30C today…summer is a-comin’ , Oooooh yeah…

Dinetta said:

30C today…summer is a-comin’ , Oooooh yeah…

Still under 20s here. No hurry for it to get hot.

I think we got to about 14 today, but I was inside all day working. Tomorrow is going for around 17, the a couple of 19s. But that’s good, because that is great for gardening. I’m in Casterton tonight, with plans tomorrow to do more weeding and mulching tomorrow. And some mowing too, I expect.

Rained here last night, I could smell the wet dirt but didn’t believe it was raining…we got about 10 – 15 points here but the aerodrome weather station said they received 40 pts…slow moving, wide spread rain cell still moving south east…

Cold here at 21C

Well, 19 isn’t going to happen. Barely making it to 15. No sun, the cloud has been hovering all day. I did get up quite a sweat with the mower this morning. And I got all sorts of bits of Callistemon down my t-shirt. When it was about 12 degrees. Now do you understand why I don’t like the heat of Summer? Impossible to work in for me.

I have acquired an el cheapo Hurry Up House for my tomato seeds this year:

It’s wired down to the table, but I doubt it will survive really big winds. I might keep my eye out for a simple cold frame as I don’t really need to hurry up seeds very often. I’ve managed for all this time without it.

I can recall, in the very early days of my membership with the ABC Gardening Forum, folk who spoke of keeping the seedling trays near the fire place and they also spoke of “pricking out” the seedlings…I thought they might have been in another country but nup, southern Australia mainland and also Tasmania…

When I locked up the chooks for the night, I locked up the tomato seeds in their little pots as well. All I have to do is remember that they can’t get rain in there….

Could you get by with just misting them at first?

Dinetta said:

Could you get by with just misting them at first?

Yes, but I have to remember to do it. I normally just let the seeds germinate naturally according to the weather.

:)

Hmmm might have to stick post-its on the bathroom mirror and back door…

buffy said:

I have acquired an el cheapo Hurry Up House for my tomato seeds this year:

It’s wired down to the table, but I doubt it will survive really big winds. I might keep my eye out for a simple cold frame as I don’t really need to hurry up seeds very often. I’ve managed for all this time without it.

You could also pin it to the wall behind it?

8C here now, apparently…cool anyhow…

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

Sounds delightful!

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

Sounds delightful!

It is. :)

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

nice. work?

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

nice. work?

Yes. There is work in it. Also a recuperative holiday.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

nice. work?

Yes. There is work in it. Also a recuperative holiday.

Lovely :)

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Well, I’m now sitting in a Macadamia orchard overlooking the ocean. 16.4°C at present.

nice. work?

Yes. There is work in it. Also a recuperative holiday.

Which is long overdue…nothing like the sea air to cure a lot of what ails ya…

sings…“Oh I like to be, beside the seaside…la lalalalala…”

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

nice. work?

Yes. There is work in it. Also a recuperative holiday.

Which is long overdue…nothing like the sea air to cure a lot of what ails ya…

sings…“Oh I like to be, beside the seaside…la lalalalala…”

:)

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

30C today…summer is a-comin’ , Oooooh yeah…

Still under 20s here. No hurry for it to get hot.

Cool weather here today with clouds coming and going.

Still 25C here …

Rained a bit this afternoon…about 30 points I reckon…

Wow, nothing out at the aerodrome where the weather station is, however Muttaburra looks like it’s getting good falls…

View from the back deck

I’m up at Newrybar. Spent today hacking a weeping mulberry tree into shape and clearing kikuyu from multiple garden beds and etc. Bluddy cobblers pegs wall to wall. I’ll be busy for a while.

Lovely photo…are you helping out somebody up there?

Finally…the weather station has registered r-a-i-n…2 inches since 9 am yesterday, most of which has fallen since 2 am…I think we have received more in town here…

Does not look to have rained where the races are going to be this weekend…pity as they could do with a freshen-up…more than an inch and the races will be called off…gidyea clay…

Freezing here, 14.3C…we might be at the end of the rain band tho’…

Dinetta said:

Lovely photo…are you helping out somebody up there?

Yes. Helping somone and enjoying it.

We have rehoused a 14 month old tan Boxer. She has a red coat with overtones of darker hair. She is called Hillary (but I’m really tempted to change her name to Lady Sybil). She met Buschka and Long this afternoon in the back yard near the apple tree:

She knew how to join a pack:

And Buschka’s sister is her great grandma, so she also had to show deference to her Great Aunt:

She looks keen to get along…your dogs are certainly playing nice…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Lovely photo…are you helping out somebody up there?

Yes. Helping somone and enjoying it.

Lucky them!!

buffy said:

We have rehoused a 14 month old tan Boxer. She has a red coat with overtones of darker hair. She is called Hillary (but I’m really tempted to change her name to Lady Sybil). She met Buschka and Long this afternoon in the back yard near the apple tree:

She knew how to join a pack:

And Buschka’s sister is her great grandma, so she also had to show deference to her Great Aunt:

looks like they are going to get on just fine :)

We have started calling her Lady Sybil. I prefer to yell “Sybil!!” up the back yard.

buffy said:

We have started calling her Lady Sybil. I prefer to yell “Sybil!!” up the back yard.

lol! In your best John Cleese voice?

bluegreen said:

buffy said:

We have started calling her Lady Sybil. I prefer to yell “Sybil!!” up the back yard.

lol! In your best John Cleese voice?

:!)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Lovely photo…are you helping out somebody up there?

Yes. Helping somone and enjoying it.

Lucky them!!

It is a bit of both. They get me and I get them +.

It is a bit of both. T

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Lovely photo…are you helping out somebody up there?

Yes. Helping somone and enjoying it.

Lucky them!!

It is a bit of both. They get me and I get them +.

It is a bit of both. T

It’s that time of the year

Dinetta said:

It’s that time of the year

must be an amazing experience

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

It’s that time of the year

must be an amazing experience

Like no other, BlueGreen…I don’t want to climb Kilamanjaro or Everest, but I sure would like to glide along those morning glory clods…

Light rain here in Casterton. We need a bit more, but I’m thankful for what we get. Last week I had the woodfire going here when I was consulting. This week I am working sans cardie. It’s about 14 degrees. I think I might pop a jacket on to go down to the bakery at lunchtime though.

Looks like cold wet wevver coming up for those south of the Border…over the weekend…rug up, get your wood chopped, lay in the chocolate and favourite DVDs…

9.4C at the aerodrome at 06:00…“everywhere else” (starting at 100 km) is 5 degrees or better, warmer…in the summer we’re generally hotter…nothing by halves weatherwise, here…

Good morning Holidayers. The BOM says it’s 9 degrees at the airport in Casterton. Well, quite some way out of Casterton, actually, and at a different altitude. Here in the dip where the town is all the cold has slid down and I reckon it’s more like 4 or 5 degrees by the feel of it. Won’t take long to get warmer though. Just about finished my noodles and soy sauce and I’ll be out there weeding.

32C here, clods building up…

Makes lovely walking weather of a night, particularly since that 3” of rain the other week…

eek, our local weather radar is out of order due to scheduled maintenance…my throat is cut…

Found us on the 512km Longreach radar…our temp is 31C…

Heavy clod cover in RockVegas at the moment…cool and damp…

Sunny here overlooking the ocean, overnight minimum was 16.6. Heading for 21 deg.

Gentle hailstorm just now…‘tis our season for them…

So lovely and fresh today after last night’s little hailstorm…has cooled things off considerable…the local stormbird nearly wore his throat out yesterday afternoon, telling us it was coming…

No rain here but at least my garden at home got 19 mm.

10C here at 06:00 this morning…5.8C at the weather station at the aerodrome…don’t feel so wimpy now about my light thin cotton jumper…unseasonal…and this is the month we pack away the woollens…

Dinetta said:

10C here at 06:00 this morning…5.8C at the weather station at the aerodrome…don’t feel so wimpy now about my light thin cotton jumper…unseasonal…and this is the month we pack away the woollens…

Well they had something like 30 cm of snow, Illiwarra to Bathurst. Someone opened the window onto the big southern iceblock.

http://twitter.com/Andrew_Lark/status/521997891888353280/photo/1

Unreal weather! It’s back to winter here. I was well rugged up to feed the chooks. Seedlings went back under cover, popped bottle covers over planted out comfrey seedlings and warm mash for the hens.

Happy Potter said:

Unreal weather! It’s back to winter here. I was well rugged up to feed the chooks. Seedlings went back under cover, popped bottle covers over planted out comfrey seedlings and warm mash for the hens.

Someone put up an egg-sellent photo of snow in the Blue Mountains…here it is, 15th October, and snow in the Blue Mountains!!

The temp plummeted to 5C at 04:30 hours this am, geez I knew it was coolish when Nefertiti moved from my feet to behind my knees…15C right now but it feels much cooler…

Who let the breeze off the Antarctic?

Dinetta said:

The temp plummeted to 5C at 04:30 hours this am, geez I knew it was coolish when Nefertiti moved from my feet to behind my knees…15C right now but it feels much cooler…

Who let the breeze off the Antarctic?

Yeah, got Max trying to move from foot of bed to under the doona. Ugg boots and big jacket on to go to the shops already.

Happy Potter said:

Yeah, got Max trying to move from foot of bed to under the doona. Ugg boots and big jacket on to go to the shops already.

My toes just froze, reading that…

:P

Storm bird carrolling away again…

13C here…got down to 10C at 05:00…nice

13 mm here overnight. Cool and cloudy, may rain again.

half an inch… a good steady soak, one hopes?

Stop talking about rain. It’s not fair…

buffy said:

Stop talking about rain. It’s not fair…

OK, I’ll stop. :)

I’m suddenly tasked with making a vegetable garden and fruit orchard work in kikuyu. They aren’t aware that I once vowed never to garden with kikuyu ever again.

buffy said:

Stop talking about rain. It’s not fair…

Your turn will come again…

roughbarked said:

I’m suddenly tasked with making a vegetable garden and fruit orchard work in kikuyu. They aren’t aware that I once vowed never to garden with kikuyu ever again.

There goes the kikuyu…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I’m suddenly tasked with making a vegetable garden and fruit orchard work in kikuyu. They aren’t aware that I once vowed never to garden with kikuyu ever again.

There goes the kikuyu…

At the least, wherever I garden. ;)

Time to pack away the winter woollens, after soaking them in a concotion of metho, lux flaxes and eucalyptus oil…proportions added to water…thankfully I have a Hand Wash option on my front end loader washing machine so the dust can be washed out first…after drying I then soak in the home made wool wash…it seems to work but also I add napthalene to the storage bags/boxes…complicated but it’s hard to buy decent woollen blankets these days, and by “hard” I mean they are costly…

Got up to 35.7C today, I thought it was a bit warm…

Tis the season to exercise after sundown…

Bet if I peg my sheets out now they will be dry in 2 hours if not sooner…

Sooner, I’d think. Although here we have dry heat and sheets dry in half an hour at 35 degrees.

We have 10 degrees and pretendy “misty ‘rain’”

:)

I see where it reached 40C yesterday, somewhere in NSW…far west I should think…

Wouldn’t mind some “pretendy” misting rain..

Dinetta said:

I see where it reached 40C yesterday, somewhere in NSW…far west I should think…

Wouldn’t mind some “pretendy” misting rain..

Sat, Oct 25 min 14.2°C max 39.2°C. That was where I used to live.

Cool change during the night and 2mm rain. Need more rain but the cool is welcome.

Northerly blowing, it might get hot…baaaad storms come from the north….

So I’ve got the airconditioner going in the study…

Bit of rain around but if our name’s not on a clod then we will not get any…

Hello Gardeners. Here is our Ephemeral Girl and The Pug sitting on Mr buffy’s lap in the beanbag watching TV. Right now…

I told you guys about the Ephemeral Girl, didn’t I?

buffy said:

I told you guys about the Ephemeral Girl, didn’t I?

Don’t think you did bring it across here yet.

buffy said:

I told you guys about the Ephemeral Girl, didn’t I?

Nnnno and I would remember a name like that …

Dinetta said:

So I’ve got the airconditioner going in the study…

I’ve got a jumper on today…

buffy said:

I told you guys about the Ephemeral Girl, didn’t I?

I vaguely remember you saying something about another dog but I can’t recall the details.

Yes but Buffy didn’t tell us the name or anything…

BlueGreen my aircon is on 25C and I’m thinking of knocking it up to 26C as it’s a bit chilli…

26C already…still as…

Quite cool here, 14C and cloudy. Should clear soon and a top of 24C forecast.

Bitumen melting…

Bitumen melting…

Whoops re double post…

35C or better here…the “apparent” temperature is lower…does the weather station have it’s own little cooling system????

Dinetta said:

35C or better here…the “apparent” temperature is lower…does the weather station have it’s own little cooling system????

a very pleasant 23°C here.

Pyrotechnics all round, no moisture in them tho’…

Ephemeral Girl is actually Lady Sybil. New Boxer bitch been in the household a bit over a month now. We knew she was a project, but didn’t know the half of it. She has a heart murmur. She had a bony growth on her shoulder (we did know about that) which fortunately was completely benign. Vet was still concerned when she took out the stitches from speying and growth removal, so one blood test later we know she is in renal failure. At 15 months of age. So we have her for maybe 12 months if we are lucky. We’ve informed the breeder, but will not chase him. He is over 80 and starting to have problems with memory. As he has not responded to our information at all, we have written to the breed club and asked if someone could give J some help as we feel he is not really coping now. We do not want retribution, but we don’t want any more dogs to suffer.

buffy said:

Ephemeral Girl is actually Lady Sybil. New Boxer bitch been in the household a bit over a month now. We knew she was a project, but didn’t know the half of it. She has a heart murmur. She had a bony growth on her shoulder (we did know about that) which fortunately was completely benign. Vet was still concerned when she took out the stitches from speying and growth removal, so one blood test later we know she is in renal failure. At 15 months of age. So we have her for maybe 12 months if we are lucky. We’ve informed the breeder, but will not chase him. He is over 80 and starting to have problems with memory. As he has not responded to our information at all, we have written to the breed club and asked if someone could give J some help as we feel he is not really coping now. We do not want retribution, but we don’t want any more dogs to suffer.

She is in good hands now at least.

Oh yes, “Lady sybil” I remember, she was kind of like a rescue dog, kind of, because the owner wanted a good home for her due to his/her increasing fraility in old age…

Poor little puppy (yes I know she’s grown but indulge me the emotion in the term)…

I hope you enjoy her company while the going is good…

30C already…gonna be a rotter of a day…need to ferret out that frozen watermelon 8th that I have…

Dinetta said:

30C already…gonna be a rotter of a day…need to ferret out that frozen watermelon 8th that I have…

I’ve never tried freezing watermelon because it so easily turns to mush.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

30C already…gonna be a rotter of a day…need to ferret out that frozen watermelon 8th that I have…

I’ve never tried freezing watermelon because it so easily turns to mush.

It’s for the chooks in very hot weather…

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

30C already…gonna be a rotter of a day…need to ferret out that frozen watermelon 8th that I have…

I’ve never tried freezing watermelon because it so easily turns to mush.

I do it for the chookens, RoughBarked…when the temp reaches 37C +….

21C…much much cooler today…thankfully…

Today will apparently reach 37C, so it will be frozen watermelon time for the chookens later…

I have a sprinkler dribbling for the woild birds…

Am currently putting my winter woollens through the put-away mix (lux soap flakes, metho, eucalyptus oyl) and once they are dry they will be packed away with some $$$$napthalene$$$$ balls currently in a plastic holder…which I plan to open up so I can spread the balls around a bit…it’s very hard to buy napthalene in workable quantities these days…will have to go to a pharmacist and buy some more camphor squares to pack away with the woollens as well…

Morning. It started out to be a great day. I direct planted more seeds, cucs, cantaloupe and some other seeds, quite possibly blue cornflowers, covered the lot from birds and went inside to put the kettle on. I hung the hose nozzle over the fence, from inside the silkies yard, and while I was inside the nozzle part burst and sent water across my lawn to the clothesline, wetting all the clothes that I’d spent time getting washed and rinsed yesty.
One day those clothes will dry! lol. The sun is peeking through in bursts, lovely when its on my back.

Coffee now then going to get the man to help me move some rio sheets. Ones for a extra cuc wall, the other is going out the front to extend the passionfruit fence mesh.

Dinetta said:

Today will apparently reach 37C, so it will be frozen watermelon time for the chookens later…

Cold southerly blowing here, only 15°C currently heading for 19°C

Noticed there were fires in the Blue Mountains yesterday and it was snowing there only a couple of weeks ago.

Happy Potter said:

Morning. … …

Coffee now then going to get the man to help me move some rio sheets. Ones for a extra cuc wall, the other is going out the front to extend the passionfruit fence mesh.

How did you get on, protecting the passionfruit from the thief?

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Today will apparently reach 37C, so it will be frozen watermelon time for the chookens later…

Cold southerly blowing here, only 15°C currently heading for 19°C

Noticed there were fires in the Blue Mountains yesterday and it was snowing there only a couple of weeks ago.

A lot can happen in two weeks. Sydney Harbours can empty.

roughbarked said:

A lot can happen in two weeks. Sydney Harbours can empty.

LOL!

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. … …

Coffee now then going to get the man to help me move some rio sheets. Ones for a extra cuc wall, the other is going out the front to extend the passionfruit fence mesh.

How did you get on, protecting the passionfruit from the thief?

Yes good. I only had to net the footpath side for a while and the thief got the message. The vine started growing through the net so I have removed it, for now.

Happy Potter said:

Yes good. I only had to net the footpath side for a while and the thief got the message. The vine started growing through the net so I have removed it, for now.

You can’t blame them for trying…

There is a storm pending…checked the BOM and it will go to the south, it looks like…hope a farmer gets it…

It’s got me beat why people shut themselves up in their houses, watching television or similar, and the weather is just beautiful outside?

very dry is this Spring.

Is it, tho’?

I’m of the opinion that the weather systems are a bit far soutth for this time of the year…

I’m down. We had a lovely visit with a friend and when we arrived home W simply didn’t notice that his vuy friendly chooks did as they usually did whch was come when called. He said hello girls then proceeded to drive past them. Of course he got one :( He didn’t hear the crunch. Then it was up to me to placate her sisters and put them in their pen and bury Honey then wash the driveway. :(

roughbarked said:

I’m down. We had a lovely visit with a friend and when we arrived home W simply didn’t notice that his vuy friendly chooks did as they usually did whch was come when called. He said hello girls then proceeded to drive past them. Of course he got one :( He didn’t hear the crunch. Then it was up to me to placate her sisters and put them in their pen and bury Honey then wash the driveway. :(

Ewwww not a nice look, for real…

Poor Honey…was she a good layer?

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I’m down. We had a lovely visit with a friend and when we arrived home W simply didn’t notice that his vuy friendly chooks did as they usually did whch was come when called. He said hello girls then proceeded to drive past them. Of course he got one :( He didn’t hear the crunch. Then it was up to me to placate her sisters and put them in their pen and bury Honey then wash the driveway. :(

Ewwww not a nice look, for real…

Poor Honey…was she a good layer?

Sad and yes not a good look. Yes she was an excellent layer.

Do you plan to bury her remains somewhere significant?

roughbarked said:

I’m down. We had a lovely visit with a friend and when we arrived home W simply didn’t notice that his vuy friendly chooks did as they usually did whch was come when called. He said hello girls then proceeded to drive past them. Of course he got one :( He didn’t hear the crunch. Then it was up to me to placate her sisters and put them in their pen and bury Honey then wash the driveway. :(

oh. that’s sad. :(

Dinetta said:

Do you plan to bury her remains somewhere significant?

I put her under the gardenn she loved to scratch in.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Do you plan to bury her remains somewhere significant?

I put her under the gardenn she loved to scratch in.

He had trained these chooks to allow him to pick them up. This meant that they’d squat down whenever people they knew loomed over them. When the car with his voice in it loomed over, one squatted in front of the wheel.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Do you plan to bury her remains somewhere significant?

I put her under the gardenn she loved to scratch in.

He had trained these chooks to allow him to pick them up. This meant that they’d squat down whenever people they knew loomed over them. When the car with his voice in it loomed over, one squatted in front of the wheel.

Awful :( That would have been distressing

roughbarked said:

He had trained these chooks to allow him to pick them up. This meant that they’d squat down whenever people they knew loomed over them. When the car with his voice in it loomed over, one squatted in front of the wheel.

B*gg*r

:(

Gonna get hot, 40C predicted for Sunday…apparently I am keeping les woofs until the current heatwave is over…

a very welcome 27mm last night :)

bluegreen said:

a very welcome 27mm last night :)

Pleased for you…

Some sweltering days coming up, I have both the sprinklers going where the avian wildlife can access them…

38C under the house at ??? 14:30 today…Lavender is as cool as a cucumber can be, under the circumstances, she gets a full dose of the breeze…

Chookens were grateful for the pack of frozen peas/corns (totall defrosted one day and I cbf arguing with the resultant mess for individual serves)…also a small serve of frozen watermelon…

About to dish up the fishy porridge…

39C at Emerald…hahahahahahaha! (and this is why I have the dogs for the time being…)

Out of curiosity I had a look at our rainfall figures for the last few months:

April 75mm (long term mean 39mm)
May 51mm (long term mean 67mm)
June 103.2mm (67mm)
July 74mm ( 69mm)
August 39mm (78mm)
Sept 29mm (66mm)
Oct 19mm (56mm)

No wonder I thought we were starting to get dry….

Cooling down fast here, dropped from 37C to 35C between 18:00 and 18:30

I’m short on frozen water so it’s not a good idea for me to go bicycling…

40C predicted for today…

Dinetta said:

40C predicted for today…

Nothing like that here.

I thought a cool change was coming through Thursday, Friday but the forecast has been revised that the hot days will continue…

Once I finish this “Module” of study, the Airconditioner is staying OFF as I’m only really turning it on to keep the study bearable whilst I study…

Dinetta said:

40C predicted for today…

feel for you.

For those were concerned, Evie passed out from her heart slowing down suddenly.It is not a classic breath holding but historically used to be classed with it even though later found to be a completely diffent cause. A better description is overstimulation of the vagal nerve, causing slowing of the heart and fainting. I’m going to use ‘pallid syncope’ because the other two possible names confuse people. It’s also called ‘reflex anoxic seizure’ but it is not epilepsy.

Evie refused to take off all the tabs where they attached monitors to her chest and the ankle and wrist bracelets. She wanted to keep her trophies. :-)

roughbarked said:

For those were concerned, Evie passed out from her heart slowing down suddenly.It is not a classic breath holding but historically used to be classed with it even though later found to be a completely diffent cause. A better description is overstimulation of the vagal nerve, causing slowing of the heart and fainting. I’m going to use ‘pallid syncope’ because the other two possible names confuse people. It’s also called ‘reflex anoxic seizure’ but it is not epilepsy.

Evie refused to take off all the tabs where they attached monitors to her chest and the ankle and wrist bracelets. She wanted to keep her trophies. :-)

Glad she is ok! Gotta keep trophies :)

The Sprekelias are out. And aren’t they just the most gorgeous things? Here is a photo I didn’t take this year…..but they are just as beautiful now.

roughbarked said:

For those were concerned, Evie passed out from her heart slowing down suddenly.It is not a classic breath holding but historically used to be classed with it even though later found to be a completely diffent cause. A better description is overstimulation of the vagal nerve, causing slowing of the heart and fainting. I’m going to use ‘pallid syncope’ because the other two possible names confuse people. It’s also called ‘reflex anoxic seizure’ but it is not epilepsy.

Evie refused to take off all the tabs where they attached monitors to her chest and the ankle and wrist bracelets. She wanted to keep her trophies. :-)

Did they identify the trigger?

Love that she wanted to keep her trophies, hope it doesn’t become a habit. My eldest got phantom pains when my husband was away. Didn’t trigger straight away why she seemed OK once we got to the doctor until he asked if everything was OK at home. She missed her daddy.

buffy said:

The Sprekelias are out. And aren’t they just the most gorgeous things? Here is a photo I didn’t take this year…..but they are just as beautiful now.

They are my fave of the bulby things. Yes. :-)

buffy said:

The Sprekelias are out. And aren’t they just the most gorgeous things? Here is a photo I didn’t take this year…..but they are just as beautiful now.

They are my fave of the bulby things. Yes. :-)

The aerodrome (local weather station) got up to 39.8C…reckon it was 39C at least under my house…the kelpie is suffering…

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

40C predicted for today…

feel for you.

Fangs…

roughbarked said:

For those were concerned, Evie passed out from her heart slowing down suddenly.It is not a classic breath holding but historically used to be classed with it even though later found to be a completely diffent cause. A better description is overstimulation of the vagal nerve, causing slowing of the heart and fainting. I’m going to use ‘pallid syncope’ because the other two possible names confuse people. It’s also called ‘reflex anoxic seizure’ but it is not epilepsy.

Evie refused to take off all the tabs where they attached monitors to her chest and the ankle and wrist bracelets. She wanted to keep her trophies. :-)

Oh good thing they have diagnosed it, RoughBarked…what happens now?

buffy said:

The Sprekelias are out. And aren’t they just the most gorgeous things? Here is a photo I didn’t take this year…..but they are just as beautiful now.

Well done!

A sweetly cool 25C at the moment…bought another half water melon so I can be more generous with the frozen segments…two small ones are better than one big one…

If it goes up to 38C again I am going to put the sprinkler under the fallen mango tree and turn it on, this afternoon…give the larger woild birds a chance to cool off…

Clods!!

22C here right now, freezing…

Dinetta said:

22C here right now, freezing…

I’m presuming that is a joking remark. Recommended indoor building temperatures for workplaces is 22 degrees. So it’s an ideal temperature.

buffy said:

Dinetta said:

22C here right now, freezing…

I’m presuming that is a joking remark. Recommended indoor building temperatures for workplaces is 22 degrees. So it’s an ideal temperature.

No Joke Buffy…I was shivering…when the air-con is on 22C I shiver too…so have increased the air-con temp to 24…more comfortable…the breeze was blowing stiffly through the windows when I sent that post…

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

Dinetta said:

22C here right now, freezing…

I’m presuming that is a joking remark. Recommended indoor building temperatures for workplaces is 22 degrees. So it’s an ideal temperature.

No Joke Buffy…I was shivering…when the air-con is on 22C I shiver too…so have increased the air-con temp to 24…more comfortable…the breeze was blowing stiffly through the windows when I sent that post…

22°C is starting to feel uncomfortably warm for me.

bluegreen said:

22°C is starting to feel uncomfortably warm for me.

I can remember, after two years at Armidale NSW, 15C was a blissfully warm summer’s day…

A far more benign 27C at the moment…pleasant…I see where it got down to 23.? early this morning, so the night made for easy sleeping…

The BoM shows some cold weather coming across Adelaide and Victoria soon…enjoy…

Spring in Longreach

Storms going over, all the flashy stuff with bursts of heavy rain.

Dinetta said:

Spring in Longreach

nasty :(

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Spring in Longreach

nasty :(

It is, hey? I think they still cool off in the local water hole, with floating eskies loaded with ice and drinkies…for all I know they’ve probably got a television rigged up in a tree somewhere, so they can watch the cricket from the water…wouldn’t surprise me, anyhow…

Happy Potter said:

Storms going over, all the flashy stuff with bursts of heavy rain.

Got that at 5.00am this morning. I was rather hoping to sleep a bit longer than that….

buffy said:

Happy Potter said:

Storms going over, all the flashy stuff with bursts of heavy rain.

Got that at 5.00am this morning. I was rather hoping to sleep a bit longer than that….

Hubby on nightshift can’t sleep for the cracking thunder. The house shook for one big rolling lot that ended with a loud bang.

Bit cooler today, only 34C so far…amazing how cool it is (by comparison) where Lavender is sitting…

Only 32C so far today, humidity is up…some hens have stopped laying…

“Possible morning storm”…has to be a typo…as if our area ever has “morning storms”…

A band of storms to the south, attempting to flow north…not a normal state of affairs…it looks like they’lll pass to the west of us hopefully to drop nice soaking stuff on somebody…

And you know it is Summer when the fire restrictions start. This weekend. Glenelg (Portland/Casterton) started last weekend.

buffy said:

And you know it is Summer when the fire restrictions start. This weekend. Glenelg (Portland/Casterton) started last weekend.

Started a couple of weeks ago here.

buffy said:

And you know it is Summer when the fire restrictions start. This weekend. Glenelg (Portland/Casterton) started last weekend.

I thought the fire restrictions were year-round there?

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

And you know it is Summer when the fire restrictions start. This weekend. Glenelg (Portland/Casterton) started last weekend.

I thought the fire restrictions were year-round there?

No. Only once the grass dries out. We aren’t desert. South West Victoria is Australia Felix.

eating my weekly Splice ice-cream…because it’s warm enough..

Dinetta said:

eating my weekly Splice ice-cream…because it’s warm enough..

Got some of them in the freezer. I reckon that might be dessert here too.

Cool enough (32C) to do some mowing earlier but it hasn’t been much over that all day, which made it bearable…

Went next door and checked on J1’s yard, she has been away a month and I just haven’t had the time or inclination to check…well one hose was not turned on and one citrus tree on that line looked windburnt…they are all carrying fruit…the grape was not getting a drip at all…and the citrus trees along my fence had no water (they forgot to connect the hose pieces to these trees) and one tree (the little cumquat) has lost an alarming amount of leaves…all connected and gently dripping now…

There is not so many mangoes this year but what there is, is a good shape and size…

She should be home in about two weeks just in time to harvest the mangoes…

Has been a good spring for mango fruit set here. Avocadoes as well.

Some reasonable sunsets too.

roughbarked said:

Has been a good spring for mango fruit set here. Avocadoes as well.

Some reasonable sunsets too.

Love it when the sun touches the clods like that..

here are a couple of pictures I took last Monday after the big storm. The light at dusk can be rather vivid after a storm and this time was especially so. The colour is not quite right, but close.

bluegreen said:

here are a couple of pictures I took last Monday after the big storm. The light at dusk can be rather vivid after a storm and this time was especially so. The colour is not quite right, but close.

Gorgeous! I love it when I look outside and everything has a pinkish hue.

bluegreen said:

here are a couple of pictures I took last Monday after the big storm. The light at dusk can be rather vivid after a storm and this time was especially so. The colour is not quite right, but close.

Fabulous BlueGreen, thanks for sharing…