Good weekend morning to everyone. Yesterday turned out much warmer than I expected, it got into the low 30s by the afternoon and we even had a brief hail storm, today is much cooler.
I have been doing a bit of painting, my back door which did need it and a mount for my new rain gauge. This one is a bit posher than the one I had before so I am mounting it on the fence. The paint is obviously UV resistant paint for outdoors.
Just about ready to give it a second coat already, these paints only take about 2 hours to dry.
Apart from that don’t have much to report. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Good afternoon forum people!
Since I was up way before the lark this morning and then off to the gym it’s time to let my hair down!
In the pub with Chilli jnr for a couple of drinks and a spot of lunch. A cheery buoyant atmosphere in here, the ghosts are hiding!
Upon us is that weird time of year during which it’s warm but everything is slick from early-morning condensation. I’ve reached an age in which that slipping and falling is a small but nagging concern during early morning running. The good news is that the sun should bake the slime off by noon.
Incredibly, we have a freeze coming this way tomorrow night going in to Tuesday, so I have to drag the tropicals indoors for a couple of days. It also means I have to scrounge around in. the attic to find the old heat-bearing Christmas lights I use to wrap the more vulnerable pots. It’s not until late January, if at all, that we get such a chill.
My daughter and I are breaking out the stand-up paddle boards (SUPs) later today as a reward for a slew of work we are doing this morning, and though we usually paddle the gulf, we are giving the river a go.
It’s all very interesting and sparks the imagination. The downside is that the outside of the poor thing has been incessantly bombarded with high energy waves over the years, making its surface is so old and beat up with radioactivity that researchers can’t tell much about its history. Kind of like me and wrinkles .
Thankyou kindly, S-mom. When I was school age, a very long lime ago, we didn’t have fire works but we were out in the farm. But we did other other things to amuse us. One the electric fence to keep cattle in. I used to get a bit of a jolt testing it - it was not so bad when I had on my Wellington boots. Unfortunately, my dog didn’t - the shock terrified him…(
Such a good memory of your exploration into the wonderful world of voltage!
My parents lived on a good-sized plot of land too large for fencing. As the town grew up around them, people complained about dogs running free on the west side of town that had once been considered country.
One day, my dad came home with two shock collars as part of an invisible fencing kit. My mom fumed over the idea of shocking the dogs, so Dad said he would try the collar himself at the highest setting. If the shock was too painful, he would abandon the idea. When I returned home on a college break, there was a new privacy fence in the backyard.
off by noon.
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