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SUNDAY, BOY
Dec. 13th, 2020 08:00 pmIt was a hot one today, normally perfectly tolerable 33C but we had a goddamn power outage at my parents farm from 8.30am to 3pm! Total pain in the arse on a hot day (no air con or fans), plus no opening the fridge or freezer (unless you wanted my mother to get shouty), and the pumps for the plumbing were out too, so there was forty buckets of bore water sitting around the house for flushing loos and washing up. And NO INTERNET OR TV. I was able to get mobile reception if I sat in one corner of the kitchen, so the fam spent most of the morning sitting around the table listening to Status Quo via Spotify on my bluetooth speaker, eating bread and cheese, and then going off for naps when it just got too fricken stuffy to bear it.
Yesterday I brought about 6 packs of solar powered Christmas lights over to the farm and we spent half the arvo stringing them along the pool fence and the posts on the back verandah. Bloody love a Christmas light. The original plan was to put them up at my place, but I haven't had the time and I'm basically mostly afraid of encountering spiders in the trees while alone and defenceless, so instead I took them to the farm. We managed to confuse the sheep though, because we were near the paddock gate without also having treats for them, so they stampeded over and were quite disappointed. Frodo did allow some pats though, so it ended well for two of us at least. Frodo is a now four-year-old sheep that we raised from a lamb when his mum passed, and he's enormous, hilarious, and possesses some dog-like traits.
It was also the day the first tomato of the season was picked. So delicious, we didn't even have a moment to commemorate it with a photo.
I've been thinking about little things that make me feel good, so I thought I might try to share some of those things, whenever I remember to, for as long as I manage to keep my regular posting. Today it's a song by one of my favourite bands (Bent) called Sunday Boy. I love many Bent songs, but this one shuffled on the playlist on my drive back home tonight, and it made me feel GOOD. And it's Sunday here. So, Sunday Boy for you, and you, and you.
Yesterday I brought about 6 packs of solar powered Christmas lights over to the farm and we spent half the arvo stringing them along the pool fence and the posts on the back verandah. Bloody love a Christmas light. The original plan was to put them up at my place, but I haven't had the time and I'm basically mostly afraid of encountering spiders in the trees while alone and defenceless, so instead I took them to the farm. We managed to confuse the sheep though, because we were near the paddock gate without also having treats for them, so they stampeded over and were quite disappointed. Frodo did allow some pats though, so it ended well for two of us at least. Frodo is a now four-year-old sheep that we raised from a lamb when his mum passed, and he's enormous, hilarious, and possesses some dog-like traits.
It was also the day the first tomato of the season was picked. So delicious, we didn't even have a moment to commemorate it with a photo.
I've been thinking about little things that make me feel good, so I thought I might try to share some of those things, whenever I remember to, for as long as I manage to keep my regular posting. Today it's a song by one of my favourite bands (Bent) called Sunday Boy. I love many Bent songs, but this one shuffled on the playlist on my drive back home tonight, and it made me feel GOOD. And it's Sunday here. So, Sunday Boy for you, and you, and you.
