Enjoying summer heatwave

[Miri]

Let me offer you some heart warming love.
This will cheer you lot up no end in your snow-bound homes and flooded
cities and towns.
So in brotherly love I offer you this poster.
Print it out and stick it on the wall, and you can feel the warmth flood through
you as you gaze upon this image...

Thats ok I’m not really a beech bikini sort of gal. Lol

Im more of a “let’s explore the old ruined castle or stately home, hill walking type”

Thanks anyway.

Maybe I can return the favour in case you forgot what green looks like.


Real place, a bus ride from where I live and if it’s raining I can go indoors!

 

[Waggles]

Hi everyone, You should see I mastered importing a picture. Again, I thank you.
Yours, Deade

I am so glad that you read the manual and followed the instructions.
A very male thing to do.
Just post away and use images to highlight
We might be mere males but an old dog can learn new tricks.

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[Waggles]

Maybe I can return the favour in case you forgot what green looks like.
Real place, a bus ride from where I live and if it’s raining I can go indoors!

Green is not the colour of SA in summer. Green in winter but
sunbaked in summer.
This is how things look around here and if you go north it starts
looking like the Sahara Desert.

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[Waggles]

This is the Simpson Desert - Coober Pedy opal mining territory
only 4 hours drive north of The Barossa

 

[Huckleberry]

It was so hot today, I had left my thongs (flip flops) to Americans in the sun outside and when I put them on I burnt my feet...

When I was a kid we called flip-flops thongs.
I live in the most comfortable shoes ever made, I.e., Crocs.

That is what we call a weber - cooking over charcoal or heat beads.
Very nice.
You can put the lid on and slow cook roasts or poultry.
Succulent style.

I noticed you said hubby cooked - yes good to hear.
BBQs are men's domain.

We just call it a grill, and since my wife is an amazing cook, she does the grilling.
I know my place, which is in the shade at the patio table minding the beverage cooler.

 

[dcontroversal]

Lol, Bunnings is a very large hardware store here in Australia.

And I know what a thong is to Americans hence why I put in the American terminology to explain what I actually meant lol

I like the sausage sandwiches at Bunnings on Sundays HAHAH

 

[dcontroversal]

Yeah...lovely weather....just got back to states yesterday after 9 weeks and 2 days down under....roasted out then stepped off plane and froze hahah gonna be like -15 here tonight.....

 

[dcontroversal]

When I pull out the plug the water spirals down ant-clockwise.
And we have black swans.
That's why explorers referred to Australia as The Antipodes (the opposite of)

Have you tried out our yummy Vegemite on toast, yet?

I tired it three years ago on my first of 11 trips down.....and then used vodka to wash my mouth out<----yeah I know and did not say I drank it.......

 

[dcontroversal]

I live in Northern New South Wales on the east coast and things have not been a shot here as down south.. It's odd that i am closer to the equator then you waggles but you seem to get the hottest temperatures.. Down in Melbourne they had a very hot time and the tennis open.. My Brother moved down their years ago and He syas the temperatures can vary by a wide margin during any season..

We have only had two really hot days here a 41 deg C and a 42 deg C day.. So only two days living as an Air Conditioned refugee ... Actually i got a new Air-con unit fitted the day before the 42 C day hit so i was fortunate thankls be to God ..

I loved your poster Comparing Australia with Korea LOL good one

I just got back from 9 weeks and 2 days in Penrith.....had one day that was 47ish with it being like 48.2 in Richmond that day.....was roasting hot......

 

[preacher4truth]

I tired it three years ago on my first of 11 trips down.....and then used vodka to wash my mouth out<----yeah I know and did not say I drank it.......

It's good to have Vodka on hand accidentally for times like this, and then to only use it to swish out one's mouth. Baptist's are watching, you know.

 

[dcontroversal]

That is what exhausts a poor Aussie - those high overnight temperatures.
And thanks to our socialist Green dumbo Labor government with all their save the
planet nonsense - South Australia has the most expensive electricity in the world;
so we cannot afford to run either of our two split systems that we have.
Pedestal fans is all we use.

And my place is a big old farmhouse with double brick walls and 12 feet high
ceilings. So when the house is hot after a heatwave the house stays hot.

It is 23C outside at 7AM but like 30C in the house. And no breeze to displace the
hot air in the house. And it is humid due to the cloud cover as well.
The dog is outside lying on the grass.

Can't wait for winter

HAHA fly up here....have seen -25 c on my porch this time of year more than once HAHAH and snow this Thursday.....

 

[dcontroversal]

It's good to have Vodka on hand accidentally for times like this, and then to only use it to swish out one's mouth. Baptist's are watching, you know.

YE--HIC---P--HIC---I--HIC---kno--hic--w

 

[Ellsworth1943]

I tired it three years ago on my first of 11 trips down.....and then used vodka to wash my mouth out<----yeah I know and did not say I drank it.......

Wow, 11 trips, I envy you. I always wanted to go down under but could not afford it.
Had a chance to go for free about 5 years ago, but just could not leave my wife for the 2 weeks. Had to say no.
Are your trips business or pleasure?

 

[Waggles]

Thats ok I’m not really a beech bikini sort of gal. Lol
Im more of a “let’s explore the old ruined castle or stately home, hill walking type”
Thanks anyway.
Maybe I can return the favour in case you forgot what green looks like.
Real place, a bus ride from where I live and if it’s raining I can go indoors!

I cannot believe how green and how verdant Britain is.
Your stately home reminds me of a fond British TV show
"Antiques Roadshow" where they travel around to grand houses and
historical sites. Great viewing.

 

[dcontroversal]

Wow, 11 trips, I envy you. I always wanted to go down under but could not afford it.
Had a chance to go for free about 5 years ago, but just could not leave my wife for the 2 weeks. Had to say no.
Are your trips business or pleasure?

A little of both, mostly the latter haha .....and if you book ahead of schedule like a month or so...only about 500 more than a trip from Missouri to Cali and back...like 1100 to 1200....

 

[Waggles]

I always wanted to go down under but could not afford it.

If you cannot go to Oz then let me bring some South Oz to you.
These are the Flinders Rangers which start at about 2 hours drive
north of Adelaide. Spectacular is the word to describe them with.

 

[dcontroversal]

And here is one of vivid Sydney hahah

 

[Ellsworth1943]

A little of both, mostly the latter haha .....and if you book ahead of schedule like a month or so...only about 500 more than a trip from Missouri to Cali and back...like 1100 to 1200....

Might be able to swing the $2400 to get us there and back, but not the food and lodging.
O well, just have to stay here and go fishing.

 

[Depleted]

Its all the wildlife and our pets that suffer the most in a heatwave
the radio shows have guest vets on that remind us to look out for
our pets and local wildlife.
Make sure there's plenty of water out for them... keep them cool
animals suffer the most in very hot conditions ...

Yes, they look like they're suffering so. lol

 

[Depleted]

Meanwhile over this neck of the woods it’s wet and windy.
I got to work last week looking like this.

Something is wrong with that cat. When our old cat got fleas, I'd have to put him in the tub. It was an exact science. His wing-span was roughly a cm. shorter than both sides of the tub, and if I didn't get him in the middle, he could cling to porcelain. BUT when he came out, my hands looked like this.

Something wrong with that cat. The paws aren't clawing.