Corn is nearly finished, freezed alot of corn as well as eating heaps. The late comers are still growing to finish.

The timber support is to prevent wind blowing the tomato bushes over off their trellis

And very extensive

The tomato bushes are very high, way over my head.

Rejects go here. You get tomato grubs, fruit fly causing brown rot, red back spiders, and some holes in them you can’t explain why. The difference between tomatoes you buy at the shops and the ones I grow at home is the amount of pesticides used. Mine are not toxic to humans, but the tomatoes come with yuck look to those not used to off_grid_living.

My outdoors table (stainless steel, chopping board and bucket of tomatoes

I reject any with fungus (white hairs) growing on them, the oven wasn’t too enough, quick enough to dry out the liquid in this one.

Sundried yesterday

Sundried 2 days ago

Sundried 1 day ago

I made a home made solar drier, to make sun dried tomatoes, with wire mesh, bottom sheet metal, glass and fly screens to keep flies off.

@kt84@twtxt.net They look like Pinto Beans. Expensive to buy in the health food shops.

And Lilly wrote this all by herself?

How does a 7-year-old child write such a lovely rhymical and rhyme poem?

What happened to the “mentions” tab?

Thanks Lyse, took quite a while to figure it out, being six pulleys, it easily allowed me to lift the 250Kg tank easily.

Fill with sand and water inside and outside, to ensure settling, as the firbreglass tank is weak, and the walls need the outside dirt to protect against water pressure. This process is first done to a depth of 800. Than after a few days of settling, I will fill it all in. Red arrow shows the consolidation process.

Like so

And lowered carefully the tank into the hole

Set up the scaffold for the 6 pulley system.

Than I dug a new hole, also 1.6m deep, and relocated the tank down hill from our new toilet room.

Our septic tank is blocked up, so I dug it out, to replace and clean the problems. Common with aged septic systems. This hole is 1.6m deep.

Really nice, it’s hard making good sense of pixel squares, isn’t it?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I got the idea from the USA, they build them much larger and longer, a 4m thermal window, to remove hot air from their houses and cool them down over summer.

A close up of the thermal flu part, the glass is reflecting the iron. The sun heats the air inside the glass pulling less warmer air in and allowing hotter air to escape (hot air rises). This causes all the hot air in the kitchen cavity to be extracted.

The lid above is bolted 3 cms off the thermal column, allowing hotter air to escape. The inside chamber is painted high temperature black, to help absorb heat.

Finally finished the chimney flu, plus it doubles as a thermal flu too.

@prologic_blog@feeds.twtxt.net So how does your idea stop spiders crawling data off the webpage, maybe even stealing content for another webpage auto creating device?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes, its a wonderful deep blue,, wife loves the colour.

Looking from inside the thermal chimney outside through the glass wall placed there. The sun heats up this cavity drawing hot air out and sucking cooler air into it’s place. This will cool the roof cavity on the hottest and windless days.

A view inside the funnel shaped metal structure, like a fish and chip extractor hood. The red arrow shows a vent I cut so passing hot air also sucks out the ceiling air as well, making the roof cavity cooler. This is a USA thermal chimney idea I got from the States.

I have been working on this 100yr old wood stove, Diane loves. It was used by her long ago as a tenant. The mini-orb metal sheeting protects the walls from heat, and a special built funnel guides heat, fumes and smoke up the thermal chimney.

Here you are Lyse, a close up of the 7 gooselings. Can’t get too close, or she gets hussy.

Robert Deutche predicts more rain for Australia, massively more over the next 3 weeks, the engineering of clouds bands is enormous and ongoing. We have had over 150mm rain in the last 3 days, and the state of Queensland is due for much more, especially the coast.

@prologic@twtxt.net getting a lot of rain, 37 yesterday and another 40mm today.

Sure, red arrow is the model in wrong direction by 90degrees
The blue arrow is the model in correct position, sunset was to enter temple doors.
The model is NOT aligned properly.

And rockmelons

Lots of pumpkins and water melon flowers coming on

Also I grow flowers

Getting cucumbers and beans

ALso built a chook pen for the chooks, used for the geese at the moment

See babies on the foot path

Also used to house 7 gooselings, keep the crows away

corn is flowering now

Our garden at the moment

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks