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Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I'm feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
Tonight's wave / smoke:
That's an amazing photo
wow
Gorgeous!
It's officially below 30 degrees. Yay!
Gibson's unsure of the portable aircon lol
I had the brilliant idea tonight when filling the water tray for animals to put the timer on and set it to a slow trickle. That'll keep it topped up and I know some animals are more likely to drink from running water than still
Thatβs genius. It would be so cool to have a solar powered water fountain recycling a tank of clean water (with a filter to sieve out mosquito larvae and kill them).
Replacing the water and cleaning the fountain would be a job though.
I did the slow release thing with blocks of ice before but now just fill an automatic water dispenser sold for pets
Running water should be enough to stop mosquitoes but a filter would be great for everything else that gets caught in there. I think I'll do the dribble timer next hot day we have too
a predator cannot distinguish between prey and accomplice
Cool change is making its way across the Geelong plains. Should be here soon.
Glad i decided not to head back to melbs. Currently 24 here in queenscliff. Got to about 40-ish but felt a lot cooler next to the ocean.
The WSW / soon to be SSW is bringing a lot of smoke from the otways though.
The wind has increased in my hood, maybe has dropped a couple degrees but still very hot. I think itβs going to be a gradual cooldown tonight.
Gonna take the dog for the arvo walk and by walk I mean take him out to the front porch where he'll stare at me with the "What the fuck?!" look but at least he'll stop with the "where's my fuckin walk" looks I'm getting now.
I took him out when going to the car for some tools, he absolutely stayed on the porch with a strong "nu-uh" vibe about him. I took the tools through the side gate to the shed and he still wouldn't leave the porch to run around the side and come back in that way. So I went an got him and brought him back into the AC, he had a big drink on the way back.
Thank god this gig tonight is at the Croxton. It's close to home and has decent parking. Just as long as the air conditioner works well in there
Trying toast with mustard. I don't know if this will be a good idea or not, but yay to trying new things.
Edit: was great w a fried egf
I used to eat mustard and mayo sandwiches when on struggle street.
I used to eat just mayo or mustard pickle on a slice of bread.
Or tomato sauce and spam sandwiches if you had spam. A cousin of the baloney/devon sandwich
My WWII grandmother passed on her appreciation of corned beef sandwiches to me. Even though I've mostly stopped eating meat I still feel like reaching for it in Aldi. My other gran gave me a taste for Fray Bentos pies, which are their own culinary abomination.
I used to love corned beef when I could eat it but I tried the tinned one from Aldi many years back and it wasnβt very good. A lot of gloopiness and connective tissue, not very tasty, kind of reminded me of how dog food looks and smells.
Iβd eat it if I was starving (and able to digest meat) but it fell a bit below even my low standards :(
I wouldnβt be above one of the Frays pies though, they just look like tinned pot pies
Stick a fried egg on top. Trust me.
It was so good, thanks for the rec
Never had that. I used to like putting nutritional yeast on hot buttered toast.
Otherwise maybe try tiger toast (cut slices of cheese over Vegemite toast to make stripes). Or melting cheese over the mustard under the grill, mustard goes great with cheesy things.
keep those of us without air conditioning in your thoughts today π₯²
I just assumed you all died, it's good to hear that at least one of you is still alive. I don't do well with heat, if I didn't have AC I'd either be camped out in the shower running cool water over myself or on the floor crying. I wish I was more like Miss Meow, who is currently voluntarily outside.
Has anyone heard from just_kitten or Duenan lately? Hope they're doing well
I have seen a few posts from just_kitten recently at the other place.
ahhhh train cancellations and delays due to the heat. Never change, Melbourne, love ya ππ₯΅
Dear cat jesus, thank you for letting me work from home today. I will dispense the appropriate treats to your people.
Work done, drinking a cold cider and playing JSAB with the teenage offspring, then off to the pool.
change over to new phone nearly complete, it will only take ... 10 hours!!! now 11
this is obviously relativistic ,
there is something not right
I think I will wait until the weather is cooler and my phones won't cook
Just chatting about journaling.
spoiler
I absolutely adore my diary from last year, it's filled with stickers and washi tape and random colours where I've felt like it, along with noting all of the things I did like dinners out and drives we went on or even just things like the day Boyo lost his sunnies in the bay. It helps that it was a Kikki K creativity diary and while I didn't utilise it to its full extent, it did inspire me with some of the prompts. I'm sad they didn't do another one this year.
Lately I've been getting into junk journaling, but it's felt a little harder because I feel like I want it always to be perfect, but I don't know what that perfect is. I keep reminding myself that no one is ever going to see it unless I choose to show them.
Anyway, I've got it into my head that I want one of those little instax polaroid printer so I can print little pictures to add to my diary and journal, think I'm going to go and buy one after work.
