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I HEART EBAY...
I just buyed me a shiny new silver bit for my horse for when I get her back into the show ring in a few months time... and all for just US$50 ... plus postage of course!
Noice!
OK then... now that that be over I must go do some work!
Hooroo!
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| We knew it was going to be a hot summer when we had the hottest November here since 1892 (or thereabouts)... yes folks, it has been this hot before... but lets not go there just now, eh?
The smell of smoke and the all too familiar blue haze has been around for most of the week, but we weren't too sure where it was coming from. Now we know there are fires burning to the west, the south-west, the east and the north-east of us... admittedly far enough away to not be of direct threat, but still of some concern all the same!
A National Parks guy was killed at the easterly fire yesterday when the helicopter he was in crashed at that fire. Amzingly the pilot survived - though badly injured! And there were two other incidents with aircraft at fires way down south yesterday, though thankfully no one was killed.
And all this when we are only 10 days into summer!!! I wonder what the rest of the season will bring???
And in other news... I had a meeting yesterday with some people who want to use our new indoor arena for an event at the end of Januray. It was the first time I'd had the chance to go and have a close look at the completed shed... all I can say is WOW!!! It's going to be sooooo nice when we finish getting it decked out and actually ready to use!
Unlike the old shed that fell down, this one is higher and the roof is designed to let air circulate, plus it is insulated - even though it is fully open on two sides. Given how hot it was yesterday, if we'd been standing in the old shed it would have been like being in a sauna... yesterday was so cool and comfortable inside that it was amazing!!!
Love it! Love it! Love it!
Now all I gotta do is bring my horse back in and start getting her ready for some of the events we're planning for in there early next year! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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Hell yeah!
Then there's the infuriating automatic response when people find out a person is single... "Must be gay!" | | comments: Leave a comment |
| WTF? Do I have "BABYSITTER" stamped on my fucking forehead or something?
I have work to do woman! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| my sister had to work last night... so we got stuck with her kids again! lol
after we all watched the first of the Smokey & the Bandit movies last week they pestered and pestered me to watch the next installment last night... so we did.
it's kind of strange... but in a good way... seeing kids of today rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter while watching a movie that's almost 30 years old! does that mean it could be classed as timeless? lol
of course the movie itself was so ridiculous it was stupid... but hell, i sure loved watching it again! this one had Dom de Louis in it... man he was a funny guy!!!
i guess we'll all be watching Smokey & the Bandit 3 next week then? after that i might see if i can track down Stroker Ace and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for them... then I think maybe Every Which Way But Loose etc etc etc
tee hee hee! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Location: | shop | | Subject: | wtf? lol | | Time: | 02:05 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/44.gif) amused |
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| i just found out that my aunty is a cougar! lol
shes 64 and has apparently just started going out with a 51 year old!
like... seriously... wtf? lol
apparently her two sons are far from impressed... tee hee hee...
not sure what her daughter thinks... though i can kind of imagine...
i know i probably shouldn't talk... i've gone out with people where there has been a similar (or greater) age gap... but this is kind of amusing... it certainly has the family buzzing! lol
meh... to each his own, eh? | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Location: | work | | Subject: | What the... | | Time: | 01:58 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/121.gif) surprised |
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| What the heck???
I sure as hell didnt see that coming!
My money was on 'Honest Joe' Hockey... though I can see now why it all came about the way it did...
Interesting times ahead methinks! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Well, the weekend is almost over and I'm wondering where it went? Between the shop and racing around after horses it seems to have vanished... and I really don't think I got all that much achieved... **sigh**
The only good thing to come out of yesterday was finding out that our horse is in foal... now we just have to wait... until about October 17th next year... sheesh... that's a long way away! lol
Yesterday morning I helped some girls from our riding club set up for a school they had organised with a guest instructor. I had to go out and help put some cattle on the truck for them to use. Had a yack with a few of them after we delivered the cattle, then I headed for the shop.
Apparently I just missed all the fireworks yesterday... just as I drove out the gates apprently one of the girls horses decided it was rodeo time and bucked out across the showground, depositing her on her head!!!!! When I went back over today to see how their clinic was progressing she had only just been released from hospital... after spending the night in there with concussion!!!
She couldn't remember a thing about yesterday morning or about the horse doing her damage... somehow I don't think that horse will stay with her too much longer (this is the girl I sold one to a few weeks back, so hopefully he'll be better for her?).
Today, after first kicking back and watching my favourite racing programs (the Sunday ritual! lol), I came into town and called at the showground to see how they were all getting on, then came to the shop to try and get a bit more done... not that I've really achieved much I'm afraid!
Still, getting some stuff finished has to be better than getting nothing finished at all... so thats something at least.
OK then... I guess it's time I went home and did something about cleaning up the mess that I've just been told exists after strong winds came through and blew a tree down over the chook yards!!! Fun, fun, fun, eh? It just never ends! lol
Arriverderci! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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OK... so we eventually got the water soaked up at about 11 last night. Now we've got to get the insurance assessor out to see what's going to happen... I wonder how long that will take? lol
Had to battle with them last night though... they wanted to send up a carpet cleaner from the town over an hour away!!! In the end - after four hours of phone calls - I think they just wanted to be rid of us and said we could get whoever we wanted.. we rang our usual carpet cleaner and he was out home within half an hour starting to sop up all the water at 10 o'clock last night.
Everything was still pretty damp this morning of course
We're going to have to do something about the gutter though... this just can't keep happening... only thing is because of where the gutter is, and the design of the house it needs to have the gutter there. Hmmmm... will have to look more seriously at this methinks...
And on another subject all together... I passed a copy of one of my stories on to a writer the other day... I mean a professional writer who has sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his books! The critique came back today and I was quite pleasantly surprised.
( What I need to work on... )
All very constructive and gives me some hope... though I do know that if I want to get serious about it all one day it certainly won't be easy...
But hey... nothing was ever meant to be easy, was it?
Ok then... I better get back to it I suppose... I have someone coming in at about 8 o'clock to pick up a job I've been working on... so it might be a good idea if it's finished I suppose! lol
Ciao!
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| Spent much of the day watching the weather site to see what was happening...
Todays predicted top - 30 degrees
It made it to 29.9!
There was supposed to be a cool change come through this afternoon... along with thunderstorms, then steady rain at 6pm
Cool change! Check! Came through about 3-ish
Thunderstorm! Check! Came through about 4.30.
Steady rain! Hell no!!!
It bucketed down... major storm... so major that the gutter in the house overflowed and flooded the dining room. Carpets are all soaked. Furniture is now piled high and out of the way... at least that that was in harms way.
Insurance agents were supposed to have someone out here tonight to deal with soaking up the water... we're still waiting... almost three hours later... place stinks to high heaven... won't get looked at now til tomorrow by the go of things, which means the carpets will be stuffed and need replacing... uurrgghh!!!!!
This is the third time that this has happened in the 20 odd years we've been here.
The problem is with the design of the house... modern-passive-solar-architect-designed my ass!!! It has this box gutter running the full length and every so often we get a storm that is just a little bit more than the gutter can cope with, so what happens? It overflows and starts running straight inside through the ceiling! Not pretty, let me tell ya!
**sigh**
We've tried adjusting the down-pipes and overflows, but it doesn't seem to make any difference!
And people wonder why I watch the weather? LOL | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Location: | shop | | Subject: | Oh dear... | | Time: | 03:15 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/101.gif) contemplative |
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| The heat wave is continuing... the nights are being made bearable only by having the fans going all night long... the grass in the paddocks has dried right off... it's just like it usually is at the end of December - only that is still 5 or 6 weeks away!
Today there is this heavy haze hanging about... can't smell any smoke, but it's still rather foreboding all the same. I don't like it when it is like this. They are saying that this is the hottest and driest November on record in the state. Bushfires are already burning in the south of the state. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if we got one here.
It makes me worry about the state forest that joins the back corner of our place... well, they used to call it a "state forest", they changed it a few years ago now to be a "nature reserve", and in typical governemt fashion it was all done without consultation with the locals. That might not sound like much of a change, but in reality it is a huge change, because previously it could be used for various things - like the adjoining property owners being able to put stock in there to keep the grass and fuel down! Now the place is all but locked up!
I went for a ride through there at the start of the year and what I saw was rather scary. The amount of fuel that is on the forest floor is substantial, and while our house is a fair way away from it, there are houses on both sides of the forest (our old neighbour Bob has his house only about 50 yards from the forest fence), so if a fire started in there it would just go whooooosh... and could go in any direction!
A couple of years ago one of the National Parks guys called in one day and wanted to arrange a meeting with the people who joined the forest, just to "discuss any issues" they might have. In typical beaurocratic fashion he tried to arrange it during HIS working hours... which of course is when all of US are in town working! I flew right off the handle at him about what they did with the forest... funny thing is he hasn't been back since!
Anyhow... at least they are predicting a cool change for the next few days, so hopefully this week won't be as bad! *sigh*
And in other news... last week was an up and down kind of week here. Work was busy. I was starting to panic a bit about the bank balance for the shop... but then some more work came in which will help boost it back up a bit. Thats just the way it is in business I guess... up and down all the time. Sometimes it can be a bit of a worry though! There was also another little incident that left me a bit rattled... but it was only minor and all that came from it was a few scratches and a bruised ego... and a lesson in being more carefull! lol
Had an enjoyable night last night... kicked back and put on an old movie that I hadn't seen in years! Was in Coles a while back and was looking at their DVD racks... they had 'Smokey and The Bandit 1,2 & 3' in a 3-pack for about $15 I think it was... so I just had to snap it up.
Put on the first of them last night while my sisters three kids were at home... they loved it, and so did I. I know a lot of those type of movies that were made in the 70's and early 80's were crap... but at least they were entertaining! I used to love all of Burt Reynolds movies... things like Smokey & The Bandit, and Stroker Ace and Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (still one of my favourites), then there were the Cannonball Run movies, and the Trinity movies!!!
They were all designed just to entertain. You didn't have to think too hard... just check your brain at the door and escape! Cant really say that too many of the movies made these days that are designed to do the same thing are as good as the older ones... but maybe that's just me! lol
So on that note, I think it's time I went and finished what I came into the shop to do... finish a few jobs, write up a few invoices and so forth... then head off home.
Ciao! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Man, I hate this heat!
24.5 degrees in the middle of the night is just so wrong!!!
36.something degrees here today... that's just a tad too hot for November! Just wait til Christmas gets here... sheesh!!!
**toddlesoff to turn the fan up another notch**
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Hot weekend... and a hot week so far... summer is definitely here! But it has been a good week too...
I love the smells of summer... particularly that of fresh grass being mown and summer thunderstorms and showers... theres hardly anything thats better I reckon.
Leaving the University this afternoon I saw the family of wild ducks out again... doesn't look like there are any missing yet, which is good! As I approached the pedestrian crossing just down from the car park I leave of an afternoon I was trying to figure out what the hold up was there... there were about 4 cars all lined up, but there was no one on the crossing... when they finally got moving and I was able to pass that spot I saw what the problem was... the ducks had crossed the road to get to the fresh grass on the other side... and had used the pedestrian crossing! Very smart of them I thought! lol
My afternoon was made though when my author client came in and finally paid about one third of his rather considerable account... I was quite pleased about that! Now I can afford to eat again this week! ;)
The local Rodeo was on in town over the weekend... I didn't bother going... I'm really not that big of a fan of rodeos... my equestrian activities are a bit more sedate than that! lol
OK then... I think that's the news for the moment then... time to toddle off home I think...
Ciao!
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| | Current Location: | shop | | Subject: | WTF? | | Time: | 05:48 pm | | Current Mood: | amused |
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| I wanna know who did it! lol
Apparently my business has been nominated in the annual Business Awards for our fair city!
I mean... truly... wtf? LOL | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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Just come back from a quick walk uptown to get some lunch. It is rather warm out there today. Not as bad as it is in South Australia at the moment of course, but still warm enough. Think I might just stay inside with the fan spinning for the rest of the afternoon now... lol
Was running late this morning... it was all John Cusack's fault! Sunrise kept saying... "and coming up Nula's exclusive interview with John Cusack about his new movie - 2012"
So of course, being the John Cusack fan that I am, I waited... and waited... and waited... until they eventually showed it at about 8.45.
What is it about morning shows that spend all bloody morning introducing a story only to leave it until it is virtually the last thing they show for the day? Man I hate that! lol
Anyhow, the interview was a bit of a flop I reckon... rather disappointing really... but I think I'll still go and try to see the movie... I think it looks pretty good...
Have had a busy morning in some respects... one customer waiting on the door step when I arrived... two more showing up while the first one was still here... then one of my little old ladies for whom I am currently editing her book showed up and gave me another $50 for some of what I've done.
She's writing a book about alternative lifestyles... not hippy type lifestyles (though I reckon she may well have been a commune dweller in the 60's! lol)... more like eco-village type lifestyles and living from the land, but still in a village type community. It does make for some quite interesting reading actually. I just wish she would stop changing the text on the pages and bringing in new pages! lol
It would be good if I could get her interested in a computer! (lol) Currently she types all the pages up on an old manual typewriter, then copies the pictures she wants to use and glues them onto the page. I then have to scan them in using character recognition software, but it doesnt really do a very good job, given the quality of the type-face, so then I have to go and edit each page and correct all the incorrect characters... all very laborious.
This whole book thing is rather fascinating really and I'm enjoying what I'm doing with them, even though I can't actually produce the finished product myself. It has opened up some new horizons for me though, and I seem to have a few people coming at me wanting books done, now that we've got the first two done, so it could be good. Some people have also asked when I'm going to have some of my own stories printed in book form... but I'm not so sure about that yet... though in the long term I wouldn't mind doing something like that! lol
Anyhow... for the time being I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and I'm learning all the time... so it's all good! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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...Melbourne Cup Day! One of my favourite days of the year! Especially after backing the winner and picking up my winnings! ;)
foals racing around
over fields of green
with muscles straining
beneath hides that gleam
manes flying free
as they race neck and neck
none giving an inch
each wants to be best that will to win
the need to be first
it is bred within them
it is with them from birth from pround sires and dams
their blood carries on
the legacy of champions
from generations long gone and with each passing season
there'll be new dreams arrive
will this foal be the one
on which fortunes revive will the crowds cheer his name
as he races along
his thundering hooves
a melodious song they may call him a champion
and all shout his name
give him garlands of roses
for this moment of fame but when he's first past the post
it means little to him
he's just wondering why
we are all making such din for all he was doing
was bringing memories back
and doing what he new best
out there on the track for with his mane flying free
as he raced neck and neck
not giving an inch
he knew he was best with such will to win
and the need to be first
it was bred within him
it has been with him from birth
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