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izmeinaThe Big Yellow Beast is turning up the volume. Looks like yesterday is the official start of the summer sizzle. Yesterday it got to 37 something celsius but the afternoon sea breezes came in and cooled everything so beautifully
Today is different. 38 was predicted and it got to 39. Right now it's about 30 minutes to sunset and it's still 35 outside
Tomorrow they are saying 37 and New Year's Day 39. Izzie's special Serpent Day on Friday drops down to 35 but it's going to be humid. A dry 39 is infinitely preferable to an icky sticky 35
A bit miffed about Friday but it was hotter last time and lots lots earlier. Christmas was a total stinker. This year in contrast was absolutely gorgeous. The most beautiful Christmas weather since 2001
And this time at least, the Izzie's Enron hedge fund mitigates some of the misery. Just short of 6 kilowatts for the day and only 20 short of the big one megawatt for the year. Will have reached the megawatt milestone some time on Saturday
But it's the runs of sizzlers that's the true test of the serpent's green gardening thumbs
It's still too hot to go outside to do some serious watering. But the drip lines are preventing the really bad casualties
Strangely, the pumpkins love the stuff. It's the local Oz banksias that are doing badly. The proteas are not too impressed either. Just goes to prove that if Izzie breaks her 'no perennial plantings after 21st September' policy, then there's a price to pay
So that's the simple explanation why the recently absent serpent is posting so prolifically in Cyberia. it's simply too sizzly to be slinking.
The new moon is on the rise which is supposed to be seed planting time. But Izzie's learned from last year. Will be at the ma's place tomorrow evening and returning to the Lair on Thursday. And in this sort of weather, even such a short absence is as good as a death sentence for sensitive seeds
Will soon be time to potter outside and read all the meters for the year. Could always do it tomorrow morning but if it slips this serpent's mind will be too long a gap until the first evening of the new year
And then there's some long over due backups, juice for the pipsqueak and the new 101 list for 2009 with all the completed things pruned out. With 1 item needed to be completed every 10 days to stay on schedule, there should be around forty left on the list not the sixty plus or so that there actually is. But then again, without the list, there'd be a lot less done even at such an abysmal completion rate
Petunia never misses a chance to enquire about Izzie's new year's resolutions. Needless to say she knows nothing about the list. So instead of promising to lose 10 kilos or something which is what she wants to hear and is also most definitely NOT on the list - Izzie says that the big resolution for the year is to get pregnant! Aside from commenting that it looks like that one is 3/4 complete, it usually puts her back in her box
Well. Time to slink outside to water the weeds and read the water, gas and electricity meters as well as the bright little box of sunshine
Today is different. 38 was predicted and it got to 39. Right now it's about 30 minutes to sunset and it's still 35 outside
Tomorrow they are saying 37 and New Year's Day 39. Izzie's special Serpent Day on Friday drops down to 35 but it's going to be humid. A dry 39 is infinitely preferable to an icky sticky 35
A bit miffed about Friday but it was hotter last time and lots lots earlier. Christmas was a total stinker. This year in contrast was absolutely gorgeous. The most beautiful Christmas weather since 2001
And this time at least, the Izzie's Enron hedge fund mitigates some of the misery. Just short of 6 kilowatts for the day and only 20 short of the big one megawatt for the year. Will have reached the megawatt milestone some time on Saturday
But it's the runs of sizzlers that's the true test of the serpent's green gardening thumbs
It's still too hot to go outside to do some serious watering. But the drip lines are preventing the really bad casualties
Strangely, the pumpkins love the stuff. It's the local Oz banksias that are doing badly. The proteas are not too impressed either. Just goes to prove that if Izzie breaks her 'no perennial plantings after 21st September' policy, then there's a price to pay
So that's the simple explanation why the recently absent serpent is posting so prolifically in Cyberia. it's simply too sizzly to be slinking.
The new moon is on the rise which is supposed to be seed planting time. But Izzie's learned from last year. Will be at the ma's place tomorrow evening and returning to the Lair on Thursday. And in this sort of weather, even such a short absence is as good as a death sentence for sensitive seeds
Will soon be time to potter outside and read all the meters for the year. Could always do it tomorrow morning but if it slips this serpent's mind will be too long a gap until the first evening of the new year
And then there's some long over due backups, juice for the pipsqueak and the new 101 list for 2009 with all the completed things pruned out. With 1 item needed to be completed every 10 days to stay on schedule, there should be around forty left on the list not the sixty plus or so that there actually is. But then again, without the list, there'd be a lot less done even at such an abysmal completion rate
Petunia never misses a chance to enquire about Izzie's new year's resolutions. Needless to say she knows nothing about the list. So instead of promising to lose 10 kilos or something which is what she wants to hear and is also most definitely NOT on the list - Izzie says that the big resolution for the year is to get pregnant! Aside from commenting that it looks like that one is 3/4 complete, it usually puts her back in her box
Well. Time to slink outside to water the weeds and read the water, gas and electricity meters as well as the bright little box of sunshine
