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Went out and collected part of the harvest. The tree they came from is still upper left.
Got some other photos to upload.

I'm not sure if the latest image is what Cohen had in mind but I gotta give him credit for the line.
N'Bad day here: just a bit toasty for these mushroom folks - and we are not talking psychoactive, just acclimatized to damp seasoned manure. got a few sheets of metal roofing fastened down and I'm part way through the fitting and flashing around the power and communications masts. Forecast is for rain tomorrow. The main electrical panel and a very complex switching/sensor panel for the existing water system (which I installed years ago and do not want to have to repair) should be OK now.

One end of the candle is still burning but I'm tyo bed as soon as I type this:
Rob:^(..)@ - DamnifIKnow
Shore: I attempted to upload another photo of the hoard with one of the squirrels and you may very well be on to something: Maybe the cones hitting my skylight are rejects.
Ylee: That roof is by no means done but the vitals are covered more or less. One reno had water coming out of the main panel and squirting into the downstairs apt I was staying in. I snuck up on the fuse box and knocked one of the circles out to keep the level of water below the main busses. One of the early "underground" power examples around here and the ancient galvenized pipe buried 12' under more recent landscaping had rotted. I went looking for a Breaker and the only one I could see was beyond the transformer that served five high end houses - maybe 20,000 amp?

Hi Ylee:
It's 0530 here. You have already said goodbye on your blog. What am I doing up at this hour?
VLR woke me and I went out to cover tools in the pickup and bring the cushions from the deck furniture inside.
There is no bear in the photo but a couple of years ago one chewed up the bee hives about where that picture views.

Hey Rob:
I was hangin' over at your place just playin' one video after another and trying to come up with something worth typing. Trouble is though: the selected videos are interesting and I can not be interested and typing at the same time. Another "way outside" musician comes to mind: Tony Bird. I've been digging for that name's memory for a day or so and I don't know yet what is available.
Off I go to check but maybe I should first check the bacon I put on low heat about 10 minutes ago.

Ylee: You on tonight?
I thought it was spelled Wabbit.

Headed out with Tloml drivin' this morn. The agenda was to replace the gauges on the boat that were all pretty well brand new but these tiny spiders had bloomed inside the new gauges. I guess the webs and tiny spider bodies had interfered with the workings. Stopped to check whether I could use the little backhoe while my friend takes a month off to travel north. "Go for it" was all he said. So I hopped aboard and walked the machine about a mile to my daughter's project. Tloml got really bored acting as my pilot car - it took about 50 minutes to make the one mile move. I usually get the local Rental outfit to pick it up and drop it where I want it and that cost is about 50$ so I was making a dollar a minute (minus fuel cost). Boring though and illegal here.
Parked all hydraulics and carried on to fiddle with the burnt out gauges. I should have made the rebuilt dash so it could flip up to work on it but I did not expect to need to replace gauges quite yet. My, my: there are a lot of wires under there.
Upshot: We now have Engine temperature and fuel gauge working.

Still Morning here OrangeRoses but Good Afternoon your time:
"The path of excess leads to the tower of Wisdom"
Humph! I've been on that path for some years now. No tower in sight yet.
I'll "Keep on" trudgin' ennaway

It's kinda scary when them folks who are into photos comment on one of my posted pictures.
I pull the iPod out of my back pocket, poke a few buttons and usually can not see the result till I call it up on WU. As we have seen I put up some really bad pictures. When I click on the commentor's handle I see amazing pictures.
Oh well. I used to laugh at folks who took "Birding" seriously and now I are one.

Sorta Rob:
But there is a lot more room in your dash underside.
Probably the same instruments -
http://www.faria-instruments.com/

Rob:
I guess that's where I live: "Rustic and cool".
Sometimes I wonder how long it can last but the mantra:
"Long May You Run"
keeps me going

Oops: Roxy and I went out to relieve and this thought came up:
"Silver Waterfall" by I.P. Nickels
"Race to the Outhouse" by Willy Makit
And a few that should not be posted anywhere.
If you have any PG13 book titles please add in.

Rob: That thing is supposed to go in the water?

Rob: I'd put a hoe on it and maybe a stinger crane. Always wanted a decent platform to work from/with. Just put this in the works though: Parasol

These gauges failed because a nest of tiny spiders bloomed in the dash of the boat. I put the failed instruments in the containers the new ones came in and will give them back to the business that supplied the originals. I don't expect to get a refund though.

Afternoon Ylee:
I don't expect the gauges will be refunded under warranty. Had a breakdown when I launched the rebuilt boat last July and it took a while to get the courage and money to start again on it. If this fuel gauge works it will be the first one I have seen working in a boat. I do depend on the temperature gauge though - had a few experiences of engine overheat, mainly from kelp fronds or plastic bags wrapping around the leg and choking off the sea water inlets. I want to install an engine overheat alarm.

Good morning OrangeRoses:
I was thinking about what you posted and reading the links last evening when our first wave of visitors phoned to say they would be arriving within the hour.
It's going to be a fun but busy summer. Talk about "invasive aliens".
I don't think the concern in Antarctica is for microbial invasion from meteorites. The main impact on areas previously "pristine" has been and will be from human activity.
On the other hand I wonder whether organic "seed" from meteorites had an influence on development of life on this "Big Green Ball".

Good Morning Ylee:
Seems to me there were "Diggers" around in the late '60s and into the '70s.
Wiki has this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers
In fact the fuel sender was getting stuck but I rotated the float mount and it seems to be working now. The gauge was bunned though.