? Huh?? Huh??? Better deal then that metal-death-axe….. perhaps he’ll learn to play?

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

American made Strat and Les Paul??? Huh?? Huh??? Better deal then that metal-death-axe….. perhaps he’ll learn to play?

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

But good on the lad! Have they listened to my wall of sound recording yet?

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

But good on the lad! Have they listened to my wall of sound recording yet?

I’m not sure. I’ve listened to one of them but I can’t remember which.

This is Liams Jackson.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/jackson/sl2h_soloist/index.html?no_takeover

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

American made Strat and Les Paul??? Huh?? Huh??? Better deal then that metal-death-axe….. perhaps he’ll learn to play?

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

Simon would never own a “metal death axe” in the first place. :P

http://simongardnermusic.com/teachers.html

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

But good on the lad! Have they listened to my wall of sound recording yet?

I’m not sure. I’ve listened to one of them but I can’t remember which.

This is Liams Jackson.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/jackson/sl2h_soloist/index.html?no_takeover

So what is extra special about Liam’s Jackson? I remember when these guitars first came out, and yeah, they weren’t death metal axes but all the guys who were playing them were either big hair and spandex or they were coming out of Brazil and had shaved heads and black denim jeans. This was never called a guitar, it was always an axe, and if you picked one up in the shops, you had to see if you could play 1/128th notes on it, on that 24th fret!

But back to my question, why so expensive? What modifications have been made to it? Because you can get these guys everywhere still for $1600 to $2400???

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

The soloist is far from a metal death axe. It’s a much admired bit of kit.

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

Simon would never own a “metal death axe” in the first place. :P

http://simongardnermusic.com/teachers.html

I checked out the website, no Bass Teacher??? What the???

Going to the markets this morning. Maybe the nursery on the way as well. I want one new plant for a space in one of the gardens. I wish I could be sure I would come out with only one plant though

Sun is shining and it’s warming up fast. Pretty cool minimum earlier on.

Have fun and make the most of your Sunday.

pomolo said:

Going to the markets this morning. Maybe the nursery on the way as well. I want one new plant for a space in one of the gardens. I wish I could be sure I would come out with only one plant though

Sun is shining and it’s warming up fast. Pretty cool minimum earlier on.

Have fun and make the most of your Sunday.

You have fun too :)
I know what it’s like trying to stop at one plant. lol.
We’re resuming the big clean up after some pancakes and tea. Today I get to put my sewing room back together. The paint was barely dry and we’d put the furniture back in late last night. Now to load the cupboards, then the lounge room gets a clean up. Lastly the floors get vacced and scrubbed then we will finish before the deadline :)

good morning people :)

bluegreen said:

good morning people :)

morning BG. Just having a cup of Prince of Wales Tea, jeez it is nice!

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

But good on the lad! Have they listened to my wall of sound recording yet?

I’m not sure. I’ve listened to one of them but I can’t remember which.

This is Liams Jackson.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/jackson/sl2h_soloist/index.html?no_takeover

So what is extra special about Liam’s Jackson? I remember when these guitars first came out, and yeah, they weren’t death metal axes but all the guys who were playing them were either big hair and spandex or they were coming out of Brazil and had shaved heads and black denim jeans. This was never called a guitar, it was always an axe, and if you picked one up in the shops, you had to see if you could play 1/128th notes on it, on that 24th fret!

But back to my question, why so expensive? What modifications have been made to it? Because you can get these guys everywhere still for $1600 to $2400???

This model isn’t made anymore but at the time we bought it that was the RRP.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Now, his brothers Jackson is a metal death axe. LOL

Simon would never own a “metal death axe” in the first place. :P

http://simongardnermusic.com/teachers.html

I checked out the website, no Bass Teacher??? What the???

They teach bass as well.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

I’m not sure. I’ve listened to one of them but I can’t remember which.

This is Liams Jackson.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/jackson/sl2h_soloist/index.html?no_takeover

So what is extra special about Liam’s Jackson? I remember when these guitars first came out, and yeah, they weren’t death metal axes but all the guys who were playing them were either big hair and spandex or they were coming out of Brazil and had shaved heads and black denim jeans. This was never called a guitar, it was always an axe, and if you picked one up in the shops, you had to see if you could play 1/128th notes on it, on that 24th fret!

But back to my question, why so expensive? What modifications have been made to it? Because you can get these guys everywhere still for $1600 to $2400???

This model isn’t made anymore but at the time we bought it that was the RRP.

No its not…. but I think your youngest lad would have been in nappys when these guitars were brand new. I was only a teenager back then in 84.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Simon would never own a “metal death axe” in the first place. :P

http://simongardnermusic.com/teachers.html

I checked out the website, no Bass Teacher??? What the???

They teach bass as well.

by a guitarist…. pffflllfllflflll….

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

So what is extra special about Liam’s Jackson? I remember when these guitars first came out, and yeah, they weren’t death metal axes but all the guys who were playing them were either big hair and spandex or they were coming out of Brazil and had shaved heads and black denim jeans. This was never called a guitar, it was always an axe, and if you picked one up in the shops, you had to see if you could play 1/128th notes on it, on that 24th fret!

But back to my question, why so expensive? What modifications have been made to it? Because you can get these guys everywhere still for $1600 to $2400???

This model isn’t made anymore but at the time we bought it that was the RRP.

No its not…. but I think your youngest lad would have been in nappys when these guitars were brand new. I was only a teenager back then in 84.

Simon bought it brand new a few years ago.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

I checked out the website, no Bass Teacher??? What the???

They teach bass as well.

by a guitarist…. pffflllfllflflll….

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

They teach bass as well.

by a guitarist…. pffflllfllflflll….

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

me, and I waited a long time to become old enough.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

by a guitarist…. pffflllfllflflll….

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

me, and I waited a long time to become old enough.

You’re still just a spring chicken sonny. :P

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Going to the markets this morning. Maybe the nursery on the way as well. I want one new plant for a space in one of the gardens. I wish I could be sure I would come out with only one plant though

Sun is shining and it’s warming up fast. Pretty cool minimum earlier on.

Have fun and make the most of your Sunday.

You have fun too :)
I know what it’s like trying to stop at one plant. lol.
We’re resuming the big clean up after some pancakes and tea. Today I get to put my sewing room back together. The paint was barely dry and we’d put the furniture back in late last night. Now to load the cupboards, then the lounge room gets a clean up. Lastly the floors get vacced and scrubbed then we will finish before the deadline :)

Just another quiet Sunday.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

by a guitarist…. pffflllfllflflll….

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

me, and I waited a long time to become old enough.

You have to have lived a lot more years than you have to qualify to be a grumpy old man.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

me, and I waited a long time to become old enough.

You have to have lived a lot more years than you have to qualify to be a grumpy old man.

And have kids. No kids no right to be grumpy. Lol.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Going to the markets this morning. Maybe the nursery on the way as well. I want one new plant for a space in one of the gardens. I wish I could be sure I would come out with only one plant though

Sun is shining and it’s warming up fast. Pretty cool minimum earlier on.

Have fun and make the most of your Sunday.

You have fun too :)
I know what it’s like trying to stop at one plant. lol.
We’re resuming the big clean up after some pancakes and tea. Today I get to put my sewing room back together. The paint was barely dry and we’d put the furniture back in late last night. Now to load the cupboards, then the lounge room gets a clean up. Lastly the floors get vacced and scrubbed then we will finish before the deadline :)

Just another quiet Sunday.

It was quiet ..until I got around to sorting hubbys clothes and shoes. Hes a shocking hoarder! I mean old former work place attire with logos that you cannot remove..dozen shirt, a coat and thick jackets ..all gone. Not to mention an hour to sot 10 million odd socks. And shoes!! He’s the male version of Imelda Marcos.
Good job he got called into work. He won’t even notice a single thing missing.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Who’s a grumpy old man??????

me, and I waited a long time to become old enough.

You have to have lived a lot more years than you have to qualify to be a grumpy old man.

bugger dammit!

I’ve had a very satisfactory day today. Went to the local market this morning and got a purple hanging mosquito net for $5. I was sitting out on my recliner on the verandah the other night when it was hot and thought I need a net to stop all these bugs dive bombing me. So that is where it is going.

Then church, then to the Seed Savers Christmas breakup. Had a pleasant afternoon chatting and eating delicious food then popped in on a friend to get some eggs. I had run out because the chickens have stopped laying and the remaining duck was not one of the layers. Took some excess seedlings with me and we traded. She got some tomato, cucumber and basil and I got some lettuce and capsicum seedlings and the eggs. A nice cuppa and chat and I am home again.

bluegreen said:

I’ve had a very satisfactory day today. Went to the local market this morning and got a purple hanging mosquito net for $5. I was sitting out on my recliner on the verandah the other night when it was hot and thought I need a net to stop all these bugs dive bombing me. So that is where it is going.

Then church, then to the Seed Savers Christmas breakup. Had a pleasant afternoon chatting and eating delicious food then popped in on a friend to get some eggs. I had run out because the chickens have stopped laying and the remaining duck was not one of the layers. Took some excess seedlings with me and we traded. She got some tomato, cucumber and basil and I got some lettuce and capsicum seedlings and the eggs. A nice cuppa and chat and I am home again.

That sounds relaxing :)

I need a week, no, a month off! The house and the garden are spik and span though and what a feeling to have all of the washing done and all folded and all put away. And not so much as a dirty spoon on the sink. Until someone breathes lol!

bluegreen said:

I’ve had a very satisfactory day today. Went to the local market this morning and got a purple hanging mosquito net for $5. I was sitting out on my recliner on the verandah the other night when it was hot and thought I need a net to stop all these bugs dive bombing me. So that is where it is going.

Then church, then to the Seed Savers Christmas breakup. Had a pleasant afternoon chatting and eating delicious food then popped in on a friend to get some eggs. I had run out because the chickens have stopped laying and the remaining duck was not one of the layers. Took some excess seedlings with me and we traded. She got some tomato, cucumber and basil and I got some lettuce and capsicum seedlings and the eggs. A nice cuppa and chat and I am home again.

That’s what i would call a nice relaxing Sunday.

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

Oh I do!!! And I appreciate your hard work RB. Just make sure you keep it up. OK?

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmases making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

Not solely by my hand but 40,000 of them have been cloned just this week, ready to be planted out next spring. Every day is different but even at my age I can still keep up to those younger than half my age. 2,500 trees budded in a day is a dawdle.. 7,000 is more like putting an effort in. Have given every Christmas to this purpose since 1975. By this one way or another, it could be said that a large part of the year from July to March of every year is devoted to cloning fruit tree varieties in large quantities. However the main period is from Oct to Dec.. and often into Jan.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

RB, when picking out fruit trees with friends for their garden at the B shop, I point out the best ones for them to by and also point out ‘me mate RB probably grafted these ones, they look better’ :)

Morning, it’s a cold week for the start of summer. Brr. Heating on but it will be off by lunchtime. Top of 21c expected.
The house is pristine, only need to tend to chooks feed, so I’m out this morn visiting a friend and off to a factory outlet for a bulk bag of tartaric and citric acid for my cordial making.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

RB, when picking out fruit trees with friends for their garden at the B shop, I point out the best ones for them to by and also point out ‘me mate RB probably grafted these ones, they look better’ :)

I wouldn’t get to even see one of RB’s plantings up here. We have to depend on you all growing them and sending their fruit up this way.

Happy Potter said:

Morning, it’s a cold week for the start of summer. Brr. Heating on but it will be off by lunchtime. Top of 21c expected.
The house is pristine, only need to tend to chooks feed, so I’m out this morn visiting a friend and off to a factory outlet for a bulk bag of tartaric and citric acid for my cordial making.

What flavour cordial will you be making? Citrus are finished so I was just wondering.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning, it’s a cold week for the start of summer. Brr. Heating on but it will be off by lunchtime. Top of 21c expected.
The house is pristine, only need to tend to chooks feed, so I’m out this morn visiting a friend and off to a factory outlet for a bulk bag of tartaric and citric acid for my cordial making.

What flavour cordial will you be making? Citrus are finished so I was just wondering.

I have a biscuit making day. They want enough to get them through the Christmas period.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning, it’s a cold week for the start of summer. Brr. Heating on but it will be off by lunchtime. Top of 21c expected.
The house is pristine, only need to tend to chooks feed, so I’m out this morn visiting a friend and off to a factory outlet for a bulk bag of tartaric and citric acid for my cordial making.

What flavour cordial will you be making? Citrus are finished so I was just wondering.

Lemon cordal and orange /passionfruit cordial. I spent hours juicing them when I was given them and at their best. I’ve frozen the lot in one lt containers, with some zest in. About 20 kg of each. At one stage the table was groaning under the weight and my fingers were all pruney.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning, it’s a cold week for the start of summer. Brr. Heating on but it will be off by lunchtime. Top of 21c expected.
The house is pristine, only need to tend to chooks feed, so I’m out this morn visiting a friend and off to a factory outlet for a bulk bag of tartaric and citric acid for my cordial making.

What flavour cordial will you be making? Citrus are finished so I was just wondering.

Lemon cordal and orange /passionfruit cordial. I spent hours juicing them when I was given them and at their best. I’ve frozen the lot in one lt containers, with some zest in. About 20 kg of each. At one stage the table was groaning under the weight and my fingers were all pruney.

that’s going to make a lot of cordial!!

been outside with the whipper snipper doing edges

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Went to the markets and came home with some lovely stone fruit. I am delighted that we are getting quality stone fruit at affordable prices, early in the season. I’ve even seen apricots that could pass the test with a push. Bananas were cheeper too. $2 per kilo. Bought some lady fingers because they were home grown.

Ended up buying a Calliandra tweedii for the vacant spot in the garden. I was after something purple or something red and the red pom pom filled the bill.

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

RB, when picking out fruit trees with friends for their garden at the B shop, I point out the best ones for them to by and also point out ‘me mate RB probably grafted these ones, they look better’ :)

:)

Today I was about to hopin the ute and run home at lunch to change water at home when a guy from Swan Hill I knnow pulled in to the Nuresery I was working at. He said, “ asked Angelo if I could get you to come over to help me as a tyer with the contracts we are doing at another nursery. He said I could have you for the afternoon but that he’d need you tomorrow”. I said, sure if it is OK with Angelo. So we worked until he started on apricots which are slower and I said “look you are going slower here and I’m standing waiting, do you want me to go ahead of you?” He didn’t want me to be putting on buds as it was his contract and he’d only wanted me to tie them up as his tyer was new to the game. So I offered to go home and come back after work tomorrow, work from 4 to 8 pm with him if he was back on peach stock rather than plumstock. He said, sure. We could be here for a while, there’s another 100,000 to do yet.

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

trichome said:

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

my sentiments exactly.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

I hope you are aware that I usually spend my Christmasses making these stone fruit trees for the farmers to lay food on your plate.

RB, when picking out fruit trees with friends for their garden at the B shop, I point out the best ones for them to by and also point out ‘me mate RB probably grafted these ones, they look better’ :)

:)

Today I was about to hopin the ute and run home at lunch to change water at home when a guy from Swan Hill I knnow pulled in to the Nuresery I was working at. He said, “ asked Angelo if I could get you to come over to help me as a tyer with the contracts we are doing at another nursery. He said I could have you for the afternoon but that he’d need you tomorrow”. I said, sure if it is OK with Angelo. So we worked until he started on apricots which are slower and I said “look you are going slower here and I’m standing waiting, do you want me to go ahead of you?” He didn’t want me to be putting on buds as it was his contract and he’d only wanted me to tie them up as his tyer was new to the game. So I offered to go home and come back after work tomorrow, work from 4 to 8 pm with him if he was back on peach stock rather than plumstock. He said, sure. We could be here for a while, there’s another 100,000 to do yet.

My back started aching just reading that.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

RB, when picking out fruit trees with friends for their garden at the B shop, I point out the best ones for them to by and also point out ‘me mate RB probably grafted these ones, they look better’ :)

:)

Today I was about to hopin the ute and run home at lunch to change water at home when a guy from Swan Hill I knnow pulled in to the Nuresery I was working at. He said, “ asked Angelo if I could get you to come over to help me as a tyer with the contracts we are doing at another nursery. He said I could have you for the afternoon but that he’d need you tomorrow”. I said, sure if it is OK with Angelo. So we worked until he started on apricots which are slower and I said “look you are going slower here and I’m standing waiting, do you want me to go ahead of you?” He didn’t want me to be putting on buds as it was his contract and he’d only wanted me to tie them up as his tyer was new to the game. So I offered to go home and come back after work tomorrow, work from 4 to 8 pm with him if he was back on peach stock rather than plumstock. He said, sure. We could be here for a while, there’s another 100,000 to do yet.

My back started aching just reading that.

it’s good you are getting plenty of work, yes? I know it is seasonal and won’t be like this all year but at least you are in demand when the season is busy.

Puters buggered for now. Don’t know when I’ll be back on full time.

pomolo said:

Puters buggered for now. Don’t know when I’ll be back on full time.

:(

trichome said:

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

:)

actually I think I am faster now than I was at budding and tying trees. It is the getting up and down that hurts.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

:)

Today I was about to hopin the ute and run home at lunch to change water at home when a guy from Swan Hill I knnow pulled in to the Nuresery I was working at. He said, “ asked Angelo if I could get you to come over to help me as a tyer with the contracts we are doing at another nursery. He said I could have you for the afternoon but that he’d need you tomorrow”. I said, sure if it is OK with Angelo. So we worked until he started on apricots which are slower and I said “look you are going slower here and I’m standing waiting, do you want me to go ahead of you?” He didn’t want me to be putting on buds as it was his contract and he’d only wanted me to tie them up as his tyer was new to the game. So I offered to go home and come back after work tomorrow, work from 4 to 8 pm with him if he was back on peach stock rather than plumstock. He said, sure. We could be here for a while, there’s another 100,000 to do yet.

My back started aching just reading that.

it’s good you are getting plenty of work, yes? I know it is seasonal and won’t be like this all year but at least you are in demand when the season is busy.

Yes. People want me to work, they just don’t want to share much of the money.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

My back started aching just reading that.

it’s good you are getting plenty of work, yes? I know it is seasonal and won’t be like this all year but at least you are in demand when the season is busy.

Yes. People want me to work, they just don’t want to share much of the money.

Still, I hope they pay you your worth.

Morning. I’m up and attem, grating a doz zucchinis for some little vege patties for an Xmas BBQ lunch for members of the orchard. I have to take something I can eat and these tasty little things are nice. Eggs, haloumi cheese, s&p and a bit of flour and press the liquid out of the zucchs. Brush the pan with olive oil and fry.
I better get back to it.
I can’t find the flat grater plate that fits my food processor so manual it is. At least I can do that now my arm is working fabulously :)

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

:)

actually I think I am faster now than I was at budding and tying trees. It is the getting up and down that hurts.

I’d struggle with one, let alone thousands!

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

it’s good you are getting plenty of work, yes? I know it is seasonal and won’t be like this all year but at least you are in demand when the season is busy.

Yes. People want me to work, they just don’t want to share much of the money.

Still, I hope they pay you your worth.

My father-on-law always said.. it is not what it is worth, it is what it costs. Look at that anyway you want, if you work in the bush for the agricultural community You really need to have customers that hang around for 10, 20, 30 years as they only make enough money to be generous around once a decade.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

:)

actually I think I am faster now than I was at budding and tying trees. It is the getting up and down that hurts.

I’d struggle with one, let alone thousands!

It is a struggle, I will have to admit. One has to push oneself on. I’m pushing 60 and people a third of my age really suffer trying to keep up. I keep telling them that they can’t make money while concentrating on the dehydration, back pain and sunstroke. As they say, someone has to to do it.. Don’t know why I do since most of what I graft is asked for by supermarkets to decrease their losses. Which adds up to nectarines like cricket balls that are as easy to eat. Sydney alone tosses billions of bucks worth of fresh food out, each year uneaten.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Puters buggered for now. Don’t know when I’ll be back on full time.

:(

It was the monitor and the hardly normal company (where we bought it, 6 months ago) have sent it to hospital. Could take 2 weeks to fix. D bought a very, very old 2nd hand one to fill the space till ours is well again. Makes me giggle to look at it but at least it works.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

My back started aching just reading that.

it’s good you are getting plenty of work, yes? I know it is seasonal and won’t be like this all year but at least you are in demand when the season is busy.

Yes. People want me to work, they just don’t want to share much of the money.

So true! So true!!

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

another 100,000 to do yet
…

back in the day, you’d do that before breakfast ? ;)

:)

actually I think I am faster now than I was at budding and tying trees. It is the getting up and down that hurts.

I’d struggle with one, let alone thousands!

Me three.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

:)

actually I think I am faster now than I was at budding and tying trees. It is the getting up and down that hurts.

I’d struggle with one, let alone thousands!

It is a struggle, I will have to admit. One has to push oneself on. I’m pushing 60 and people a third of my age really suffer trying to keep up. I keep telling them that they can’t make money while concentrating on the dehydration, back pain and sunstroke. As they say, someone has to to do it.. Don’t know why I do since most of what I graft is asked for by supermarkets to decrease their losses. Which adds up to nectarines like cricket balls that are as easy to eat. Sydney alone tosses billions of bucks worth of fresh food out, each year uneaten.

Don’t even tell me that!

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Puters buggered for now. Don’t know when I’ll be back on full time.

:(

It was the monitor and the hardly normal company (where we bought it, 6 months ago) have sent it to hospital. Could take 2 weeks to fix. D bought a very, very old 2nd hand one to fill the space till ours is well again. Makes me giggle to look at it but at least it works.

:)

well at least they were more than normal in helping you.. they didn’t help me.. I’ll never buy anything there again.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

:(

It was the monitor and the hardly normal company (where we bought it, 6 months ago) have sent it to hospital. Could take 2 weeks to fix. D bought a very, very old 2nd hand one to fill the space till ours is well again. Makes me giggle to look at it but at least it works.

:)

well at least they were more than normal in helping you.. they didn’t help me.. I’ll never buy anything there again.

I don’t think they had a choice. D went armed with the purchase docket including the date of purchase.

Off for some din din.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

It was the monitor and the hardly normal company (where we bought it, 6 months ago) have sent it to hospital. Could take 2 weeks to fix. D bought a very, very old 2nd hand one to fill the space till ours is well again. Makes me giggle to look at it but at least it works.

:)

well at least they were more than normal in helping you.. they didn’t help me.. I’ll never buy anything there again.

I don’t think they had a choice. D went armed with the purchase docket including the date of purchase.

purchase dockets have a habit of being illegible.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

I’d struggle with one, let alone thousands!

It is a struggle, I will have to admit. One has to push oneself on. I’m pushing 60 and people a third of my age really suffer trying to keep up. I keep telling them that they can’t make money while concentrating on the dehydration, back pain and sunstroke. As they say, someone has to to do it.. Don’t know why I do since most of what I graft is asked for by supermarkets to decrease their losses. Which adds up to nectarines like cricket balls that are as easy to eat. Sydney alone tosses billions of bucks worth of fresh food out, each year uneaten.

Don’t even tell me that!

sorry. :(

I couldn’t help myself.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

:)

well at least they were more than normal in helping you.. they didn’t help me.. I’ll never buy anything there again.

I don’t think they had a choice. D went armed with the purchase docket including the date of purchase.

purchase dockets have a habit of being illegible.

I have heard this. Fortunately for us this one is legible after 6 months.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

:)

well at least they were more than normal in helping you.. they didn’t help me.. I’ll never buy anything there again.

I don’t think they had a choice. D went armed with the purchase docket including the date of purchase.

purchase dockets have a habit of being illegible.

You need to copy them before they fade.

Wow I’m so far behind. I’ve been too busy to get online, just a few mins here and there and posted a pic of Golda’s little partidge silkie. Two hatched out of 6 eggs, both the same colours and so tiny.
The other 6 I have in my friends incubator are hatching out now and they look like partridge colours too. So cute. I will be bringing them home once dried off and slipping them under Golda tonight. I want her to raise them.
I barely slept a wink last night, just couldn’t sleep, but will catch up tonight. I have another Xmas BBQ to attend today.

Happy Potter said:

Wow I’m so far behind. I’ve been too busy to get online, just a few mins here and there and posted a pic of Golda’s little partidge silkie. Two hatched out of 6 eggs, both the same colours and so tiny.
The other 6 I have in my friends incubator are hatching out now and they look like partridge colours too. So cute. I will be bringing them home once dried off and slipping them under Golda tonight. I want her to raise them.
I barely slept a wink last night, just couldn’t sleep, but will catch up tonight. I have another Xmas BBQ to attend today.

It sure is weenie but very cute.

Happy Potter said:

Wow I’m so far behind. I’ve been too busy to get online, just a few mins here and there and posted a pic of Golda’s little partidge silkie. Two hatched out of 6 eggs, both the same colours and so tiny.
The other 6 I have in my friends incubator are hatching out now and they look like partridge colours too. So cute. I will be bringing them home once dried off and slipping them under Golda tonight. I want her to raise them.
I barely slept a wink last night, just couldn’t sleep, but will catch up tonight. I have another Xmas BBQ to attend today.

sweet :)

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Wow I’m so far behind. I’ve been too busy to get online, just a few mins here and there and posted a pic of Golda’s little partidge silkie. Two hatched out of 6 eggs, both the same colours and so tiny.
The other 6 I have in my friends incubator are hatching out now and they look like partridge colours too. So cute. I will be bringing them home once dried off and slipping them under Golda tonight. I want her to raise them.
I barely slept a wink last night, just couldn’t sleep, but will catch up tonight. I have another Xmas BBQ to attend today.

It sure is weenie but very cute.

that’s not cute – it’s remarkable but not cute.

btw pomolo – 6 of those allherb (plectranthus amboinicus) that you sent me have grown well in pots – and i’ve given 3 away to good gardeners and my three are all growing strongly.
it’s weird the prestige you get with having plants that noone else in your circle has heard of. so my stature as a gardener has probably doubled thanks to that package you sent me..

justin said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Wow I’m so far behind. I’ve been too busy to get online, just a few mins here and there and posted a pic of Golda’s little partidge silkie. Two hatched out of 6 eggs, both the same colours and so tiny.
The other 6 I have in my friends incubator are hatching out now and they look like partridge colours too. So cute. I will be bringing them home once dried off and slipping them under Golda tonight. I want her to raise them.
I barely slept a wink last night, just couldn’t sleep, but will catch up tonight. I have another Xmas BBQ to attend today.

It sure is weenie but very cute.

that’s not cute – it’s remarkable but not cute.

btw pomolo – 6 of those allherb (plectranthus amboinicus) that you sent me have grown well in pots – and i’ve given 3 away to good gardeners and my three are all growing strongly.
it’s weird the prestige you get with having plants that noone else in your circle has heard of. so my stature as a gardener has probably doubled thanks to that package you sent me..

Well, just imagine what it did for me when I had to send some to another State where nobody knew it at all. LOL.

it’s remarkable but not cute.
——————
‘Tis too.

pomolo said:

it’s remarkable but not cute.
——————
‘Tis too.

Very cute!

pomolo said:

it’s remarkable but not cute.
——————
‘Tis too.

the colour scheme is ok – but hey! – the face wears a stupid startled look – the feet haven’t sorted themselves out – and those wings??

justin said:

pomolo said:

it’s remarkable but not cute.
——————
‘Tis too.

the colour scheme is ok – but hey! – the face wears a stupid startled look – the feet haven’t sorted themselves out – and those wings??

All babies are cute. Humans don’t get themselves sorted out for months after they are born and they’re very cute anyway.

pomolo said:

justin said:

pomolo said:

it’s remarkable but not cute.
——————
‘Tis too.

the colour scheme is ok – but hey! – the face wears a stupid startled look – the feet haven’t sorted themselves out – and those wings??

All babies are cute. Humans don’t get themselves sorted out for months after they are born and they’re very cute anyway.

we need yeehah or dinetta to give us the etymology of ‘cute’.
anyrate you can have the last word – it is sorta qute

pomolo said:

justin said:

pomolo said:

It sure is weenie but very cute.

that’s not cute – it’s remarkable but not cute.

btw pomolo – 6 of those allherb (plectranthus amboinicus) that you sent me have grown well in pots – and i’ve given 3 away to good gardeners and my three are all growing strongly.
it’s weird the prestige you get with having plants that noone else in your circle has heard of. so my stature as a gardener has probably doubled thanks to that package you sent me..

Well, just imagine what it did for me when I had to send some to another State where nobody knew it at all. LOL.

Apparently a tea brewed from it is as good as a sleeping tablet.

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh. Painful right foot too but that’s been forever, it’s chronic and I’m used to it but it chooses now to play up.
I’m not getting much of a chance in the evenings to pop in, so busy. I watched 3 frizzle chicks hatch in my friends incubator last night. I put another four fluffy silkie chicks from the incubator under mumchook Golda late last night and in no time she had them all tucked in tight. Six all up, that’s enough for her first brood. All good. I’ve gone chook mad. I’d love a couple Houdan x Frizzles…crossed with a Polish Crested roo.. they look like curly tea cosys.

I have a timeline of events for today. My car is in for a service at 8 am this morn and getting a lift back home from the mechanic. Then cake cooking, 48 cup patty cakes needed for a tower and a small round cake for the top tier.
They will get iced tomorrow evening by my girls.
Then when I get my car back I’m trading some apricot and kirsch jam and capsicum relish for some extra bags of hourse manure at 1 pm. It’ll be slow going bagging it as I don’t want any limbs falling off me. Just as well it’s composted, it’s fluffy and light and easy to gather.

Then 3pm Xmas shopping with the man. O joy. I’d jump up and down but for those limbs..

If anyone asks what’s for tea I’ll throw a missapen pattycake at ‘em.

roughbarked said:

…and as the sun sets slowly in the west old roughy pads his way slowly home,,,,

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh. Painful right foot too but that’s been forever, it’s chronic and I’m used to it but it chooses now to play up.
I’m not getting much of a chance in the evenings to pop in, so busy. I watched 3 frizzle chicks hatch in my friends incubator last night. I put another four fluffy silkie chicks from the incubator under mumchook Golda late last night and in no time she had them all tucked in tight. Six all up, that’s enough for her first brood. All good. I’ve gone chook mad. I’d love a couple Houdan x Frizzles…crossed with a Polish Crested roo.. they look like curly tea cosys.

I have a timeline of events for today. My car is in for a service at 8 am this morn and getting a lift back home from the mechanic. Then cake cooking, 48 cup patty cakes needed for a tower and a small round cake for the top tier.
They will get iced tomorrow evening by my girls.
Then when I get my car back I’m trading some apricot and kirsch jam and capsicum relish for some extra bags of hourse manure at 1 pm. It’ll be slow going bagging it as I don’t want any limbs falling off me. Just as well it’s composted, it’s fluffy and light and easy to gather.

Then 3pm Xmas shopping with the man. O joy. I’d jump up and down but for those limbs..

If anyone asks what’s for tea I’ll throw a missapen pattycake at ‘em.

strewth HP – there’s a law against shovelling sh*t with a loose shoulder joint. a law of nature called the pain threshold. why don’t you shop alone and get theman to shovel and light loose stuff.?

finally last year’s golden orb spider nest has produced a thousand little dots sunbaking on the web outside the nest.
i gently blew on the little dots and they moved like little spiders. yay – been waiting for these to emerge.

the blue wrens are seen in our garden every day now and they go about their business even when 8 humans are watching them – becoming very comfortable around us.
we discovered their tunnel nest in the viburnum – we found about 6 other nests this year including the blackbird and new holland honeyeater. this is good news but now there’s all these birds that think we are intruders on their birth place and every single planting has to have a birdnetting cover. ah well??

strewth HP – there’s a law against shovelling sh*t with a loose shoulder joint. a law of nature called the pain threshold. why don’t you shop alone and get theman to shovel and light loose stuff.?
———————————————————-
He’s at work, she’s at work, they’re all at bluddy work. Friends who are at home, aren’t atm or are infirm. I have one friend who will be there when I get there and will help.
Besides, I have a ‘special’ method of bagging poop easier. I take a bucket and my 3 pronged garden hand tool which I use to scrape the stuff straight into the bucket and when it’s half filled, tip it into the bag. And so on. And I only half fill the bags so they’re light enough for me to pop into my car boot. I have hundreds of bags so it’s twice as many, but it means I can do it :)
The soil in my garden is magnificent and sponge like, the fork sinks itself in and it didn’t get like that by me sitting about on my bum.
All I have to do nowadays to plant out a vege bed is to till the top and plant. No digging over heavy stuff.

Putting several bigger bags of horse manure into my tomato bed as mulch created the soil warmth they needed to really start powering on.

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh.

that’ll be because you’ve been trying to get on as normal one handed, instead of resting!!!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh.

that’ll be because you’ve been trying to get on as normal one handed, instead of resting!!!

Nooooooooooo, lol. If anything I didn’t do enough with my left arm whilst my right was out of action. I’m still not up to lifting what I’m supposed to be lifting by now and machines do my arm work for me, so this is just out of the blue. I’ve no idea what I did.
Xmas shopping soon….. so overjoyed I can hardly contain myself.

And my kids have splattered our Xmas Day plans to smithereens. Originally they were all planning to go to partners places but now they have decided they do want to be with us. Well there goes our quiet picnic with vegemite sangers with GS, lol.
So they have decided we will go to Mrs. Daughters as usual, but instead of a huge slap up meal with all the trimmings we will do it picnic style and cold meats ect.
I said I haven’t a hope of making a cake in time, so perhaps just a big trifle, or something. They murmured together in messages and texts and asked me if I could then make a big chocolate ripple cake! Haha, I can do that the night before :D. With some silver cashos and silver bon bons, it’ll be pretty.

justin said:

finally last year’s golden orb spider nest has produced a thousand little dots sunbaking on the web outside the nest.
i gently blew on the little dots and they moved like little spiders. yay – been waiting for these to emerge.

the blue wrens are seen in our garden every day now and they go about their business even when 8 humans are watching them – becoming very comfortable around us.
we discovered their tunnel nest in the viburnum – we found about 6 other nests this year including the blackbird and new holland honeyeater. this is good news but now there’s all these birds that think we are intruders on their birth place and every single planting has to have a birdnetting cover. ah well??

The only one of the birds you mention that is a problem is the one you should put a bullet through.. the blackbird. It will try to chase away all the good birds and rip all your newly planted seedlings out while planting Cottoneaster and Privet. It will filch your strawberries cherries, mulberries and grapes while it throws all your mulch out on the footpath. It won’t eat the insects you want to be rid of but it will pull all your worms out of the ground. Do Australia a favour and get rid of it.

justin said:

…and as the sun sets slowly in the west old roughy pads his way slowly home,,,,

;)

indeed, trudges is probably the better descriptive. However to watch the colours makes all the problems of the day fade to nothing.

lovely photos RB. Reminds me for those who would like to stay up that there is a total lunar eclipse this Sat night/Sun morning.

Tomorrow I am heading to Melbourne again to spend time with pregnant daughter and attend her Baby Shower, as well as picking up some ducks from a friend of HP on Saturday and I believe she is providing morning tea?? I’ll be coming back Saturday night and on Sunday night Swanpool is having its inaugural Community Carols at the church.

bluegreen said:

lovely photos RB. Reminds me for those who would like to stay up that there is a total lunar eclipse this Sat night/Sun morning.

Tomorrow I am heading to Melbourne again to spend time with pregnant daughter and attend her Baby Shower, as well as picking up some ducks from a friend of HP on Saturday and I believe she is providing morning tea?? I’ll be coming back Saturday night and on Sunday night Swanpool is having its inaugural Community Carols at the church.

Believe it or not, I planted all the trees silhouetted. My daughter has only a few days to go to find out if this baby has stuck for 12 weeks

justin said:

pomolo said:

justin said:

the colour scheme is ok – but hey! – the face wears a stupid startled look – the feet haven’t sorted themselves out – and those wings??

All babies are cute. Humans don’t get themselves sorted out for months after they are born and they’re very cute anyway.

we need yeehah or dinetta to give us the etymology of ‘cute’.
anyrate you can have the last word – it is sorta qute

Another win to the one and only Pomolo!!!

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

justin said:

that’s not cute – it’s remarkable but not cute.

btw pomolo – 6 of those allherb (plectranthus amboinicus) that you sent me have grown well in pots – and i’ve given 3 away to good gardeners and my three are all growing strongly.
it’s weird the prestige you get with having plants that noone else in your circle has heard of. so my stature as a gardener has probably doubled thanks to that package you sent me..

Well, just imagine what it did for me when I had to send some to another State where nobody knew it at all. LOL.

Apparently a tea brewed from it is as good as a sleeping tablet.

That I don’t need. One of the things I do really well is sleep.

roughbarked said:

Our stand in monitor doesn’t do that pic justice I’m sure.

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh. Painful right foot too but that’s been forever, it’s chronic and I’m used to it but it chooses now to play up.
I’m not getting much of a chance in the evenings to pop in, so busy. I watched 3 frizzle chicks hatch in my friends incubator last night. I put another four fluffy silkie chicks from the incubator under mumchook Golda late last night and in no time she had them all tucked in tight. Six all up, that’s enough for her first brood. All good. I’ve gone chook mad. I’d love a couple Houdan x Frizzles…crossed with a Polish Crested roo.. they look like curly tea cosys.

I have a timeline of events for today. My car is in for a service at 8 am this morn and getting a lift back home from the mechanic. Then cake cooking, 48 cup patty cakes needed for a tower and a small round cake for the top tier.
They will get iced tomorrow evening by my girls.
Then when I get my car back I’m trading some apricot and kirsch jam and capsicum relish for some extra bags of hourse manure at 1 pm. It’ll be slow going bagging it as I don’t want any limbs falling off me. Just as well it’s composted, it’s fluffy and light and easy to gather.

Then 3pm Xmas shopping with the man. O joy. I’d jump up and down but for those limbs..

If anyone asks what’s for tea I’ll throw a missapen pattycake at ‘em.

All I did today was the Christmas food shopping and a few pressies and I’m stuffed. How do you feel?

justin said:

finally last year’s golden orb spider nest has produced a thousand little dots sunbaking on the web outside the nest.
i gently blew on the little dots and they moved like little spiders. yay – been waiting for these to emerge.

the blue wrens are seen in our garden every day now and they go about their business even when 8 humans are watching them – becoming very comfortable around us.
we discovered their tunnel nest in the viburnum – we found about 6 other nests this year including the blackbird and new holland honeyeater. this is good news but now there’s all these birds that think we are intruders on their birth place and every single planting has to have a birdnetting cover. ah well??

Loved your wildlife report JC.

roughbarked said:

My daughter has only a few days to go to find out if this baby has stuck for 12 weeks

here’s hoping.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh.

that’ll be because you’ve been trying to get on as normal one handed, instead of resting!!!

Ditto to that.

BBS.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

Our stand in monitor doesn’t do that pic justice I’m sure.

thanks :)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh.

that’ll be because you’ve been trying to get on as normal one handed, instead of resting!!!

Nooooooooooo, lol. If anything I didn’t do enough with my left arm whilst my right was out of action. I’m still not up to lifting what I’m supposed to be lifting by now and machines do my arm work for me, so this is just out of the blue. I’ve no idea what I did.
Xmas shopping soon….. so overjoyed I can hardly contain myself.

And my kids have splattered our Xmas Day plans to smithereens. Originally they were all planning to go to partners places but now they have decided they do want to be with us. Well there goes our quiet picnic with vegemite sangers with GS, lol.
So they have decided we will go to Mrs. Daughters as usual, but instead of a huge slap up meal with all the trimmings we will do it picnic style and cold meats ect.
I said I haven’t a hope of making a cake in time, so perhaps just a big trifle, or something. They murmured together in messages and texts and asked me if I could then make a big chocolate ripple cake! Haha, I can do that the night before :D. With some silver cashos and silver bon bons, it’ll be pretty.

I did a Xmas cake yesterday. Tried a new recipe. Looks good but tasting will tell.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

…and as the sun sets slowly in the west old roughy pads his way slowly home,,,,

;)

indeed, trudges is probably the better descriptive. However to watch the colours makes all the problems of the day fade to nothing.

A beautiful scene.

bluegreen said:

lovely photos RB. Reminds me for those who would like to stay up that there is a total lunar eclipse this Sat night/Sun morning.

Tomorrow I am heading to Melbourne again to spend time with pregnant daughter and attend her Baby Shower, as well as picking up some ducks from a friend of HP on Saturday and I believe she is providing morning tea?? I’ll be coming back Saturday night and on Sunday night Swanpool is having its inaugural Community Carols at the church.

A nice weekend on the way BG. Half your luck.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

lovely photos RB. Reminds me for those who would like to stay up that there is a total lunar eclipse this Sat night/Sun morning.

Tomorrow I am heading to Melbourne again to spend time with pregnant daughter and attend her Baby Shower, as well as picking up some ducks from a friend of HP on Saturday and I believe she is providing morning tea?? I’ll be coming back Saturday night and on Sunday night Swanpool is having its inaugural Community Carols at the church.

Believe it or not, I planted all the trees silhouetted. My daughter has only a few days to go to find out if this baby has stuck for 12 weeks

Crossing fingers right now I am.

After the total of my Chrissy food shopping today, WW will be solvent for many months to come. Poor D nearly passed out on the floor when he saw the total. I wasn’t too steady on my feet either.

Sometimes I wonder about the stupidness of it all but I definately love the Christmas season, with or without the extra eating.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

Our stand in monitor doesn’t do that pic justice I’m sure.

I’ve just bought an iPad and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. Apple in their wisdom don’t supply any instructions.

pomolo said:

After the total of my Chrissy food shopping today, WW will be solvent for many months to come. Poor D nearly passed out on the floor when he saw the total. I wasn’t too steady on my feet either.

Sometimes I wonder about the stupidness of it all but I definately love the Christmas season, with or without the extra eating.

Our picnics are the best Christmas decision ever.

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

Our stand in monitor doesn’t do that pic justice I’m sure.

I’ve just bought an iPad and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. Apple in their wisdom don’t supply any instructions.

correct. 

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh. Painful right foot too but that’s been forever, it’s chronic and I’m used to it but it chooses now to play up.
I’m not getting much of a chance in the evenings to pop in, so busy. I watched 3 frizzle chicks hatch in my friends incubator last night. I put another four fluffy silkie chicks from the incubator under mumchook Golda late last night and in no time she had them all tucked in tight. Six all up, that’s enough for her first brood. All good. I’ve gone chook mad. I’d love a couple Houdan x Frizzles…crossed with a Polish Crested roo.. they look like curly tea cosys.

I have a timeline of events for today. My car is in for a service at 8 am this morn and getting a lift back home from the mechanic. Then cake cooking, 48 cup patty cakes needed for a tower and a small round cake for the top tier.
They will get iced tomorrow evening by my girls.
Then when I get my car back I’m trading some apricot and kirsch jam and capsicum relish for some extra bags of hourse manure at 1 pm. It’ll be slow going bagging it as I don’t want any limbs falling off me. Just as well it’s composted, it’s fluffy and light and easy to gather.

Then 3pm Xmas shopping with the man. O joy. I’d jump up and down but for those limbs..

If anyone asks what’s for tea I’ll throw a missapen pattycake at ‘em.

All I did today was the Christmas food shopping and a few pressies and I’m stuffed. How do you feel?

Great actually! Stuffed, but great. thanks :) Off to bed in a minute.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning.
Now my left shoulder is playing up. Argh. Painful right foot too but that’s been forever, it’s chronic and I’m used to it but it chooses now to play up.
I’m not getting much of a chance in the evenings to pop in, so busy. I watched 3 frizzle chicks hatch in my friends incubator last night. I put another four fluffy silkie chicks from the incubator under mumchook Golda late last night and in no time she had them all tucked in tight. Six all up, that’s enough for her first brood. All good. I’ve gone chook mad. I’d love a couple Houdan x Frizzles…crossed with a Polish Crested roo.. they look like curly tea cosys.

I have a timeline of events for today. My car is in for a service at 8 am this morn and getting a lift back home from the mechanic. Then cake cooking, 48 cup patty cakes needed for a tower and a small round cake for the top tier.
They will get iced tomorrow evening by my girls.
Then when I get my car back I’m trading some apricot and kirsch jam and capsicum relish for some extra bags of hourse manure at 1 pm. It’ll be slow going bagging it as I don’t want any limbs falling off me. Just as well it’s composted, it’s fluffy and light and easy to gather.

Then 3pm Xmas shopping with the man. O joy. I’d jump up and down but for those limbs..

If anyone asks what’s for tea I’ll throw a missapen pattycake at ‘em.

All I did today was the Christmas food shopping and a few pressies and I’m stuffed. How do you feel?

Great actually! Stuffed, but great. thanks :) Off to bed in a minute.

Me too.

Suns up. Everything is good and wet. We hauled over 4 inches and aside from the ground being damp, you can’t see water laying around anywhere. It was really good rain and it’s soaked well in to the ground. Just what the doctor ordered.

Vegie gardens liked the rain too. Corn has grown a foot overnight. Picking great tomatoes and cucumbers. Spag squash, zucchini and egg plant, capsicum, pumpkin and carrots all powering. Climbing beans are near their end but the new dwarf beans are taking over from them. Picking pawpaws too. Mangoes aren’t an item. Nobody seems to have any on their trees. Perhaps it’s a leftover from last seasons calamity. Some disease went through all the mangoes in SEQ.

Into the kitchen today. All that stuff I bought yesterday has to be used. Then it’s a case of trying not to consume it because it’s for christmas exclusively!!!

pomolo said:

Suns up. Everything is good and wet. We hauled over 4 inches and aside from the ground being damp, you can’t see water laying around anywhere. It was really good rain and it’s soaked well in to the ground. Just what the doctor ordered.

Vegie gardens liked the rain too. Corn has grown a foot overnight. Picking great tomatoes and cucumbers. Spag squash, zucchini and egg plant, capsicum, pumpkin and carrots all powering. Climbing beans are near their end but the new dwarf beans are taking over from them. Picking pawpaws too. Mangoes aren’t an item. Nobody seems to have any on their trees. Perhaps it’s a leftover from last seasons calamity. Some disease went through all the mangoes in SEQ.

Into the kitchen today. All that stuff I bought yesterday has to be used. Then it’s a case of trying not to consume it because it’s for christmas exclusively!!!

Sounds wonderful! ‘cept for the lack of mangoes

Happy Potter said:

strewth HP – there’s a law against shovelling sh*t with a loose shoulder joint. a law of nature called the pain threshold. why don’t you shop alone and get theman to shovel and light loose stuff.?
———————————————————-
He’s at work, she’s at work, they’re all at bluddy work. Friends who are at home, aren’t atm or are infirm. I have one friend who will be there when I get there and will help.
Besides, I have a ‘special’ method of bagging poop easier. I take a bucket and my 3 pronged garden hand tool which I use to scrape the stuff straight into the bucket and when it’s half filled, tip it into the bag. And so on. And I only half fill the bags so they’re light enough for me to pop into my car boot. I have hundreds of bags so it’s twice as many, but it means I can do it :)
The soil in my garden is magnificent and sponge like, the fork sinks itself in and it didn’t get like that by me sitting about on my bum. All I have to do nowadays to plant out a vege bed is to till the top and plant. No digging over heavy stuff. Putting several bigger bags of horse manure into my tomato bed as mulch created the soil warmth they needed to really start powering on.

that’s the way to treat soil.
i’ve been doing manures (other then horse) in a similar manner – just piling it on top of the soil.
the clay here is very resistant to change so it still clumps despite 6 years of treatment.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

finally last year’s golden orb spider nest has produced a thousand little dots sunbaking on the web outside the nest.
i gently blew on the little dots and they moved like little spiders. yay – been waiting for these to emerge.

the blue wrens are seen in our garden every day now and they go about their business even when 8 humans are watching them – becoming very comfortable around us.
we discovered their tunnel nest in the viburnum – we found about 6 other nests this year including the blackbird and new holland honeyeater. this is good news but now there’s all these birds that think we are intruders on their birth place and every single planting has to have a birdnetting cover. ah well??

The only one of the birds you mention that is a problem is the one you should put a bullet through.. the blackbird. It will try to chase away all the good birds and rip all your newly planted seedlings out while planting Cottoneaster and Privet. It will filch your strawberries cherries, mulberries and grapes while it throws all your mulch out on the footpath. It won’t eat the insects you want to be rid of but it will pull all your worms out of the ground. Do Australia a favour and get rid of it.

yeah i could shoot the bbs at times. all you say of them is true.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

…and as the sun sets slowly in the west old roughy pads his way slowly home,,,,

;) indeed, trudges is probably the better descriptive. However to watch the colours makes all the problems of the day fade to nothing.

nice colours – and seemingly little wind – which is often the case at sunset.

pomolo said:

justin said:

finally last year’s golden orb spider nest has produced a thousand little dots sunbaking on the web outside the nest.
i gently blew on the little dots and they moved like little spiders. yay – been waiting for these to emerge.

the blue wrens are seen in our garden every day now and they go about their business even when 8 humans are watching them – becoming very comfortable around us.
we discovered their tunnel nest in the viburnum – we found about 6 other nests this year including the blackbird and new holland honeyeater. this is good news but now there’s all these birds that think we are intruders on their birth place and every single planting has to have a birdnetting cover. ah well??

Loved your wildlife report JC.

ta – most of us seem to get as much pleasure out of our garden guests as we do out of the garden.

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

After the total of my Chrissy food shopping today, WW will be solvent for many months to come. Poor D nearly passed out on the floor when he saw the total. I wasn’t too steady on my feet either. Sometimes I wonder about the stupidness of it all but I definately love the Christmas season, with or without the extra eating.

Our picnics are the best Christmas decision ever.

interesting – our plans are not settled yet.

pomolo said:

Suns up. Everything is good and wet. We hauled over 4 inches and aside from the ground being damp, you can’t see water laying around anywhere. It was really good rain and it’s soaked well in to the ground. Just what the doctor ordered.

Vegie gardens liked the rain too. Corn has grown a foot overnight. Picking great tomatoes and cucumbers. Spag squash, zucchini and egg plant, capsicum, pumpkin and carrots all powering. Climbing beans are near their end but the new dwarf beans are taking over from them. Picking pawpaws too. Mangoes aren’t an item. Nobody seems to have any on their trees. Perhaps it’s a leftover from last seasons calamity. Some disease went through all the mangoes in SEQ.

Into the kitchen today. All that stuff I bought yesterday has to be used. Then it’s a case of trying not to consume it because it’s for christmas exclusively!!!

sounds a good garden – isn’t rain the best boost!

i picked my first tomato yesterday. it has been cold because i normally jump into the pool in october/november but this year it was first swim in early december.
the tomato was from a commercial seedling punnet. the mice attacked all my seedlings, and in a fit of despair i brought rouge-de-marmand ? and kp1? punnets and planted them. meanwhile my homegrown seedlings have regrown so i have about 20 toms growing now.

Thanks for all the comments about my sunsets. There are quite a few more but I wouldn’t overburden you with too many.

I recently decided that four goes by mechanics wasn’t good enough so I pulled the radiator ot of the ute and fixed it myself. Works a treat now.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Suns up. Everything is good and wet. We hauled over 4 inches and aside from the ground being damp, you can’t see water laying around anywhere. It was really good rain and it’s soaked well in to the ground. Just what the doctor ordered.

Vegie gardens liked the rain too. Corn has grown a foot overnight. Picking great tomatoes and cucumbers. Spag squash, zucchini and egg plant, capsicum, pumpkin and carrots all powering. Climbing beans are near their end but the new dwarf beans are taking over from them. Picking pawpaws too. Mangoes aren’t an item. Nobody seems to have any on their trees. Perhaps it’s a leftover from last seasons calamity. Some disease went through all the mangoes in SEQ.

Into the kitchen today. All that stuff I bought yesterday has to be used. Then it’s a case of trying not to consume it because it’s for christmas exclusively!!!

Sounds wonderful! ‘cept for the lack of mangoes

There’s a lack of Mangoes?

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Suns up. Everything is good and wet. We hauled over 4 inches and aside from the ground being damp, you can’t see water laying around anywhere. It was really good rain and it’s soaked well in to the ground. Just what the doctor ordered.

Vegie gardens liked the rain too. Corn has grown a foot overnight. Picking great tomatoes and cucumbers. Spag squash, zucchini and egg plant, capsicum, pumpkin and carrots all powering. Climbing beans are near their end but the new dwarf beans are taking over from them. Picking pawpaws too. Mangoes aren’t an item. Nobody seems to have any on their trees. Perhaps it’s a leftover from last seasons calamity. Some disease went through all the mangoes in SEQ.

Into the kitchen today. All that stuff I bought yesterday has to be used. Then it’s a case of trying not to consume it because it’s for christmas exclusively!!!

Sounds wonderful! ‘cept for the lack of mangoes

There’s a lack of Mangoes?

We have 4 on our tree and they look far from healthy. I’ve been checking all the trees as we drive to town or wherever and I don’t see many at all. It’s a bit sad really.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Sounds wonderful! ‘cept for the lack of mangoes

There’s a lack of Mangoes?

We have 4 on our tree and they look far from healthy. I’ve been checking all the trees as we drive to town or wherever and I don’t see many at all. It’s a bit sad really.

stupid Anna Bligh.

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

There’s a lack of Mangoes?

We have 4 on our tree and they look far from healthy. I’ve been checking all the trees as we drive to town or wherever and I don’t see many at all. It’s a bit sad really.

stupid Anna Bligh.

What’s she got to do with mangoes?

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

We have 4 on our tree and they look far from healthy. I’ve been checking all the trees as we drive to town or wherever and I don’t see many at all. It’s a bit sad really.

stupid Anna Bligh.

What’s she got to do with mangoes?

well I figure if the shit is gonna happen in the SE then it is her fault.

And seeing as everyone in the SE can’t grow a mango then she’s to blame.

I mean she takes all the plaudits for good things in the SE???

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

stupid Anna Bligh.

What’s she got to do with mangoes?

well I figure if the shit is gonna happen in the SE then it is her fault.

And seeing as everyone in the SE can’t grow a mango then she’s to blame.

I mean she takes all the plaudits for good things in the SE???

I feel that your bias is coming to the fore.

Had a big day and I’m feeling weary. I made 36 individual Christmas puddings and two normal size ones. None of it hard work but a long, long time on your legs when you’re my age.

More to do tomorrow but it shouldn’t be quite so intense. It’s just lucky I happen to like cooking isn’t it?

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

What’s she got to do with mangoes?

well I figure if the shit is gonna happen in the SE then it is her fault.

And seeing as everyone in the SE can’t grow a mango then she’s to blame.

I mean she takes all the plaudits for good things in the SE???

I feel that your bias is coming to the fore.

can’t help living in Kingsland!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

well I figure if the shit is gonna happen in the SE then it is her fault.

And seeing as everyone in the SE can’t grow a mango then she’s to blame.

I mean she takes all the plaudits for good things in the SE???

I feel that your bias is coming to the fore.

can’t help living in Kingsland!

She was a bit upset today. Somebody has nicked 70million from the Q Health coffers.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

I feel that your bias is coming to the fore.

can’t help living in Kingsland!

She was a bit upset today. Somebody has nicked 70million from the Q Health coffers.

silly buggers got paid a little too well during roster weeks!

Hello people. I haven’t forgotten you, but after my week off, it’s been frantic for two weeks, including a weekend in Melbourne last weekend to catch up with my Houston (TX) niece and her new husband. Tonight I got into my Casterton garden with the mower to mow my paths (I mow low grass paths, not paved ones) and in the morning I will plant some baby plants. I also started hacking into the sage leaf buddleia which needs to be cut down to about 2ft high……

buffy said:

Hello people. I haven’t forgotten you, but after my week off, it’s been frantic for two weeks, including a weekend in Melbourne last weekend to catch up with my Houston (TX) niece and her new husband. Tonight I got into my Casterton garden with the mower to mow my paths (I mow low grass paths, not paved ones) and in the morning I will plant some baby plants. I also started hacking into the sage leaf buddleia which needs to be cut down to about 2ft high……

Nice to have you back on deck Buffy.

buffy said:

Hello people. I haven’t forgotten you, but after my week off, it’s been frantic for two weeks, including a weekend in Melbourne last weekend to catch up with my Houston (TX) niece and her new husband. Tonight I got into my Casterton garden with the mower to mow my paths (I mow low grass paths, not paved ones) and in the morning I will plant some baby plants. I also started hacking into the sage leaf buddleia which needs to be cut down to about 2ft high……

Nice to see you back :)

Oh and good morning. Glitter for brekky!
Pattycakes for morning tea with BG :)

Good afternoon. I popped straight out into the garden this morning at 6.30am. I’ve planted out a small number of paperbark and teatree seedlings that I raised from seed from our bush block. It is entirely the wrong time to put them out, but I thought as it is supposed to be going to rain I’d trial them. After all, I just chucked the seed in the polystyrene box and they germinated. I’ll put the rest into tubes and plant them to replace these ones (that I expect to fail) in Autumn, which is my normal native planting time.

Then I tidied up some roses, planted out a Cecil Brunner that was sending roots out of the bottom of his pot, hedged some lavender, did some weeding. It was one of those bits and pieces mornings when it sounds like you haven’t really achieved a lot, but it was lots of little things. Then I bucketed about 10 buckets of water out to the citrus, strawberries and tomato plants in Casterton. I’m really hoping it rains in the next day or two!

Then drove home via the cemetery to put some flowers on a grave, ate some lunch, did some washing, did some forum reading.

I think I might lid down with the dog for a snooze. I really have to get my Christmas window fixed up this weekend, I’m a week late with lighting up.

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

rainwater .. at a pinch?

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

rainwater .. at a pinch?

Could have.. but I got the water. I wore more rainwater than what was in the 5 lt bottle and had to change my clothes when I got back. Round 3 storm is not far off..

buffy said:

Good afternoon. I popped straight out into the garden this morning at 6.30am. I’ve planted out a small number of paperbark and teatree seedlings that I raised from seed from our bush block. It is entirely the wrong time to put them out, but I thought as it is supposed to be going to rain I’d trial them. After all, I just chucked the seed in the polystyrene box and they germinated. I’ll put the rest into tubes and plant them to replace these ones (that I expect to fail) in Autumn, which is my normal native planting time.
Then I tidied up some roses, planted out a Cecil Brunner that was sending roots out of the bottom of his pot, hedged some lavender, did some weeding. It was one of those bits and pieces mornings when it sounds like you haven’t really achieved a lot, but it was lots of little things. Then I bucketed about 10 buckets of water out to the citrus, strawberries and tomato plants in Casterton. I’m really hoping it rains in the next day or two!
Then drove home via the cemetery to put some flowers on a grave, ate some lunch, did some washing, did some forum reading.
I think I might lid down with the dog for a snooze. I really have to get my Christmas window fixed up this weekend, I’m a week late with lighting up.

g’ay buffy – did you know that people who go to a gym often are said to look ‘buff’?

wonderful language – some bright spark used a cleaning term to define a polished body.

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I’m counting you your surviving the storm HP. There are lots of storms happening around here too. Heading in all sorts of directions. I don’t know whether to take cover or not. LOL.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I’m counting you your surviving the storm HP. There are lots of storms happening around here too. Heading in all sorts of directions. I don’t know whether to take cover or not. LOL.

bugger all here so far.. wet the footpath twice but not enough to stop the washing drying on the line. Hand washing for ten days so far, still waiting on parts for the washer.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I’m counting you your surviving the storm HP. There are lots of storms happening around here too. Heading in all sorts of directions. I don’t know whether to take cover or not. LOL.

bugger all here so far.. wet the footpath twice but not enough to stop the washing drying on the line. Hand washing for ten days so far, still waiting on parts for the washer.

It’s stopped now and we’re sodden. I got soaked twice more and I am sitting here wet through. I figured I may as well stay wet lol! Shower shortly and hitting the couch with a dvd on with feet up. Kids all off to parties so we can hog the house and make as much noise as we like.

Such a bugger that it doesn’t rain where it’s most needed.

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

What’s wrong with rain water?????

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

rainwater .. at a pinch?

Could have.. but I got the water. I wore more rainwater than what was in the 5 lt bottle and had to change my clothes when I got back. Round 3 storm is not far off..

You’re kidding. You went and bought distilled water when you’re being bucketed with it?

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

What’s wrong with rain water?????

Yep.. but there was lots of lightening, and patio ankle deep water..

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

rainwater .. at a pinch?

Could have.. but I got the water. I wore more rainwater than what was in the 5 lt bottle and had to change my clothes when I got back. Round 3 storm is not far off..

You’re kidding. You went and bought distilled water when you’re being bucketed with it?

Ok I’ll go sit in the naughty corner

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I’m counting you your surviving the storm HP. There are lots of storms happening around here too. Heading in all sorts of directions. I don’t know whether to take cover or not. LOL.

bugger all here so far.. wet the footpath twice but not enough to stop the washing drying on the line. Hand washing for ten days so far, still waiting on parts for the washer.

That prayer I said for rain for you, hasn’t been answered ‘eh. You sure you’ve been a good boy RB.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

I have a brand spanker new iron and want to do a few shirts..but no distilled water..dare I go to the shop in this rain, hmmm.

What’s wrong with rain water?????

Yep.. but there was lots of lightening, and patio ankle deep water..

So you thought it would be safer to drive to the shop? Never mind all over now.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Could have.. but I got the water. I wore more rainwater than what was in the 5 lt bottle and had to change my clothes when I got back. Round 3 storm is not far off..

You’re kidding. You went and bought distilled water when you’re being bucketed with it?

Ok I’ll go sit in the naughty corner

And eat worms, don’t forget.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

You’re kidding. You went and bought distilled water when you’re being bucketed with it?

Ok I’ll go sit in the naughty corner

And eat worms, don’t forget.

Lolly snakes I have, hehe
I ironed 4 shirts and took a break so I don’t upset my poor arms. I’ll do another couple later.

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

hi, I’m back from Melbourne. Had a nice time at my daughter’s and saw HP while picking up a couple of ducks from a friend of hers :)

just catching up on all the posts since I last logged in!!

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

Nothing in Reservoir, but there has been 31mm here while I was away.

More cooking today. I did a day’s worth yesterday. Lots of biscuity things and I made a Panforte. I’m longing to stick a knife into it. Quickly got it into the freezer so I’m not tempted anymore.

Today will be all the chocolate treats. Don’t have to turn the oven on . By the feel of that sun, not using the oven is a darn good thing.

justin said:

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

bluegreen said:

hi, I’m back from Melbourne. Had a nice time at my daughter’s and saw HP while picking up a couple of ducks from a friend of hers :)

just catching up on all the posts since I last logged in!!

When you saw HP, was she wet? LOL.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

Nothing in Reservoir, but there has been 31mm here while I was away.

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

pomolo said:

justin said:

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

In the old days, Coopers used to provide 20 litres of wort and some bottle tops as well as labels, as a bottling kit for Sparkling Ale. I had to provide a bottles, plastic garbage can and thermometer plus a siphon tube on a stick. Made great sparkling ale go through the last top ferment stage before bottling. my special trick was to, as an afterthought, add 500 grams of brown sugar after adding the yeast. This produced a very dark ale which had an incredibly high alc/vol.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

justin said:

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

In the old days, Coopers used to provide 20 litres of wort and some bottle tops as well as labels, as a bottling kit for Sparkling Ale. I had to provide a bottles, plastic garbage can and thermometer plus a siphon tube on a stick. Made great sparkling ale go through the last top ferment stage before bottling. my special trick was to, as an afterthought, add 500 grams of brown sugar after adding the yeast. This produced a very dark ale which had an incredibly high alc/vol.

And now you just go and buy beer when you want it?

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

In the old days, Coopers used to provide 20 litres of wort and some bottle tops as well as labels, as a bottling kit for Sparkling Ale. I had to provide a bottles, plastic garbage can and thermometer plus a siphon tube on a stick. Made great sparkling ale go through the last top ferment stage before bottling. my special trick was to, as an afterthought, add 500 grams of brown sugar after adding the yeast. This produced a very dark ale which had an incredibly high alc/vol.

And now you just go and buy beer when you want it?

Well, they don’t supply the easy option of 20 litres of wort, anymore.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

hi, I’m back from Melbourne. Had a nice time at my daughter’s and saw HP while picking up a couple of ducks from a friend of hers :)

just catching up on all the posts since I last logged in!!

When you saw HP, was she wet? LOL.

LOL!

Morning, I just woke up. It was a constant parade of young and beautifuls coming home in the early hours to change out of party costumes and then go out again. A far cry from my partying days and wanting to be home by 1 am.
Then the man left work early and got here at 3am. Max did his ‘dads home!!’ bark and that was it, sleep was useless.
I am so fuzzy headed. Line up the coffees.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

hi, I’m back from Melbourne. Had a nice time at my daughter’s and saw HP while picking up a couple of ducks from a friend of hers :)

just catching up on all the posts since I last logged in!!

When you saw HP, was she wet? LOL.

no. it was before the rain moved in :)

Happy Potter said:

Morning, I just woke up. It was a constant parade of young and beautifuls coming home in the early hours to change out of party costumes and then go out again. A far cry from my partying days and wanting to be home by 1 am.
Then the man left work early and got here at 3am. Max did his ‘dads home!!’ bark and that was it, sleep was useless.
I am so fuzzy headed. Line up the coffees.

I too slept in. I am being slack and skipping church this morning but will be at the Community Carols tonight.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

Nothing in Reservoir, but there has been 31mm here while I was away.

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning, I just woke up. It was a constant parade of young and beautifuls coming home in the early hours to change out of party costumes and then go out again. A far cry from my partying days and wanting to be home by 1 am.
Then the man left work early and got here at 3am. Max did his ‘dads home!!’ bark and that was it, sleep was useless.
I am so fuzzy headed. Line up the coffees.

I too slept in. I am being slack and skipping church this morning but will be at the Community Carols tonight.

How are the new ducks?

First up I have to clean up wet chookie yards and drag out a bale of hay for dry bedding. The mans getting the bale out now.
Mumchook Golda and her brood are fine but their cage needs to be moved and cleaned out. If it wasn’t for a spare sheet of plaster that I’d put over their cage, and a strip of root barrier plastic to stop tiny chicks going through the wire, acting like a dam wall, they may have drowned. I would have rescued them before that of course.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Nothing in Reservoir, but there has been 31mm here while I was away.

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

Sounds like all is good :)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

Sounds like all is good :)

Yep. I want to have a closer look at the drake’s wing later. I might try taping the feathers down against the neighbouring ones. If there is a break involved it might help it heal straight. I will need to catch him first though without any of them escaping the pen!! Don’t want to leave it too long in case it ends out being permanently wonky.

People who know me from the ABC forums will know that I decorate at least one of the windows in the front of the house at Christmas. But I don’t do ‘normal’ decorations. The year we had a fire at the bush (2005) I did the phoenix rising from the ashes, with lots of red and gold tinsel and charred branches. I don’t always do things as confronting as that. This year we are going all Ancient Egypt.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow12011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow22011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow32011.jpg

I’ll try for some pictures tonight when you can see the lighting effects as well.

buffy said:

People who know me from the ABC forums will know that I decorate at least one of the windows in the front of the house at Christmas. But I don’t do ‘normal’ decorations. The year we had a fire at the bush (2005) I did the phoenix rising from the ashes, with lots of red and gold tinsel and charred branches. I don’t always do things as confronting as that. This year we are going all Ancient Egypt.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow12011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow22011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow32011.jpg

I’ll try for some pictures tonight when you can see the lighting effects as well.

cool! very creative!

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

Arvo one and all

My tomato plants haven’t flowered yet, but I’m in SouthWest Vic and don’t expect fruit until Feb or March anyway.
So I’m not much help.

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

yes, I think it would be due to the cold weather. Tomatoes need warmth to ripen.

buffy said:

My tomato plants haven’t flowered yet, but I’m in SouthWest Vic and don’t expect fruit until Feb or March anyway.
So I’m not much help.

mine are only just starting to flower

I think they specifically need warm nights. I might have made that up…..

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

yes, I think it would be due to the cold weather. Tomatoes need warmth to ripen.

thought they need some heat cheers bg and buffy.

buffy said:

People who know me from the ABC forums will know that I decorate at least one of the windows in the front of the house at Christmas. But I don’t do ‘normal’ decorations. The year we had a fire at the bush (2005) I did the phoenix rising from the ashes, with lots of red and gold tinsel and charred branches. I don’t always do things as confronting as that. This year we are going all Ancient Egypt.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow12011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow22011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow32011.jpg

I’ll try for some pictures tonight when you can see the lighting effects as well.

That’s GOLD GOLD GOLD!!! Love the little Cleopatra!

Ducati club Chrissy party last night. Tired, tired, tired.

MrBLs manager is putting on a bar by this arvo as well. I don’t really feel like it but I had best put in an appearance.

Did I mention I’m tired?

Happy Potter said:

Morning, I just woke up. It was a constant parade of young and beautifuls coming home in the early hours to change out of party costumes and then go out again. A far cry from my partying days and wanting to be home by 1 am.
Then the man left work early and got here at 3am. Max did his ‘dads home!!’ bark and that was it, sleep was useless.
I am so fuzzy headed. Line up the coffees.

That’s what it must be like at Central Station I reckon!

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Nothing in Reservoir, but there has been 31mm here while I was away.

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

Sounds like all is good :)

Yep. I want to have a closer look at the drake’s wing later. I might try taping the feathers down against the neighbouring ones. If there is a break involved it might help it heal straight. I will need to catch him first though without any of them escaping the pen!! Don’t want to leave it too long in case it ends out being permanently wonky.

Are these ducks ones you picked up yesterday?

buffy said:

People who know me from the ABC forums will know that I decorate at least one of the windows in the front of the house at Christmas. But I don’t do ‘normal’ decorations. The year we had a fire at the bush (2005) I did the phoenix rising from the ashes, with lots of red and gold tinsel and charred branches. I don’t always do things as confronting as that. This year we are going all Ancient Egypt.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow12011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow22011.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/ChristmasWindow32011.jpg

I’ll try for some pictures tonight when you can see the lighting effects as well.

That has to be Cleo. I was going to ask where was the asp but I can see it’s around her arm. Lovely effort Buffy.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

we are thinking of car training Julia in case she wants to go to the Botanic Gardens with us on outings?

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

Hi Veg. Nice to hear from you. Our toms are all ripening. atm. I don’t have an answer to your question. Sorry.

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

we are thinking of car training Julia in case she wants to go to the Botanic Gardens with us on outings?

Have you asked her if she is interested in going? You had better find that out first.

AnneS said:

Arvo one and all

Hi there AnneS How’s it going?

Bubba Louie said:

Ducati club Chrissy party last night. Tired, tired, tired.

MrBLs manager is putting on a bar by this arvo as well. I don’t really feel like it but I had best put in an appearance.

Did I mention I’m tired?

There, there Bubba. It only comes but once a year.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

we are thinking of car training Julia in case she wants to go to the Botanic Gardens with us on outings?

Have you asked her if she is interested in going? You had better find that out first.

She would love to have a scratch around in their mulch and she’s good at chasing Brush Turkeys!

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning, I just woke up. It was a constant parade of young and beautifuls coming home in the early hours to change out of party costumes and then go out again. A far cry from my partying days and wanting to be home by 1 am.
Then the man left work early and got here at 3am. Max did his ‘dads home!!’ bark and that was it, sleep was useless.
I am so fuzzy headed. Line up the coffees.

That’s what it must be like at Central Station I reckon!

It feels like that too! People rushing past me and bumping into me. The man has decided today is the day to clean out clutter in the walk-in -robe. Now he’s a terrible hoarder and there’s stuff in there we haven’t seen in many years. He keeps coming up to me with this garment or that box of stuff and asking me where can he put it? I won’t repeat my answer.

pomolo said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

Hi Veg. Nice to hear from you. Our toms are all ripening. atm. I don’t have an answer to your question. Sorry.

computer time has dropped now. hope your all well.

veg gardener said:

pomolo said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

Hi Veg. Nice to hear from you. Our toms are all ripening. atm. I don’t have an answer to your question. Sorry.

computer time has dropped now. hope your all well.

The soil temperature is a big factor

Bubba Louie said:

Ducati club Chrissy party last night. Tired, tired, tired.

MrBLs manager is putting on a bar by this arvo as well. I don’t really feel like it but I had best put in an appearance.

Did I mention I’m tired?

party girl!

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

if their pens are roomy enough and have enough food and water they can be left locked up for a few days.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Sounds like all is good :)

Yep. I want to have a closer look at the drake’s wing later. I might try taping the feathers down against the neighbouring ones. If there is a break involved it might help it heal straight. I will need to catch him first though without any of them escaping the pen!! Don’t want to leave it too long in case it ends out being permanently wonky.

Are these ducks ones you picked up yesterday?

yes

Thanks for the complements. She’s based on Nefertiti, by the way. The doll is a blonde, so she couldn’t do the Cleopatra black haired bob convincingly! Fortunately Nefertiti wore a lovely big head-dress.

:)

Bubba Louie said:

Ducati club Chrissy party last night. Tired, tired, tired.

MrBLs manager is putting on a bar by this arvo as well. I don’t really feel like it but I had best put in an appearance.

Did I mention I’m tired?

oh dear bubba…the festive season getting to you??? :-)

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

31mls is not to be sneezed st either. good one.

a bit more during the night has brought it up to 35mm. Happy with that :)

new duck has laid an egg, but as I don’t want to disturb them too much just yet while they are settling in I left it in there for now. I will keep them locked up for a few days before letting them out to range. Hopefully they will take their queue from the resident duck on bedtime protocols when the time comes.

D wants two chooks and I want 2 ducks. The problem is how we are going to care for them because we go away o/n quite a lot. D says we could get them used to car travel and they could come too. I’m sure the grandchilren would love it but I don’t think their Mother would be too happy. As a matter of fact I think she would object quite loudly. LOL.

An o/n here and there wouldn’t matter…you can get feed and water dispensers that will do for a few days. Actually in a lot of ways they are easier than dogs and cats :)

pomolo said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

Hi Veg. Nice to hear from you. Our toms are all ripening. atm. I don’t have an answer to your question. Sorry.

My toms are still green, but have not long ago developed :)

pomolo said:

AnneS said:

Arvo one and all

Hi there AnneS How’s it going?

Not too bad thanks pom. Not too much pain now (it’s been 2 weeks). I slept in my own bed last night, albeit very broken sleep and propped up with lots of pillows, but at least I have advanced from the lazy-boy!

pomolo said:

justin said:

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

after 15 years of not brewing i have had two successes in the last two months. the first was the cheap and ever reliable stout – cost $12 for 60 stubbies.
its worth about $125 if you buy them and its sweeter – more like a dark beer.

the sparkling ale did cost $30 for 60 stubbies – but it is already a hit and just 13 days since bottling everyone who tasted it (including the women) have commented on its maltiness.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

justin said:

i’ve started brewing again.
this time i’ve tried ‘coopers sparkling ale’ with dextrose and malt instead of sugar. very nice. the brew is 5.8% alcohol and, altho’ only 10 days old, is showing signs of being a very desirable drop.

Might have to change your name to Cooper this time.

In the old days, Coopers used to provide 20 litres of wort and some bottle tops as well as labels, as a bottling kit for Sparkling Ale. I had to provide a bottles, plastic garbage can and thermometer plus a siphon tube on a stick. Made great sparkling ale go through the last top ferment stage before bottling. my special trick was to, as an afterthought, add 500 grams of brown sugar after adding the yeast. This produced a very dark ale which had an incredibly high alc/vol.

its as simple as a making a bought cake mix now. the local brew shop provides the sugars in a pack and the rest comes in a can. just add water, brew kit, hydrometer, 8 days and a lot of very carefully washed and sterilised bottles.

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

hi veg – bit wet your way is it?
how big is this tom? if its big enough to pick than it should ripen soon.
if its staying tiny – then yes – summer is late where you are.

justin said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

hi veg – bit wet your way is it?
how big is this tom? if its big enough to pick than it should ripen soon.
if its staying tiny – then yes – summer is late where you are.

yeah bit wet up here, toms a good size mate im just hanging out for a cheese and tom sang at work.

veg gardener said:

justin said:

veg gardener said:

Afternoon all, How are we all?
Quick tomato question here, i’ve had a few tommies on the plant since middle of novemeber and they are still green. Anyone else having this problem?
can i say its due to the cold weather?

hi veg – bit wet your way is it?
how big is this tom? if its big enough to pick than it should ripen soon.
if its staying tiny – then yes – summer is late where you are.

yeah bit wet up here, toms a good size mate im just hanging out for a cheese and tom sang at work.

just picked our first three here – and that’s early for adelaide.
so the season is just starting.
how many are you growing?

justin said:

veg gardener said:

justin said:

hi veg – bit wet your way is it?
how big is this tom? if its big enough to pick than it should ripen soon.
if its staying tiny – then yes – summer is late where you are.

yeah bit wet up here, toms a good size mate im just hanging out for a cheese and tom sang at work.

just picked our first three here – and that’s early for adelaide.
so the season is just starting.
how many are you growing?

Mine started ripening a wek or so ago, though I planted them late August. I picked 20 kilos this afternoon from a dozen plants.

thought this may be of interest here.. http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/newposts/522/topic522235.shtm