The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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We have the AC on right now at almost 6 in the evening and definitely had to have it on in the car earlier.
 
rascal said:
28 c here now, home betting on horses and air con is on. I will pick fruit later when it cools. 12.45 pm here Sunday

Russ
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28C is really not bad, for the middle of summer. Definitely air-conditioning weather, but not bad outside -- as long as the humidity is reasonable. 28C/82F down along the Texas coast, where the humidity can be 80-percent or more is miserable.

CD
 
caseydog said:
28C is really not bad, for the middle of summer. Definitely air-conditioning weather, but not bad outside -- as long as the humidity is reasonable. 28C/82F down along the Texas coast, where the humidity can be 80-percent or more is miserable.

CD
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Not humid here, just hot. Stepping out of a plane first time in singers , the humidity took my breath away. That's HOT !!

Russ
 
Thankfully today is cooler at 25°C. It's meant i have been able to get into the tent to get the seam sealant on it. Until now the fabric had been too hot to actually touch let alone apply sealant!

Hubby is taking the opportunity to get the lawn cut. It's really funny watching him because the chooks follow him up and down the lawn in the same way birds follow as tractor up and down a field when it's ploughing or harvesting....
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Thankfully today is cooler at 25°C. It's meant i have been able to get into the tent to get the seam sealant on it. Until now the fabric had been too hot to actually touch let alone apply sealant!

Hubby is taking the opportunity to get the lawn cut. It's really funny watching him because the chooks follow him up and down the lawn in the same way birds follow as tractor up and down a field when it's ploughing or harvesting....
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I can just imagine that. They aren't stupid lol

Russ
 
caseydog said:
28C is really not bad, for the middle of summer. Definitely air-conditioning weather, but not bad outside -- as long as the humidity is reasonable. 28C/82F down along the Texas coast, where the humidity can be 80-percent or more is miserable.

CD
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Not air con weather at all! Mind you we don't actually have one so can't put it on.

28°C is bearable. It's when it gets to 35°C or so that it's more problematic. Thankfully this summer hasn't been too bad so far.
But I am sitting with all the windows and blinds closed to keep the house cooler. We get to open them around 6-7pm at night when there's only a degree or two between the indoor and outdoor temperatures.

Only hubby's car had AC. mine has it but is the best way of phrasing it.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Thankfully today is cooler at 25°C. It's meant i have been able to get into the tent to get the seam sealant on it. Until now the fabric had been too hot to actually touch let alone apply sealant!

Hubby is taking the opportunity to get the lawn cut. It's really funny watching him because the chooks follow him up and down the lawn in the same way birds follow as tractor up and down a field when it's ploughing or harvesting....
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My wife mentioned a rotary hoe the other day, I ignored her. She would dig up our back yard if she could.

Russ
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Thankfully today is cooler at 25°C. It's meant i have been able to get into the tent to get the seam sealant on it. Until now the fabric had been too hot to actually touch let alone apply sealant!

Hubby is taking the opportunity to get the lawn cut. It's really funny watching him because the chooks follow him up and down the lawn in the same way birds follow as tractor up and down a field when it's ploughing or harvesting....
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When Kate (the dog) was alive and able, the chain was me mowing the grass, which stirred up the insects, which got the swallows flying all around me eating the bugs, which got the dog following behind that nipping at the swallows.

It was like a weird Disney scene.
 
rascal said:
My wife mentioned a rotary hoe the other day, I ignored her. She would dig up our back yard if she could.

Russ
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Yeah, I've investigated one as well but they are not good on the arms or your shoulders or back... so I'll keep digging by hand/ foot for the moment. I'd have a much bigger veg plot if I could. It would make life so much easier and I wouldn't have to jam as much in as possible elsewhere if I could double the size I've got now. It would be great but i suspect hubby wouldn't approve. Mind you he's not the one doing the work, and actually being able to walk between the rows of veg to harvest them would be really nice.


I've just come out of there with a good coupler of handfuls of a variety of peas and beans that we'll have with tea tonight. They have recovered from the hail stones surprisingly well but I think a couple of trees may have sheltered them.
 
TastyReuben said:
When Kate (the dog) was alive and able, the chain was me mowing the grass, which stirred up the insects, which got the swallows flying all around me eating the bugs, which got the dog following behind that nipping at the swallows.

It was like a weird Disney scene.
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Hubby is being chased by 15 of our 17 chooks at the moment. The other 2, i guess, must be laying.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Yeah, I've investigated one as well but they are not good on the arms or your shoulders or back... so I'll keep digging by hand/ foot for the moment. I'd have a much bigger veg plot if I could. It would make life so much easier and I wouldn't have to jam as much in as possible elsewhere if I could double the size I've got now. It would be great but i suspect hubby wouldn't approve. Mind you he's not the one doing the work, and actually being able to walk between the rows of veg to harvest them would be really nice.


I've just come out of there with a good coupler of handfuls of a variety of peas and beans that we'll have with tea tonight. They have recovered from the hail stones surprisingly well but I think a couple of trees may have sheltered them.
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We aren't getting a hoe, I'm the one that would be using it. She would love your garden!!!

Russ
 
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