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Today was like yesterday - too cool outside in a summer dress but a bit warm in the car and just right in the house! I slept in until 8.30 am and #2 chooky didn't like that at all! I had another cat nap at mid-morning and now feel something like human again. It is 25C in the house and that will have been the max outside today. Funny summer we're having! (It was incongruously raining when we were singing carols yesterday - it should have been a hot, sunny day!) There has not been enough rain for me to stop watering my veges, though. A little more water has gone in the tank - which is just as well with me doing the washing, washing up, showering etc.
Old Flame borrowed Gyro's whipper snipper and was mightily impressed by its power. He tried to get his step-son to use it, but he didn't understand you keep an even speed and 'sweep'. He kept revving it up and didn't seem to get the sweeping motion at all. Old Flame's ex tried it, but it was too big for her, as it is for me. Old Flame is going to keep a look out for parts for my $200 electric one, which will be good, because I CAN use that.
Old Flame also got ONE mower going, because four 'O' rings arrived in his mail. He got them for far less on eBay than the shops around here. He is going to put one in my mower, too (because it needs one). Then he will look out for a carby kit for mine (I have NO idea where the new one Gyro got went! It's in a plastic bag with the old one SOMEWHERE!)
I don't think that I mentioned that the Clucky Chook did not like when I disturbed the nest. I removed them the other day to put some more hay under them because one egg was touching the mesh and I thought it might break. But I did not put them back in the right order! I calmed her down with some treats and then she went back.
Okay, I'm going to 'hit the hay' early tonight and then hopefully go to the local market tomorrow.
Old Flame borrowed Gyro's whipper snipper and was mightily impressed by its power. He tried to get his step-son to use it, but he didn't understand you keep an even speed and 'sweep'. He kept revving it up and didn't seem to get the sweeping motion at all. Old Flame's ex tried it, but it was too big for her, as it is for me. Old Flame is going to keep a look out for parts for my $200 electric one, which will be good, because I CAN use that.
Old Flame also got ONE mower going, because four 'O' rings arrived in his mail. He got them for far less on eBay than the shops around here. He is going to put one in my mower, too (because it needs one). Then he will look out for a carby kit for mine (I have NO idea where the new one Gyro got went! It's in a plastic bag with the old one SOMEWHERE!)
I don't think that I mentioned that the Clucky Chook did not like when I disturbed the nest. I removed them the other day to put some more hay under them because one egg was touching the mesh and I thought it might break. But I did not put them back in the right order! I calmed her down with some treats and then she went back.
Okay, I'm going to 'hit the hay' early tonight and then hopefully go to the local market tomorrow.
Mad, crazy day
So, I started the day unsuspectingly and a little slowly by getting up and letting the chook(s) out at 5.30 am but #2 chook was still in laying her egg. Then I had a cup of herbal tea. I made my way into town leisurely because first I wrote out all my Christmas cards (except for your OS people - not going to be able to do that) but then I got home and found a card/letter from my brother and his wife who live in Canada! I WILL write back to them, but they will not receive it before Christmas (unless a miracle happens).
The first thing I did was go to the neighbourhood centre because it was lunch time although I could not eat anything because I had diverticulitis. In fact, I missed the first course, which was all stuff I could eat (for once) but I couldn't have eaten it anyway. Then caring lady said that they had Colin James ice cream plus other yummy stuff, so I ended up having a berry dessert, some trifle and an Indonesian jelly called Agar Agar (so I'm guessing it was made from seaweed and a vegan option).
Then the volunteers, backed up by a local guitarist who did most of the teaching at the Flexi School until he retired a couple of years ago sang all happy Christmas songs that were not religious in any way and in several different languages! One of them was John Lennon's Happy Christmas, of course :)
As well as that, Caring Lady gave me so much 'stuff' that I ran out of shopping bags for my grocery shopping!
The line at the post office was so long it was out the door but I 'window shopped' on my way in, plus licked all my envelopes (which still needed sticky tape due to our moist climate, bah!). Also, I chatted to several friends :) And I got them into the mail box just in time before the delivery man took them away! In fact I had a panicked moment where I though I might have posted my car keys with them, but no, I'd only put them in the wrong pocket :P
Anyway, I got home after 5 pm with my last $5 spent on stamps (that was only 7 Christmas cards and a birthday card, too) and then tried to unpack my car but Huey wasn't helping. So, first of all, a light mist came down which I couldn't hear, so it dampened everything which was in my boot, then started to rain properly! Tom eagerly awaited what I had brought home, too, and chooky was busy getting underfoot in every open door she could find. She had to eat inside because there was a scrub turkey lerking outside. Bah!
Anyway, when I wasn't here Old Flame WAS here, waiting for the gas man to come. Gas Man didn't approve the van because the fridge was leaking right near the bed, which you DON'T want, so now Old Flame knows why the gas pipe was cut off. So, he has to cut it off again and get the gas man out again. Then maybe it will be passed and he can transfer the rego, which is due soon. As is his car. So, he's going to have a lean Christmas, I guess, although he can always find things to do at home when he has no money to go out. So, he's not bothered. He WILL be going to his family gathering on Boxing day still and I will be going to mine.
Meanwhile, today Old Flame first went down to the railway town where he got a hair cat, then went shopping, then dropped something off at a friend's place before going to the Dr in the late morning. Then he had lunch, then came out here to await the gas man. But he didn't lie around. He attached his slasher to his tractor and moved them out of the way for the Gas Man and cleaned up the campervan. Then he went home to help his ex to buy a plane ticket.
I am having trouble finding someone to look after the chooks. Mr Cleverhands will feed Tom (and give him a pat) but I don't expect him to be molly coddling baby chickens - especially as he will be looking after every other neighbour's chooks and cats within cooee this Christmas. At a pinch, I can leave food and water for the adult chooks, and Mother Chook will spill plenty of grain for her babies, but it will be harder to put water down at their level that will last three or four days without them scratching dirt into it. Hmmm...we will see. I've already asked Gyro's young friend if he would pitch his tent in my back yard. I'm sure he would enjoy a few days of quiet. But he has no car. Maybe if Old Flame was prepared to lend him his...but I doubt it.
So, Old Flame went to his Dr today and the Dr gave him some antibiotic cream, as he thinks it is an infection, and also a script for some antibiotics if it gets worse. The worst thing is to have a medical condition flare up when everyone is on holidays over Christmas. And going to the hospital would be the worst nightmare. Anyway, Old Flame took some Vit C yesterday when he started to feel cruddy and more as the afternoon progressed (as Bike Man suggested) and his fever and sore bit up his leg have certainly abated but his toe is still sore and swollen.
I took A Suitable Boy back to the library today (gah!) and picked up The Bletchley Girls from the reserve section, so I can finish that at least. The librarian lady I know (mother of one of #2 son's friends and ex-wife of one of #1 son's teachers...for TWO years!) said that one of her friends took a YEAR to read A Suitable Boy! I can believe that, too, because I found it slow going and had to re-read sections all the time, but I did love it.
So, the present I wanted to get #2 grandson had gone but the shop had another one which is good quality and I know both baby and parents will love it, so I'm happy enough with that :) I still haven't spent any of my Christmas money because that shop didn't have any of the chook book left that I wanted but they will be getting more back in so the lady said to keep checking, as I will. In the meantime, there are books in the book shop I want but didn't get time to go in there today.
In fact, I didn't even have any room in the car to get any potting mix today! Oh well, another day.
*Crawls off to bed, exhausted.*
The first thing I did was go to the neighbourhood centre because it was lunch time although I could not eat anything because I had diverticulitis. In fact, I missed the first course, which was all stuff I could eat (for once) but I couldn't have eaten it anyway. Then caring lady said that they had Colin James ice cream plus other yummy stuff, so I ended up having a berry dessert, some trifle and an Indonesian jelly called Agar Agar (so I'm guessing it was made from seaweed and a vegan option).
Then the volunteers, backed up by a local guitarist who did most of the teaching at the Flexi School until he retired a couple of years ago sang all happy Christmas songs that were not religious in any way and in several different languages! One of them was John Lennon's Happy Christmas, of course :)
As well as that, Caring Lady gave me so much 'stuff' that I ran out of shopping bags for my grocery shopping!
The line at the post office was so long it was out the door but I 'window shopped' on my way in, plus licked all my envelopes (which still needed sticky tape due to our moist climate, bah!). Also, I chatted to several friends :) And I got them into the mail box just in time before the delivery man took them away! In fact I had a panicked moment where I though I might have posted my car keys with them, but no, I'd only put them in the wrong pocket :P
Anyway, I got home after 5 pm with my last $5 spent on stamps (that was only 7 Christmas cards and a birthday card, too) and then tried to unpack my car but Huey wasn't helping. So, first of all, a light mist came down which I couldn't hear, so it dampened everything which was in my boot, then started to rain properly! Tom eagerly awaited what I had brought home, too, and chooky was busy getting underfoot in every open door she could find. She had to eat inside because there was a scrub turkey lerking outside. Bah!
Anyway, when I wasn't here Old Flame WAS here, waiting for the gas man to come. Gas Man didn't approve the van because the fridge was leaking right near the bed, which you DON'T want, so now Old Flame knows why the gas pipe was cut off. So, he has to cut it off again and get the gas man out again. Then maybe it will be passed and he can transfer the rego, which is due soon. As is his car. So, he's going to have a lean Christmas, I guess, although he can always find things to do at home when he has no money to go out. So, he's not bothered. He WILL be going to his family gathering on Boxing day still and I will be going to mine.
Meanwhile, today Old Flame first went down to the railway town where he got a hair cat, then went shopping, then dropped something off at a friend's place before going to the Dr in the late morning. Then he had lunch, then came out here to await the gas man. But he didn't lie around. He attached his slasher to his tractor and moved them out of the way for the Gas Man and cleaned up the campervan. Then he went home to help his ex to buy a plane ticket.
I am having trouble finding someone to look after the chooks. Mr Cleverhands will feed Tom (and give him a pat) but I don't expect him to be molly coddling baby chickens - especially as he will be looking after every other neighbour's chooks and cats within cooee this Christmas. At a pinch, I can leave food and water for the adult chooks, and Mother Chook will spill plenty of grain for her babies, but it will be harder to put water down at their level that will last three or four days without them scratching dirt into it. Hmmm...we will see. I've already asked Gyro's young friend if he would pitch his tent in my back yard. I'm sure he would enjoy a few days of quiet. But he has no car. Maybe if Old Flame was prepared to lend him his...but I doubt it.
So, Old Flame went to his Dr today and the Dr gave him some antibiotic cream, as he thinks it is an infection, and also a script for some antibiotics if it gets worse. The worst thing is to have a medical condition flare up when everyone is on holidays over Christmas. And going to the hospital would be the worst nightmare. Anyway, Old Flame took some Vit C yesterday when he started to feel cruddy and more as the afternoon progressed (as Bike Man suggested) and his fever and sore bit up his leg have certainly abated but his toe is still sore and swollen.
I took A Suitable Boy back to the library today (gah!) and picked up The Bletchley Girls from the reserve section, so I can finish that at least. The librarian lady I know (mother of one of #2 son's friends and ex-wife of one of #1 son's teachers...for TWO years!) said that one of her friends took a YEAR to read A Suitable Boy! I can believe that, too, because I found it slow going and had to re-read sections all the time, but I did love it.
So, the present I wanted to get #2 grandson had gone but the shop had another one which is good quality and I know both baby and parents will love it, so I'm happy enough with that :) I still haven't spent any of my Christmas money because that shop didn't have any of the chook book left that I wanted but they will be getting more back in so the lady said to keep checking, as I will. In the meantime, there are books in the book shop I want but didn't get time to go in there today.
In fact, I didn't even have any room in the car to get any potting mix today! Oh well, another day.
*Crawls off to bed, exhausted.*
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Old Flame got to his home bang on 9 pm last night, just as he thought he would. He had something to eat and went straight to bed. This morning he got up about 7.30 am and was up here by 10 am to start putting the mushroom vent in. He had a drink of water when he was half way through because he was puffed from going up and down the ladder, then had a cup of tea when he had finished. Then he was back out there installing the louvers in the door. After that he had a rest before eating (he is so wise!). Then had some lunch. Then he waited aaalll afternoon for the gas man, only to have him ring at 5 pm to say he couldn't get here today. So, Old Flame will have to wait here after he sees the Dr in the late morning tomorrow when the gas man said he would turn up again.
By the time Old Flame had finished today, though, he had started to feel sick and his leg now has a sore place. I think the poison from his toe is going up a blood vessel or maybe his lymph system. Just as well he is going to the doctor tomorrow. My toe is healing nicely, btw. But I am feeling like a bout of diverticulitis is coming on :(
Today I got my first Christmas card and wrote my first few. I will post them tomorrow. I didn't draw or paint them, though. I'm losing my touch!
Today was a weird day, weather-wise. Cloudy and cool. Threatening rain. It did rain lightly twice, and one of those times Old Flame was up a ladder installing the vent. He took his shirt off, so didn't get too wet. He was wiping sweat off his forehead later, not rain! (He wore his work shirt most of the time as he is fair and the sun just burns him - he doesn't get a tan - so he knows that it could damage his skin of give him skin cancer). Meanwhile, down south, they are putting up with tornadoes, strong winds and large hail. Many people lost their roofs, vehicles damaged etc. For example, one car was picked up and rolled on the top of a truck around the corner! The hail was as big as the largest hail here - as large as cricket or tennis balls - and jagged at that.
I felt like planting some cucumbers this morning but did not get around to it. By lunch time I was feeling too tired. There wasn't really enough rain to water my veges but showers are forecast tomorrow.
Of books and reading: I was reading The Bletchley Girls: war, secrecy, love and loss by Tessa Dunlop but I had to take it back. I've been meaning to post about it because I have found more about 'how they lived' prewar WWII in England. Stuff I didn't know and very interesting! I have put it on reserve again and it is waiting for me in the library as of today.
In the meantime I got on with reading the eagerly awaited A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and am enjoying it immensely. It is a weighty tome, however, and I keep dropping it while reading it in bed :P I also have to keep re-reading it to keep up with the cast of characters! (Four families.) So reading it is slow. EDIT: Doh! I have to return A Suitable Boy to the library as I couldn't renew it as someone else has it on reserve. Oh well, back on reserve it goes for me! Maybe I should actually OWN it.
Old Flame, bless his heart, has given me some money for Christmas. I intend on spending it on books, but that won't run to A Suitable Boy with all the other books I want! But I think I can order it, put a deposit on it and pay it off. The book shop is well patronised with couches to peruse your books on, lovely wooden floors and really good coffee to boot! I was going to get Old Flame an external hard drive, but his computer is dying. He wants to wait until the New Year sales to get a new one (can't blame him) but I can't run to getting a whole new computer. We'll see.
I saw a present for #2 grandson in the shops sometime before last week's shopping day, but forgot when on the day. I hope it is still there tomorrow. Wish me luck!
By the time Old Flame had finished today, though, he had started to feel sick and his leg now has a sore place. I think the poison from his toe is going up a blood vessel or maybe his lymph system. Just as well he is going to the doctor tomorrow. My toe is healing nicely, btw. But I am feeling like a bout of diverticulitis is coming on :(
Today I got my first Christmas card and wrote my first few. I will post them tomorrow. I didn't draw or paint them, though. I'm losing my touch!
Today was a weird day, weather-wise. Cloudy and cool. Threatening rain. It did rain lightly twice, and one of those times Old Flame was up a ladder installing the vent. He took his shirt off, so didn't get too wet. He was wiping sweat off his forehead later, not rain! (He wore his work shirt most of the time as he is fair and the sun just burns him - he doesn't get a tan - so he knows that it could damage his skin of give him skin cancer). Meanwhile, down south, they are putting up with tornadoes, strong winds and large hail. Many people lost their roofs, vehicles damaged etc. For example, one car was picked up and rolled on the top of a truck around the corner! The hail was as big as the largest hail here - as large as cricket or tennis balls - and jagged at that.
I felt like planting some cucumbers this morning but did not get around to it. By lunch time I was feeling too tired. There wasn't really enough rain to water my veges but showers are forecast tomorrow.
Of books and reading: I was reading The Bletchley Girls: war, secrecy, love and loss by Tessa Dunlop but I had to take it back. I've been meaning to post about it because I have found more about 'how they lived' prewar WWII in England. Stuff I didn't know and very interesting! I have put it on reserve again and it is waiting for me in the library as of today.
In the meantime I got on with reading the eagerly awaited A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and am enjoying it immensely. It is a weighty tome, however, and I keep dropping it while reading it in bed :P I also have to keep re-reading it to keep up with the cast of characters! (Four families.) So reading it is slow. EDIT: Doh! I have to return A Suitable Boy to the library as I couldn't renew it as someone else has it on reserve. Oh well, back on reserve it goes for me! Maybe I should actually OWN it.
Old Flame, bless his heart, has given me some money for Christmas. I intend on spending it on books, but that won't run to A Suitable Boy with all the other books I want! But I think I can order it, put a deposit on it and pay it off. The book shop is well patronised with couches to peruse your books on, lovely wooden floors and really good coffee to boot! I was going to get Old Flame an external hard drive, but his computer is dying. He wants to wait until the New Year sales to get a new one (can't blame him) but I can't run to getting a whole new computer. We'll see.
I saw a present for #2 grandson in the shops sometime before last week's shopping day, but forgot when on the day. I hope it is still there tomorrow. Wish me luck!
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Old Flame is really pushing it. He found the 'mushroom' ventilator at his home today but did not install it. Instead he had a rest and then went down the coast late this afternoon after the worst of the traffic had cleared and it was cool. It will probably not be as quick a run as he would like because there will be people out there Christmas shopping. Then he has to install the vent AND the louvers before the gas man comes tomorrow. I suspect he will fall in a heap after that :P
Today I thought would be one degree hotter but cloud came over and it was the same temp as yesterday. I did, however, get some sheets dry, so I'm very happy about that :)
The clucky chook comes out about every three days to have a feed and a dust bath etc and then I get the other chook's eggs. She is still laying an egg a day. Today she kept trying to get in just after the main heat of the day. I was puzzled because I would have thought she would want to come in when it was hottest but it turned out she was looking for her grain, which I had brought inside away from a scrub turkey. Oops! Eventually I worked out what she wanted, but her crop was nice and full anyway.
Today I thought would be one degree hotter but cloud came over and it was the same temp as yesterday. I did, however, get some sheets dry, so I'm very happy about that :)
The clucky chook comes out about every three days to have a feed and a dust bath etc and then I get the other chook's eggs. She is still laying an egg a day. Today she kept trying to get in just after the main heat of the day. I was puzzled because I would have thought she would want to come in when it was hottest but it turned out she was looking for her grain, which I had brought inside away from a scrub turkey. Oops! Eventually I worked out what she wanted, but her crop was nice and full anyway.
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Today was sunny and much warmer. It got up to about 25C but was 29C down the coast and in the big city. A perfect day, as far as I'm concerned and the washing got nice and dry, too!
I forgot to say Tom also broke my bathroom bin yesterday or the day before. He bent it once before. It has sentimental value because #3 son made it for Gyro. It is shaped like a basket ball hoop, and painted black, with the hoop part painted red. #2 son sure was envious of it at the time because he played basketball! Both #2 son and I thought it was a cool idea. #3 son is so creative! And the fact that he was able to make something at that age is pretty impressive. He had to get Gyro to help him with one bit but Gyro didn't now what it was for and sure was surprised and impressed when he opened his present!
Anyway, I was going to get two matching bins for the kitchen, so I might as well get another one for the bathroom and one for the 'little room', too. Today Tom knocked down the stool behind my back and made me jump! He had just been fed and went tearing ff the the bathroom again, as has been is want of late.
Old Flame has been working on the gas fridge of the camper van and today he rang the gas man to test on Wednesday. But the gas man was full of information. It seems the laws were changed AGAIN around gas two years ago. So, now the gas bottle has to be secured in three places, not two. Lucky Old Flame is handy, because he welded the third place on this afternoon and even painted it! They also want a vent above the stove. Luckily Old Flame has a little mushroom shaped one at his home not in use (never installed), so he plans on bringing it up from his place tomorrow and installing it.
Finally he has to put louvers in the door. The gas man told Old Flame which hardware store has them. I'm not sure when Old Flame is going to find the time to go down the coast and get it and then install it before Wednesday, though. He might have to delay the inspection/test until the next day. The only trouble with that is that he has a doctor's appointment on that day.
Talking about the doctor, I don't know what it is with men. Old Flame complained that his left big toe was sore last week but I couldn't see anything and neither could he. I thought it might be dirt down the side of his nail causing a slight infection or maybe a fine hair of grass had gone in there (they are transparent, so hard to see). I thought it would probably settle down and so did he, but on Saturday Old Flame complained about his toe again and I looked at it and declared that he needed to see a Dr ASAP. But the next day was Sunday. I repeated it on Monday when I discovered that he had not made an appointment. He said he would make an appointment for later on in the week (doh!) and now it is on an inconvenient day. Let's hope his toe doesn't fall off before than. I still can't see what's wrong with it, but it is now red and white in different places and twice the size of his other big toe. I will be relieved when he has it seen to.
In the meantime, my toenails were getting a bit long and I tripped over the kitchen stool today and split my left big toe nail. I didn't know until later in the day when I was (finally) cutting my toenails, but I had torn it and there is blood! (Not a lot of it.) Seems we have matching big toes.
In other news I saw a cane toad in the hallway the other day. I went out to the laundry to get a towel to usher it out but it had disappeared by the time I came back. I thought I might know where it was hiding and sure enough it was there. I thought it would make its own way outside of it wanted to, but that night I came across it in the bathroom. I don't mind if it is inside. I've had them in before and even had one hibernate in the laundry cupboard one year. It can eat all the bugs it likes. I just hope it can find enough to eat and drink.
I forgot to say Tom also broke my bathroom bin yesterday or the day before. He bent it once before. It has sentimental value because #3 son made it for Gyro. It is shaped like a basket ball hoop, and painted black, with the hoop part painted red. #2 son sure was envious of it at the time because he played basketball! Both #2 son and I thought it was a cool idea. #3 son is so creative! And the fact that he was able to make something at that age is pretty impressive. He had to get Gyro to help him with one bit but Gyro didn't now what it was for and sure was surprised and impressed when he opened his present!
Anyway, I was going to get two matching bins for the kitchen, so I might as well get another one for the bathroom and one for the 'little room', too. Today Tom knocked down the stool behind my back and made me jump! He had just been fed and went tearing ff the the bathroom again, as has been is want of late.
Old Flame has been working on the gas fridge of the camper van and today he rang the gas man to test on Wednesday. But the gas man was full of information. It seems the laws were changed AGAIN around gas two years ago. So, now the gas bottle has to be secured in three places, not two. Lucky Old Flame is handy, because he welded the third place on this afternoon and even painted it! They also want a vent above the stove. Luckily Old Flame has a little mushroom shaped one at his home not in use (never installed), so he plans on bringing it up from his place tomorrow and installing it.
Finally he has to put louvers in the door. The gas man told Old Flame which hardware store has them. I'm not sure when Old Flame is going to find the time to go down the coast and get it and then install it before Wednesday, though. He might have to delay the inspection/test until the next day. The only trouble with that is that he has a doctor's appointment on that day.
Talking about the doctor, I don't know what it is with men. Old Flame complained that his left big toe was sore last week but I couldn't see anything and neither could he. I thought it might be dirt down the side of his nail causing a slight infection or maybe a fine hair of grass had gone in there (they are transparent, so hard to see). I thought it would probably settle down and so did he, but on Saturday Old Flame complained about his toe again and I looked at it and declared that he needed to see a Dr ASAP. But the next day was Sunday. I repeated it on Monday when I discovered that he had not made an appointment. He said he would make an appointment for later on in the week (doh!) and now it is on an inconvenient day. Let's hope his toe doesn't fall off before than. I still can't see what's wrong with it, but it is now red and white in different places and twice the size of his other big toe. I will be relieved when he has it seen to.
In the meantime, my toenails were getting a bit long and I tripped over the kitchen stool today and split my left big toe nail. I didn't know until later in the day when I was (finally) cutting my toenails, but I had torn it and there is blood! (Not a lot of it.) Seems we have matching big toes.
In other news I saw a cane toad in the hallway the other day. I went out to the laundry to get a towel to usher it out but it had disappeared by the time I came back. I thought I might know where it was hiding and sure enough it was there. I thought it would make its own way outside of it wanted to, but that night I came across it in the bathroom. I don't mind if it is inside. I've had them in before and even had one hibernate in the laundry cupboard one year. It can eat all the bugs it likes. I just hope it can find enough to eat and drink.
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Today ended up being showery and cool all day. About 21C max today - 1 degree C cooler than yesterday. So, yesterday we had a low passing through from west to east (as they do) but today the wind had veered to the SE and we were getting moisture off the sea! Now that much fell. The most I heard of was 10mm at one place and 9 mm at another. My water tank is now just over half full - not good. It cleared late today so tomorrow should be fine...ish.
Tom has no table manners. So, I made a chicken soup last night and poured it over rice - a nice cool weather dish. There was a bit left over and I heated it up with a little rice added for lunch. After lunch I had three pieces of potato left over. I left my dish on the bench while I looked for a dark brown smoked glass dish that is heavy and flat to put the leftover potatoes in for the chook. Still haven't found that dish. But when my back was turned, Tom scoffed the lot! He has been eating me out of house and home lately, so I think I might make him some more 'soups', lol :)
Tonight when coming back from the healing night there was a sliver of new moon. So, happy new moon everybody! We have had three full dark nights (good for sleeping) and now the light is returning. The new moon was in Scorpio, but has now moved into Sagg if anyone is interested.
Tom has no table manners. So, I made a chicken soup last night and poured it over rice - a nice cool weather dish. There was a bit left over and I heated it up with a little rice added for lunch. After lunch I had three pieces of potato left over. I left my dish on the bench while I looked for a dark brown smoked glass dish that is heavy and flat to put the leftover potatoes in for the chook. Still haven't found that dish. But when my back was turned, Tom scoffed the lot! He has been eating me out of house and home lately, so I think I might make him some more 'soups', lol :)
Tonight when coming back from the healing night there was a sliver of new moon. So, happy new moon everybody! We have had three full dark nights (good for sleeping) and now the light is returning. The new moon was in Scorpio, but has now moved into Sagg if anyone is interested.
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Today was a much cooler day, max about 22C and light rain. Still, I braved it to go to the village market and stock up on fresh produce. There was even a man there selling free range organic eggs! (Not that I needed any; I have too many as it is.) He is selling dozens and dozens a week, and he still has lots! A man who makes cakes has contacted him to use them in his lovely cakes. Oh, and the egg man had duck eggs as well. All legal and above board - there are strict regulations. Some of his duck eggs were a pretty green colour :) Tomorrow is forecast to be 28C down in the big city, so maybe 24C here, with showers in the morning. Then it should warm up to normal summer temperatures again.
#2 chook doesn't like the rain and tried to get into the house all day. But she is not allowed because she isn't house trained. Supermarket man even inquired today if one of my chooks had been taken by a snake because there was only one around. So, I told him the other one is sitting on eggs! I still have not found a chook sitter yet. I didn't ask him because he works and he probably is going away to see family at Christmas himself. Mr Cleverhands can probably do it if necessary.
I don't know what happened to the lady next door. The car is gone. Maybe she was his daughter.
#2 chook doesn't like the rain and tried to get into the house all day. But she is not allowed because she isn't house trained. Supermarket man even inquired today if one of my chooks had been taken by a snake because there was only one around. So, I told him the other one is sitting on eggs! I still have not found a chook sitter yet. I didn't ask him because he works and he probably is going away to see family at Christmas himself. Mr Cleverhands can probably do it if necessary.
I don't know what happened to the lady next door. The car is gone. Maybe she was his daughter.
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Yesterday was a fairly hot day, tempered by cloud. I parked in the main street where there is no shade, so my car got pretty hot at first but then it cooled down, so that was good :) I was in so many air conditioned places that it was a pleasure to walk down the warm street and be in the warm car :) I gave Bike Man a lift home and told him about a new doctor he might try to get to the bottom of his intermittent stomach pain. I hope he goes to him. It turns out that he turned down an endoscopy, silly man. He might have been all cured by now. I guess he was trying to stay 'all-natural' but sometime it is not worth it! I hope he has not left his condition too long as I fear that it could become chronic.
Today is gearing up for a properly hot day. It is 29.3C in the office already! (11.18 am). It should get up to 31C. EDIT: It got up to 36C outside and 32C inside! My favourite weather! (No, I did not get too hot.) I have indoor jobs planned, although it would have been good to water my plants early. Oh well, late this afternoon it will have to be. Old Flame was going to do outdoor work today. I guess he has called that off! Tonight he has a radio refresher course with his Rural Fire Service.
The clucky chook got off her nest today. She seems to leave it every couple of days. As Old Flame pointed out, she waits until it is how enough for the eggs to stay the right temperature while she is off the nest. I have put food and water outside the living room door, but no, she has t create a kerfuffle and fly around to the back door where she not only eats and drinks but has a good dust bath (this time in the pot :P) before resuming duties on the nest. So, i grabbed the opportunity to grab #2 chook's eggs off the nest. They should be none the rose for a couple of days under her.
Last night there was slight thunder and a bit of lightning in the distance. There is a chance of a thunderstorm tonight. More of a chance tomorrow night. I missed my usual call to dad on Wednesday night because I was late with dinner and then had to cut up cat food. I'll have to leave it now until this round of thunderstorms are over. I'm sure he'll understand. Except for the missed call on Wednesday night :P
EDIT: We had a small thunderstorm tonight and very little rain. But it is forecast to be a rainy day tomorrow and should be much cooler.
EDIT EDIT: I became a little worried about #2 chook today. I let her out at 5.30 am and then didn't see her again until about 2 pm when cloud came over. Then she proceeded to be a nuisance for the rest of the day :P She must have been up in the bamboo or maybe sleeping under the new neighbour's house!
Today is gearing up for a properly hot day. It is 29.3C in the office already! (11.18 am). It should get up to 31C. EDIT: It got up to 36C outside and 32C inside! My favourite weather! (No, I did not get too hot.) I have indoor jobs planned, although it would have been good to water my plants early. Oh well, late this afternoon it will have to be. Old Flame was going to do outdoor work today. I guess he has called that off! Tonight he has a radio refresher course with his Rural Fire Service.
The clucky chook got off her nest today. She seems to leave it every couple of days. As Old Flame pointed out, she waits until it is how enough for the eggs to stay the right temperature while she is off the nest. I have put food and water outside the living room door, but no, she has t create a kerfuffle and fly around to the back door where she not only eats and drinks but has a good dust bath (this time in the pot :P) before resuming duties on the nest. So, i grabbed the opportunity to grab #2 chook's eggs off the nest. They should be none the rose for a couple of days under her.
Last night there was slight thunder and a bit of lightning in the distance. There is a chance of a thunderstorm tonight. More of a chance tomorrow night. I missed my usual call to dad on Wednesday night because I was late with dinner and then had to cut up cat food. I'll have to leave it now until this round of thunderstorms are over. I'm sure he'll understand. Except for the missed call on Wednesday night :P
EDIT: We had a small thunderstorm tonight and very little rain. But it is forecast to be a rainy day tomorrow and should be much cooler.
EDIT EDIT: I became a little worried about #2 chook today. I let her out at 5.30 am and then didn't see her again until about 2 pm when cloud came over. Then she proceeded to be a nuisance for the rest of the day :P She must have been up in the bamboo or maybe sleeping under the new neighbour's house!
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Today was about the same temperature as yesterday. Yesterday was a nice sunny day and I got lots of washing done, but today I planned on washing sheets, but didn't. It was still very warm with the sun glowing through the clouds.
#2 chookie has been entertaining me with her antics by dust bathing in a pot outside my kitchen window recently. She wasn't so amusing in the middle of the day today, though. They like to come in, because it is cooler than outside. So, I let her for a few minutes...until she pooped on the floor. I promptly put her out, then she worked out that she could come in the dining room door although I had the curtain pulled over to fool her (that sometimes works).
She was trying to get up on something. I thought she might perch there and had got rid of all her poops for a while but then she hopped up on the table and started pecking at a peach! So, she was promptly ousted outside again. I will try to find a cage they can go in during the hottest part of the day if they want to. It's funny, I've kept seeing cages that would have done at the recycling centre and markets. Now I know why I needed one! A slide out tray at the bottom would be good, and a couple of perches. I know chookies like wide percehes so they don't hurt their little feeties :)
And I received sad news today. I talented musician whom I really liked and would have liked to be better friends with passed away on Monday by his own hand. I knew he had a mental illness. What a pity. Many of us would have been there for him if we knew he needed us. I just hope he didn't leave any distraught family behind.
#2 chookie has been entertaining me with her antics by dust bathing in a pot outside my kitchen window recently. She wasn't so amusing in the middle of the day today, though. They like to come in, because it is cooler than outside. So, I let her for a few minutes...until she pooped on the floor. I promptly put her out, then she worked out that she could come in the dining room door although I had the curtain pulled over to fool her (that sometimes works).
She was trying to get up on something. I thought she might perch there and had got rid of all her poops for a while but then she hopped up on the table and started pecking at a peach! So, she was promptly ousted outside again. I will try to find a cage they can go in during the hottest part of the day if they want to. It's funny, I've kept seeing cages that would have done at the recycling centre and markets. Now I know why I needed one! A slide out tray at the bottom would be good, and a couple of perches. I know chookies like wide percehes so they don't hurt their little feeties :)
And I received sad news today. I talented musician whom I really liked and would have liked to be better friends with passed away on Monday by his own hand. I knew he had a mental illness. What a pity. Many of us would have been there for him if we knew he needed us. I just hope he didn't leave any distraught family behind.
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It was a nice warm day, today. Not too hot and not too cold. But I did too much and now I am tired!
I forgot to say, a friend rang me up a couple of days ago, and said that she went to the festival that is in a street near #1 daughter's. I suspected that #1 daughter, #1 SIL and my granddaughters might be there, and I was right. But what I didn't know was that #3 son was there, playing in a band. This was on a deck at the back of a house. A small street is closed off and about four houses have various genres of music playing at them. Anyway, #3 son has since left that band since their music was not quite what he was into. Still, my friend reckoned that their music was good!
Tomorrow is forecast to be 1C hotter, perhaps with a storm at the end of the day. Now, off to bed for me!
I forgot to say, a friend rang me up a couple of days ago, and said that she went to the festival that is in a street near #1 daughter's. I suspected that #1 daughter, #1 SIL and my granddaughters might be there, and I was right. But what I didn't know was that #3 son was there, playing in a band. This was on a deck at the back of a house. A small street is closed off and about four houses have various genres of music playing at them. Anyway, #3 son has since left that band since their music was not quite what he was into. Still, my friend reckoned that their music was good!
Tomorrow is forecast to be 1C hotter, perhaps with a storm at the end of the day. Now, off to bed for me!