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Cracker of a week indeed Bunyip.. 28,Looks like the Highs are back for a while though maybe not quite as intense as before.. Spent Thursday and Friday out at the Reef, caught a few fish and the Missus caught the biggest Spanish and Trout so now I have to listen to that for a while to come....like every time we talk about fishing or even eat fish...  Overnight wind dropped off to one of the calmest and glassy nights I have spent at sea in 20 years..You could pretty much see the reflection of the Milky way on the sea-surface...it was almost eery... As for Clyde, SM...He is a well known local croc and from my experience most crocs dont seem too fussed about attacking while they are on land, in fact if you startle a sunbaking croc, in my experience, they always turn and head for the water.....same as if you drive up on a croc sunbaking while in a tinny, they always launch into the water and focus on trying to escape....I have a feeling they feel quite vulnerable while on land and their first instict is to reach the safety of the water where they are in their element.. Although please dont take my advice as gospel and try and pat a sleeping Croc....that might not end too well...  And Dormant I will have to start attacking these trees this week i hope though its going to feel mighty painful to chop a bearing fruit tree back to a stump...but I know it has to be done..I barely harvest any of the fruit being so high up..
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Originally Posted by: Dormant  Hiya GT, good question. lol
We long ago gave up on lychees and such like, too high, too many predators. But this pulasan, because it was along the boundary, we let grow, and it sure did. It flowers at times but I can't recall a crop. Heck, I'm not even sure it's a pulasan though it does have lighter leaves, yet a stalk of flowers similarly, so not a lychee., I got it when the Rare Fruit Council was active in Mossman long years ago. Was painful to have partner chainsaw while carrying some flowers but figgered it might come back with renewed vigour. So I guess that's no answer to you at all!.
Yeh I don’t bother with lychee they are too inconsistent on coast we don’t get enough reliable chill hours and then if it rains at the wrong time they fail. I have 2 pulasan trees hopefully they cross pollinate. I keep everything pruned don’t let anything get too high or it’s a waste of time birds and bats get everything. Rambutan are probably the most reliable on the coast. |
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Yeah Scott, those dead flat conditions are amazing. It makes it even better when you catch a few nice fish.
On the crocodiles, they definitely are more timid when on land. I just hope the guy wouldn't have been fishing knee deep if Clyde was hiding in the water.
Fruit trees, gave them up when I flattened my first little ones with my boat trailer. I really regret not growing them now.
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Dead flat indeed it was coming back from grocery shopping wednesday. Amazing, the mighty Pacific stretching thousands of miles across from here and tiny lapping wavelets as we came round Rocky Point. And an aptly named hurricane approaching Baja and California - the northern hemisphere time for weather while we're on a break. (oops soz, politics).
Shoots appearing on stumps and several persimmon cuttings showing leaves, though maybe from store in sticks and not rooting but one can hope. Maybe I should bonsai everything...
Gawd, I wish I didn't have to prep and scrape before painting but HRH is mending the ride-on deck...division of labour and I'm too witless to do clever jobs.
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aannd the weather is back to [censored]again..high pressure and associated ridging and wind and a few showers overnight and early morning showers..
The 10 day charts show its here for a while..
Is your painting outside Dormant..?..If so have you tried using a pressure washer..I have used mine to strip peeling paint reasonably successfully before and a lot easier then scraping...
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Outside, Scott, on a render, Mexican style. Not going to use the pressure washer, I end up with multilayers of old paint going back 30 years. I just slap anther coat of paint on as a sealer, and it glues everything down. Bad enough I pressure wash the atrium pavers because they're Boral seconds, not enough bags of cement type and end up feels like walking on bed of nails, so I turn them over every few years, all 2000 of them, I'm good on my knees. Not like I'm ever going to sell this place.
But in any case, the scraping/wire brushing is mostly the moss and mould up to a couple of feet high.
And.. on the weather front... some wet for the weekend but not holding my breath. Heck, even if it rains and waters the paint it'll help fill tiny voids, if any. The first thing my builder said when he knocked away the forms of the poured roof was, take some watered paint and coat the whole surface. Best advice I got, a fine base it's been.
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8mm here in the last 14 days. Couple of showers around this morning. It still feels quite cool at night for late August. Replaced the old faded outdoor thermometer with one of those Max-Min types. Will now have something to check in the morning with the oncoming dry weather.
Coat of paint for the house here too Dormant. Nice and steady with the brush this time.
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Well with 8mm this morning it puts me over 4m YTD
Be glad to see the back of this wind and the associated showers.
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Bunyip looks like you are surging ahead for second golden gumboot in a row with only babinda in contention against you tully is miles behind. I reckon you can break 5m this year with 4 months to go..... |
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4m of rain. I don't think we'll ever get that here but we have had 280mm for the winter months, that's more than twice the average. Enough to keep the lawn nice and green.
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Originally Posted by: Gone tropo Bunyip looks like you are surging ahead for second golden gumboot in a row with only babinda in contention against you tully is miles behind. I reckon you can break 5m this year with 4 months to go..... Hard to say but yes looks like 5m is possible this year. Hope we don't get a real hot dry couple of months to end the year, I still need to put in an irrigation main for my gardens but just not ready yet. Just nice too see the sun and walk around without sinking or slipping . Might even get the boat in Friday Cheers |
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Great weather for the start of spring. Went for a stroll along Machans Beach esplanade this arvo and the ocean conditions were perfect. Made me miss my boat. Could be a bit of rain around by the end of next week by the look of things.
Finished one wall of the house with the brush. Seemed to save a bit of paint over using the roller. Very tedious though.
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Yep you picked it SM... Bit of drizzle yesterday getting slightly heavier overnight and this morning till getting quite heavy right now.. BOM shows about 30mm so far down this way..not sure here as I knocked over the gauge whilst dropping a bamboo yesterday... It took 2 of us 8 hours each over 2 days to drop, cut up and cart away the bloody thing ..todays back pain is certainly worth it though as the huge increase in light and air-flow around the shack is lovely... Did you make it out on the water bunyip..? and how did you go on the moss and mould scraping Dormant..?...I have been using Quatsan for a few years now on shadecloth, sheds, besser blocks and even fibro and glass..its seems to also kill the mould and green slime spores and stops regrowth for a year or so...it will kill light moss cover but not for as long and the product loses potency when stored so you need a fresh batch each year.. https://northernchemicals.com.au/products/quatsan-multi-purpose-disinfectant?variant=39563002839211Has anyone got a better solution to kill moss that also doesnt poison the ground..? Edited by user Friday, 8 September 2023 9:35:35 AM(UTC)
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6mm this afternoon at Chillagoe. My plants are very happy, and so am I. Hoping for more soon.
One thing we don't have to worry about here is mould. 😁
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Looks promising, Scott, we sure have a lot of slippery pavers and at our age we don't need new hips if we can help it.
Painting has come to a stop, of course, but at least I know which leaks I've fixed with this much rain. Partner is hoping the latest road closing event gets drenched but I doubt it'll be more than drizzle.
I have some bauhinia trees to haul away behind the ride-on to keep the house clear of brush and drying logs, if/when things really get dry.
Lol, keep up the good work, dear.
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You did well there 28, 6mm in an afternoon. It's been a bit like very light Millaa Mist here, 6mm in about 4 days.
We don't get the mould here like Dormant and yourself Scott but when painting the house the eaves are always a problem. I'm giving them a nice coat of weathershield this time.
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Just about blow a dog off its chain down here this week... Went for a spin down the river in the tinny yesterday to give the wwoofers a closeup croc-spotting experience and the waves were certainly standing up on the Hull Heads bar..it looked pretty white out wide as well....as well as a nice 4 plus metre model sunning itself we also saw one on the surface in the middle of the river which kept approaching us as we sat by watching us...he was very curious and totally unafraid of us or the boat..he spent 10-15 minutes swimming around the boat sometimes submerging but always popping back up again..havent seen one that bold before in the daylight in that river....the 2 wwoofers were both excited and a little scared.. A couple of very light showers around that barely register in the gauge. Just finished 6 out of the past 7 days doing 4 hrs a day on the bamboo's ..was almost going to call Dormant to bring the ride-on down to haul the culms away...lol...so sick of chainsawing and loading up the ute and then unloading and chucking it in a couple of big piles over in the bush...my frenchie offsiders enthusiasm and energy was seriously waning today as was mine..good to get that job out of the way.. certainly a lot more light and airlow around now so hopefully the mould problem lessens somewhat...I dont like the idea of having to move to the drier climates of Chillagoe or Cairns to escape the mould situation.. and got bit by the first Marchfly of the season today... Edited by user Tuesday, 12 September 2023 10:36:24 PM(UTC)
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A bit of a surprise here this morning, 11mm in the gauge. Very windy as well. Just glad I put heaps of concrete in the shade sail footings, it's been almost lifting off.
The good ol marchflies. When we used to go fishing up in the Tully Gorge sometimes there would be thousands of them. Made good bait for sooties.
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So over this wind. Clean up around the yard and down comes the next lot.
The tally just keeps climbing with good falls (for this time of year) each morning this last week.
seems longer but the good bits have been so short they get forgotten. :)
No Scott missed the break the Mrs is just so busy with work and Uni that we couldn't get out, think I'm
good enough to go on my own again now so next chance I'm going with or without her lol
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Originally Posted by: FNQ Bunyip So over this wind. So am I, but not as bad as you on the coast. Late afternoon it seems to have settled down for a while.
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