A wounderful late autumn morning. It's drizzling heavily, although the weather forecast says it will be dry all day. The rain radar agrees...

Temp: 2°C (36F) and overcast, feels like -2°C (28F)
Wind Speed: NE 14 km/h (9 mph)
Wind Gusts: 25 km/h (16 mph)
Humidity: 95%
Dewpoint: 0°C (32F)
Visibility: 7 km (4.35 mi)
Barometer: 30.39 in (1,029 mb)
Air Quality: -- (---)
Daylight: 7:57 (Hrs:Mins)

It's drizzling heavily, although the weather forecast says it will be dry all day. The rain radar agrees...

That happens quite often here on top of the range, but I put that down to the radar down on the coast is at least 960m lower than here while the 1 to the west down at the base of the slopes is 750m lower. Though we expected some wetness happening here today the drizzle that we had from 9am to around 1:30pm didn't show up on either of them again.

Meanwhile we could only manage a sticky 23C (felt like 24C) here today and I'm hoping that the expected easterly will soon arrive as it's currently a still very muggy 21C (feels like 23C) as the last of the daylight quickly disappears.

Cheers.

It's cold. Officially it's -10c/15f with my thermometer saying it -12c/12f. It should be clear and sunny all day with a high of 6c/42f.

Bit of a shocker yesterday. Every device in my home set off an alarm warning of an earthquake yesterday. I had about 8 devices blaring an alarm all at once. It looks like we had a 5.8 Southeast of me. No one I spoke to felt it here. But it was felt strongly 150 miles away in the Delta.

A little late to the spontaneous human combustion party. A grocery store I go to has Carolina Reapers. Number 2 on the Guinness book of world records. I just call them “Two Screamers”. It feels like a blow torch going in and out.

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Hump Day is off to a damp start here while the temp is 14C (feels like 13C) with 26C expected before more rain and storms arrive.

Anyhow it's coffee time.

Cheers.

Earthquakes don't concern me that much either. I have been in several 6+ and one 7+ quakes. The 92 Landers quake threw me out of my bed. What does concern me is wildfire. The Franklin Fire is approaching my Malibu House. It's still in the green zone but the valley to the east is under evacuation warning. I still have crews working on some of the repairs from the last fire.


I have a house near where the name Oak Hills is on this map and a parcel near El Nido.

After 4hrs out in the backyard this morning laying down more cardboard in my mixing bays, then wetting it down, pulling some weeds, folding up and putting away the builders plastic from said bays before spending 90mins and a tank of fuel with my maniac brushcutter to get half of the backyard ready for the mower I'm buggered.

Meanwhile the temp is now at a muggy 24C as those dark clouds close up again.

Anyhow now that I've had a shower I'm enjoying a few beers before making some lunch with which to take a spine pill with followed by a spinal reset.

Cheers.

Another dull and cold morning 2,6C.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Well that's enough of this Hump Day for me with another with another morning of swinging the brushcutter about coming up.

Cheers.

21f outside and it's trash day. I need to pull out the barrels soon.
It looks like it's National Mountain Day. Bing has a quiz,
What is the second-highest mountain in the world?
Who was one of the first two men to climb Mt Everest? (they want the Englishman not the sherpa)
What is the highest mountain in the UK?
Who wrote the Snows of Kilimanjaro, in 1936?
Where would you find Denali? (the mountain, not the car)
Which mountain is the highest measured from the center of the earth?
What is the highest active volcano in the world?

Winning on a Thorsday morning waiting for that glow to start in the east.

Anyhow a coffee is required.

Cheers.

Who was one of the first two men to climb Mt Everest? (they want the Englishman not the sherpa)

Don't they mean the Kiwi?

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Here again in the Food Desert.

All is rather dark and chilly.

And for our just deserts... The sugar rations are piled high! I went for the least bad with fish 'n' chips...

Must come up with a more workable healthy strategy that can work for here...!

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Who was one of the first two men to climb Mt Everest? (they want the Englishman not the sherpa)

Don't they mean the Kiwi?

I was thinking the same thing.

Anyhow we got off to a 14C start here with 27C expected so I'll have 1 more coffee before I go and empty the fuel tank on my maniac brushcutter again.

Cheers.

Chill damp cold long dark nights for around here heralds:

A cacophony of screeching slipping drive belts and spluttering over-choked fumes rich old fossils chugging by... Too many of 'em...


There's a lot round here that is in need of cleaning up to be recycled in whatever way might be possible!

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I ran another tank dry in the maniac brushcutter, but at least the backyard is down to a level that the mower can handle, with just most of the front yard and a bit of the back laneway left to do. Depending on the weather tomorrow I'll either mow the backyard or finish getting the rest down far enough for the mower to get onto.

Anyhow as I cool down down in my 20C (feels like 17C) wind tunnel while it's a steamy 24C outside now and I'm ready for a few beers.

Cheers.

Who was one of the first two men to climb Mt Everest? (they want the Englishman not the sherpa)

Don't they mean the Kiwi?

I was thinking the same thing.

Anyhow we got off to a 14C start here with 27C expected so I'll have 1 more coffee before I go and empty the fuel tank on my maniac brushcutter again.

Cheers.

Do you mean Kiwi's aren't the same?

Maybe this might be a temporary answer or not.

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Who was one of the first two men to climb Mt Everest? (they want the Englishman not the sherpa)

Don't they mean the Kiwi?

I was thinking the same thing....

Do you mean Kiwi's aren't the same?

Of cause they're not and almost any Kiwi will tell you so, just like us Aussies. And don't be surprised if some take real offence at the suggestion of that being so. ;-)

Why do you think that we all play cricket for? :-)

Anyway we're now at a muggy 25C here. Yes we've passed out December daily average here yet again this month.

Cheers.

I thought it was all tea and crumpets.