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Not A Good Forecast

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This week is going to be very hot.  Here is the forecast for Melbourne, Victoria, from the BOM.  The temperatures are in Celsius.

Forecast for Tuesday

Sunny. Min 15 Max 38

Forecast for Wednesday

Sunny. Min 25 Max 41

Forecast for Thursday

Sunny. Min 26 Max 40

Forecast for Friday

Sunny. Min 24 Max 40

Forecast for Saturday

Sunny. Min 24 Max 40

Forecast for Sunday

Cloudy. Min 23 Max 31

Forecast for Monday

Cloudy. Isolated showers. Light winds. Min 23 Max 30

As you can see, not a pretty site, and still no rain since the 10th of December.  This forecast is for Melbourne, and typically we experience temps that are about 2 degrees higher than the city.  With the rainwater tank at 50%, and just about every day over 40 for the next 5 days, I hope the water in it lasts until it rains again.  I dare say I will have to water every single evening just so the veggie patch survives.  We will have to keep an eye on the chooks during the day and give them a squirt with the misting bottle every so often.  We will let them out so that they can sit under the plum tree in the cool shade.  I reckon they will be OK.

Power consumption will be at an all time high during the week, and I dare say the power grid will struggle to keep up with the demand for air conditioning.  I wouldn’t be surprised if we experience some brown outs near the end of the week. 

Kim is going to go into hibernation for the week, and stick to the air conditioned part of the house.  We have lots of meals we have made and frozen for the week, so we will not be doing much cooking in the kitchen.  This should help to keep the house a bit cooler as well.

I believe that most of Southern Australia is going to face similar temperatures over the next week, so those of my readers that share this locale, I wish you luck surviving the heat.  Apparently it is going to be the hottest week in 100 years!  Who said that climate change is not real?

 

The Yellow Peril

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My main post today is over at the Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op.  It is about how to opt out of phone book deliveries to your home or business. 

But for a bit of fun, here are other things you can do with the Yellow Pages. 

You can build a miniature shopping mall.  As if we really need any more of these monstrosities!

You could construct scarecrows for your veggie garden.

You could make a car. 

Or a fortress to keep the zombies out after the apocalypse!

If you like, you could make a large reptile to scare door to door salesmen away from your home.

Or, if you are really crafty, you could make this lovely dress with the white pages.  Or weave this cowgirl suit from the yellow pages. Nice!

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Or you could just opt out of the delivery once and for all!  Then you wouldn’t have to get all creative.  Remember, Reduce first, Reuse second, and Recycle if all else fails.

Gav

It Is Done!

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Not for the squeamish, but warts and all, here is my extracted tooth.

Gross, I know, but if you ever want to scare small children into brushing their teeth when they absolutely refuse, I give you full permission to show them this bedtime picture.  I reckon they will fly into the bathroom quicker than their little legs can carry them and be brushing as quick as the Flash!

My mouth is still very swollen, but it is such a relief to have this out.  Decay managed to get into the tooth between the filling and the side wall of the tooth.  It missed detection at my last checkup three months ago, and was not on the X-ray back then either.  It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how regular your checkups are, when your tooth wants to go, it just goes.  A bit like life, I suppose.  A bit like a box of chocolates.

I managed to get a herbal remedies book from the library just before the procedure, so I will let you know if I find any good tips.

For those of you in Australia, have a great Australia Day weekend.  I am going to have a small two day break starting tomorrow, and should have more great posts to share from Sunday onwards.

Aveagoodweekend!  BeaudyCobberDiggerMate!