Evening folks,
Well our timing was good. We have arrived at Nowhere Else and the threatened rainy weather has materialised with us safely quartered inside.
First off the good news. Susan has recovered almost fully from her back problem and required no drugs and heat rub today.
As mentioned last night all the helpers departed this morning with one returning, possibly, on the weekend.
We started off with Susan bagging a few capsicums for the roadside stall. At $2 for around 530 grams they are pretty good value for passing customers.
Susan headed outside for some tidying of lawn edges and weed removal. After a walk around looking at the jobs on the list I decided to find out why the grey water discharge was making a swamp adjacent the garden fence. I dug around the area, found the pipe and was greeted by manky water with manky bits in it bubbling up. I hopped around the other side of the fence and dug a channel to get the worst of the water away. I found a T junction with a discharge pipe at the fence line which was a bit odd. Eric managed to find a plastic 100mm cap and I banged it on after locating the real end of the discharge pipe in the paddock and cleaning it out. Whilst tapping the cap on I managed to splash the 'orrible water on my visage. Once the job was finished I washed my face and changed my clothes including my boots.
Eric suggested we adjourn to the green house since the weather was getting worse. We did this and pottered away twisting capsicum leaders around the support strings using the work platforms that run on the boiler heating tubes.
After knock off I ventured into Sheffield without any great hope of picking up some aluminium tube to build my 3G antenna. My pessimism was well founded and a trip to Devonport is in order. I have plenty of other projects to occupy my brain at the moment although they are all in the feasability study/planning stage.
Hopefully the weather will be good tomorrow so we can get on with a few more jobs outside. There is snow forecast down to 700 metres later in the week as a vigorous SW front comes through.
I shall try and remember to take some pictures for tomorrow nights epistle.
Night folks
Simon
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