The Bone Bus

Back home after a scan in the carpark at the local GP clinic.

The last one was 06-08-2018 - time flies!

 

Goodbye Pixie (2009 - 2022)

Yesterday was a very sad day for us, we had to say goodbye to Pixie our beautiful mini pin. She has been doing quite well coping with Cushing's disease. Sadly was also recently diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Her big companion left her last year but now they are together again - RIP's

The house is empty now, she is the last of our indoor pets.

At the vet with Pixie.

She is not well and we are worried :-(

 

Look what I found!

 

View from kitchen window this evening.

 

Beef Curry Puffs - Follow-up

Cooked some of them tonight in the Philips air fryer along with Birds Eye Golden Crunch chips and server with Trident Sweet Chilli sauce - very nice.

A Kodak moment!

23 years ago I created a folder on my desktop PC and named it Camera Photos, and under that another folder named 1999. I had just purchased my first digital camera and needed somewhere to store the photos. The camera was a Agfa ePhoto 1680 and cost quite a lot of money!

We now have lots of folders.

Bunnings gas bottle exchange

Exchanged two gas bottles today.

 

The larger 8.5kg bottle.

Everything was cold today

Cold day, cold wind, cold rain, cold everything :-(

Stayed indoors for most of the day which worked out all right because I continued from yesterday doing network stuff in particular reconfiguring network storage.

NBN HFC cable connection in my downstairs study feeds the NTU and the Telstra Smart Modem 2 hangs off that. In front of that is a 2GB Seagate Expansion Drive.

More to come on this...

WOW... what a day!

Workshop temp.

Beef Curry Puffs

Strolling past the freezers came across this!

Tossed two of them into the trolley.

Sunny days do the mowing - follow-up

 All Done!

Got out there 11.58am (still morning) and did everything, both trimming and mowing.

Weather was cold but fine and the sun was out!

Cheers

Very cold morning

Slow to post this because we were off out early this morning and the photos are not good.

Inside coop temp +1.0°

Sunny days do the mowing

Grass needs mowing and with the miserable winter weather not able to get out - until now.

Finally some sunny days ahead to get the mowing done - yay.

COVID winter booster jab

Had my 1st booster in Dec 2021 (over 7 months ago Crikey) and since then was thinking to give the winter jab a miss but with another surge of COVID (Chinavirus) cases decided to book in with local GP last week and had my winter jab today. Still have to get flu jab (will I?) and Zoster.

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Miserable weather today

 

To cold for spending time in the workshop today so here I am on the desktop doing some blogging, like this post.

OK…I’m back to my blog.

UPDATE 16th August 2022: I am moving from WordPress to Blogger (BlogSpot)

Last month I exported my data out of WordPress and imported here - into Blogger.

UPDATE 24th October 2020: I'm finding time now to catch up with this blog which is like 10 months behind due mainly because I've been so busy in Al's Workshop all year.

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Currently working my way through the month of June.

Last September (2016) my workshop burnt down…lost everything and since then have not felt like even maintaining my blog. Anyway…insurance covered everything both building and contents but it took nearly 6 months just to replace the shed AKA garage. Insurance company was fantastic but the nominated restoration company was a bit slack…but in the end everything turned out well.

The new shed (workshop) has four skylights with two windows at the rear…let there be light, and underground power from the house with power points and two twin fluro lights all fitted – nice. In a way I was lucky with Masters closing down it was a good time to go shopping, I bought a heap of stuff off them…up to 80-90% off on hardware and other stuff.

Cookie with my coffee

Came inside from doing stuff outside for a coffee break – and a cookie.

My personal tin of Jacobsens Bakery Denmark cookies.

Recovering today…a few aches.

Recovery session from yesterday's house move must be coming along OK as I just finished trimming and mowing - front & back. The Bunnings XU1 18V blade trimmer and blower work really well  - time for a cuppa.

Exciting day for our older daughter

Back home after helping our older daughter move from Skye to her new home in Botanic Ridge. Loading up was OK but unloading at the new place and the trudge up the 'mountain goat' driveway pretty much drained the last of our physical reserves, in particular two items - fridge and mattress.