Lian swinging the hammer
Mael
Elodie
Trouble with a capital T
Apologies for the picture quality ... phone cam
Hi folks,
I can't say what happened at the Resort today, not because it was too terrible but because i wasn't here for most of the day. Mael, Elodie. Lian and myself journeyed up the back road to Henry's property to plant seedlings. Something I have not done for a fair while due to our travels. The property has a good view and a new under construction portable house. The planting went pretty smoothly although the first batch was a bit difficult due to the rocky ground. We had a charcoaled sausage for lunch after the grill dropped a bit close to the fire. I think all up we planted about 150 trees. They don't use the rigid tree guards we use back home which only require one stake. The ones here being from a plastic film require 3 which means a lot more hammering per tree. Henry also used a weed mat material that resembled thick sacking.
We returned around 430 and after animal and pool chores, a bit to eat and a much needed back up of the laptop I settled down to build one cordless drill battery pack from 2 non working ones. I had just enough good nicad cells and after a bit of soldering the job was finished successfully with one cell to spare. Given that a lot of the dud cells were leaking I don't know how long the repack will last, probably about 5 minutes.
I had another of my crazy impromptu conversations with Morphine and Fan-fan tonight, which started off with me explaining why I had a cordless drill and battery charger in my hand and after many convoluted turns ended up with the revelation that Australian milk gives Morphine diarrhoea! The conversation reminded me of those word puzzles where you start with one word and by changing one letter at a time after x steps end up with another word with all the words in between being totally unconnected.
I am rostered to start at one tomorrow, to which I am thinking fat chance, unless I actually leave the premises and go incommunicado! Once the relays arrive for the pool heater the heat will be one to get them installed and it up and running. There is also the small matter of rewiring the trailer which needs to be emptied of about x kilograms of sand bags where x is a large number!
night folks
Cheers Simon
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