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It was a nice, warm summers day, today. It probably got up to 29C on the pergola. It's 27.3C in my office right now 7.15 pm Eastern Standard Time - we don't have daylight saving - thank goodness! The bottle cicadas sang for a bit tonight and now the crickets have taken over. I can hear a gecko on the pergola. There is a bit of a rumble of thunder in the distance. Places to the south and west of me got hail but so, far, nothing here. EDIT: #1 son's g/f got caught in her car in the hail - and big hail at that. She parked under a tree. I don't know if her car was damaged yet. And she was just talking about replacing it last weekend because it has got to the stage where it needs a lot of work. #1 son was with her, I think, when it happened. Probably my other three kids in the city got hail, too, but hopefully no structural damage to their houses or cars. That hail was golf ball sized. You can read more about it Here.
Meanwhile, a hospital fairly close to #3 daughter (Lismore Base Hospital) had part of its roof fall in in the maternity section. Nobody was injured. This reminds me of the day just before #3 daughter was born, there was a hail storm at the hospital I was at in the inland hospital, and the mothers all pulled their beds away from the windows but they weren't smashed in the end. There was quite a bit of damage on The Range, where all the rich people lived, and some horrible people drove around slinging off at them, but it turned out many were pensioner women who might have been asset rich but were income poor. (Egg on the face for the people involved on such scurrilous behaviour.)
I spent a nice afternoon at my place - once it cooled off enough - to plant out some okra and also some jaboticaba seeds. Let's hope they sprout! I still have a few things to plant out eg parsley. In the meantime, I'm harvesting my first tomatoes :)
Old Flame took my broody house down to his place this afternoon. I've been telling him to but he wanted to make one of his own just like it. But I could see that he wasn't going to make it fast enough. He is always doing things for other people rather than himself. He still wants to make his own, but we'll see, now that the motivation is off! They wanted to move the chook with the chickens from where she was because it was not convenient and they want to move her around so that she and her chickens can get grass etc. I sent down hay as well, to make a nest, because he didn't have any dried grass but she and her chickens ended up staying in their box. They had gone to bed by the time they moved them. They'll jump out in the morning :)
Meanwhile, a hospital fairly close to #3 daughter (Lismore Base Hospital) had part of its roof fall in in the maternity section. Nobody was injured. This reminds me of the day just before #3 daughter was born, there was a hail storm at the hospital I was at in the inland hospital, and the mothers all pulled their beds away from the windows but they weren't smashed in the end. There was quite a bit of damage on The Range, where all the rich people lived, and some horrible people drove around slinging off at them, but it turned out many were pensioner women who might have been asset rich but were income poor. (Egg on the face for the people involved on such scurrilous behaviour.)
I spent a nice afternoon at my place - once it cooled off enough - to plant out some okra and also some jaboticaba seeds. Let's hope they sprout! I still have a few things to plant out eg parsley. In the meantime, I'm harvesting my first tomatoes :)
Old Flame took my broody house down to his place this afternoon. I've been telling him to but he wanted to make one of his own just like it. But I could see that he wasn't going to make it fast enough. He is always doing things for other people rather than himself. He still wants to make his own, but we'll see, now that the motivation is off! They wanted to move the chook with the chickens from where she was because it was not convenient and they want to move her around so that she and her chickens can get grass etc. I sent down hay as well, to make a nest, because he didn't have any dried grass but she and her chickens ended up staying in their box. They had gone to bed by the time they moved them. They'll jump out in the morning :)