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Can ya dig it?

Posted - December 19, 2019

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  • 16797
    In the middle of a heatwave, the ground is rock hard atm. Also my back won't allow me to swing a mattock. Get somebody else to dig it - preferably with a backhoe.
      December 19, 2019 5:54 PM MST
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  • 44623
    I had a friend who recently visited Adelaide. The heat was brutal.
      December 19, 2019 5:56 PM MST
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  • 16797
    47C (117F) today. It's insane. Bats are dropping dead from heat stroke.
      December 19, 2019 5:58 PM MST
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  • 44623
    Come visit. 0C today. I hope your air conditioner works.
      December 19, 2019 6:01 PM MST
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  • 4624
    You're down in the Tamworth area, yes?

    I've been keeping my eye on all the fire and weather reports -- dreadfully distressing.

    Are you OK and safe where you are?

    Do you have a safe place to escape the fires?

    Do you have aircon, ice and fans?

      December 19, 2019 6:25 PM MST
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  • 16797
    Adelaide. No fires here, at least not yet (fingers crossed), just searing heat. Air con we have, it's been running 24/7 since Monday.
      December 19, 2019 7:26 PM MST
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  • 4624
    I visited for the Adelaide Festival in 1883 - a drought year.
    I'd only just arrived back from five years in the chilly UK.
    That year was 40ºC every day in March - so dry the sweat evaporated before you could feel it.
    I remember feeling scared that I might collapse from heat stress.

    So glad you have the aircon. :)



    This post was edited by inky at December 20, 2019 7:49 AM MST
      December 19, 2019 7:34 PM MST
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  • 53509

      You were alive in 1883?
    ~
      December 19, 2019 8:00 PM MST
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  • 16797
    I'm sure she means 1983 - the Adelaide Festival of Arts didn't exist before 1958.
      December 19, 2019 8:11 PM MST
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  • 53509

      I also think she meant 1983. 
    ~
      December 19, 2019 8:13 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Why not take your Pick of your other digging tools and shovel the others to one side.... :(
      December 19, 2019 6:06 PM MST
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  • 1152
    No, I generally leave digging to beagles...


      December 19, 2019 5:57 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Not if I've already dug it :(
      December 19, 2019 6:10 PM MST
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  • 44623
    I'll ask my friend, Doug.
      December 19, 2019 6:15 PM MST
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  • 4624
    Digging has been frustrating lately.

    I planted a whole new bed of summer greens, herbs and veggies - and the bush-turkey came along and uprooted them all.
    Replanted them with a heavy metal mesh pegged above. That stopped him.

    Then yesterday morning I was shovelling mulch onto the honey garden. Had successfully done 3 barrowloads and was feeling fine.
    Then in mid-stroke came the sudden searing pain - repetitive strain injury, I'm told.
    Now I'm hobbling around like a cripple and so cross with myself.

    Normally I dig life just fine.
      December 19, 2019 6:29 PM MST
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  • The Goat and I can definitely "Dig It". 
    We have to so we can hide the bodies.


      December 19, 2019 7:10 PM MST
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  • 2836
    Before we play with them first  *giggle*

      December 19, 2019 7:19 PM MST
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  • 2836
    We're a couple of dirty boys. LOL
      December 19, 2019 7:27 PM MST
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  • 4624
    Where do you find all your fabulously appropriate photos?

      December 19, 2019 7:37 PM MST
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  • Oh, hither, thither, and yon.  Goat and I both have a deep love of photos, especially he being a photographer. So we have quite a collection of pics and vids.  If you're impressed with my "fabulously appropriate photos"  you should see Goats shockingly inappropriate ones.  LOL!
      December 19, 2019 7:47 PM MST
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