Two massive naps today, and I just woke up. That's what I get for waking up at 3am I suppose.
As soon as it's a bit warm, bam, my body is like "nah, nap away the day fam"
the bear from open season
With the spoiler tag, does anyone else find it doesn't put the image in a spoiler when you add it?
The image is inside the spoiler tag to me on the voyager app on iOS.
Sometimes the spoiler tag glitches for me and breaks the image link lol, but I just delete before posting, re-upload the image and spoiler again. It's a bit wack. I just check the preview before posting too lol
Ugh… I know I registered for postal vote at some point but forgot if it was for local or federal. Is there an easy way to check instead of applying all over again just in case? And am I cutting it too fine?
Sorry my brain is pudding today
Edit: What I’m actually meaning is I’ve forgotten whether I’m a general postal voter and can expect to be mailed a ballot automatically… or if my silly butt only applied for the last election and needs to do it again 🤔
Edit: Screw it I just applied for general (again?) so I don’t have to worry
Link for other people in the same boat. Doesn’t take long, and you can enter your Medicare number as a signature https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/enrolment/enrol-to-vote/become-a-general-postal-voter
just send an email to make sure
your vote is important 🙂
I went and applied for general just to be sure
It’s stickily hot :(
Maybe a few of the pumpkins might make it to ripeness after all.
These two are getting pretty chunky and changing colour fast. The faint striations on the first are even darkening to orange.
Others I remember hand pollinating and seeing as tiny forming green bumps are also fattening up into recognisable pumpkin shapes.
Longer ramble
The jack be little pumpkins seem so much faster to grow and fruit than the golden nuggets. They seem extremely fast growing compared to the other variety which haven’t even begun female flowers yet.
But as a tradeoff the jack be little seem much more vulnerable to powdery mildew. They’re covered in it. I’ve almost emptied two bottles of eco fungicide and if I grew these again would buy a concentrate or see if I could source the chemical as a generic in bulk.
Edit: Ok it’s simply potassium bicarbonate which is legal as a supplement, effective as an antifungal, and can be bought generic in larger amounts at half the price. I just have to find somewhere reputable with a good deal.
Also the brand name concentrate could be cut with something so that would affect the concentration when diluting the pure stuff.
This has been an instructive practice run though.
If any make it to full ripeness and are nice and sweet I’m keeping at least one to puree for Melbcat.
Somehow the cherry tomatoes are still going and ripening. Tommy toes. They got a little bit of black spot which took some of the fungicide but bounce back well. I got a nice little supply of fruit from only four plants. Game little variety that I would plant again.
Biria tacos for dinner. Family demolished and there's still some leftover for lunch tomorrow.
Gonna add those to our regular repertoire.
Note to self. When plugging in one's phone to charge up, it helps to turn the charger on. Didn't notice for hours. Another 20 mins to go before it's fully cooked.
How dangerous is it to click Google Drive links? Or to download pdfs?
There’s a link with free downloads of the Morpho art reference books that I can’t find all of to buy physically. I’ve hovered and it looks legit but I’m pretty cautious
Edit: I’ve just copied and pasted the link without clicking so I’ll still have it when I’ve decided the risk is low or I have a computer that isn’t as vulnerable/is more disposable
Volk up 2-0 👀
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