Yay! We're enjoying at least +20 deg C above that!!

Enjoy!

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Posting on another frosty start in the highlands.

It was a -4C (felt like -6C) start here with 13C being expected.

Cheers.

I've just come back inside to thaw out a bit after bringing the bin in and moving the 2 x 1000L IBC's (aka: liquid pods) that I got the other day under a downpipe each as the temp gets to 9C (feels like 5C).

Once I've done thawing out I just have to divert 1 downpipe and then both IBC's will be ready to get flushed out with this coming weekend's forecasted rain. Both IBC's came from a concrete plant in town of which 1 contained a quick set additive while the other had waterproofing additive in it, but for $50aud each they beat paying around $150 for clean jobs (and the longer drive to get them).

Anyhow I'll enjoy this coffee break for now.

Cheers.

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Isn't he a little tall for a little green man? :-D

Well a few beers was had for LLB after a morning out in the veggie plot. I harvested the 2nd stack of potatoes, but I will have to get some sand to mix into the compost for the next lot as the current mix still retains too much moisture, winding up with about 5kgs worth and next time I'll have a full frost cover setup over them for this time of year (they could've grow a lot more given the chance).

I also cleaned out my raise pumpkin beds, got the compost screw into them and then added some more compost to them followed by another good screwing to fully mix the lot while upsetting the worms, but they'll be right to go again come spring.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to cutting down my busted 1000L IBC to start making a giant sized wicking tub for carrots and shallots for the coming spring as well.

The mercury here also reached our expected max of 15C (feels like 13C) after another frosty -3C (felt like -5C) start.

Anyhow I think that it's time for a bit of a feed now.

Cheers.

Smoke signals in the dark...

It must be summertime for the firepit beers into the night...

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It was another frosty -3C (felt like -6C) start here this morning and we're now up to 15C (feels like 11C), 16C is expected today, after just finishing cutting my buggered IBC completely in half. I just have to pop rivet the label plates across the hole that was in the top of it now and line out both halves with builders plastic for 2 massive wicking tubs ready for when spring returns.

Anyhow it's now LLB time. ;-)

Cheers.

We have a feature out on the horizon to identify... With only a random guess as to how far away...

So... For the first time in years...

This is a job for the old surveyor's compass and a good old fashioned paper map!

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I got a bit of weeding done out on the old veggie garden bed today and I'm now ready to enjoy a few P.O.E.T.S. Day beers up at the pub.

Cheers.

By 'eck I hope you have a steady hand with the old soldering iron!

Meanwhile on this side of the planet, we have a beautiful full moon... Werewolves come soon!

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I was going to do some pruning today, but it's such a beautifully peaceful and sunny morning that I went back to just weeding the old veggie garden bed instead of making a racket with the chainsaw.

Anyhow, unlike yesterday, I won't sit on my milk crate for 90mins straight today as doing that near had me crippled and after just 40mins today I'm feeling it so it's time for a coffee break to straighten the spine out for another session of weeding.

Cheers.

After 2 days I've got 3/5th's of my old veggie garden weeded again, but the other 2/5th's can wait a couple of days.

I'll see how I pull up tomorrow morning and if I'm not feeling too bad I might play some hymns with my chainsaw as I'll be doing very little bending down doing that. ;-)

Anyhow it's time for a couple of beers and almost time to feed Dog.

Cheers.

Hazy blue skies and sunshine and... Amazing how quickly the pollution builds up for a modern day smog...

And strangely enough I'm soon to be soldering some decoupling capacitors on some brand new circuit boards from China... The ones already in place are unmarked and look suspiciously small...

And the equipment is strangely unreliable... So a good suspicion at profits boosting cost cutting?...


All good fun?

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I hear a sound that would make Wiggo’s day. The sound of landscaping being done. Landscapers are prettying up the vast fields of jungle tall grass here. String trimmers and leaf blowers abound. The smell of cut greenery is heavy in the air.

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Good old LA smog.....
When I got back to the UK in the late '70s I spent weeks coughing up yellow muck :-(

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I hear a sound that would make Wiggo’s day....

There's nothing like the sound of a chainsaw going off on a Sunday morning along with the smell of 2-stroke fumes and freshly cut wood I can tell ya's. :-)

I'll just take a quick break now before I break out my bigger ladder so I can get the chainsaw singing again. ;-)

Cheers.

Winning back home.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Well my weekend was a productive and quiet 1 for the most part, except for decapitating a tree again (but it needs doing every few years), and due to a late spinal reset I'm now finding that it's already Monday.

All that work was done as quickly as possible due to a forecasted rain event, of which there's still no sign of (plenty of cloud though), and I reckon that I'll pay for the last week sometime later today.

Anyhow I better try and get myself back on time.

Cheers.

a productive and quiet one

If one discounts the use of a chainsaw at xx O'clock to awaken the whole town.

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