In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Haven't really felt myself for a few days, so I've stayed out of the Garden...
It's been a ROUGH week.
Pretty sure I swallowed myself some pretty toxic bacteria on Monday. I woke up to about 2% water pressure in my house and it took about 15 minutes to fill my coffee pot. I was going to get some tools out of the garage to detach a water meter that was recently installed that I thought might have had some blockage, but saw the whole city lined up on my street. The pipes busted in the street in about 6 places and my frontage looked like footage from the BP oil spill. All that reclaimed water just rushing out and right back down into the sewer system.
To my surprise, by the time I'd gotten back home that night the problem was fixed, but we had a "Don't drink the water until further notice" in place. It was only then that it occured to me that I'd drank an entire pot of coffee that was brewed from whatever Lovecraftian Horror that came out of the tap that morning. Oh well. I felt fine. No harm, no foul.
That was until I woke up very early Tuesday morning to go to the bathroom...
When I stood up I immediately had vertigo, and right before the throbbing head pain came on I was induced with the worst chills I'd ever experience in my life... in a house that was in the mid 70 degrees. I put on a hoodie and sweat pants and spent the next 24 hours under two blankets, writhing in misery from the pain that seemed to be everywhere all at once, but most notably the ceaseless throbbing pain in my head. I never knew what a headache was until that night. I finally knew the fever broke after I woke up early Wednesday morning and my clothes were saturated in sweat.
And that's when I remember the delusions. I was confident I had cancer. At one point, I was even convinced that somebody had purposefully poisoned the water and was trying to kill me. Obviously the latter is ridiculous. Hopefully the former is as well.
Wednesday wasn't great, but after what I went through on Tuesday anything felt amazing. Joint pain was still around, and my skin was super sensitive all over and mildy hurt to the touch. Especially on my head and my back. Even today, I still have slight sensitivity on the skin of my lower back.
There was never any coughing at all. Some mucus buildup from Wednesday onward, but nothing I'm concerned about. Appetite has been almost non existant for days, although I haven't had a problem forcing myself to eat.
Wednesday night through last night was almost a turn for the worse in a way though since I was seriously backed up. It was to the point that I had to take shallow breaths because it hurt to take deep ones with all that pressure in the abdomen. I barely got any sleep for about 36 hours because of the discomfort.
That's not a problem today though. More in line with what you would expect from a bacterial infection, I've had an appointment with Mr. John about a half dozen times so far this morning.
Let's just say that I'm not really finding much joy out of today either, but at least most of my strength seems to be back, the dizziness is gone, most of the pain is gone, and it seems like my body is finally ready to exorcise whatever is left of the unknown microscopic demons that possessed me through that foul batch of coffee.
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Out for my walk soon. Temp is around 76F which is good. Yes, I'm early because I want to get back and get a couple of other things done.
Someone must have tripped the fire alarm this morning. It went off at around 8:30.
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Back from mah jong and all done for today. Just having a sit down right now.
I don't know WHAT happened, but I couldn't fall asleep until 5AM! So I took the time to do much-needed paperwork, which didn't go very smoothly bc I was too sleepy to do a good job. Well, better luck with tonight's sleep!
I DID pick the first three zucchini today. I think I can remove that from my shopping list for the foreseeable future.
Well, early day tomorrow. I'll need to water the garden before I leave so the veggies don't croak.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Sorry about the sleep but congrates on the zucchini.
Hope you have a better today.
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Back and in. All done even the garbage out.
It did rain today but I was undercover going to the grocery store and when I came out it had stopped. Still seeing lots of cloud cover so it could rain again.
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Up at 5 AM for appt. Been busy ever since, washing up three drain traysful of dishes, casseroles, little stuff, and pots and pans; fixing b'fast for hubby and tidying up. But still short of sleep so time for a short nap!!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Just over 12 months ago a huge storm hit this area, with cyclonic speed winds. The winds came from a direction that was not usual and destroyed about 80 houses. Many residents were left without power or mobile phone access for weeks - in the dead of winter.
Climate disasters, supply issues due to COVID have meant that 12 months on, many houses have yet to be rebuilt and some residents will not be able to reinsure their homes.
Here is a short video on what happened if you are interested in my neck of the woods.
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from: SO WHAT THE HECK IS LIBERTARIANISM?
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Wattle?
Our national emblem. A flowering tree that produces masses of yellow flowers late winter and early spring.
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We're watching a mystery series called Dr Blake. It's kind of a whodunnit taking place in 1950s Ballarat. It looks lovely.
Craig Mclaughlin has been in the news lately - not coming off as a lovely chappie.
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But every now and again they shoot a scene that makes me realize how ... different Australia is. A forest of eucalyptus. A night sky with NO familiar constellations!
It looks, at times, alien. But to you Australia is home, and maybe California or New York would seem strange.
It probably does seem strange when you first visit, the landscapes can be very different to North America and Europe. But it's also a big continent and lots of variety. For example, where I live there are enormous mountain ash forests, temperate rainforest in fact, that is probably more like where you live than someone who lives in Alice Springs (dead centre). At the moment there is high rainfall throughout lots of Australia, and catastrophic floods up north.
America, on the surface, doesn't seem so strange. we have been saturated with your media for many years. I think we sometimes forget how different America is to us because of it, and things like the stance on abortion and gun laws, and well Trump, seems so alien to us. Culturally we are very different countries. Australians also travel a lot out of country, a lot more than Americans it would appear. We get better holiday conditions and most of us are drawn to see other places outside of our far away Island.
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I'm very attuned to the specifics of where I live: the sky,the weather, the plants,the architecture. It took me forever to see the beautiful in the LA area .. of course, Los Angeles is in many ways a remarkably ugly place. I wonder what you would think of California.
I actually went to California many years ago, and had a brief and fun stop over in LA. I did the touristy things and I enjoyed it. If I ever go to the States again, I would go to New York and then visit some of your famous national parks like Yosemite. I love hiking so I would pick a multi day hike. I am, however, quite terrified of your bears.
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Lockdowns, ugh. Only very strict lockdowns actually work, and only a place like China could make them work. Fortunately the last few iterations of Covid have mutated in the direction that many viruses mutate: more infectious but less lethal. Family has escaped it so far, altho at this point the virus has mutated so far from it's original strain that the vaccine doesn't work anymore. When I was on chemo we all wore N95s to go anywhere. I'm seriously thinking of relaxing that to paper masks which, really, are just a fiction. Haven't quite decided yet
Well it kept the virus under control while the vaccines were developed and saved loads of lives. It was hard going at times, but I was lucky and still able to work, so part of me enjoyed the quieter life.
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Maybe we should carry this on in another thread? I'm really curious what you think of us rattling China's cage over Taiwan bc if any happens over it, Australia would be involved for sure. Also, yanno,just what's been happening with you, your family and all. I'm sure a lot has happened over the past few years.
I am actually not keeping up with much in the US these days, Roe V Wade was all over the news here so hard to avoid, and the endless gun violence seems horrific, but apart from that - not so much. I'm working and studying and busy, getting older and not sure about wiser ;}
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Just over 12 months ago a huge storm hit this area, with cyclonic speed winds. The winds came from a direction that was not usual and destroyed about 80 houses. Many residents were left without power or mobile phone access for weeks - in the dead of winter.
Climate disasters, supply issues due to COVID have meant that 12 months on, many houses have yet to be rebuilt and some residents will not be able to reinsure their homes.
Here is a short video on what happened if you are interested in my neck of the woods.
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Jeez, that's incredibly awful.
I can see that many trees were uprooted. But some were actually snapped. Must have been extremely powerful wind.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Just over 12 months ago a huge storm hit this area, with cyclonic speed winds. The winds came from a direction that was not usual and destroyed about 80 houses. Many residents were left without power or mobile phone access for weeks - in the dead of winter.
Climate disasters, supply issues due to COVID have meant that 12 months on, many houses have yet to be rebuilt and some residents will not be able to reinsure their homes.
Here is a short video on what happened if you are interested in my neck of the woods.
I've seen on the news about the flooding in and around Syndey. It was horrible.
Makes me think of the Lower Mainland where I am last November when we had massive flooding that tore up roads and everything.
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