Nightly Goodnight Everyone

[dream4red]

Hi Dot, A slow day today? xxxx

I had a super busy day in the lair. Firstly I have booked the accommodation for the next two shows. Bathurst showground took a lot of fiddling around, due to us liking to stay a few extra days around the event, but we managed it anyway. Doctors and eye appointments are arranged and the only one on the list still to get done is the van rego. Mechanic closed too early today before I could make the appointment.

We went across the lake to the garden centre for advice about our stinking bugs. We were meant to spray eco oil all over citrus trees from late winter, every fortnight until spring has sprung. The critters just slip off. I love that, instead, now we get to try plan 2. At sunset , give the tree a hard water spray and aim at the bugs. Once they seem to have all vacated to tree, get the trunk saturated, so they can't crawl back up. Need to have several repeat performances. I am thinking of doing the oil on the trunk too, just to give em a slide for their money.

Went to the little grocer to get some fresh veggies (fresher than woolies anyway). then home for a late lunch.

I finally get to my shed and found the plates were ok. One looks great the other, not so. They are being shaped tonight, so we will see how they go tomorrow. Think it might be a 50% pass mark.

night all xxx

[BernieQ2]

I found the eco oil wasn't much good, there is a spray you can buy... but it kills everything.
I just squash them with my fingers.. but you may have an aversion to doing this.
Bernie.

[T1 Terry]

Hi Dot, A slow day today? xxxx

I had a super busy day in the lair. Firstly I have booked the accommodation for the next two shows. Bathurst showground took a lot of fiddling around, due to us liking to stay a few extra days around the event, but we managed it anyway. Doctors and eye appointments are arranged and the only one on the list still to get done is the van rego. Mechanic closed too early today before I could make the appointment.

We went across the lake to the garden centre for advice about our stinking bugs. We were meant to spray eco oil all over citrus trees from late winter, every fortnight until spring has sprung. The critters just slip off. I love that, instead, now we get to try plan 2. At sunset , give the tree a hard water spray and aim at the bugs. Once they seem to have all vacated to tree, get the trunk saturated, so they can't crawl back up. Need to have several repeat performances. I am thinking of doing the oil on the trunk too, just to give em a slide for their money.

Went to the little grocer to get some fresh veggies (fresher than woolies anyway). then home for a late lunch.

I finally get to my shed and found the plates were ok. One looks great the other, not so. They are being shaped tonight, so we will see how they go tomorrow. Think it might be a 50% pass mark.

night all xxx

Have you tried spraying them with milk .... then the cat will lick them off the trees

T1 Terry

[Dot]

I am going to try different things on different trees next year. Watery milk. Watery Cooking oil, Commercial spray, and an ordinary household insect spray. Bernie I get quite a kick out of squishing the little green buggers A great day sunny and warm but a bit of a breeze not good for spraying. Q/ Do you need to get power people's ok to unhook the solar panels and or do you have to have a sparkie to undo and redo them for the people to paint underneath them?
Went to sleep last night so missed out saying goodnight. Got up at 4pm yesterday and back to sleep again by 7pm. This sleep thing can't come soon enough.
Terry I will need come good support to get my hair shaved especially at Taggerty I will do it under those circumstances if ok with the host. T1 the controller OK

[T1 Terry]

I am going to try different things on different trees next year. Watery milk. Watery Cooking oil, Commercial spray, and an ordinary household insect spray. Bernie I get quite a kick out of squishing the little green buggers A great day sunny and warm but a bit of a breeze not good for spraying. Q/ Do you need to get power people's ok to unhook the solar panels and or do you have to have a sparkie to undo and redo them for the people to paint underneath them?
Went to sleep last night so missed out saying goodnight. Got up at 4pm yesterday and back to sleep again by 7pm. This sleep thing can't come soon enough.
Terry I will need come good support to get my hair shaved especially at Taggerty I will do it under those circumstances if ok with the host. T1 the controller OK

As far as the solar being removed to paint under it, be sure you establish with your solar sparky that this is not a system repair or upgrade, but roof maintenance. There are rules about refitting used solar panels, don't let them B/S you that they can not reuse them because of Energy Australia rules, if you need to know the rules to quote them to your solar sparkie, let me know and I'll look it up for you ......

T1 Terry

[Dot]

Thanks Terry , that info would be good to have on hand if you don't mind.. Feeling a bit tired and need to hit the sack again, take care everyone. and goodnight x Goodnight Tanks x

[dream4red]

Dot, how about you just paint around the panels? They throw shadows under themselves so would the colour be that noticable? Surely a good painter, would know how to deal with the problem anyways? Just my thinking out loud mate xxxx

Bernie, these things are huge and in their thousands on a lemon tree that is about ten feet tall. My five feet (in height) don't climb that far for anybody.

Terry, rarely see cats around here at all, but couldn't the bugs poison the cat? They are pretty potent. The locals all say not to get the spray from the bugs in your eyes. All I know is that their spray is super stinky, so avoid them at all costs.

Today was a slow day, thanks to last night's pain killers. Well I slept, but now the hang over is the pay back.

Last night's kiln firing was ok. The plate came up much better than I expected, so it will go on sale and the splat bowl has a wonky bottom. That can be fixed with another slump firing and a flattener bottomed mold. No dramas there.

I was on a mission to make a splat bowl for a lady who broke hers. She bought it at Bathurst last year and wants one built similar and close to the previous model. Luckily, I found a photo of my stall from Bathurst last year and there is a very clear pic of the bowl in question. I don't have all the identical bits of glass, but most of them. I had a happy couple of hours in the shed just building her replacement one. It's in the kiln tonight for it's first fuse.

That was enough for a tired dragonlady.

nighty night xxx

[T1 Terry]

Thanks Terry , that info would be good to have on hand if you don't mind.. Feeling a bit tired and need to hit the sack again, take care everyone. and goodnight x Goodnight Tanks x

This is a starting place https://solarips.com/complete-guide-to- ... u%20expect.
Tell them what you need to do, as in have the panels removed so the roof can be painted, then refitted and get a quote from them and get confirmation that they can remove and replace your panels without having to have the whole system re-evaluated and possibly loosing what ever solar feed in tariff you get now ....... that will give you a baseline when asking others for quotes, and a reference to throw back at them that they can't legally reinstall your panels for what ever B/S reason they come up with .....
If you really need it, I can do the research to find the actual reference numbers for the section within the clean energy act that allows for the panels to be removed and refitted for the purpose of roof repairs

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

When we had our corrugated iron roof repainted a couple of years ago, the painter used a long-handled roller to paint underneath the solar panels without moving them.
Obviously they are mounted high enough off the roof to allow for this.

[Dot]

This is a starting place https://solarips.com/complete-guide-to- ... u%20expect.
Tell them what you need to do, as in have the panels removed so the roof can be painted, then refitted and get a quote from them and get confirmation that they can remove and replace your panels without having to have the whole system re-evaluated and possibly loosing what ever solar feed in tariff you get now ....... that will give you a baseline when asking others for quotes, and a reference to throw back at them that they can't legally reinstall your panels for what ever B/S reason they come up with .....
If you really need it, I can do the research to find the actual reference numbers for the section within the clean energy act that allows for the panels to be removed and refitted for the purpose of roof repairs

T1 Terry
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Thanks Terry, I might be well worth having those ref numbers you ref to just to have them ready to quote to them Thanks

Last night Mr G was having a really bad toothache so he resorted to a couple of my "good pills" but he slept in his chair so we both could get some sleep. He got emergency appointment with dentist this arvo and it was rather infected, so it came out. Before the dentist G had a follow up with my neck man to see how the meds he had given G to try for his weird throat cough. When he looked up G;s nose you could see the nasty infected snotty stuff so tomorrow is a CT and maybe surgery after the X/R.s depending what they show. He even said I could assist with the hammer bit. The 3000 Inverter and anode we ordered last week arrived today so when the boy feels better that are his next jobs. My black centered poppies have started to flower Time I had something to eat and I am rather tired so early goodnight tonight. Stay safe . Goodnight everyone x Goodnight Robert not Bob x (Hows the leg?)