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Elder Minipeeler decided to spontaneously clean his room today, mainly and noticeably focusing on purging old school stuff. Did a thorough job and I'm very proud of him.
In the meantime Miniest made a carrot cake, with very little intervention from me (gotta make sure the batter actually ends up in the cake tin and less in the mouth lol)
Gorgeous! Ask Miniest to send me some (if there's any left).
Tell miniest that looks like an excellent cake :)
You have an excellent set of Minipeelers there :)
Was gonna go to CERES community garden today, but the weather is dodgy so no guarantee the market will be on.
My oodie has been donned, and escape room game has been loaded 😙👌
Drinks with a friend, very lovely to see 💜 consumed some Guzman y Gomez and got a noice whiskey
Waaaaakkkkeeee Uuuuuup Everybody! Time's a-wasting. Lots to do today. Big shop for bulk household stuff, market for fresh stuff (Preston), laundry, garden & a lunch appointment that I'm not altogether thrilled about. This afternoon I'll probably dissolve into a puddle and rest.
After yesterday's drama I'm just going to putter and chill.
cracks an eye I just did stuff yesterday
Saturday afternoon is the perfect time for "doing sweet fuck all". This is my recharge time from the work week.
Sunday is for chores etc.
But Saturday afternoon is blissful nothingness.
Also I bought a pair of Carhart pants. The last pair lasted 5ish years. Heavy initial cost, but the saving is significant over time.
My chores are done for today. Finally getting some food then I’m doing SFA till my Geelong Cats play this late afternoon.
Almost feels like I didn’t get much done in the end and it’s Already so late.
Have been learning about cars the last few weeks as I'm about to buy something cheap.
Looks like the old reliable corolla is going to be the pick.
Corolla 4 life.
Ugh, I hate that feeling when your ears don't pop after a flight... but I'm glad I got some shut eye even though the person next to me had no concept of personal space. I generally avoid night flights for this reason even though flying during the day "wastes time". Good night 😴
I got an art book with recipes for mixing colours. You have no idea what a help that is, and something that I haven’t seen before. It was pure luck I scored that at the op shop.
It’s so fucked you can’t share and archive resources. If it wasn’t a crime I would be a volunteer archivist scanning or photographing rare or important books and uploading them. Just so things don’t disappear when they go out of print and physical copies dwindle.
I’ve also missed out on getting the Morpho books because I didn’t want to click a random link on social media to download them and now they’ll be gone off the Internet Archive.
There's only 3 things in this world I don't eat. Cantaloupe, rice pudding and porridge. Now I can add papaya to that list. Ick.
Son has recovered from COVID, only for the wife to be struck down.
No idea how I'm still avoiding it. Superior genes perhaps?
Or more likely my flu+covid shot I got earlier this year.
Considering he’s so small, Chook is an absolute pig. The MESS, my god
Big News. An arrest has been made over the Easey St murders.
What a grub. I was aware of the murders but the details got worse as I read on.
I hope he either gets extradited or some more decent men than him have some strong opinions on what he did…
Decided to take my (SILs) bike on the scenic foreshore front beach path back home from the shops. Usually don't do that as people (and kids / dogs) are a bit all over the place. Anyway now I have a bell with a unicorn on it which I'm required to use by law. it also has a front basket. I didn't use the bell but felt empowered (and got laughed at by two young girls). They didn't have unicorn bells or a front basket so fuck em. I'm gonna get some tassels next.
In more serious news the Pt. Lonny front beach was absolutely smashed by recent swell / weather. Had a chat to a local who was walking past and she'd never seen anything like it either. Must've been wild.
Also got about 10 hellos from randoms which was nice.
Get some cards to weave in the spokes and really floss on em
Ate some delicious kofta, and cranked up my accompaniment to cleaning.
Once this is done, I have a new model to build, but I can’t open Bags And Bags And Bags Of Bits into an already messy apartment
You know you're getting on when you plan to jump in the garden to weed for the 3rd day in a row and before you start first thing you think of is where's the ibuprofen.
I left the ramen restaurant hungry. You’d think $25 would get you a decent sized ramen but no. Two tiny pieces of pork belly. And the broth was like chicken soup.
Recently discovered that I have very low iron levels so got put on iron pills. Have been taking them for a week, and just got through a heap of housework today without wanting to collapse from exhaustion. Seems like the pills are working - who’d have thunk?!
Had to take these during radiotherapy for cancer as iron levels had fallen off a cliff. Horrid things. They didn't do much for iron levels as I had serious dire rear at the time. Also hated the color of poops - thoroughly unnatural. Given a choice, I'd go for the infusion I think.
Awesome! Keep an eye on your fibre and water intake, iron supps can make you a little constipated. Source: me, someone who also needed iron and had this happen.
Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😽
Gon’ eat me a chiko roll and watch cartoons…
Ok. I’m all set for the game!
Come on Catters!
Got my chips, got some wine. I’m all primed and ready!
There are few things better for the soul then a few hours and a few drinks spent catching up with an old friend that speaks your particular form of neurospiciness...
Now home for two rounds of footy (I am bilingual - AFL and NRL)
Go Cats! We’re starting in 5 mins. Raining as well. Not sure who it favours.
I’ve been putting the registration for GardenSafe off for years even after posting about it… tbh I’m still struggling majorly with my health and this creeping grass is like kudzu, so action isn’t guaranteed. But why not contribute to citizen science.
But it’s asking really inflexible questions so I don’t know how to answer. Like for main food growing area do I answer in ground or pots? I may answer in ground because I want to know if it’s safe to do so.
Renos within 5 years? No, but around 10.
And I’m not seeing any peeling external paint - but the builders buried discarded rubble in the soil which is a concern.
I don’t use pesticides but I don’t know what’s in the runoff from another yard.
I just want to find out if the soil here is theoretically safe to grow edible stuff in, lead levels and pesticides etc.
Edit: For peeling paint I just said yes because I didn’t know if there was any that got buried with the rubble. But now wondering if that was bad data and would label the soil as higher risk than it is. Should I try to tell them the situation?
Idk. I just don’t want to grow anything that’s dangerous to eat.
You're overthinking it. Just answer the questions as best you can and don't worry about the rest of the details - they are not doing a detailed analysis of your site, they will just be doing a rough classification to identify rough links in the aggregate data.
Rule of Thumb: if the edible bit is actually in contact with soil, then you have cause for concern. If the edible bit is waving in the air, not to worry too much. Lettuce is debatable, but usually the faster it grows the less problem it is. The real problem is long lead time crops actually in the ground, like potatoes.
don’t want to grow anything that’s dangerous to eat
I used these guys a while back: https://www.swep.com.au/ and was impressed by their analysis. Prof. in Ag. put me on to them.
ha ha, rain cannot defeat me, I bought big plastic sheets to cover my paint jobs
