And we probably need one of these, anyway!

:)

Happy Autumn everybody :)

Wow, March already.

It might be a drs visit for me after the brick/blocks arrive, for a sore foot. Something bit me just above my ankle last friday whilst sitting at a picnic table for the orchard meeting. I saw somthin, just brushed it and it flew off. There were 1000s of soldier beetles and other insects flying about so I didn’t pay any attention to it. It wasn’t a bee, I would have noticed a bee. But got home and boy was it itchy. I had blunstone boots on. Out with the pawpaw cream and relief was almost instant. I kept applying x2 a day and the swelling/itchiness went away. But even tho’ the bite site is fine, now my whole foot is sore.. limping, can walk on it slowly but can’t twist my foot as in to turn around or step on an uneven surface eg; a step or large garden border rock, ouch ouch.
Whatever it was also must have had decent snipers/stinger/fangs as managed to bite me through two thick layers of clothing. One being the tight thick brown edema stocking and other, a thick wool sock. Bugga.

Work doesn’t stop, chooks want their brekky then I’ll have mine.

bluegreen said:

Happy Autumn everybody :)

so who’s planting what this winter?

those in cold temperate climes should plant parsnips and brussel sprouts.
i’ve got the edge on spuds in my frostfree zone but parsnips and sprouts are tasteless here.

Happy Potter said:

Wow, March already.

It might be a drs visit for me after the brick/blocks arrive, for a sore foot. Something bit me just above my ankle last friday whilst sitting at a picnic table for the orchard meeting. I saw somthin, just brushed it and it flew off. There were 1000s of soldier beetles and other insects flying about so I didn’t pay any attention to it. It wasn’t a bee, I would have noticed a bee. But got home and boy was it itchy. I had blunstone boots on. Out with the pawpaw cream and relief was almost instant. I kept applying x2 a day and the swelling/itchiness went away. But even tho’ the bite site is fine, now my whole foot is sore.. limping, can walk on it slowly but can’t twist my foot as in to turn around or step on an uneven surface eg; a step or large garden border rock, ouch ouch.
Whatever it was also must have had decent snipers/stinger/fangs as managed to bite me through two thick layers of clothing. One being the tight thick brown edema stocking and other, a thick wool sock. Bugga. Work doesn’t stop, chooks want their brekky then I’ll have mine.

ouch. best to ask a doc what it was. i’m not sure what flying things could do that??

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

Wow, March already.

It might be a drs visit for me after the brick/blocks arrive, for a sore foot. Something bit me just above my ankle last friday whilst sitting at a picnic table for the orchard meeting. I saw somthin, just brushed it and it flew off. There were 1000s of soldier beetles and other insects flying about so I didn’t pay any attention to it. It wasn’t a bee, I would have noticed a bee. But got home and boy was it itchy. I had blunstone boots on. Out with the pawpaw cream and relief was almost instant. I kept applying x2 a day and the swelling/itchiness went away. But even tho’ the bite site is fine, now my whole foot is sore.. limping, can walk on it slowly but can’t twist my foot as in to turn around or step on an uneven surface eg; a step or large garden border rock, ouch ouch.
Whatever it was also must have had decent snipers/stinger/fangs as managed to bite me through two thick layers of clothing. One being the tight thick brown edema stocking and other, a thick wool sock. Bugga. Work doesn’t stop, chooks want their brekky then I’ll have mine.

ouch. best to ask a doc what it was. i’m not sure what flying things could do that??

Unless my brushing it off sent it flying, not sure. I made an appt to see my doc later this arvo.

Morning all. Just a quick “poke my head in the door” visit. Just a tad a wet around here. Waiting for the rain to ease off so I can go and check the rain gauge :)

Happy Potter said:

Wow, March already.

It might be a drs visit for me after the brick/blocks arrive, for a sore foot. Something bit me just above my ankle last friday whilst sitting at a picnic table for the orchard meeting.

Wow, wonder what it was?

justin said:

so who’s planting what this winter?

those in cold temperate climes should plant parsnips and brussel sprouts.
i’ve got the edge on spuds in my frostfree zone but parsnips and sprouts are tasteless here.

First up I need garden beds…before that I need to restrain the chooks from planned garden beds. I would like to use the beds out the front but the grey nomads have thieves among ‘em ….

AnneS said:

Morning all. Just a quick “poke my head in the door” visit. Just a tad a wet around here. Waiting for the rain to ease off so I can go and check the rain gauge :)

i noticed you’ve been having a brush with fires and rain down in sthn nsw.

Came in for a quick chat but got caught up and now no time…heading away for the weekend to help train new Girl Guide leaders. Oh well will catch up with you all at some stage I guess.

Bye from a very wet Wandandian

Went to town this morning following yesterdays cancelled trip. What a mad house in there!!! I’d say that everyone is trying to restock after the last flood and all are trying to get prepared if the wet weekend raises all the flood levels again. From the elderly (not us of course) the infirm, to Mums and babies, all trying to buy what was no longer available on the supermarket shelves. A rat race. Glad we are home again.

HP, could you have twisted your ankle or something without noticing? The other day I tripped in the garage onto my knee that always cops it when I trip, but a couple of days later my heel was hurting as well. It just took a while to become apparent that I had injured it as well. It might be though that whatever bit you left some residual poison behind.

pomolo said:

Went to town this morning following yesterdays cancelled trip. What a mad house in there!!! I’d say that everyone is trying to restock after the last flood and all are trying to get prepared if the wet weekend raises all the flood levels again. From the elderly (not us of course) the infirm, to Mums and babies, all trying to buy what was no longer available on the supermarket shelves. A rat race. Glad we are home again.

…and how much of it will be thrown out? Having had to “stock up” a few times, I aim for non-perishables (long life milk, milk powder, tinned goods and such) that I can use as emergency supplies long after the current emergency is over. I’m sure a lot of folk just grab what’s there and hope for the best. Toilet paper and pet food is another…

Aw heck no, 70 is the new 50, just ask me lol!

bluegreen said:

HP, could you have twisted your ankle or something without noticing? The other day I tripped in the garage onto my knee that always cops it when I trip, but a couple of days later my heel was hurting as well. It just took a while to become apparent that I had injured it as well. It might be though that whatever bit you left some residual poison behind.

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

Happy Potter said:

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

Wasp stings can have strange results. Paper wasp (mud wasps up here don’t sting) bites, up here, can be soothed with ice but the site itches for about a week.

I got stung by a centipede once, everybody said “oh it’s nothing” but it had got stuck between the block of wood and my hand…my hand looked like a filled glove within a couple of hours, lasted all night, I was given pethidine for the pain…P had to milk the cow and I was miffed cos he did a better job than me but I digress…I think I got all the centipede’s poison as it couldn’t get away (stuck under the wood), I could feel about 4 – 5 stings, one after the other…that’s why I had such a swollen hand…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Went to town this morning following yesterdays cancelled trip. What a mad house in there!!! I’d say that everyone is trying to restock after the last flood and all are trying to get prepared if the wet weekend raises all the flood levels again. From the elderly (not us of course) the infirm, to Mums and babies, all trying to buy what was no longer available on the supermarket shelves. A rat race. Glad we are home again.

…and how much of it will be thrown out? Having had to “stock up” a few times, I aim for non-perishables (long life milk, milk powder, tinned goods and such) that I can use as emergency supplies long after the current emergency is over. I’m sure a lot of folk just grab what’s there and hope for the best. Toilet paper and pet food is another…

Aw heck no, 70 is the new 50, just ask me lol!

I’ll let you know about that when I get to 70. lol.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

HP, could you have twisted your ankle or something without noticing? The other day I tripped in the garage onto my knee that always cops it when I trip, but a couple of days later my heel was hurting as well. It just took a while to become apparent that I had injured it as well. It might be though that whatever bit you left some residual poison behind.

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

thank heavens it wasn’t anything more serious.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

Wasp stings can have strange results. Paper wasp (mud wasps up here don’t sting) bites, up here, can be soothed with ice but the site itches for about a week.

I got stung by a centipede once, everybody said “oh it’s nothing” but it had got stuck between the block of wood and my hand…my hand looked like a filled glove within a couple of hours, lasted all night, I was given pethidine for the pain…P had to milk the cow and I was miffed cos he did a better job than me but I digress…I think I got all the centipede’s poison as it couldn’t get away (stuck under the wood), I could feel about 4 – 5 stings, one after the other…that’s why I had such a swollen hand…

Gosh! That’s one I haven’t had to suffer yet.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

Wasp stings can have strange results. Paper wasp (mud wasps up here don’t sting) bites, up here, can be soothed with ice but the site itches for about a week.

I got stung by a centipede once, everybody said “oh it’s nothing” but it had got stuck between the block of wood and my hand…my hand looked like a filled glove within a couple of hours, lasted all night, I was given pethidine for the pain…P had to milk the cow and I was miffed cos he did a better job than me but I digress…I think I got all the centipede’s poison as it couldn’t get away (stuck under the wood), I could feel about 4 – 5 stings, one after the other…that’s why I had such a swollen hand…

Oh ow.. that would have hurt like buggery.

put too much soy sauce in my stir fried veges. TOO SALTY! thubbittthhh

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Wasp sting according to my doc and his book of sting photos and his magnifying googles. I know it wasn’t yellow, definitely black, so probably a black flower wasp. I have a localised bite site but spreading inflammation and have to take a steriod tablet course.
The doc was impressed with the pawpaw cream keeping the pain and swelling down.

I have had heel bruising in the past and that really hurts. I keep good footwear on all the time now.

Wasp stings can have strange results. Paper wasp (mud wasps up here don’t sting) bites, up here, can be soothed with ice but the site itches for about a week.

I got stung by a centipede once, everybody said “oh it’s nothing” but it had got stuck between the block of wood and my hand…my hand looked like a filled glove within a couple of hours, lasted all night, I was given pethidine for the pain…P had to milk the cow and I was miffed cos he did a better job than me but I digress…I think I got all the centipede’s poison as it couldn’t get away (stuck under the wood), I could feel about 4 – 5 stings, one after the other…that’s why I had such a swollen hand…

Oh ow.. that would have hurt like buggery.

Wow thanks for all the sympathy…yes it did hurt, rather, altho’ I got taken out to dinner (P wasn’t cooking) and of course there was the matter of P milking the cow better than I did…the best thing was the Pethedine…it gave me the best night’s sleep since I contracted Ross River Fever 5 years earlier…quite the turning point, that dose of Pethedine was…

Oh ow.. that would have hurt like buggery.

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wow – wasp and centipede stories – sympathy to you both.

Wow thanks for all the sympathy…yes it did hurt, rather, altho’ I got taken out to dinner (P wasn’t cooking) and of course there was the matter of P milking the cow better than I did…the best thing was the Pethedine…it gave me the best night’s sleep since I contracted Ross River Fever 5 years earlier…quite the turning point, that dose of Pethedine was…

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pain and prescription drugs – this thread is going to be popular LOL

justin said:

Wow thanks for all the sympathy…yes it did hurt, rather, altho’ I got taken out to dinner (P wasn’t cooking) and of course there was the matter of P milking the cow better than I did…the best thing was the Pethedine…it gave me the best night’s sleep since I contracted Ross River Fever 5 years earlier…quite the turning point, that dose of Pethedine was…

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pain and prescription drugs – this thread is going to be popular LOL

Back when I was in labour with my firstborn, the pethedine was not so effective…didn’t bother with painkillers for the last four…

Chookies fed and watered, more tomatoes picked from very sorry looking bushes and picked two more pumpkins. I’m taking them from parts that are dying back, but there’s other new vines springing forth from the recent rain that have many fem flower buds.
Brekky for me now then I have an orchard monthly meeting to attend.

Morning. We have ringside seats to the avalon air show. Just stand in the backyard and watch all the areal acrobatics and fomation flyovers.

I’m pulling tomatoes out and planting the ground with barly.

Happy Potter said:

Morning. We have ringside seats to the avalon air show. Just stand in the backyard and watch all the areal acrobatics and fomation flyovers.

I’m pulling tomatoes out and planting the ground with barly.

Don’t you love the free shows lol!!

Barley? As in green manure purposes?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. We have ringside seats to the avalon air show. Just stand in the backyard and watch all the areal acrobatics and fomation flyovers.

I’m pulling tomatoes out and planting the ground with barly.

Don’t you love the free shows lol!!

Barley? As in green manure purposes?

makes good green manure.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. We have ringside seats to the avalon air show. Just stand in the backyard and watch all the areal acrobatics and fomation flyovers.

I’m pulling tomatoes out and planting the ground with barly.

Don’t you love the free shows lol!!

Barley? As in green manure purposes?

Yes, barely, sorry, green manure. Once it comes up high enough I’ll let the chooks in to do the turnover work for me.

The helicopter formation was impressive!

I look like I just stepped out of the shower and I’m dripping wet. But I’ve only been out working in the sun. Inside now until it cools down a bit. The chooks are having a blast in the now bare tomato beds.
There wasn’t any signs of nematoes on the roots, so I was quite wrong about that. Now to go and ponder why they died back so fast. After my brain cools down a bit.

Happy Potter said:

The helicopter formation was impressive!

Did you see the EIIR one on television, the flypast in Britain for the Queen?

Clever how they do it..such precision and faith in the rest of the team…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

The helicopter formation was impressive!

Did you see the EIIR one on television, the flypast in Britain for the Queen?

Clever how they do it..such precision and faith in the rest of the team…

Was this it ?

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

The helicopter formation was impressive!

Did you see the EIIR one on television, the flypast in Britain for the Queen?

Clever how they do it..such precision and faith in the rest of the team…

Was this it ?

Yes, but those pics don’t show very much, or the helicopters.

Happy Potter said:

Yes, but those pics don’t show very much, or the helicopters.

I suppose it’s not all that far, as the crow flies, from your place to the Avalon airstrip…Tiger Airways used to advertise super cheap trips from RockVegas to “Melbourne”…and you were on your own once the plane landed…

Hello Gardeners. We have been to Melbourne for Long to meet my family. And this morning he did a walk through the Victoria Market for socialization purposes (and so we could buy duck, chicken and pork belly). Then we came home via Pyalong for him to call in on his breeder for a check on progress. Apparently he is quite excellently Puggy.

:)

My tomato plants look very dessicated. They haven’t been watered since Thursday night, and according to the BOM site there was gusty stuff around 50km/hr for a large part of the day here yesterday. So they’ve had buckets to the base and I’ve turned on the low pressure sprinklers …. probably for an hour or so. Only on those the sun is off now for the day.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Yes, but those pics don’t show very much, or the helicopters.

I suppose it’s not all that far, as the crow flies, from your place to the Avalon airstrip…Tiger Airways used to advertise super cheap trips from RockVegas to “Melbourne”…and you were on your own once the plane landed…

A lot of travelers get confused thinking they are going to Tullamarine and end up in Avalon. There was a time when some rellies were coming to visit and they were arriving in Melbourne by plane within half an hour of each other and we thought great, we would only have to make one trip to pick them up. Only it ended out they were arriving at the two different airports and we ended out having to send two cars out to collect them.

bluegreen said:

A lot of travellers get confused thinking they are going to Tullamarine and end up in Avalon. There was a time when some rellies were coming to visit and they were arriving in Melbourne by plane within half an hour of each other and we thought great, we would only have to make one trip to pick them up. Only it ended out they were arriving at the two different airports and we ended out having to send two cars out to collect them.

My sister in law, the rich one that watches every cent she spends that’s not on herself, paid for a Tigers flight to Melbourne…oh my goodness P’s Dad shoved it down our necks, how astute with her $$$ was L???? I was rubbished because at about the same time, I flew down with Qantas to visit Ragamuffin at Portland, changeover of planes (same airline) at Brisbane and it all went smooth as silk. Arrived at Tullarmarine and the excellent bus service got me to Spencer Street station in plenty of time for my excellent train/bus service to Warrnambool…OH the $$$ I could have saved!!! (said FIL) Well I checked the internet, having got my bearings from this trip, and said to P “Avalon Airport is out in woop woop. You have to catch a taxi (as near as I could tell) to the railway station, entrain to Melbourne, then I don’t know how L got to Phillip Island from there?” In the nighttime this was.

She said it was a nightmare (and she is from Melbourne) and she’s not flying Tigers again.

We woke up to these “cheap” flights when Fashionista was in Germany on Rotary Youth Exchange. That’s when we found out that “XYZ Airport” (for example, can’t think of the airports involved) didn’t necessarily mean in XYZ itself, it’s probably 20 miles away and, like for Avalon, you spend what you saved in airfares, on taxi fares.

Sending a car out to Avalon would have given the rellies plenty of time to catch up on the goss before arriving at your place, BlueGreen!!!

Just saw a fb status update by Fashionista: #1: Racing Goldfish in their stables #2 “It’s really hard to take a good photo of Goldfish Racing”….

I know, I’ve got a really weird sense of yumour…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

A lot of travellers get confused thinking they are going to Tullamarine and end up in Avalon. There was a time when some rellies were coming to visit and they were arriving in Melbourne by plane within half an hour of each other and we thought great, we would only have to make one trip to pick them up. Only it ended out they were arriving at the two different airports and we ended out having to send two cars out to collect them.

My sister in law, the rich one that watches every cent she spends that’s not on herself, paid for a Tigers flight to Melbourne…oh my goodness P’s Dad shoved it down our necks, how astute with her $$$ was L???? I was rubbished because at about the same time, I flew down with Qantas to visit Ragamuffin at Portland, changeover of planes (same airline) at Brisbane and it all went smooth as silk. Arrived at Tullarmarine and the excellent bus service got me to Spencer Street station in plenty of time for my excellent train/bus service to Warrnambool…OH the $$$ I could have saved!!! (said FIL) Well I checked the internet, having got my bearings from this trip, and said to P “Avalon Airport is out in woop woop. You have to catch a taxi (as near as I could tell) to the railway station, entrain to Melbourne, then I don’t know how L got to Phillip Island from there?” In the nighttime this was.

She said it was a nightmare (and she is from Melbourne) and she’s not flying Tigers again.

We woke up to these “cheap” flights when Fashionista was in Germany on Rotary Youth Exchange. That’s when we found out that “XYZ Airport” (for example, can’t think of the airports involved) didn’t necessarily mean in XYZ itself, it’s probably 20 miles away and, like for Avalon, you spend what you saved in airfares, on taxi fares.

Sending a car out to Avalon would have given the rellies plenty of time to catch up on the goss before arriving at your place, BlueGreen!!!

you get what you pay for in this case.

bluegreen said:

you get what you pay for in this case.

Well for a trip that took 16 hours (including the run from Warrnambool to Portland), it was hassle-free. I had pre-booked and pre-paid my train fare both ways.

Another way of looking at it is, SIL only got the air fare’s worth in her journey.

I do recall being glared at on the return train journey, not knowing that the seats on the morning commuters are allocated. Went and checked with the guard eventually. Neither the train nor the bus had allocated seats on the western journey, a Sunday afternoon affair.

To encourage the goldfish to race, you blow with a straw (don’t tell PETA, this is sure to be traumatic to the goldfish and their 2-second memories somehow) …the racecourse is a very long, shallow and narrow aquarium…

Had a beer or two with Longy yesterday afternoon. Had a good chat too.

Good morning Gardeners. I think I have revived the plants. Now they just have to get through another week of over 30 degrees. Still, fits with my personal theory that tomatoes here are really Autumn fruiters.

:)

painmaster said:

Had a beer or two with Longy yesterday afternoon. Had a good chat too.

Couldn’t imagine having a beer or two with Longy without a good chat as well.

He’s hale and hearty?

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I think I have revived the plants. Now they just have to get through another week of over 30 degrees. Still, fits with my personal theory that tomatoes here are really Autumn fruiters.

:)

If protected from frosts, I can grow them year round here. I do believe, tho;, in the winter I need to have them established at a particular point before the cold nights start…

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I think I have revived the plants. Now they just have to get through another week of over 30 degrees. Still, fits with my personal theory that tomatoes here are really Autumn fruiters.

:)

If protected from frosts, I can grow them year round here. I do believe, tho;, in the winter I need to have them established at a particular point before the cold nights start…

White Cliffs grows great tomatoes in the winter, if I’m there all winter. I can grow tomatoes most of the year here but getting fruit to ripen when it isn’t hot enough to boil the fruit on the vine is a bit of a problem. Frosts get severe enough to kill tomato plants for at least July if not up to all winter. Depends on quite a few factors, not the least the severity of the winter. I find that self sown tomato plants usually survive the winters.

My tomatoes have fruited well right through the season.. not staked. All bush type or some sprawling cherry types, mulched with hay bales that chooks have roosted on. What I find with the late season, if my tomato plants survive that long is that the shield bugs give me curry by ruining every tomato. I’ve never found an easy way to not have shield bugs. If it isn’t the slaters ringbarking the plants or the sun scalding the bark then it is the shield bugs pricking every sq mm of skin and sucking.

Going through old photos in between grafting jobs.. Haven’t been well, have been busy, the new rainwater rank filled in one heavy fall of rain. SWMBO wants me to install more of them.

roughbarked said:

Haven’t been well, have been busy, the new rainwater rank filled in one heavy fall of rain. SWMBO wants me to install more of them.

Sorry you haven’t been well…good news about the rainwater tank! We had about 6 rainwater tanks here at one stage, only 3 now tho’…

going through old slide scans.. He’s 40 now.

I know why the garden is gasping. I hung the sheets on the line 15 minutes ago and I’m about to go out and bring them in again and put them back on the bed……

roughbarked said:

going through old slide scans.. He’s 40 now.

Lovely play with light and shadow there…which was what you wanted I suppose?

buffy said:

I know why the garden is gasping. I hung the sheets on the line 15 minutes ago and I’m about to go out and bring them in again and put them back on the bed……

Stiff breeze?

buffy said:

I know why the garden is gasping. I hung the sheets on the line 15 minutes ago and I’m about to go out and bring them in again and put them back on the bed……

which reminded me to check whether my sheets were done in the machine, which they were and are now hanging on the line. Thank you :)

>>Stiff breeze?<<

Thirty degrees in the shade (so quite a bit more in the sun), humidity down around 30% (which is high for here!) and a mild breeze. We do not need wind. The dragon is still hunkered down in the Grampians, 60km North of us.

Well, so far I can report that our new cafe does a good cappucino, iced coffee and a rather nice lemon friand. Going there for lunch on Sunday, so I’ll have to report on the main course type stuff after that.

:)

buffy said:

>>Stiff breeze?<<

Thirty degrees in the shade (so quite a bit more in the sun), humidity down around 30% (which is high for here!) and a mild breeze. We do not need wind. The dragon is still hunkered down in the Grampians, 60km North of us.

we’re the same – when the clothes are hung it’s time to bring them in.

i’ve opened the pool before 5pm today. ….and replaced the clinging t-shirt with a normal shirt.
i have stocked the fridge with ice and just had a non-alco. lemonade.
the buddlejas are done – the weight should be rolling off because the sweat certainly is….

Ooh, look! I go and have a lie down and fight off the puppy for a snooze and look what happens 14km down the road. It’s quite big. But going away from us. We have no smoke smell whatsoever. And the fire radio has been completely quiet. I wonder if it is not working or something.

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-restrictions/warnings-and-advice/index.html?inUrl=websites_detail_1355015721.html

That might be heading towards the new wind farm. Or it might be just a bit South of it.

buffy said:

Well, so far I can report that our new cafe does a good cappucino, iced coffee and a rather nice lemon friand. Going there for lunch on Sunday, so I’ll have to report on the main course type stuff after that.

:)

need a “Like” icon here

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

going through old slide scans.. He’s 40 now.

Lovely play with light and shadow there…which was what you wanted I suppose?

Yes it was. :) Thanks.

Good morning. Eighteen degrees here. Still dark. Up about half an hour earlier than planned because Mr buffy’s pager went off about 5.45. Still, now I don’t have to rush about so much before going to work.

Morning from me too.
I’m off to pick up 180 besser blocks, but small 1/4 hollow ones. They’re free, and will do as.. something that I am yet to think of, lol.

Stands for chook waterers, stackable flats for yabby caves, plant stands, ect.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

going through old slide scans.. He’s 40 now.

Lovely play with light and shadow there…which was what you wanted I suppose?

Yes it was. :) Thanks.

an ageless photo – very nice – tom sawyer meets rembrandt.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Lovely play with light and shadow there…which was what you wanted I suppose?

Yes it was. :) Thanks.

an ageless photo – very nice – tom sawyer meets rembrandt.

:) thanks.

I’m home again and it’s still wet here. Some sun now and again but rain still happening. Gympie had another moderate flood over the past weekend. It didn’t reach the town centre this time.

Our grass has reached ankle height in a few short days. All the paddocks in the area are as green as you’ll ever see them and that’s a good thing I guess. the river and creek beds are a right mess. Mud, logs and rubble caught up everywhere. Nasty to see. Now they are warning of a potential cyclone forming after this week. We need it like a hole in the head.

Just hope we can remember the lovely green grasses when the dry sets in for winter.

I haven’t read posts from the last few days but lets pretend that I have. Loved the swan cuties from BG.

We will communicate again in a day or two. Probably won’t be tomorrow. More appointments to keep. Just be good till I return.

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

Had a beer or two with Longy yesterday afternoon. Had a good chat too.

Couldn’t imagine having a beer or two with Longy without a good chat as well.

He’s hale and hearty?

He’s doing well. Popped into his office yesterday to have a sticky beak at what he actually does for a crust. Very interesting ‘twas too.

roughbarked said:

going through old slide scans.. He’s 40 now.

Great shot of the young man.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Lovely play with light and shadow there…which was what you wanted I suppose?

Yes it was. :) Thanks.

an ageless photo – very nice – tom sawyer meets rembrandt.

Well said Justin.

painmaster said:

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Yes it was. :) Thanks.

an ageless photo – very nice – tom sawyer meets rembrandt.

Well said Justin.

…a kind of art nutshell, really…

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

an ageless photo – very nice – tom sawyer meets rembrandt.

Well said Justin.

…a kind of art nutshell, really…

I must admit that photography was a bigger part of my life at the time. Many of my ‘baby shots’ were actually prize winners.

Morning! Although it’s fast disappearing. Not talking about the weather today. Just had the TV man here to set me up with some wireless headphones so I can hear teev like other people. Wonerful. Mind you, it cost heaps.

Had the second needle in my eye yesterday and although I haven’t noticed a great deal of difference in my sight, the Dr showed me the screening and there has been a big improvement. Once again it cost heaps but definately worth it if it can save my sight. All you young ones out there, take note. These are the types of things that you need money for as you age. No one ever told me but I’m trying to warn you all. Forgot to mention that I now have a CPAP machine. That also cost almost $1000.

Now the garden…… It’s mud. Need I say more?

Today we are at home. So nice not to have to go anywhere for a change. Washing is on but not much chance it will dry. D is trying to squeeze in some mowing between showers. ZeeZee is waiting fot noon so she and I can watch the midday movie if there is one worth watching.

roughbarked said:

When I first saw this one, I thought “Oh that’s the grandson in Norway”, then I remembered you’d put it up before and it’s your lad…

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

Dinetta said:

When I first saw this one, I thought “Oh that’s the grandson in Norway”, then I remembered you’d put it up before and it’s your lad…

Yep it is my grandson’s dad.

Dinetta said:

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

It all takes the process of thought.. A good machine works at a rate slightly slower than your pace of thought.

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

The Queenslanders look real scared

If you look at the front page of the ABC News online, they’ve got their cameras, and one person is even, inside the yellow tape…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

When I first saw this one, I thought “Oh that’s the grandson in Norway”, then I remembered you’d put it up before and it’s your lad…

Yep it is my grandson’s dad.

Is he still a Happy Chappie, as in the baby shot?

roughbarked said:

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

I, for one, appreciate your telling us about it…makes very interesting reading…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

When I first saw this one, I thought “Oh that’s the grandson in Norway”, then I remembered you’d put it up before and it’s your lad…

Yep it is my grandson’s dad.

Is he still a Happy Chappie, as in the baby shot?

I could say that he still looks like a good advertisement for thrill pills but I know he’s never needed them.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

I, for one, appreciate your telling us about it…makes very interesting reading…

For me to make money, I need interested helpers who are skilled in the requirements.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

I, for one, appreciate your telling us about it…makes very interesting reading…

For me to make money, I need interested helpers who are skilled in the requirements.

The only way the interested skilled helpers can make money is to link up with people like me.

Dinetta said:

The Queenslanders look real scared

If you look at the front page of the ABC News online, they’ve got their cameras, and one person is even, inside the yellow tape…

some people are just dumb!

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

The Queenslanders look real scared

If you look at the front page of the ABC News online, they’ve got their cameras, and one person is even, inside the yellow tape…

some people are just dumb!

which often implies they are deaf? However it cannot make claims that they are blind.

Dinetta said:

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

well done – are youse all green grass as well?

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

It all takes the process of thought.. A good machine works at a rate slightly slower than your pace of thought.

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

all true.
i wish a good machine would work just below the threshold of hearing as well.
i need some bud wood sometime to graft onto my quince and gala apple.
is now apple and qwince grafting time?

justin said:

Dinetta said:

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

well done – are youse all green grass as well?

It’s green something, Justin lol!

In winter, it’s red dirt…gotta love the Wet…my chookens certainly do…

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

spurge, a friend of mine uses it.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

spurge, a friend of mine uses it.

Thats it. Horrible stuff! For me anyway, very nasty. Along with aloe vera.

Happy Potter said:

Thats it. Horrible stuff! For me anyway, very nasty. Along with aloe vera.

I think it works by burning away the old skin cells so new cells can grow. Are you allergic to Aloe Vera? It is supposed to soothe the skin!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Thats it. Horrible stuff! For me anyway, very nasty. Along with aloe vera.

I think it works by burning away the old skin cells so new cells can grow. Are you allergic to Aloe Vera? It is supposed to soothe the skin!

Am I ever. Applied it once on my arm and it had an instant and terrible affect, washed it off with copious amounts of water but blisters appeared and it stung like crazy. It took weeks to heal.

I’ll be at the drs tomorrow if my nose isn’t feeling better.

That would be petty spurge? The weed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_peplus

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

I, for one, appreciate your telling us about it…makes very interesting reading…

So did I. Defines a bit of what is involved in your work. Everybodys job seems a breeze until you know the ins and outs.

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

That could only happen to a Happy Potter.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

spurge, a friend of mine uses it.

I think it’s pretty widely used. Has been for years AFAIK.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

That’s the back yard mowed, it takes two tanks of fuel to do that quarter acre…I can’t go fast because the looooong seed heads just slip and slide otherwise…

It all takes the process of thought.. A good machine works at a rate slightly slower than your pace of thought.

This morning I travelled to Ballingall and collected 8,000 citrus buds, a variety known as “pineapple”. Now people may not realise that when the person doing the grafting turns up with the buds, this means he has driven way over there, walked up and down numerous rows of trees selecting the best budwood for grafting which usually means the middle part of any branch cut. Then he has to sit down and cut every leaf off without damaging the buds.. wrap them up cool ad moist and drive all the way back. So it is from half to a full day’s work to just be ready to start doing the graft and corruption for one day. The next day.. budwood needs to be collected again before the grafting can start.

all true.
i wish a good machine would work just below the threshold of hearing as well.
i need some bud wood sometime to graft onto my quince and gala apple.
is now apple and qwince grafting time?

Yes you can bud apples and quinces now.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

spurge, a friend of mine uses it.

Thats it. Horrible stuff! For me anyway, very nasty. Along with aloe vera.

Aloe vera was what you should have put on to neutralise the effect of the spurge and seal the wound from infection.

I won ‘t have anyone knocking Aloe Vera.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Thats it. Horrible stuff! For me anyway, very nasty. Along with aloe vera.

I think it works by burning away the old skin cells so new cells can grow. Are you allergic to Aloe Vera? It is supposed to soothe the skin!

I’d never heard of allergies to aloe Vera before but I suppose it can possibly occur.

Am I ever. Applied it once on my arm and it had an instant and terrible affect, washed it off with copious amounts of water but blisters appeared and it stung like crazy. It took weeks to heal.

I’ll be at the drs tomorrow if my nose isn’t feeling better.

Aloe vera was what you should have put on to neutralise the effect of the spurge and seal the wound from infection.

I won ‘t have anyone knocking Aloe Vera.
—————————-

That’s why I had it growing. Until I tried it.
I washed the area with pawpaw soap and that stopped it stinging and took the redness away and I left it to dry and heal. But then getting sweat and dirt on it didn’t help and it got infected. Betadines doing the job and it feels better this morn.

Only pawpaw soap and cream for me from now on.

Re that soap.. ran out of shampoo and grabbed the soap, whoa..my coarse hair has never been shinier. I have found my nirvana.

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

Oh dear, hope there won’t be a lingering scar…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Evening. Been so busy. I’m a prize idiot. I had a sunspot on the side of my nose and hadn’t been to the drs about it. Well another friend says oh you need this herb sap splurge or whatever it’s called, some variety of euphorbia, it’ll get rid of it for sure. It was in the herb book too.
Yeah and nearly took my nose off with it. I have 3 nostrils! It burned almost through my skin. And because I’d been working in the dry dusty heat and me sweating, it got infected. Argh. The pain, oh the pain :( I’m brown faced wth betadine.

I shoulda known, me and sap, from any plant, don’t get along. O well, I’ll live.

Oh dear, hope there won’t be a lingering scar…

better than skin cancer is any scar.

Happy Potter said:

Re that soap.. ran out of shampoo and grabbed the soap, whoa..my coarse hair has never been shinier. I have found my nirvana.

You certainly have!!

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

I think it works by burning away the old skin cells so new cells can grow. Are you allergic to Aloe Vera? It is supposed to soothe the skin!

Am I ever. Applied it once on my arm and it had an instant and terrible affect, washed it off with copious amounts of water but blisters appeared and it stung like crazy. It took weeks to heal.

I’ll be at the drs tomorrow if my nose isn’t feeling better.

I’d never heard of allergies to aloe Vera before but I suppose it can possibly occur.

our Lucky1 is allergic to lavender. Where it is usually cited as soothing and a balm for headaches, one whiff and she is guaranteed a headache. It happens.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Am I ever. Applied it once on my arm and it had an instant and terrible affect, washed it off with copious amounts of water but blisters appeared and it stung like crazy. It took weeks to heal.

I’ll be at the drs tomorrow if my nose isn’t feeling better.

I’d never heard of allergies to aloe Vera before but I suppose it can possibly occur.

our Lucky1 is allergic to lavender. Where it is usually cited as soothing and a balm for headaches, one whiff and she is guaranteed a headache. It happens.

The big plus is that she not only isn’t allergic but that she gains great solace from Papaya.

She’s not quite 8 months..

roughbarked said:

She’s not quite 8 months..

very cute. Looks like she is having lots of fun :)

a question please:
what is the link for the ABC forums, techtalk and Scribblygum?
thank you :)

trichome said:

a question please:
what is the link for the ABC forums, techtalk and Scribblygum?
thank you :)

sorry but you missed the funeral.. it is dead.. http://www.abcforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

a question please:
what is the link for the ABC forums, techtalk and Scribblygum?
thank you :)

sorry but you missed the funeral.. it is dead.. http://www.abcforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post

when did they cut it off?

It was cut off in the last week, without explanation.

If you want a long read about it, try the Holiday forum. There is a thread called PSF…it will take you hours to read.

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

a question please:
what is the link for the ABC forums, techtalk and Scribblygum?
thank you :)

sorry but you missed the funeral.. it is dead.. http://www.abcforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post

when did they cut it off?

http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/2823/

buffy said:

It was cut off in the last week, without explanation.

If you want a long read about it, try the Holiday forum. There is a thread called PSF…it will take you hours to read.

thanks for that, i have been busy with mum and not a lot of time for forums, is it just holiday and gardening now?

Good morning. Warming up here already. Now, what were the things I put on my list last night?

Ride bike as soon as it is light. – Yep, did that.

Water (again) – Yep, did that.

Put in some more lettuce seeds for next round of lettuce. – Not done yet.

Tie up the tomatoes. Again. – Yep, did that.

Pot up some more cape gooseberry seedlings….they are getting a bit big and crowded in the nursery bed. – Too hot already.

Transplant some strawberry runners for next year’s crop. This year they failed dismally – Too hot, might try this evening and water well.

Pot up a couple of cuttings of lemon verbena and winter jasmine as that pot is getting crowded too. – Too hot already.

And just for entertainment (?!) I tried treating barefoot in dog poo…….Yuck!! Between the toes!!!

trichome said:

buffy said:

It was cut off in the last week, without explanation.

If you want a long read about it, try the Holiday forum. There is a thread called PSF…it will take you hours to read.

thanks for that, i have been busy with mum and not a lot of time for forums, is it just holiday and gardening now?

yep.. apart from the orange needing to shine in the dark..
http://www.orangeinthedark.com/vbt/

trichrome, Squeezebabe set up an alternative forum which might now pick up. Have a look:

http://www.orangeinthedark.com/

buffy said:

And just for entertainment (?!) I tried treating barefoot in dog poo…….Yuck!! Between the toes!!!

duckshit squishes better.

Yeah, but dog poo smells more and is harder to wash off……..

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

She’s not quite 8 months..

very cute. Looks like she is having lots of fun :)

What a darling :D

buffy said:

Yeah, but dog poo smells more and is harder to wash off……..

and less fun to squish.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Yeah, but dog poo smells more and is harder to wash off……..

and less fun to squish.

• puts down my chockie bikkie *
  ew.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

She’s not quite 8 months..

very cute. Looks like she is having lots of fun :)

What a darling :D

I’m blown away by the fact that she instinctively knew where to grab on.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Yeah, but dog poo smells more and is harder to wash off……..

and less fun to squish.

• puts down my chockie bikkie *
  ew.

apologies.. ;)

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

very cute. Looks like she is having lots of fun :)

What a darling :D

I’m blown away by the fact that she instinctively knew where to grab on.

Oh they do though.. seen a newborn startle and their arms are instantly up and out? Like monkeys have to hang on..

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

What a darling :D

I’m blown away by the fact that she instinctively knew where to grab on.

Oh they do though.. seen a newborn startle and their arms are instantly up and out? Like monkeys have to hang on..

ssh.. the intelligent designers may be watching.. ;)

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

I’m blown away by the fact that she instinctively knew where to grab on.

Oh they do though.. seen a newborn startle and their arms are instantly up and out? Like monkeys have to hang on..

ssh.. the intelligent designers may be watching.. ;)

Watching my little grandaughter climb a play frame thing, she knew exactly the part to grab onto that would take her weight so she could stand.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh they do though.. seen a newborn startle and their arms are instantly up and out? Like monkeys have to hang on..

ssh.. the intelligent designers may be watching.. ;)

Watching my little grandaughter climb a play frame thing, she knew exactly the part to grab onto that would take her weight so she could stand.

Otherwise she’d fall off. and this is why those who believe that God will save them.. create over protectionism. It is as if they are aware that God isn’t watching.. but they refuse to allow their kids to do stuff like eat dirt and climb trees and meet strange men.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

buffy said:

It was cut off in the last week, without explanation.

If you want a long read about it, try the Holiday forum. There is a thread called PSF…it will take you hours to read.

thanks for that, i have been busy with mum and not a lot of time for forums, is it just holiday and gardening now?

yep.. apart from the orange needing to shine in the dark..
http://www.orangeinthedark.com/vbt/

thank you both for that.

too much info in the holiday thread, but it seems that there may still be a decision coming from abc about the fate of the forums, is that right?

trichome said:

too much info in the holiday thread, but it seems that there may still be a decision coming from abc about the fate of the forums, is that right?

Yes.. that was the original message.

It’s debateable……the forum was a private forum for the past almost 12 months.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

too much info in the holiday thread, but it seems that there may still be a decision coming from abc about the fate of the forums, is that right?

Yes.. that was the original message.

ok, thanks. lets wait and see.

buffy said:

It’s debateable……the forum was a private forum for the past almost 12 months.

yes, oh well, wait and see :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

too much info in the holiday thread, but it seems that there may still be a decision coming from abc about the fate of the forums, is that right?

Yes.. that was the original message.

ok, thanks. lets wait and see.

indeed, all we can do. Unless of course we want to try and communicate with Nick.. He never answered my emails though.

trichome said:

buffy said:

It’s debateable……the forum was a private forum for the past almost 12 months.

yes, oh well, wait and see :)

We only have to remember the GA moderation issues that caused this forum to exist.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

buffy said:

It’s debateable……the forum was a private forum for the past almost 12 months.

yes, oh well, wait and see :)

We only have to remember the GA moderation issues that caused this forum to exist.

yes i do remember that, even back to ‘Miss Mod’ i think it was :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

yes, oh well, wait and see :)

We only have to remember the GA moderation issues that caused this forum to exist.

yes i do remember that, even back to ‘Miss Mod’ i think it was :)

Though an ABC forum is a perfect idea and makes our 8 cents per day work for us in real time.. we do still have to be aware that the ABC is a cooperation funded by government.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

We only have to remember the GA moderation issues that caused this forum to exist.

yes i do remember that, even back to ‘Miss Mod’ i think it was :)

Though an ABC forum is a perfect idea and makes our 8 cents per day work for us in real time.. we do still have to be aware that the ABC is a cooperation funded by government.

maybe they should put a campaign on indiegogo

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

painmaster said:

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

My eyes have been buggered since I first tried to work with it..

Go to Firefox View Menu.. Page Styles and turn off page styles.

painmaster said:

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

yeah, i think from memory, sssf did originally have a white text on black theme,

trichome said:

painmaster said:

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

yeah, i think from memory, sssf did originally have a white text on black theme,

They did.. but if you turn off page styles.. you get black on white.

I don’t mind it. I like hot pink. Perhaps I’ve just got used to it as I’ve been using it for almost a year rather than the New Forum. I don’t like V bulletin much.

buffy said:

I don’t mind it. I like hot pink. Perhaps I’ve just got used to it as I’ve been using it for almost a year rather than the New Forum. I don’t like V bulletin much.

Same here..

it is actually still a cool day 27.5°C and I’ve wasted that part sitting here.. Maybe I should uncoil the coit and get on with it.

We are nudging 34 outside. I’ve done my outside stuff for now. I think I might actually go and lie down and read. I’m a bit tired from this method of sleeping short bits instead of all night because of the hot nights.

buffy said:

And just for entertainment (?!) I tried treating barefoot in dog poo…….Yuck!! Between the toes!!!

eewwww!!!!

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Yeah, but dog poo smells more and is harder to wash off……..

and less fun to squish.

• puts down my chockie bikkie *
  ew.

ROTFL!!

buffy said:

We are nudging 34 outside. I’ve done my outside stuff for now. I think I might actually go and lie down and read. I’m a bit tired from this method of sleeping short bits instead of all night because of the hot nights.

coupled as it is for me with the end days of daylight saving, autumn is a pain like that.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

ssh.. the intelligent designers may be watching.. ;)

Watching my little grandaughter climb a play frame thing, she knew exactly the part to grab onto that would take her weight so she could stand.

Otherwise she’d fall off. and this is why those who believe that God will save them.. create over protectionism. It is as if they are aware that God isn’t watching.. but they refuse to allow their kids to do stuff like eat dirt and climb trees and meet strange men.

a generalisation, and it is not just believers that over protect.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Watching my little grandaughter climb a play frame thing, she knew exactly the part to grab onto that would take her weight so she could stand.

Otherwise she’d fall off. and this is why those who believe that God will save them.. create over protectionism. It is as if they are aware that God isn’t watching.. but they refuse to allow their kids to do stuff like eat dirt and climb trees and meet strange men.

a generalisation, and it is not just believers that over protect.

:)

not only// ;)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

My eyes have been buggered since I first tried to work with it..

Go to Firefox View Menu.. Page Styles and turn off page styles.

I’m using Safari these days…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

woah, that pink and white text on the black background is nasty. I think I distorted a retina.

My eyes have been buggered since I first tried to work with it..

Go to Firefox View Menu.. Page Styles and turn off page styles.

I’m using Safari these days…

no such option in Safari unless you know the code to type.

painmaster said:

I’m using Safari these days…

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I’m using Safari these days…

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I’m using Safari these days…

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I’m using Safari these days…

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

Hey trichome.. I feel as if I should know who you are in the other forum(since you use a different name there).

The problem is.. I still can’t pin you down.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

but it dates way back in the past?

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I’m using Safari these days…

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

roughbarked said:

Hey trichome.. I feel as if I should know who you are in the other forum(since you use a different name there).

The problem is.. I still can’t pin you down.

just the way i like it :)

trichome said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

Linux makes the hardware work better.

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

Hey trichome.. I feel as if I should know who you are in the other forum(since you use a different name there).

The problem is.. I still can’t pin you down.

just the way i like it :)

However I do think we could enjoy face to face to our common advantage.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

but it dates way back in the past?

still used it up until Xmas last year. The macbook pro has been in used for around 18mths now… I think.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

Hey trichome.. I feel as if I should know who you are in the other forum(since you use a different name there).

The problem is.. I still can’t pin you down.

just the way i like it :)

However I do think we could enjoy face to face to our common advantage.

yeah, maybe a forum meet up sometime

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

Linux makes the hardware work better.

yeah no worries with it, glad i came across it or i’d probably have switched to mac too :)

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

but it dates way back in the past?

still used it up until Xmas last year. The macbook pro has been in used for around 18mths now… I think.

I probably only noticed when you mentioned it.

trichome said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

i fell in love when I saw my photos on a friend’s macbook. Even after I purchased a new screen for my old desktop, I still love the vibrancy of the apple screen.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

you gone over to the mac side of things ? :)

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

if the clunker is still operational, it sounds like a good box for Linux, there are systems suitable for older hardware, it’d bring it back to life.

Most people probably don’t remember seeing me here before 2003 as that is when I got this G4. However I was here before that at the GA forum as ironbarked. I was using a powermac 5500 at the time.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

I still love the vibrancy of the apple screen.

it is what has kept me with it.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

I have indeed. macbook pro and a new huge imac are my weapons of choice today.

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

i fell in love when I saw my photos on a friend’s macbook. Even after I purchased a new screen for my old desktop, I still love the vibrancy of the apple screen.

truth be known, i have been eyeing off the macbook air 11.6 of late, but maybe later on, it would fit nicely in my camera bag though :)

trichome said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

if the clunker is still operational, it sounds like a good box for Linux, there are systems suitable for older hardware, it’d bring it back to life.

Yep. Linux is good stuff and freely available in all forms.

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

just the way i like it :)

However I do think we could enjoy face to face to our common advantage.

yeah, maybe a forum meet up sometime

Has there ever been an actual gardening forum pud?

trichome said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Cannot remember when he wasn’t.

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

if the clunker is still operational, it sounds like a good box for Linux, there are systems suitable for older hardware, it’d bring it back to life.

my plan is to double back up all the photos on board the clunker. They are already on one external drive and I plan a second copy (almost completed) and then I will wipe the internals clean and see if one of my staff over here want to set it up in their house (complete with PC desk)… I’ll set it up so that they can surf online, receive and send emails and use the drive to store pics from their phone camera. I’ll add a few externals bits like a memory card reader and a few USB drives for them. It will get someone started and make a good machine for a Uni student. I’ve got a working printer that I’ll throw in too.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

if the clunker is still operational, it sounds like a good box for Linux, there are systems suitable for older hardware, it’d bring it back to life.

my plan is to double back up all the photos on board the clunker. They are already on one external drive and I plan a second copy (almost completed) and then I will wipe the internals clean and see if one of my staff over here want to set it up in their house (complete with PC desk)… I’ll set it up so that they can surf online, receive and send emails and use the drive to store pics from their phone camera. I’ll add a few externals bits like a memory card reader and a few USB drives for them. It will get someone started and make a good machine for a Uni student. I’ve got a working printer that I’ll throw in too.

As long as the clunker is running an OS that is compatible with Mac.. no problems.. though later Macs shouldn’t be a worry anyway.

trichome said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

i must say they are very impressive machines, i’m still on LinuxMint with pc hardware, with a couple nice 8bit screens

i fell in love when I saw my photos on a friend’s macbook. Even after I purchased a new screen for my old desktop, I still love the vibrancy of the apple screen.

truth be known, i have been eyeing off the macbook air 11.6 of late, but maybe later on, it would fit nicely in my camera bag though :)

that is the one prob with my macbook pro… just one size too big for my lowepro slingshot pack. I have a dryzone camera bag but that is just too big for onboard baggage. Great for a canoe journey though.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

my old desktop clunker is a Windows machine.

if the clunker is still operational, it sounds like a good box for Linux, there are systems suitable for older hardware, it’d bring it back to life.

my plan is to double back up all the photos on board the clunker. They are already on one external drive and I plan a second copy (almost completed) and then I will wipe the internals clean and see if one of my staff over here want to set it up in their house (complete with PC desk)… I’ll set it up so that they can surf online, receive and send emails and use the drive to store pics from their phone camera. I’ll add a few externals bits like a memory card reader and a few USB drives for them. It will get someone started and make a good machine for a Uni student. I’ve got a working printer that I’ll throw in too.

yes, 2tb hard drives are fairly cheap these days, the W.D. greens are good.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

However I do think we could enjoy face to face to our common advantage.

yeah, maybe a forum meet up sometime

Has there ever been an actual gardening forum pud?

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

I can actually remember having to make the PC change the .jpg to .JPG on images that I’d sent to my daughter’s computer.. She told me that she couldn’t view them so when I visited I sat down at the computer and lo and behold.. This small change fixed it.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

i fell in love when I saw my photos on a friend’s macbook. Even after I purchased a new screen for my old desktop, I still love the vibrancy of the apple screen.

truth be known, i have been eyeing off the macbook air 11.6 of late, but maybe later on, it would fit nicely in my camera bag though :)

that is the one prob with my macbook pro… just one size too big for my lowepro slingshot pack. I have a dryzone camera bag but that is just too big for onboard baggage. Great for a canoe journey though.

i have the Billingham Hadley Large Black, fits a 13.3 no worries, but i’d like the lighter 11.6 for out and about, thing is just can’t justify it yet, do i really need it :)

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

yeah, maybe a forum meet up sometime

Has there ever been an actual gardening forum pud?

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

Hey but Brownsville is a couple of grand in Km’s from me.

roughbarked said:

I can actually remember having to make the PC change the .jpg to .JPG on images that I’d sent to my daughter’s computer.. She told me that she couldn’t view them so when I visited I sat down at the computer and lo and behold.. This small change fixed it.

compatabilty is much easier these days across platforms, even mac have the ntfs driver or at least it is down-loadable, linux plays well with mac.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

yeah, maybe a forum meet up sometime

Has there ever been an actual gardening forum pud?

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

i think there have been mini meets, here and there

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Has there ever been an actual gardening forum pud?

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

Hey but Brownsville is a couple of grand in Km’s from me.

I’m further afield now…. add another 2 grand in Km’s across the ocean… but I may be in Canberra the week after next?

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

I can actually remember having to make the PC change the .jpg to .JPG on images that I’d sent to my daughter’s computer.. She told me that she couldn’t view them so when I visited I sat down at the computer and lo and behold.. This small change fixed it.

compatabilty is much easier these days across platforms, even mac have the ntfs driver or at least it is down-loadable, linux plays well with mac.

yep.. It is a shame it tool soo long as to have the phrase “dark side” to take on new meaning.. but at last there is no dark side of the moon…. a matter of fact.. it is all dark

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

Hey but Brownsville is a couple of grand in Km’s from me.

I’m further afield now…. add another 2 grand in Km’s across the ocean… but I may be in Canberra the week after next?

yeah maybe something more central, maybe at a holiday time ?

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

One time at Lucky’s place, 4 gardeners got together. That’s the most I have seen in one place. Seen many gathering of threes.

Hey but Brownsville is a couple of grand in Km’s from me.

I’m further afield now…. add another 2 grand in Km’s across the ocean… but I may be in Canberra the week after next?

I’m busy cleaning for budding and budding, some 30,000 Poncirus trifoliata to various Velencia types. I’ll be more free in April but I’ll probably be heading for White Cliffs if I can afford the fuel and my car still goes.

that you roughbarked?

might be pm, i think he has hair too

trichome said:

that you roughbarked?

might be pm, i think he has hair too

I managed to obliberate the words I’d typed.. when pasting the link.. Look out if I pop over your back fence.. ;)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Hey but Brownsville is a couple of grand in Km’s from me.

I’m further afield now…. add another 2 grand in Km’s across the ocean… but I may be in Canberra the week after next?

I’m busy cleaning for budding and budding, some 30,000 Poncirus trifoliata to various Velencia types. I’ll be more free in April but I’ll probably be heading for White Cliffs if I can afford the fuel and my car still goes.

i’m probably going to Cairns in the winter at some satge

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

I’m further afield now…. add another 2 grand in Km’s across the ocean… but I may be in Canberra the week after next?

I’m busy cleaning for budding and budding, some 30,000 Poncirus trifoliata to various Velencia types. I’ll be more free in April but I’ll probably be heading for White Cliffs if I can afford the fuel and my car still goes.

Otherwise, Canberra is always good as my only Aussie born grandchild lives in Belconnen.

i’m probably going to Cairns in the winter at some satge

chatty today, aren’t we?

Had a look at that thread you mentioned in the Holiday Forum, RB. OMG! Glad it is not like that here! I like our friendly little forum, even if we are considered a bit “sensitive.”

bluegreen said:

chatty today, aren’t we?

Had a look at that thread you mentioned in the Holiday Forum, RB. OMG! Glad it is not like that here! I like our friendly little forum, even if we are considered a bit “sensitive.”

who cares? We have each other ;)

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

I’m busy cleaning for budding and budding, some 30,000 Poncirus trifoliata to various Velencia types. I’ll be more free in April but I’ll probably be heading for White Cliffs if I can afford the fuel and my car still goes.

Otherwise, Canberra is always good as my only Aussie born grandchild lives in Belconnen.

i’m probably going to Cairns in the winter at some satge

i might be able to do Canberra, but not in 2 weeks and preferably not in winter

bluegreen said:

chatty today, aren’t we?

Had a look at that thread you mentioned in the Holiday Forum, RB. OMG! Glad it is not like that here! I like our friendly little forum, even if we are considered a bit “sensitive.”

yes the sssf mob are full on, one reason i avoided that forum

We’re “sensitive”? I thought we were just mature and considerate, in the main?

roughbarked said:

She’s not quite 8 months..

She may be an “old soul”, if you believe in those things (which I do…)

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

a question please:
what is the link for the ABC forums, techtalk and Scribblygum?
thank you :)

sorry but you missed the funeral.. it is dead.. http://www.abcforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post

Can’t even get the www.abcforums.com…database error…oh I love a good gossip I do…between myself and my friends only, tho’…

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

chatty today, aren’t we?

Had a look at that thread you mentioned in the Holiday Forum, RB. OMG! Glad it is not like that here! I like our friendly little forum, even if we are considered a bit “sensitive.”

who cares? We have each other ;)

indeed :)

buffy said:

And just for entertainment (?!) I tried treating barefoot in dog poo…….Yuck!! Between the toes!!!

Another barefoot gardener! Yay!

Dinetta said:

We’re “sensitive”? I thought we were just mature and considerate, in the main?

Oh, I agree. We’re just nice people, is all.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

too much info in the holiday thread, but it seems that there may still be a decision coming from abc about the fate of the forums, is that right?

Yes.. that was the original message.

Oh I’d hate to see TechTalk go… is it one of the fora being scrutinised?

roughbarked said:

We only have to remember the GA moderation issues that caused this forum to exist.

Like, never moderated for months and months, then …ooooh, don’t get me started…we had the most marvellous moderator to start with…

OK, that’s the March Chat thread read, there’s still AP System, Autumn Harvest, Autumn Weather to go…Hooray for View Full Thread…

Dinetta said:

OK, that’s the March Chat thread read, there’s still AP System, Autumn Harvest, Autumn Weather to go…Hooray for View Full Thread…

waves to Dinetta

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

OK, that’s the March Chat thread read, there’s still AP System, Autumn Harvest, Autumn Weather to go…Hooray for View Full Thread…

waves to Dinetta

lol! waves back

Got an observation to put in the Poultry Prattle thread in a minute…

I’d just like to report….I’m hot. In the weather sense. (Too old for the other nonsense now). We have 36 degrees, 20% humidity (which explains the wilting leaves all over the place and the manic way the mature gum trees are dropping leaves and bark) and the wind from the North is waking up. Gonna be a fun sort of afternoon.

Been down to Cafe Bagdad for an iced coffee and a piece of chocolate brownie. Very nutritious lunch. But I’ll be eating my veggies at tea time.

Oh, and Dinetta…..those tomato plants have not yet provided pickable fruit. My tomatoes are always very late, and those ones in the sheltered bed are the latest of the lot. I’m hoping in another month. But I can cope with that. It would be nice to have the tomatoes in Summer, but in Autumn when I can make up pasta and tomatoes and stuff is fine too. We just eat what is happening at the time.

I do have trouble getting the basil to tie in with the tomato timing though!!

I’m just a molten blob. Giggling GS has tied my growing out hair into a top knot, so I’m a stupid looking molten blob.

22% rel hum, and hell C.

buffy said:

Oh, and Dinetta…..those tomato plants have not yet provided pickable fruit. My tomatoes are always very late, and those ones in the sheltered bed are the latest of the lot. I’m hoping in another month. But I can cope with that. It would be nice to have the tomatoes in Summer, but in Autumn when I can make up pasta and tomatoes and stuff is fine too. We just eat what is happening at the time.

I do have trouble getting the basil to tie in with the tomato timing though!!

I live in hope for your tomatoes then, Buffy…the best of the vegetables, IMHO…

That stinks, I can’t read the TechTalk (ABC) forum…it’s gone the way of SSSF…how do you ask for it back?

I will need to take Shadow for an earlier walk, the local Sergeant has been trawling the road I use to for RBT and licence checks…my right rear blinker doesn’t work…every now and then I get party lights to look at…just blue and red ones but still…

Had a lie down and read….with the puppy on the bed. This is not usually allowed in this house. But the cuteness got me.

:)

Which reminds me I need to put Shadow’s blanket through with the top step mat…

I haven’t been stung by the cutness factor. Much. Max is eating left over roast meat while I feed the chickens a jam sandwich through the bars of the crates.

Happy Potter said:

I haven’t been stung by the cutness factor. Much. Max is eating left over roast meat while I feed the chickens a jam sandwich through the bars of the crates.

yeah, right!

a.b.c. can’t have much of a budget for gardening, they are still playing repeats of last years g.a.

trichome said:

a.b.c. can’t have much of a budget for gardening, they are still playing repeats of last years g.a.

seems to be a new episode tonight. The “Summer Series” of repeats might be over.

bluegreen said:

trichome said:

a.b.c. can’t have much of a budget for gardening, they are still playing repeats of last years g.a.

seems to be a new episode tonight. The “Summer Series” of repeats might be over.

they just said at the end of the show – brand new season next week :)

Happy Potter said:

I haven’t been stung by the cutness factor. Much. Max is eating left over roast meat while I feed the chickens a jam sandwich through the bars of the crates.

Not much, no, I’ve noticed that…

Happy Potter said:

I’m just a molten blob. Giggling GS has tied my growing out hair into a top knot, so I’m a stupid looking molten blob.

22% rel hum, and hell C.

dry day indeed. Forgotten what 22% is like…

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

I’m just a molten blob. Giggling GS has tied my growing out hair into a top knot, so I’m a stupid looking molten blob.

22% rel hum, and hell C.

dry day indeed. Forgotten what 22% is like…

It’s still 30C. Tomorrow 31C. I went out to change the sprinkler position and didn’t turn the tap off to pick it up. Got soaked. Arhhh..

Happy Potter said:

It’s still 30C. Tomorrow 31C. I went out to change the sprinkler position and didn’t turn the tap off to pick it up. Got soaked. Arhhh..

oh well, it’s only water…nice to know i’m not the only one who does things like that…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

It’s still 30C. Tomorrow 31C. I went out to change the sprinkler position and didn’t turn the tap off to pick it up. Got soaked. Arhhh..

oh well, it’s only water…nice to know i’m not the only one who does things like that…

I think she was saying she enjoyed it ;)

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

It’s still 30C. Tomorrow 31C. I went out to change the sprinkler position and didn’t turn the tap off to pick it up. Got soaked. Arhhh..

oh well, it’s only water…nice to know i’m not the only one who does things like that…

I think she was saying she enjoyed it ;)

It was the “r” in the “Arhhh” that fooled me…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

oh well, it’s only water…nice to know i’m not the only one who does things like that…

I think she was saying she enjoyed it ;)

It was the “r” in the “Arhhh” that fooled me…

Definitely enjoyed it :) And again when I moved it just now. I must be the only person who waters their front garden because this time there were frogs everywhere! I was trying not to tread on any. Gees.

Low pressure sprinklers are good for that….leave it on the hose, tap off and shift the hose and they are so sensitive they shoot water at you. Not a lot, but nice on a hot day. Unless the hose has been sitting in the sun, and then the water is scalding hot!

I’ve moved my potting table (well, one of them) so the tractor can park up the back. This meant taking all pots off it, moving table, putting all pots back. But it gave me a chance to toss a couple that were deaded.

Going out for lunch today. A local group, to the local new cafe. Cafe Bagdad. We’ve been without a cafe for 18 months and we really missed it.

The highlight of my day..loitering in the 7 degree coolroom of the local nqr shop.
Bliss :D

Dirty…still can’t get on to the ABC’s TechTalk Forum…do you know where I can go to complain about this?

Dinetta said:

Dirty…still can’t get on to the ABC’s TechTalk Forum…do you know where I can go to complain about this?

Sent a query to Aunty…should hear back by Tuesday, it generally only takes them about 2 – 3 days to sort the query…

Dinetta said:

Dirty…still can’t get on to the ABC’s TechTalk Forum…do you know where I can go to complain about this?

I think it has been shut down along with the others? Complain to the ABC I suppose.

It doesn’t exist any more Dinetta. The forums were shut down during the week. I think it unlikely you will get any response. They were not ABC forums anymore anyway, but private hostings.

Wakey, wakey Gardeners! Gotta get out there before the relentless sun! Warming up. I think we did drop to about 20 overnight.

Morning. I was awake super early before dawn and been working my backside off before the heat chases me inside.
I’ve cleared and raked and levelled the lawn area. The kikyku is all dead. Yay. I reckon the dry and heat played a hand, but the foot thick euc’ mulch definitely killed it off.

Not a good time to establish a new lawn, but if I hurry and treat it with some tlc I’m sure I will. Finding some soft leafed buffalo turf rolls is proving to be hard. But I should be able to get some by the time this heatwave is over in a few days, then I’ll cut plugs and plant them.

It’s too quiet out in the hens yards. I miss them :(
Lovely little splash silkie boy is going free to a new home today. The lady loves him already and he will have lots of girls to himself. I can have some free fertile eggs down the track :)

Visitors by noon. I better get some housework done.

Good morning all. So nice and cool here, just loving it. 23C (almost winter weather!!) and a balmy southeasterly…normally I would not like the southeasterly as it means fair weather, no rain, but we’re still drying out so it’s all good…

Can’t believe I’m sleeping with a doona (and Nefertiti) of a night at this time of the year but I’m not knocking it…

Have to let out and feed the chookens and move the hen and chickens to their tractor.

Glad your new little boy is going to a nice home where he’ll get steady “work”, Happy Potter. Yes you would miss the noises. I love picking up one of the hens that says “pick me, pick me” (one of the Lohman Browns from Christmas) and she gives this little trilling noise…Still working on confining the flock to the back yard.

Shadow rolled in sloppy horse poop last night, I didn’t know until I was down checking the chooks’ water preparatory to locking them in for the night. So my car might stink. Drat. However the towels on the back seat need washing so they’ll go through with the towels I used after bathing him. Shadow says he’ll get a bath every day when he goes to Heaven…smart alec…

The paramedic is next door, at Mrs B’s place… worry worry one of her nieces is there too so that’s alright…kinda…you should see the portable stuff he took in… worry

Dinetta said:

The paramedic is next door, at Mrs B’s place… worry worry one of her nieces is there too so that’s alright…kinda…you should see the portable stuff he took in… worry

He’s just left…she’s still at home…Mah Jong this afternoon I hope…might go and ask how she is, would that be rude?

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

The paramedic is next door, at Mrs B’s place… worry worry one of her nieces is there too so that’s alright…kinda…you should see the portable stuff he took in… worry

He’s just left…she’s still at home…Mah Jong this afternoon I hope…might go and ask how she is, would that be rude?

I think it would be neighbourly. You could just talk to the niece if she is poorly.

Shadow rolled in sloppy horse poop last night, I didn’t know until I was down checking the chooks’ water preparatory to locking them in for the night. So my car might stink. Drat. However the towels on the back seat need washing so they’ll go through with the towels I used after bathing him. Shadow says he’ll get a bath every day when he goes to Heaven…smart alec…

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dogs are such bogans – the poodles go around eating the stuff – they go thru the mulch picking out the choice bits.

pepe is a cute old girl tho’ – she sees a rabbit running away so she does a lethargic romp in the general direction the rabbit went then stops and sniffs around.
there was a time she would have tore after it with blood curdling yelps…

the old chook run has been divided into 6 beds and three of them planted -

– 1. peas – snow and earlicrop - 2. mine own broad beans (dried as per BG’s guidance) – 3. silver beet (fordhook), raddichio and lettuce

and then 2 transplants – – the tumeric and broccoli from the bed the chooks are now destroying.

all crops are covered with shadecloth or old bamboo blinds because the sparrows and pigeons are cruising the joint with an eye to mischief.

I’ve taken a bit of a risk this morning. Planted out into very protected spots some very small beetroot seedlings. I have more to replace them if they fry. Also put in the first broad bean seeds and some garlic cloves. I’m trying an experiment with protecting my capsicum/chilli plants over winter. Maybe I can get them through if they are crowded around with other plants to stop the frost. I think I’ve only once ever actually got fruit on my capsicum type plants and that was years ago. This year’s ones are just thinking about flowering now, so my chances are again slim. If I can overwinter them, maybe they will have enough time to actually do something next year. I should do what my friend down the road does, first year in pots, into the hothouse, then plant out the second year. Oh, I remember….not hothouse here! But I do have two window panes from the renovations of the pantry and bathroom, so I could set something up soon.

I see we have now gone 9 days over 30 degrees and a couple more, at least, to go. Maybe some showers tomorrow. Perhaps.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/201303/html/IDCJDW3053.201303.shtml

Last rain we had was on the 1st of February, and it was about 10mm…….(Ignore the Mortlake rain, we didn’t get that 2.8 and 4.4 that they did)

Humidity now is down to 20% and the temp has topped 35 degrees. And it isn’t even midday yet. I think a lie down and read of Scientific American and some optometry journals this afternoon might be in order.

justin said:

dogs are such bogans – the poodles go around eating the stuff – they go thru the mulch picking out the choice bits.

So true…

justin said:

all crops are covered with shadecloth or old bamboo blinds because the sparrows and pigeons are cruising the joint with an eye to mischief.

The sparrows don’t miss much…I think that’s why Dad eventually welded himself some custom frames and covered them with chicken wire (the small holed stuff)…

buffy said:

If I can overwinter them, maybe they will have enough time to actually do something next year. I should do what my friend down the road does, first year in pots, into the hothouse, then plant out the second year. Oh, I remember….not hothouse here! But I do have two window panes from the renovations of the pantry and bathroom, so I could set something up soon.

Overwintering sounds good…can’t wrap my mind around panes of glass for hothouses in Australia…I know you need them down there but it takes some thinking about…

I will have to be rather careful not to burn things, we don’t really need what the Brits call cold frames. I reckon if I angle them sufficiently and keep the ends open so the air can exchange, I might be able to get things going a bit earlier than I do now. I’ve usually just put seed in the ground and let nature take its course.

I suppose I should think about a sandwich for lunch. Beetroot or baked beans. Mmm. Might have beetroot…it’s a bit risky when I’m at work, but I’m home today, so that might be the go.

OK, went hunting for beetroot in the pantry…..which is bags on the floor in the front room at the moment. The beetroot eluded me, but I caught some tinned asparagus. Makes a good sandwich too.

:)

buffy said:

OK, went hunting for beetroot in the pantry…..which is bags on the floor in the front room at the moment. The beetroot eluded me, but I caught some tinned asparagus. Makes a good sandwich too.

:)

Oh it would…I’d have it on a door stop with cheese…

Mrs B will be exhausted soon…I went over to enquire and she had stubbed her toe, and very gently fell to the floor (was hanging on to her walking frame)…she has that thingy that hangs around her neck, yuge red button in the middle of it…so she pressed that and when the paramedic came, he did all the checks just in case…but she’s fine…she was doing the cross word when I called…has had callers all morning and another one has just pulled up…Mah Jong this arvo…

Dinetta said:

Mrs B will be exhausted soon…I went over to enquire and she had stubbed her toe, and very gently fell to the floor (was hanging on to her walking frame)…she has that thingy that hangs around her neck, yuge red button in the middle of it…so she pressed that and when the paramedic came, he did all the checks just in case…but she’s fine…she was doing the cross word when I called…has had callers all morning and another one has just pulled up…Mah Jong this arvo…

good oh. That red button thingy sounds like a good idea.

bluegreen said:

good oh. That red button thingy sounds like a good idea.

Mum had one, it was set up by the aged persons facility in Emerald but I think it “rang” on the Sunshine Coast?? It’s basically peace of mind for the carers / relatives because the only time Mum needed hers, she was unconscious (didn’t realize she was passing out). Once she moved into the Lodge, she didn’t need it of course…somebody’s always checking on those folk (just walking by with a quick glance mostly) nearly every 10 – 15 minutes…

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Mrs B will be exhausted soon…I went over to enquire and she had stubbed her toe, and very gently fell to the floor (was hanging on to her walking frame)…she has that thingy that hangs around her neck, yuge red button in the middle of it…so she pressed that and when the paramedic came, he did all the checks just in case…but she’s fine…she was doing the cross word when I called…has had callers all morning and another one has just pulled up…Mah Jong this arvo…

good oh. That red button thingy sounds like a good idea.

I have those red buttons in my house and car.

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

OK, went hunting for beetroot in the pantry…..which is bags on the floor in the front room at the moment. The beetroot eluded me, but I caught some tinned asparagus. Makes a good sandwich too.

:)

Oh it would…I’d have it on a door stop with cheese…

i’ve got a calendar called ‘goats in trees’ – really funny – they don’t climb of course – they just walk up these low trucks and along the horizontal branches – eating all the time.
so now i’ve come up with an idea for a calendar – “dogs in doorways”
our bluddy poodles are just collapsing in this heat but – they are doing it right where we walk – so in doorways – yes – but also in archways, passageways, and tiny gaps between chairs.

justin said:

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

Canberra Day here. How’s this? Anzac Day is not a gazetted holiday here but Canberra Day is? Go figure.

painmaster said:

justin said:

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

Canberra Day here. How’s this? Anzac Day is not a gazetted holiday here but Canberra Day is? Go figure.

noone goes to the adelaide cup – we just have a holiday.
peanuts and corn in the canberra hills?
have you just teleported from PNG?

Ok it’s time to stop. I tried to turn the lawn area into a swimming pool with sprinkers on full, and failed. It’s draining fantastically. The chooks are cooled. I’m going to hit the couch with a gardening mag and have a rest. No tea to cook, no one home. I will have a couple fresh figs from the fridge later. Peace reigns :D

justin said:

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

Nope.

painmaster said:

I have those red buttons in my house and car.

Alarms??

justin said:

so now i’ve come up with an idea for a calendar – “dogs in doorways”
our bluddy poodles are just collapsing in this heat but – they are doing it right where we walk – so in doorways – yes – but also in archways, passageways, and tiny gaps between chairs.

So do ours…sounds a good idea…

painmaster said:

justin said:

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

Canberra Day here. How’s this? Anzac Day is not a gazetted holiday here but Canberra Day is? Go figure.

Strange…

I thought, hang on, Canberra, ACT, public holidays…..

http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/communication/holidays

But that isn’t actually where painmaster is, is it……

Still P O’d that the local gym chappie won’t let me sign up without a Dr certificate saying I won’t drop dead in the gym one day…because of my “age”… he should meet Happy Potter and BlueGreen one day, the git, to understand “age” doesn’t always affect one’s ability to avoid heart attacks etc….

Dinetta said:

Still P O’d that the local gym chappie won’t let me sign up without a Dr certificate saying I won’t drop dead in the gym one day…because of my “age”… he should meet Happy Potter and BlueGreen one day, the git, to understand “age” doesn’t always affect one’s ability to avoid heart attacks etc….

…and you too, Buffy…

buffy said:

I thought, hang on, Canberra, ACT, public holidays…..

http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/communication/holidays

But that isn’t actually where painmaster is, is it……

I think, reading his posts here, PainMaster is in Canberra today, but he was commenting on the corn and peanuts in the PNG hills as a “by the way”…sometimes he lives up to his nom de plume

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

I thought, hang on, Canberra, ACT, public holidays…..

http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/communication/holidays

But that isn’t actually where painmaster is, is it……

I think, reading his posts here, PainMaster is in Canberra today, but he was commenting on the corn and peanuts in the PNG hills as a “by the way”…sometimes he lives up to his nom de plume

The Australian High Commission in Papua New Guinea has a holiday today called “Canberra Day” :D

So if he is in Canberra, yes, they do have Anzac Day as a public holiday.

I grow peanuts and corn here. Though corn and climbing beans work OK, corn will shade peanuts too much.

Dinetta said:

Still P O’d that the local gym chappie won’t let me sign up without a Dr certificate saying I won’t drop dead in the gym one day…because of my “age”… he should meet Happy Potter and BlueGreen one day, the git, to understand “age” doesn’t always affect one’s ability to avoid heart attacks etc….

The sod. Can you go to a different gym? Good on you for wanting to work out and keep the moving bits movable.

I know my ticker is fine. I had had to undergo heart testing for the bigger surgical procedures and all was good. I still do my stretching and see the physio once a fortnight for my back excercises and all is great there too. Back to putting palms flat on the floor with straight knees.

Happy Potter said:

The sod. Can you go to a different gym? Good on you for wanting to work out and keep the moving bits movable.

I know my ticker is fine. I had had to undergo heart testing for the bigger surgical procedures and all was good. I still do my stretching and see the physio once a fortnight for my back excercises and all is great there too. Back to putting palms flat on the floor with straight knees.

Only gym in town and we should be grateful it’s there at all…sponsored by the local mining company…

Not quite at the palms flat on the floor with straight knees yet but working on it…

painmaster said:

Canberra Day here. How’s this? Anzac Day is not a gazetted holiday here but Canberra Day is? Go figure.

OK I have re-read this post in the light of BlueGreen’s information, and I can “see” it properly now…

Dinetta said:

Still P O’d that the local gym chappie won’t let me sign up without a Dr certificate saying I won’t drop dead in the gym one day…because of my “age”… he should meet Happy Potter and BlueGreen one day, the git, to understand “age” doesn’t always affect one’s ability to avoid heart attacks etc….

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Still P O’d that the local gym chappie won’t let me sign up without a Dr certificate saying I won’t drop dead in the gym one day…because of my “age”… he should meet Happy Potter and BlueGreen one day, the git, to understand “age” doesn’t always affect one’s ability to avoid heart attacks etc….

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

are any of us?

I’ve started the evening watering regime. I’d better go out and move the sprinklers.

Temp is now dropping, gone under 30 now. But going for a 38 tomorrow, Total Fire Ban and the works. So I need the soil fairly damp to start with.

buffy said:

I’ve started the evening watering regime. I’d better go out and move the sprinklers.

Temp is now dropping, gone under 30 now. But going for a 38 tomorrow, Total Fire Ban and the works. So I need the soil fairly damp to start with.

Yeah .. it is the same here.

beginning to cool off though..
Maximum 35°C 35°C 31°C 34°C 30°C 25°C 27°C
Minimum 19°C 21°C 17°C 15°C 18°C 11°C 11°C

But you are supposed to be hot. You are inland NSW.

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

You’re active and don’t have a dicky heart?

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

are any of us?

I’m working on it and live in hope…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

are any of us?

I’m working on it and live in hope…

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

buffy said:

But you are supposed to be hot. You are inland NSW.

Yep. this is true.

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

You’re active and don’t have a dicky heart?

no, I’m not active as I have energy level issues, and I am on blood pressure meds.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

You’re active and don’t have a dicky heart?

no, I’m not active as I have energy level issues, and I am on blood pressure meds.

It can probably be said of me.. after I die.. that I had an evolved sense of self medication.

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

hmmm. I wouldn’t use me as a model of fitness or health!

You’re active and don’t have a dicky heart?

no, I’m not active as I have energy level issues, and I am on blood pressure meds.

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that…Hypertension and diabetes in my family but I am trying to avoid these. My lil bro has gout…

roughbarked said:

It can probably be said of me.. after I die.. that I had an evolved sense of self medication.

I’m sure I’ll work that statement out as time goes by…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Just picked up my harmonica and for the first time ever.. played soft kitty.. warm kitty.. little ball of fur.

I could hardly believe my actions.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

It can probably be said of me.. after I die.. that I had an evolved sense of self medication.

I’m sure I’ll work that statement out as time goes by…

not without evidence.. ;)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Nor am I
57 soon, ish.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Nor am I
57 soon, ish.

just a chicken.. ;)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

It can probably be said of me.. after I die.. that I had an evolved sense of self medication.

I’m sure I’ll work that statement out as time goes by…

Prevention being better than the cure?

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Just picked up my harmonica and for the first time ever.. played soft kitty.. warm kitty.. little ball of fur.

I could hardly believe my actions.

Hahahaha!

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

I’m not far behind you…

Nor am I
57 soon, ish.

just a chicken.. ;)

So, I’m making like a chicken today crawling through mud where grass will grow picking out old roots and stones, lol.
Bok Bok.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Nor am I
57 soon, ish.

just a chicken.. ;)

So, I’m making like a chicken today crawling through mud where grass will grow picking out old roots and stones, lol.
Bok Bok.

you said it ;)

justin said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

adelaide cup day here in adelaide – the mumbojumbo festival in melbourne…

is anyone else having the day off?

Canberra Day here. How’s this? Anzac Day is not a gazetted holiday here but Canberra Day is? Go figure.

noone goes to the adelaide cup – we just have a holiday.
peanuts and corn in the canberra hills?
have you just teleported from PNG?

just work with too many Canberrans.

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

I have those red buttons in my house and car.

Alarms??

yes. My car can be tracked by GPS. My house is wired so that I am never far away from a monitored panic button…

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

I thought, hang on, Canberra, ACT, public holidays…..

http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/communication/holidays

But that isn’t actually where painmaster is, is it……

I think, reading his posts here, PainMaster is in Canberra today, but he was commenting on the corn and peanuts in the PNG hills as a “by the way”…sometimes he lives up to his nom de plume

Nope. There are plans to be near Canberra in the not so close future… its not yet yet.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Just picked up my harmonica and for the first time ever.. played soft kitty.. warm kitty.. little ball of fur.

I could hardly believe my actions.

sounds good.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

I’m not far behind you…

Nor am I
57 soon, ish.

just a chicken.. ;)

won’t mention my age… youse might start calling me veg.

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

I have those red buttons in my house and car.

Alarms??

yes. My car can be tracked by GPS. My house is wired so that I am never far away from a monitored panic button…

No wonder you like to get “out” of a weekend, into your mountains or wherever…

painmaster said:

won’t mention my age… youse might start calling me veg.

…vegetative?

(Couldn’t resist, and I don’t mean it…)

Veg Gardener is 21 and he’s come a long way since his Steggles days (nights)…

Another hot one. Not that I’m complaining, I have air cons, and solar to run them. I’ll go collect new horse manure in the next lot of cooler days coming up.

Cold figs from the fridge for brekky, with a drizzle of honey, and a half slice of toast with strawberry jam. Yum yum.

Happy Potter said:

Another hot one. Not that I’m complaining,

I am. I WANT MY WINTER!!!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Another hot one. Not that I’m complaining,

I am. I WANT MY WINTER!!!

There there. It’ll come.

By now the neighbours are used to seeing me turn the hose on myself when watering the garden.

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

Happy Potter said:

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

Any chance you might stop a while at Gympie on your way North? I’d love to say Hello to you and Sis in the flesh.

Happy Potter said:

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

nice :)

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

You’re active and don’t have a dicky heart?

no, I’m not active as I have energy level issues, and I am on blood pressure meds.

It can probably be said of me.. after I die.. that I had an evolved sense of self medication.

hehe – if anyone left alive knows what self medication is.
the homegrown veges seem to be good for blood pressure and blood sugar.

I had an appointment at one of the regional hospitals yesterday. What an experience. We have been to Brisbane hosp. regularly with little trouble finding where we had to go. Yesterday at another hosp.was a doozie. Finding our way from the car park to the Hosp.was an adventure in it’s self then trying to find the floor and block where we had the appointment was a nightmare. There are twists and turns in the corridors. Red, Green, Purple and Orange lifts to choose from and everything with an ‘ology’ in it’s title stuck on every door. The whole time you know you are getting later and later for your appointment. It didn’t matter in the long run (literaly) because we had to wait almost an hour before we saw the Doc anyway.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

and I // 60th coming up shortly.

I’m not far behind you…

Just picked up my harmonica and for the first time ever.. played soft kitty.. warm kitty.. little ball of fur. I could hardly believe my actions.

by a strange coiincidence we went to the Wheatsheaf hotel and saw the “furball express” playing bblues including harmonica on satdy night.
i think the harmonica player might have done it before tho’.

try playing – “hello america how are ya – don’t ya know me i’m your native son – i’m the one they call the city of new orleans – and i’ll be gone 500 miles ‘fore the day is done”

Happy Potter said:

Another hot one. Not that I’m complaining, I have air cons, and solar to run them. I’ll go collect new horse manure in the next lot of cooler days coming up.

Cold figs from the fridge for brekky, with a drizzle of honey, and a half slice of toast with strawberry jam. Yum yum.

Mmmmm

Happy Potter said:

By now the neighbours are used to seeing me turn the hose on myself when watering the garden.

That cool water taking the heat out of your head feels good, yes? Beats having to get undressed for the shower…

pomolo said:

I had an appointment at one of the regional hospitals yesterday. What an experience. We have been to Brisbane hosp. regularly with little trouble finding where we had to go. Yesterday at another hosp.was a doozie. Finding our way from the car park to the Hosp.was an adventure in it’s self then trying to find the floor and block where we had the appointment was a nightmare. There are twists and turns in the corridors. Red, Green, Purple and Orange lifts to choose from and everything with an ‘ology’ in it’s title stuck on every door. The whole time you know you are getting later and later for your appointment. It didn’t matter in the long run (literally) because we had to wait almost an hour before we saw the Doc anyway.

Sounds like the Brisbane Mater these days…

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

Any chance you might stop a while at Gympie on your way North? I’d love to say Hello to you and Sis in the flesh.

Could be arranged. That would be lovely. I will find out.

Sounds good to me

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

No, I need to be laying down so I can stop running. lol

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

Stands up

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

No, I need to be laying down so I can stop running. lol

Apparently you get frozen first then they pack the dirt around you…be difficult to lift your knees…I shudder when I think of the early British times when, if they hated you or thought you might come back as a haunt, you were buried face-down…

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

I say go the whole hog and cremate all the dead. I know it’s probably against some religious beliefs but it’s a far more practical way of dealing with it.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

I guess you’d have to be wouldn’t you. lol.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

All those in favour, be upstanding.

No, I need to be laying down so I can stop running. lol

Apparently you get frozen first then they pack the dirt around you…be difficult to lift your knees…I shudder when I think of the early British times when, if they hated you or thought you might come back as a haunt, you were buried face-down…

no coffin then?

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

All those in favour, be upstanding.

No, I need to be laying down so I can stop running. lol

Cremation would stop you.

Anybody having trouble with the site being terribly slow? Maybe it’s out end. I’m not sure.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

I say go the whole hog and cremate all the dead. I know it’s probably against some religious beliefs but it’s a far more practical way of dealing with it.

…but…but…but then how would “Waking the Dead” solve some of it’s crimes???

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Apparently you get frozen first then they pack the dirt around you…be difficult to lift your knees…I shudder when I think of the early British times when, if they hated you or thought you might come back as a haunt, you were buried face-down…

no coffin then?

No, no coffin, just straight into a hole and dirt on top…can’t really recall if this was before or after the Roman times, might have been before? Wasn’t really paying attention…

At some stage, folk were buried in the foetal position…which makes sense…as if you were sleeping…

pomolo said:

Anybody having trouble with the site being terribly slow? Maybe it’s out end. I’m not sure.

Good here…our antivirus has expired tho’ …

heard on the radio of a stunt that backfired. Some youth made like an unmarked police car with a flashing red and blue light and pulled over a car and asked to see the driver’s licence. Only the person they pulled over was an off-duty police officer! they are now being questioned and their light has been confiscated.

bluegreen said:

heard on the radio of a stunt that backfired. Some youth made like an unmarked police car with a flashing red and blue light and pulled over a car and asked to see the driver’s licence. Only the person they pulled over was an off-duty police officer! they are now being questioned and their light has been confiscated.

Tch!

In Qld we take that seriously, believe it or not. Young lad pulled over an attractive lass about 20 years ago, said he was a plain clothes cop (he was 19!!!) and got her details…She made inquiries and he got a big fine and a warning and I’m pretty sure, a conviction (but not a prison sentence)…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

heard on the radio of a stunt that backfired. Some youth made like an unmarked police car with a flashing red and blue light and pulled over a car and asked to see the driver’s licence. Only the person they pulled over was an off-duty police officer! they are now being questioned and their light has been confiscated.

Tch!

In Qld we take that seriously, believe it or not. Young lad pulled over an attractive lass about 20 years ago, said he was a plain clothes cop (he was 19!!!) and got her details…She made inquiries and he got a big fine and a warning and I’m pretty sure, a conviction (but not a prison sentence)…

oh it is being taken seriously.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

heard on the radio of a stunt that backfired. Some youth made like an unmarked police car with a flashing red and blue light and pulled over a car and asked to see the driver’s licence. Only the person they pulled over was an off-duty police officer! they are now being questioned and their light has been confiscated.

Tch!

In Qld we take that seriously, believe it or not. Young lad pulled over an attractive lass about 20 years ago, said he was a plain clothes cop (he was 19!!!) and got her details…She made inquiries and he got a big fine and a warning and I’m pretty sure, a conviction (but not a prison sentence)…

oh it is being taken seriously.

So many think Qldrs are slack with the law…we all thought “oh yes it’s just a joke” but the coppers said “Nup, no joke”…

hee, hee

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds good to me

I say go the whole hog and cremate all the dead. I know it’s probably against some religious beliefs but it’s a far more practical way of dealing with it.

…but…but…but then how would “Waking the Dead” solve some of it’s crimes???

Earth to earth. Dust to dust and all that. Waking the dead can solve anything even if it’s dust.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Anybody having trouble with the site being terribly slow? Maybe it’s out end. I’m not sure.

Good here…our antivirus has expired tho’ …

My refresh is asleep I think.

Happy Potter said:

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

If I still lived in Townsville, then I would visit you in Sarina.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

I had an appointment at one of the regional hospitals yesterday. What an experience. We have been to Brisbane hosp. regularly with little trouble finding where we had to go. Yesterday at another hosp.was a doozie. Finding our way from the car park to the Hosp.was an adventure in it’s self then trying to find the floor and block where we had the appointment was a nightmare. There are twists and turns in the corridors. Red, Green, Purple and Orange lifts to choose from and everything with an ‘ology’ in it’s title stuck on every door. The whole time you know you are getting later and later for your appointment. It didn’t matter in the long run (literally) because we had to wait almost an hour before we saw the Doc anyway.

Sounds like the Brisbane Mater these days…

thanks to my staff member who recently got hit by lightning, and the other who now has an aggressive cancer in his mouth and the other who has chronic back concerns plus the other that has a son who is blacking out every hour, I now know the insides of the Port Moresby General Hospital.

Please do not say anything about the health care system in Australia again.

Please.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

heard on the radio of a stunt that backfired. Some youth made like an unmarked police car with a flashing red and blue light and pulled over a car and asked to see the driver’s licence. Only the person they pulled over was an off-duty police officer! they are now being questioned and their light has been confiscated.

Tch!

In Qld we take that seriously, believe it or not. Young lad pulled over an attractive lass about 20 years ago, said he was a plain clothes cop (he was 19!!!) and got her details…She made inquiries and he got a big fine and a warning and I’m pretty sure, a conviction (but not a prison sentence)…

oh it is being taken seriously.

HA! We get drunk on-duty Police shooting people….

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Early July I’m bussing it to the gold coast, then my sis donna will pick me up and we’ll drive the rest of the way to Sarina. Elderly rellies can’t wait to see me.
I’ll take a week and a half out of my schedule for it.

Any chance you might stop a while at Gympie on your way North? I’d love to say Hello to you and Sis in the flesh.

Could be arranged. That would be lovely. I will find out.

That’s a yes :D
Exact dates to be confirmed closer to the time. I can’t wait :)

Ahhh!! Good morning! It’s a gorgeous 18 degrees here! It started to go lovely about 3.00am.

:)

buffy said:

Ahhh!! Good morning! It’s a gorgeous 18 degrees here! It started to go lovely about 3.00am.

:)

cold overnight here – i needed a sheet to warm the skin at 3 am – but the house is slower to cool than the outside which cooled off at about 9pm last night.

bluegreen said:

hee, hee

““Like”“

painmaster said:

thanks to my staff member who recently got hit by lightning, and the other who now has an aggressive cancer in his mouth and the other who has chronic back concerns plus the other that has a son who is blacking out every hour, I now know the insides of the Port Moresby General Hospital.

Please do not say anything about the health care system in Australia again.

Please.

OK. I was just telling P about your experiences this morning, too.

painmaster said:

HA! We get drunk on-duty Police shooting people….

…but you live in another world…or do think we (Aust) is another world? Might have a port (with an ice cube) tonight and ponder the matter…

5 kookaburras today. Either cold weather or another wet spell coming on…I think 2 were babies…

Dinetta said:

5 kookaburras today. Either cold weather or another wet spell coming on…I think 2 were babies…

look out for the snakes they missed.

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

HA! We get drunk on-duty Police shooting people….

…but you live in another world…or do think we (Aust) is another world? Might have a port (with an ice cube) tonight and ponder the matter…

port on ice. Nice.

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

I had an appointment at one of the regional hospitals yesterday. What an experience. We have been to Brisbane hosp. regularly with little trouble finding where we had to go. Yesterday at another hosp.was a doozie. Finding our way from the car park to the Hosp.was an adventure in it’s self then trying to find the floor and block where we had the appointment was a nightmare. There are twists and turns in the corridors. Red, Green, Purple and Orange lifts to choose from and everything with an ‘ology’ in it’s title stuck on every door. The whole time you know you are getting later and later for your appointment. It didn’t matter in the long run (literally) because we had to wait almost an hour before we saw the Doc anyway.

Sounds like the Brisbane Mater these days…

thanks to my staff member who recently got hit by lightning, and the other who now has an aggressive cancer in his mouth and the other who has chronic back concerns plus the other that has a son who is blacking out every hour, I now know the insides of the Port Moresby General Hospital.

Please do not say anything about the health care system in Australia again.

Please.

I wasn’t saying anything negative about our hospital system. I have nothing but praise for the people who work in our hospitals. Heaven knows we’ve had enough dealings with them to be able to make a fair judgement. I was condeming the structure from where they dispence their knowledge. I don’t know where the blame lies for that but it’s woeful that sick and elderly have to trapse from pillar to post where you can’t even tell North, South, East or West.

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

hee, hee

““Like”“

More Munch art. It’s a beauty. LOL.