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went to sleep @ 1 AM, woke up @ 4 AM :( Did I ever mention how much I hate sleeping? Spending 1/3 of your life sleeping is such a biological flaw.
 
Flew home from work today… was out 24 days instead of my usual 20… now to tackle a somewhat lengthy honey do list that is part of the deal for the wife letting use precious vacation time to attend a launch in 8 weeks
 
We came across some A-10s today while they were training. They had airspace and we were cleared to pass through. They said they had visual on us and were initially only a little higher than us, but we never saw them. I was hoping to a Top Gun style pass, but maybe next time.
 
MTB racing today on the trails I spent a lot of time building, so very rewarding to see 700 or so folks enjoying them.

Our team hosts the race, so the last few days have been crazy setting up and then a lot of trimming in the days before. Time to relax a bit.

I did ok, no podium. Fitness still coming back. Kid missed the podium by one spot. He was flying, but had a pretty big field with lots of fast kids. Age group is 11-14 and he's only 12.

Wife got my good side as I entered a section of double track after some wooded twisty singletrack. Our course has a great mix of trails and terrain. Makes for some awesome racing.

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Sold the mini fridge and microwave today, got all the items off the shelf in the loft with the neighbors help, then got the 8ft shelf down to floor level. So tomorrow will hopefully get it into the condo, and re-attach the vertical boards like they were before which will make a great rocket display shelf. The kids took us out to eat to celebrate my wife's birthday.
 
Last night, actually. Taking one of the kids to a party after dark, we saw a wallaby that had been hit and was lying on the road. I'm yet to do my wildlife carers course (end of this month), but I have the basics being an ex- O/E nurse.

Check the wallaby and it is dead. Female. Large pouch, which usually means it is occupied. No joey inside.

Dragged her off the road and dropped kid at the party.

On the way home I crest the hill where the wallaby was and there's a joey next to her.

Quick U-turn and park. Ring wildlife rescue. They say 20 minutes as they have someone close. By this time the joey has fled.

When the rescuer arrives (late 60s woman) I ask her what to do now. She says, "We go and find the joey." Equipped with torches and blankets we look in the adjacent paddock for eyeshine. There it is, in front of a huge fig tree. She jumps the fence, I look for a gate. We creep upon the joey trying to dazzle it with our torches. Staggering through the paddock towards this eyeshine, through cow pats of varying consistency, we get close enough for the encounter. Joey bolts. Woman jumps like a freaking ninja and grabs this joey before falling sideways into aforesaid cow pats. I throw the blanket over the joey and together we bundle it into a plastic tote (with air holes) and carry it back to her car.

Through the gate.

Outcome: small female joey maybe 2 months old which has an excellent chance of survival. It went to a specialist carer this morning. Looking forward to my carers course. A lot. 🤠
 
Emptied tool cart in preparation to selling it☹️
Put 8 foot white shelf and verticals back together and got my wife and lady next door to put it on top of the desk.
Got to cut the rubber liner material to put in the drawers of the big desk to hold all my tools now
 
Last night, actually. Taking one of the kids to a party after dark, we saw a wallaby that had been hit and was lying on the road. I'm yet to do my wildlife carers course (end of this month), but I have the basics being an ex- O/E nurse.

Check the wallaby and it is dead. Female. Large pouch, which usually means it is occupied. No joey inside.

Dragged her off the road and dropped kid at the party.

On the way home I crest the hill where the wallaby was and there's a joey next to her.

Quick U-turn and park. Ring wildlife rescue. They say 20 minutes as they have someone close. By this time the joey has fled.

When the rescuer arrives (late 60s woman) I ask her what to do now. She says, "We go and find the joey." Equipped with torches and blankets we look in the adjacent paddock for eyeshine. There it is, in front of a huge fig tree. She jumps the fence, I look for a gate. We creep upon the joey trying to dazzle it with our torches. Staggering through the paddock towards this eyeshine, through cow pats of varying consistency, we get close enough for the encounter. Joey bolts. Woman jumps like a freaking ninja and grabs this joey before falling sideways into aforesaid cow pats. I throw the blanket over the joey and together we bundle it into a plastic tote (with air holes) and carry it back to her car.

Through the gate.

Outcome: small female joey maybe 2 months old which has an excellent chance of survival. It went to a specialist carer this morning. Looking forward to my carers course. A lot. 🤠

I'm all for trying to do my part to help wildlife recover from the insane things we do to this planet (like drive cars and hit them), but you Aussie's need to adapt to technology more. . .

Here in the states, we'd use flash lights to try to find the creature, not torches. If you watch an old Frankenstein movie, the guy wasn't half bad at times, but when a bunch of people started trying to round him up using pitchforks and torches, he got a bit animated. Maybe calm things down and use some modern LED technology (who knows, maybe UV or something else would be even better, but I'm not trying to be one of those millennial types). It sounds like you at least opted for a blanket vs. the pitchfork, so that's a step in the right direction at least.

Also, over here, we tend not to name the animals before rescue. Over here, Joey wold be a male name, eventually likely being truncated to Joe as an adult. In your case, you got a female, so Josephine might have been more appropriate. Just saying. . .

Anyway, you guys live your lives however you want, but hopefully the above tips might come in handy as you get more serious about wildlife rescue.

Sandy.

(All 100% tongue in cheek in case anybody missed that. I love to hear all the cool words that the only country that is also a continent uses. I also want a Ute and a Holden, even though they were kind-of available over here as the GTO and can be kit-bashed from a GTO. I want the real ones. And a Brumby. You can keep the spiders, though.).
 
In Oz torch=flashlight.
He was being funny, anybody who has read CS Lewis Narnia series (among other books) know that most of the former and current states of the British Empire call flashlights torches. I work with a few Brits, Kiwis, and Aussies and we enjoy exploring some of the intricacies of the different versions of "English".
 
Made several trips bringing boxes of stuff from the tanker desk back to the condo. I got the rubber shelf liner cut and installed in 5 of the 6 drawers. Put Tools in 5 of them.
 
Drove home, about 620 miles. Spent 45 minutes driving 11 miles because of construction (when no one was constructing anything, and when a lot of the distance wasn't going to be constructed in the near future; no machinery or signs of work). Ate a rather large tomato that Geniece grew. Salt and pepper, nothing else. Our tomatoes are going crazy, probably because we're planting them in a new location.

Tomato sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. I love tomato season.
 
Drove home, about 620 miles. Spent 45 minutes driving 11 miles because of construction (when no one was constructing anything, and when a lot of the distance wasn't going to be constructed in the near future; no machinery or signs of work). Ate a rather large tomato that Geniece grew. Salt and pepper, nothing else. Our tomatoes are going crazy, probably because we're planting them in a new location.

Tomato sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. I love tomato season.
Given that you are in Kentucky access to good deciduous tree leaf mulch should be pretty good (my grandparents used to get truckloads of it from the city tree trimmers), mulch the plants heavily with well composted stuff and your tomatoes will produce and grow like crazy. So much so that those cheesy little tomato cages from the hardware/garden center wont be near tall enough. I use concrete reinforcing wire (6"×6" mesh) rolled into cylinders 5' tall by 2' diameter (the wire comes as a roll so its easy to make cylinders). A couple of good T-posts on opposite sides of the cage will support plants so tall I have had to add a second cage to the top of the first, my plants were over 8' tall and produced lots of large tomatoes some as large as paper picnic plates (the cheap ones). I grew up eating tomatoes straight from my grandparents garden with only salt and pepper as well, that was on Lookout Mtn, GA.
 
Spent 45 minutes driving 11 miles because of construction (when no one was constructing anything, and when a lot of the distance wasn't going to be constructed in the near future; no machinery or signs of work).
Sounds like Pennsylvania?
Ate a rather large tomato that Geniece grew. Salt and pepper, nothing else.
Yum. Some time, try a few drops of balsamic vinegar instead, just for a cbange of pace.
 
Checked the mail.

I’ve had a bunch of scam robocalls of this nature but this is the first time I’ve seen this done via the mail. Currently the plan for tomorrow is to call them up and give them more than they bargained for 😈

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Attended the Royals v Tigers game in KC this afternoon. Fantastic day, warm but not scorching and our seats were just under the shade line at first pitch. Cards game in St Louis tomorrow evening, then on to Springfield for a bit of NARAM. Considering things to do in the Ozarks in the middle of NARAM week.
 
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