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  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    I truly love how Mark keeps it "real" and shows the lesser fishing trips too
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    Happy weekend everyone!
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    Don't forget to check this one out!
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    Gidday @Grandmother Goose , how are you?
  • Grandmother Goose Grandmother Goose:
    I'm still alive, that's a good start to any day, right? ;) My sleep routine is way out of whack, but I haven't caved in, still on the quit smoking bandwagon... one thing that's keeping me going is the shiver it gives me to even consider having to go through this past couple of weeks all over again, not worth giving in just for that alone!
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  • Grandmother Goose Grandmother Goose:
    I've been getting compliments from random people about my potatoes - they're in the front yard, so every pizza and parcel delivery, every water and electric meter check, and every visitor and passer by that's tall enough to see over the front fence comments on them. Finally got my trellises up properly for my espalier tree garden out the back. My ugly capsicum looks more like a proper capsicum now.
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  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    I just threw my back out... if my lower back had a voice she'd be screaming :censored:
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    So I'm stuck in bed for today. Please bear with me as I hope to get to your messages tomorrw (I always check PM's though!)
  • D daveb:
    so got one of my strawberry seeds in today they have going into freezer to prep them to germinate, just snapped a shot of the instruction paper and will post it in the fruit and vegetable growing area. so if others out there are looking to grow any from seed.
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  • D daveb:
    so threw back out Mandy. you might want to keep it though.
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    Haha cheeky. Yeah, it's still a pain. I lifted something heavy and when I put it down my back was wrecked.
  • D daveb:
    ouch , remember lift with legs, you bend to lift something you are not just lifting the item but upper body weight at same time
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    I used both my back and legs for this one. It was a large mop bucket filled to the brim, so I was trying to carry it without spilling. We sit it under our little portable airconditioner and forgot to empty it (We have to empty it at LEAST twice a day)
  • D daveb:
    mandy many AC unit has a rubber plug in bottom corner you can get a pie the pops in to attach a drain hose to so no more buckets to carry
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    I've got nowhere to drain it to, unless it magically goes up into a window
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    +1
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    Don't forget that there are Black Friday sales on now!
  • Grandmother Goose Grandmother Goose:
    I now really have to pull my finger out and get my legacy garden bed jigsaw puzzles sorted out and finished before these new beds push the old ones into discontinued. Would be just my luck to need half a dozen more pieces or a few more braces to finish mine off and not be able to get them anymore.
  • D daveb:
    what is you unit Mandy one of those free standing AC with the hot air vent out the window insert? That is what sister has so i set a condensate pump up for her drill a small hole in the shield the goes in window and ran the discharge hose up to it, i added a small anti siphon valve in line at the pump so it pumps up and when it stops it doesn't back flow into the tank again
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  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    Oof I don't know of the top of my head, but it is one of those free standing ones. I've got the hot air hose out the window.
  • D daveb:
    ok so in the back you have a hose that you can drain the water into a pail, the condensate removal pump has a reservoir the water from the AC drains into the pump plugs in and has a discharge hose barb you can put a pieces of hose on and then stick it out through a hole in the same shield that holds the hot air exhaust hose. no more buckets or pails to pick up and empty
  • Mandy Onderwater Mandy Onderwater:
    I've got the airconditioner standing on a milk crate so that it drains into the bucket, haha

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