Nothing Much

Here is some info you may not like to hear but should! 

This machine is required to move 500 tons of earth/ore which will be refined into one lithium car battery. 

It burns 900-1000 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift.

Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid.

The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass is estimated to require up to 75 semi loads of sulfuric acid a day!

[The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine is located in Humboldt County, about 25 miles from the Nevada-Oregon border. The proposed mine covers 9 square miles of public land and would operate one of the largest lithium deposits in the U.S. The Thacker Pass deposit sits within an extinct super volcano - the McDermitt Caldera]

The acid does not turn into unicorn food like AOC believes.

A battery in an electric car, lets say an average Tesla, is made of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminium, steel, and plastic, etc. averaging 750-1,000 pounds of minerals that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity, electricity which is generated by oil, gas, coal, nuclear, or water (and a tiny fraction of wind and solar).

That is the truth, about the lie, of "green" energy.

There’s nothing green about the green new deal.

The original greenies were a bunch of “hippies” wanting to do the right thing for our planet. Now they have been taken over by a bunch of ‘faces’ put there by the elite wealthy to create more wealth for the already wealthy.

They do all of this in plain sight while conditioning us to believe that what they are doing will make everything right with our world.

All is NOT right with our world.

A very uneventful Saturday for me.

I got out of bed around 11am and made breakfast.

I watched “Parasite” (that Korean movie that won the Academy Award in 2020) and considering how I hate subtitles, I actually liked this movie. It’s not what I expected and it’s definitely a movie of two halves with an unexpected twist and strange ending. It’s one of those movies where you’re rooting for the bad guys all the way through.

After that I discovered the Brendan Fraser movie “Blast From the Past” had just started on Foxtel, so I watched that. I’d seen it before but still enjoyed it.

I made chicken Maryland done with butter/honey/chilli and caramelised pineapple and banana, baked potato in their jackets with leeks, cabbage and bacon and a salad (because BGWLBH doesn’t like cabbage).

Adoring Husband and I watched super Saturday football and I’m doing very well with my tips moving from last place out of six players to fourth! Not much hope of me getting anywhere near first spot with only three weeks remaining in the competition. I need a miracle - like three perfect rounds in a row!

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Pampering

It has been a big day out for the girls.

We had an early appointment at the nail salon which was delayed because Stocklands Centre decided to have a fire drill right on 8.30am.

This meant our appointment was more than 20 minutes late, which then caused all sorts of problems for the salon who were booked out for the day.

BGWLBH selected these colours …

I selected this colour …

They are gel foils which cost $80 and took almost twice as much time to do. I chose black, blue, green and gold.

After our pampering we browsed through TKMax where I found a couple of white tops on the sale rack and an iPad charging cord for Adoring Husband.

I was wearing closed shoes and we decided that I needed to show off my beautiful new toes, which of course, meant new shoes!

I couldn’t find anything in Williams or Novo so we tried Payless shoes where I found these very comfortable slip ons which show off my toes perfectly!

Off we went to AH’s doctor to pick up his physio plan.

We decided to become members of the Boat Club to get a great discount on the whale watching trip that we’ve booked for Monday week. There are also a few movies that we want to see and membership prices are great for the cinema at the club.

While we were there, we ordered bacon and eggs from their “all day breakfast” menu.

It was almost lunch time so it was quite busy and we sat for a long while out on the deck to watch the rain roll in while waiting for our food.

We had to eat inside as the very fine spray of rain scudded over the club just as our food was ready. I even ordered a small coffee and I have to say it was quite delicious.

We had a little play on the keno and I won $92 - we were smart enough to leave with those winnings.

After running a couple of errands, I wanted to put money on my lay-by at Tinkerbell’s but we discovered that they close early now so we were too late for that. I’ll pick it up on Tuesday, our lotto day.

Before going home, we stopped at our local shops to grab some meat for the weekend.

It was around 4.30pm by the time we arrived home.

AH had been very busy sleeping in his chair all day.

I’d forgotten to marinate the chicken for dinner so I made up the marinade and poured it over the chicken in the baking tray - which turned out better than when we soak it overnight! It had a nice spicy candied char on the skin, just the way we like it.

Tonight we’ve watched the footy and it’s almost 9pm. I’m feeling weary so I think it’s time for bed.

Nite all.

Lights On

I found this as a Facebook memory from 2012 and thought it it was worth sharing

A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN 

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.  A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters,  and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary').

2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.'

3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists.  The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler.  Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect.  At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.  Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it.

8. You will learn to make real chips.  Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps.  Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all.  Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of  known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.  South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer.  They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys.  Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.  Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater.

11. You will cease playing American football.  There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer.  Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). 

12. Further, you will stop playing baseball.  It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America.  Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.  You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

13.. You must tell us who killed JFK.  It's been driving us mad.

14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream)  when in season.

God Save the Queen!

My day began when I was woken from my sound cosy sleep before 7.30am by the electricians who arrived to install lighting under our new carport.

They were noisy and worked for more than four hours installing 4 x downlights, 2 x sensor lights, a fluoro light and the appropriate switches.

I got out of bed at 10am and found BGWLBH in the middle of the family room ironing and Adoring Husband sound asleep in his lounge chair so I made breakfast and ate it inside because it was too windy and chilly under the Bali hut.

While BGWLBH ironed I asked her questions out of a giant trivia book. I continued asking while she made lunch and while she and AH ate their lunches.

AH was particularly sharp today and answered many questions quickly and loudly!

I watched my quiz shows and made crispy skinned chicken thighs, sweet potato chips, salad and leftover zucchini slice for dinner, followed by fruit whip for dessert.

We played more trivia until the football started.

In the footy tipping, I'm using this week as my Joker Round, which means I get double points for each win that I select correctly. I selected Melbourne Storm for the win over Penrith Panthers (a gutsy move considering Penrith are on top of the ladder!) so I'm already 4 points up! Wahoo!

Now I'm in bed and need to be up early because we have 8.30am appointments at the nail salon. It’s almost midnight!

Nite all.

Socially Acceptable

I found this today and it’s a bit of a ramble, I assume it’s written by someone in the UK, but it’s so true …

A world of crazy people

Go electric, sort your trash, put on a sweater and heat up to 19°, streamline your miles, walk for the climate....... .

Why do we have to "always be the only ones" saving for community while:

- The Olympic Winter Games were held in Beijing on artificial snow.

- In France, ski resorts light up slopes until midnight so that "late risers" can ski at night.

- Lufthansa performs 8,000 "empty" flights to keep its slots.

- Most of the great football matches take place in the evening under the mega spotlights that consume everything!

- The 8 new and gigantic football stadiums called to host the World Cup in Qatar are air-conditioned ( in a desert! )

- Hundreds of lorries drive around to bring us fruit and vegetables from Spain while regional products go to the trash or run over by bulldozers

- The world's largest ship: Wonder of the Seas will carry 7000 passengers, 2300 crew members and circle the seas.

- About 3500 container carriers circulate in the world and each consume 28,000 liters of fuel per 1000 km.

- Billionaires offer themselves space travel under "astronomical" conditions

- And "FOR THE SAKE OF THE ENVIRONMENT" we're going to prohibit driving slightly old diesel or petrol cars for people who can't afford to change cars and who have to use it to go to work, but allow the x rich to roll in Ferrari.

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My day was social, fun and relaxing.

We started down at the park for our Wednesday gathering and there were eight of us in attendance.

It was cold with blustery winds so we found the only table in the sun, rugged up and made ourselves comfy for a really fun three hours.

There’s always so much to talk and laugh about. Eight very different women living totally different lives but finding so much in common to share, sympathise and empathise with, whinge about, make fun of, vent about, laugh at and gossip about.

For many reasons, we are good for each other’s soul.

On the way home we bought hot chips from the local cafe and made a big salad to go with them for lunch.

Because Adoring Husband’s hip is giving him grief (yes there’s always something), I spent quite some time in the kitchen cleaning up and scrubbing the kitchen sink. 

I then spent almost two hours in the kitchen cooking dinner, making a meatloaf, zucchini slice and salad for dinner.

We played trivia before our shows started.

Now it’s already after 11pm.

I’m yawning.

Nite all.

Click on the Doco

A 2 hour documentary on what you need to know 

A fairly uneventful day.

I put on a load of washing, poached some eggs for BGWLBH and I, sat under the Bali hut, did more washing, spent an hour clearing more from the old art space (it’s almost looking like a bedroom again), found an old diary which I sat down and read, attempted to sketch something, watched my quiz shows, cooked sausages with fried potato balls and salad for dinner, played trivia, watched some reality TV and now I’m in bed ready for sleep.

The resin I ordered for the table arrived today but I have to wait two more weeks before I coat it.

A couple of memes to keep you going til tomorrow.

Nite all.

Fun in the Bay

We started into The Bay just after 8am and hoped to get an appointment at a nail salon nice and early.

ALL of them were booked out!

So we made an appointment for Friday morning this week.

Once upon a time we could walk into any salon in town and be sitting down for our pedicure inside ten minutes, but the last four times we’ve tried that, we’ve been unsuccessful.

So we booked our appointment, did the rest of our errands in Stocklands and drove to Aquavue for our breakfast date.

It was quite cool with a chilly breeze blowing through the outdoor area, so BGWLBH needed a wrap.

We ordered our poached eggs and bacon on GF toast, coffee for her and tea for me.

We were very disappointed with our stone cold eggs on rock hard toast that snapped like toffee. We did not enjoy our breakfast at all. Taking into account that they charge us an extra $5 each for the GF toast, we’ve decided to try somewhere different next time. 

While we sat, we made up stories about the other people sitting at the tables and we watched an osprey, a Brahminy kite and a whistling kite hunting fish over the receding tide. It was a pleasant 90 minutes.

From there we drove to Office Works for a leisurely stroll/browse/shop. 

I purchased soft pastels and sketch pads and a journal and other bits and pieces. We love Office Works!

From there, the marina was our next stop to book a whale watching trip for the three of us near the end of August. We asked the very pleasant service lady a thousand questions and she was very patient and super friendly.

We went searching for an ATM and visited Pialba Place.

It was about 4pm by the time we headed home. It was a long day but as soon as we arrived, it was straight to the kitchen to cook duck with mash and salad for dinner.

We watched our shows on telly and now it’s after midnight!!

Time to sleep!

Nite all.

Nothing Much

A very lazy Sunday.

Breakfast under the Bali hut and more than an hour just sitting and enjoying the sunshine, the breeze, the light reflecting off the water and dancing on the ceiling of the hut, the birds singing and the wind rustling the Bali grass on the roof. 

A perfectly delightful Sunday morning.

I did more work on my octopus painting until the footy started.

I watched both games of footy and prepared salmon steaks with a big bowl of salad almost all from the garden for dinner, followed by fruit whip for dessert.

A stack of new series started tonight,

The Block, which is BGWLBH’s favourite. She watched it in the outdoor area.

I recorded MKR so that we can watch it tomorrow.

Adoring Husband and I watched The Masked Singer.

The new series of Spicks and Specks started tonight which we’ll watch on iview later.

Now I think I’ll fall asleep to the sound of The Commonwealth Games. We’re having a girly day in The Bay starting with breakfast somewhere, so I need to sleep.

Nite all.