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Wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) doing loops above our place looking for some lunch.
I'm more than happy with my 2022 iPhone SE 3rd Gen *except* for the camera. While it might be 12MP, the digital zoom is hot garbage.
Latest example is this very pixelated sambar hind I just about tripped over this morning while out for a walk on our place. She wandered out of the bush about 20 m away, so I froze in place and pulled out my phone to take a photo.
The best camera is still the one you have access to in the moment, but I'd have loved a clear and detailed photo.
Watching a master at work: Al Dummett owns one of the valley’s main civil engineering companies. Today, he’s tidying up our internal roads. Rural contractors are critical out here.
It’s been about a year since they were last done and it’s been scheduled for several weeks, just waiting on a warm sunny day.
#bushlife
Looks like a good crop coming in!
Hard life for this working cat. Coco taking 500.
#bushlife #catsofmastodon
Walk into pit (basement), spot bit of black hose underfoot
*hose*? 
Oh FUCK!
Leap skywards.
50cm black snake (red belly?), slithers under stored items. Probably thinking "oh fuck, *that* was close". Just like I was!
Heartrate slowly drops.
Over the years I've had redbellies, browns, broad headed, & a tiger snake in the pit, + a few non/mildly venomous snakes.
"I've had it with these motherfucking snakes in my motherfucking pit"
It'll go away...
When we moved to our place here in the bush, there were mice, rats, and rabbits all in clusters near the house. Our working cat removed that problem over about 8 months. Now, she's a bit older and sleeps most of the time.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/working-cats-deserve-tax-deductible-status/105051628
ABC News · Working cats deserve tax deductible status, say researchers and farmers
Our PV+battery has been up about little over a week now. Today was hot and sunny; the first day of a 4-day heatwave and topped out at 31C while staying pretty humid.
We had AC on in a couple of rooms most of the day, using 26kWh of energy for all activity. The PV array produced nearly 44kWh of energy. We consumed 16kWh from the battery. At about 4:00pm, the battery was full.
Presently, the battery is discharging as we consume electricity from it, and it exports to the grid. Over the day, and across two price spikes we've exported 23kWh of energy. It's clearly not going to be any less in coming days.
On less sunny and hot days, it looks like we'll generate around 2x our consumption. On hot days like this, it will be even more (
Yes, it's going to take a handful of years to recover the outlay, but at this rate, we’ll both completely offset the cost of electricity supply to our house as well as earn enough FiT to offset a significant proportion of electricity supply for our guest cottages.
In NSW (and I believe other states), there are significant state government rebates on batteries alongside federal rebates on PVs. If you have the chance to invest in solar+battery, now is as good a time as any.
Mate. Digging your wombat hole under the veranda of a guest cottage is not okay.
It gave up. So no real harm done.
How's the serenity? This morning's misty valley.
#bushlife #GloriousBrogo
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And installed. Used some heavier fixings (3/8” 4” roofing bolts) to make sure this more substantial gate doesn’t come a-cropper.
Before: Old gate. Treated pine. Starting to fall apart and beaten up by a guest’s dog. Hardware (latch, hinges, galvanised screws) recovered for reuse.
After: New gate. Exterior structural pine. Merbeau decking. Reused hinges, latch, and sign. New stainless steel decking screws.
Headed up to Mountain Cottage.
Mate, how am I supposed to cut up this decking if you’ve taken it over?
New coarse composting basket in place. Now I need to find some kind of accelerator.
#bushlife #gardening
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Hmm. Turns out the weird little oil leak I spotted on the weekend was a cracked cylinder head. Today I am glad for long vehicle warranty periods.
Now to wait for the call that tells me how long the Triton will be in the shop.
The thankfully infrequent “spend all day in town while the truck gets serviced” day is upon us. At least it’s only 1-2 times a year. It’s a massive time sink when I could be doing stuff on the property.
Before moving to the bush, I looked sideways at the classic 1/2 button work shirt, wondering why someone would choose it over full button. Now, I wear one a couple of times a week. They’re comfortable and convenient.
That said, today is a full button King Gee WorkCool vented shirt with an embroidered @rocklily logo, Ringers Western work jeans, Ariat elastic-side work boots, and a trucker cap. I am nothing if not assimilated.