Just another rainy and cold morning here.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The temp made it to a very humid and overcast 25C (felt like 24C), but none of that rain turned up.

Anyhow it's about time I called it a night in preparation for getting these annoying stitches out of my leg in the morning.

Cheers.

When will this star go KABOOM?

That's the $64 Billion question.

It will. But why $64 billion? Betting odds?

The temp made it to a very humid and overcast 25C (felt like 24C), but none of that rain turned up.

Anyhow it's about time I called it a night in preparation for getting these annoying stitches out of my leg in the morning.

Cheers.

I keep my fingers crossed Wiggo.
I don`t like such things, i always have one that don`t want to come out.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Good luck with the stick removal. I understand that can be a tricky procedure, if he doesn't want to be removed.

Winning on a Hump Day morning as that glow in the east increases. It's also 17C here with 25C expected.

I'll be happy if I don't spring a leak like last time, but I will take a couple of patches with me just in case this time.

Anyhow It's time for a coffee.

Cheers.

Well the mercury here reached a very muggy 26C (felt like 27C) today before the rain and storms hit.

Meanwhile my leg certainly feels better with 6 of the 9 stitches out, including the 2 that were pulling, but I have to wait until Monday for the last 3 to be removed and no leaks were sprung this time.

Anyhow as Thor plays his favourite tunes I'm trying to evacuate the heat out of my unit so I can feed Dog and try to get a spinal reset in before the power goes out again.

Cheers.

Back from shopping after i got a nice tax refund.

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Winning on a Thorsday morning in the highlands as a dull glow begins in the east and the temp is at a muggy 18C (feels like 19C) with 26C expected along with more wet weather latter in the day.

Today I'll finish drilling a lot of holes in another 8 pieces of 50mm PVC pipe for my wicking tubs as I worked out the other day with 6 tubs of the same size that I might as well prepare all the bits and pieces for the lot all at the same time to do all at once instead of doing just 1 at a time plus I had to get 2 missing bits while I was in town yesterday (I ran the village out of 50mm PVC elbows).

Anyhow it's time for a coffee.

Cheers.

37F outdoors 75F indoors, my heat pump has to defrost quite frequntly.

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Back in the dark wetness that is the Food Desert...

Just heard one horror story from the best person here of living off totally fast food... Stomach churning!

More positively, a very chunky tracked excavator has remade a few miles of drainage ditches. Hopefully that will head off any further flooding and mud?...

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I just finished drilling and assembling the 6 water filling/distribution/storage piping and now I'm just getting my last coffee for the morning in before I perforate the 6 remaining water distribution/storage pipes required to finish the bottom of my tubs off. Then once the perlite layer goes into the first 1 I can cut the 6 pieces of Geo-mesh needed to finish them all off and hopefully I'll have that done by the end of the weekend (depending on the weather for the adding of the soil).

We're also up to a very muggy 22C as some clouds start to build up again.

Anyhow I better get back to this coffee before drilling another couple of hundred holes then it'll be time to head to the post office to pay another bill before having a LLB on the way back.

Cheers.

Back in the dark wetness that is the Food Desert...

More positively, a very chunky tracked excavator has remade a few miles of drainage ditches. Hopefully that will head off any further flooding and mud?...

Wiggo is preparing all kinds of distribution pipes for the summer drought. It seems that such things are unheard of in the food desert...

Wiggo is preparing all kinds of distribution pipes for the summer drought.

Actually we're in our wet season here and we've almost got half our average December rainfall already.

Well I got everything done that I wanted to do today for a change and tomorrow morning I add a layer of perlite to the 1st wicking tub that I have lined and the pipework fitted then I can measure and cut the 6 pieces of Geo-mesh required to complete all 6 with the hope of having at least 2 fully completed before my Good Friday LLB arrives.

Now I wonder if I can get another very rare 8hr sleep in again tonight, but I'm not counting on it.

Cheers.

Pipes are far too 'High Tech' for around here. Even the supposed 'expert' pipe fitters on site can't get anything straight... Physically or mentally!!


All this ongoing rain really is dampening everything, inside as well as out. There is a lot of water slopping on the ground. Also, we've had almost no daylight today.

All badly good for dampening the spirits... Hey ho...


Meanwhile, I'm very pleased with the ease and speed of clearing some of the burocracy. Good to see the good results already.

Unfortunately, there is other burocracy, with foreign support that is a frustrating (deliberate?) total waste of time, that is expensively wasting a lot of time. There should be laws against such lock-in...

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Winning on a clear Good Friday morning as the sun rises where it's 15C with 27C expected along with the usual unstable weather due later this afternoon.

Anyhow it's time for a 2nd coffee.

Cheers.

Now that I'm all square with the world again for another fortnight I'll get my 3rd coffee in for the morning before checking on my veggies and then getting back to my new wicking tubs.

We're already up to a muggy 19C (feels like 20C) as a few wispy clouds start to float about.

Cheers.

Here it`s time for some beers after another busy day.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Here, lost the will to live earlier from trying to explain fluid volume to a supposed skilled worker who looked more like something off an old comedy TV series. He was even resplendent in a WWII military style woolly hat... With a very woolly mentality to go with it...

So, getting to within 5% after much 'encouragement' is more than 'good enough' for him. And be thankful!

All needlessly hard work when far better results can be oh so much easier... For far better results all round.

Hey ho?


Definitely, beer needed!

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It's getting very uncomfortable here as we exceed our average December temp for the 6th day in a row as we're already up to a very muggy 25C (feels like 26C) and I didn't enjoy being out in the sun filling the 1st of my new wicking tubs up with a soil/compost mix.

I'm now going to have a short cool down break before I go back downstairs to start assembling the 2nd 1 where it's already 26C down there.

Cheers.