Another scorcher today Melburnios 🔥
Not me wondering why aircons aren’t minimum standards for all rentals. Cat threw up four times last night because she just can’t cope.
When the cat can’t cope, there’s a big fucking problem - they’re desert animals!
Summer is only 3 months of the year. Having said that, my investment property has an aircon and ducted heating.
Alas mate, that three months is dangerous for both people and animals. When it comes down to it, having one quarter of the year being unlivable is not remotely reasonable.
Glad though you have your investment property properly set up for all seasons, imo that should be the standard across Australia, not the exception.
Summer is defined as three months of the year.
March and april get into the 30’s easily
Are they? Surprises me since they have a that fur. But I guess the desert can very cold at night.
Indeed! I was shocked too when I found out - turns out their fur is light enough that it acts as insulation against both heat and cold, which is impressive. That’s why they don’t drink much water straight up - they evolved to pull moisture from their food instead
I think I’ll go home via an air-conditioned pub. The cool change has apparently reached Ocean Grove but no further until 7 pm.
Coriander Margaritas…🍹
With some chilli sprinkles - could catch on.
It has just hit about 20 mins ago :)
Power out already sigh….
?? What happened?
guessing big wind go wooooooo, power line go splat.
34 outside, 23 inside, zero grid usage. 'twas priciest part of the reno but zerooooo regrets.
I’ve got to look into that - there’s so much info it’s a bit overwhelming
Piece of advice: My Redback invertor seems to give me a LOT more data that my brother in laws fronius invertor gives him. When you speak to an electrician for quotes its worth asking how the app is, and making sure it can give you both usage and generation data to make it easier to use your solar.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to put some research time aside and get on to that govt website, too
same! my total reusable energy percentage takes a hit at night though. I was ~90% but dropped to ~80%. Cant wait to get my first bill and see what it looks like.
we haven’t been able to swing a battery yet, but it’s on the list. (a mate who has a giant whole house one in woop woop was taunting me during the outage. Joke’s on him, he lives in moe)
Moe is not idea. But at least closer to Melbourne than Traralgon, and you dont have to live with the power plants as much.
About to get up a ladder and clean some gutters but…
Spoke to the old man last night and was reminding me about the ambulance vic subscription.
Then he decided to tell me about one of his buddies who recently had a fall off a ladder.
Apparently he fell backwards and his leg got caught between 2 steps quite high up, leg snapped in half and he was just dangling there until his wife found him an hour later.
Fucking nightmare fuel really bad timing.
Ouch. People do get very blase about ladders and disregard the risks involved. It’s also something that people insist on doing when they become too old to do so safely (like driving). Stubborn old men who insist on climbing on the roof are a fairly frequent category of rescue the Fire Brigade go to, when said stubborn old main realises they can’t get down again or have a medical episode from the exertion of climbing up.
Apparently the stats for men over 50 falling off ladders are quite startling. If you are under 50, then maybe you’ll be OK …
yeah I wouldn’t get up there in this wind. Fuck that
Mega cudos to the roof plumber who [temp] fixed our shit in the big storm last Hols!
Buona notte
Sweet dreams all 😘
Fakken ants are doing my head in. Anyone got recs for pest control companies?
Avoid the pros and just mist up a shit ton of pennyroyal?
Bit beyond that. Building some ant bait traps as we speak. The fuckers are getting into the litter box now
If only they’d clean it for you
Godspeed to those of us with warmer than expected rooms
Bill and Ted are having a great time hunting crickets. :)
in the lounge room
Ah
Good luck tonight everyone. Especially to those of us who can’t open windows because their cat will destroy the flyscreen…
Ah, you’ve been here then
Don’t get me wrong, I love the little gremlin, but fuck me it’d be nice to get a breeze going in the house sometimes.
I did it once when she was at the vet and that was it pretty much.
Strange sleep utterance of the day: people are all duct tape
No homebrand soft drinks for a hot day :(
I found that too! I live near both a Coles and a Woolies and checked them both out. Nothing.
Don’t know what’s going on, not sure if I should go out of my way to check another store tomorrow.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Today I will deign to consume a cucumber for hydration purposes
And other such primarily water-based foods
Can’t go wrong with watermelon.
Not normally a fan but I’d eat it today if offered. Only if cut up nicely. Hate the feeling of sticky juice running down my chin, even if it’s Quintessential Summer
Sprinkle the slices with freshly ground black pepper - gamechanger.
When I was in Peru I came accross a food cart selling cold watermelon by the slice. It was absolutely wonderful and I wish we had things like that here.
Pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, and hot coffee please. Gotta carb load before it gets too hot to eat, or my brain will cease functioning. If it hasn’t already.
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Whatever they serve in those ice castle bars thanks
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Fried rice with prawns please - but actually add some flavour to it, unlike this place I went for lunch yesterday 😞
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Just looked at the bom website - Melbourne’s forecast top temp is the highest in Australia …
Sky pretty
cracker this morn.
