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Amber enjoying the nectar

I can't praise the girls team enough - they even found time to keep the dogs amused and away from the welders and grinders.

The most vehicles ever seen outside Camp Full Monte.

Only Memories...

Sometimes she's not seen and she tries to hid what's there, to no avail…only parts of herself will allow to be seen at times.

  

~~Tomorrow, well Tuesday 30 Jul 2013, I have to have ANOTHER MRI !! May explain why I've been all over the place lately. I haven't told this to ANYONE!! And there within it's oneself I why I keep my self hidden & am sure a "HUGE FRIGGEN FLIPPIN' FLIP OUT OF A PERSON"!! If you know me remember me more @ about 3:15pm. Wether you LIKE, Love, TOLERATE or REALLY THINK I A PAIN IN YOUR ASS…THIS is why things lately haven't made much sense. I've know for a month but choose to keep it to me self…probably why I feel I've made so many people "MAD OR HATE" ENUFF TO DUMP ME AS FRIEND OR CONTACT!! Even before this, I DON'T LET ANYONE IN FOR FEAR OF HURT!! Been there done that, so that's why the 'BRICK WALL W/ BARBED WIRE" AROUND ME! I don't trust, too many have hurt & stabbed me in the back too many times. I'll leave before the person "has the pleasure of doing this to me". Which has made me the way I am lately with clearing out of people. "IF" You don't respect people, I take it PERSONAL & will delete you from contact. I call it "saving my self" from more hurt pain and heart ache!! I feel a lot of you "RATHER HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME"…IF SO…FINE. BUT, THIS IS MY REASON WHY (I have as most of you discuss with each other probably…fine). But do what you need to do. Me? I have my own demons…MRIs are one of them as much as "leaving before the other can do me any more harm".

 

Well peace out…"IF" we are still "friends" which I have changed cause I see you don't feel the same & you are now a "contact" but I haven't "deleted you" for hopes that something may or could work out…you are distant to me, but I hold on until I feel you no longer want that contact, then I will cut the ties. I'm NOT INTO CONTACTS FOR THE NUMBERS…I'd rather have "FRIENDS". ~~SO…this is what's been going on & I deal with most pain will make most insane themselves! because of the intensity of it. So, this is why a lot of my messages don't make sense except to me. I'M SCARED!!!!!!! THERE I SAID IT. ~~ Maybe I'll be back around, if the surgery & never damage hasn't done more trouble that it already has. I've opened up & taking a change to let you see a bit of my world. Think of it what you will. If YOU can't handle it then I'm am prepared to see most of you leave. So bye if you do. Having a disability DOESN'T NOT ALWAYS MEAN YOU CAN SEE IT!!!

 

Playlist Photos~

"Cindy Incidentally" by 'Faces' & "If I Died Tomorrow" by 'Sixx AM'

I screwed up the upload order for this batch of pics - To view the stream in the correct order I'd suggest going directly to this set www.flickr.com/photos/full-monte/sets/72157626215861034/w...

 

Den berating Nicky for accidentally turning off the oven - 4 Times!!!

I've done my bit - now where's the beers & food you promised!

I probably insulted Tony by suggesting he would be perfect for the job of constructing wooden shuttering for a modification idea I had for the compost toilet chambers. He took to the challenge and even managed to get the mould filled with concrete. Great job!

Under the ever watchful eye of Nicky.

So if nothing else we'd all be having a hearty meal in what ? 5 Hours?

Nathan and Giles began the the electric fence post fabrication process.

At this rate we were going to run out of projects by lunchtime.

Gracie discovers a chocolate cake!

Armed with picks, mattocks and rakes - they looked a formidable team.

As the sun began to set those staying donned extra layers and moved closer to the fire as others drifted home apparently having had a great day. We really do have the best friends in the world.

Nik set about organising volunteers for rock moving. We desperately need to repair much of the stone wall terraces but we first have to find additional rocks. Once again a perfect job to do when there's lots labour and a 4x4 with tow bar on hand.

It took Den & I a good twenty minutes to unload these tiles onto a pallet but it was now in the way :-( Problem solved in 20 seconds when you have enough help! We need to organise more of these working weekends :-)

Nik, Den and I have since started the next section of chainlink and proved that the electric fence poles and charge unit work OK. Pictures to follow soon.

With the boundary cleared attacks of giggles took over as I realised I had no idea how the hell we were going to be able to erect a chain link fence along this edge.

Jack & I start the process of erecting the angle iron poles that were to support the chainlink fencing. Not very eco I know but goats are savage and I knew they would simply eat through any vaguely eco solution.

 

Internet research came up with this gem about goat fencing. If you can blow smoke through it - it won't contain goats.

wherever you went the site had a buzz of activity about it.

Katie sets about working off her lunch and a few layers of clothes but ...

 

sorry guys ... it wasn't really that warm :-)

I wanted to experiment with the electric fence unit that was as yet unboxed but I didn't have any fence poles. With a number of budding welders around we decided to make up some fence poles from lengths of rebar and thick plastic piping.

First task was to start clearing the boundaries

Well feeling rather hungover we finally got some chainlink up the following morning

Nicky and Blazo got the spit roast fire underway.

 

Side note to flickr friend oldspice - did you notice the tyre wall you inspired. It's not finished yet but we're getting there - what do you think?

By the time I found my way to the food it had almost all gone so I just sat down where they were stripping the last of the carcass and got stuck in.

 

Alexa was espousing how tasty the brain is but then proceeded to prove that he wasn't quite sure where it was or how to get at it.

We drove 3 oldtimer Landrovers from Belgium into the Catalan Pyrenees and back. Off-road, off-grid and with a minimal ecological footprint. Nobody would find traces of us sleeping next to a ravine or in a forest.

Den nearing completion of the last course of tiles.

Carpeted living space and seperate (un)dressing room with clothes rail - well naturists need somewhere to hang their street clothes.

Ontario, yours to discover

The outhouse moved with the airstream because by then we had purchased a Sun Mar composting toilet.

We recycled the propane powered refrigerator and stove as well as the sink from the Airstream.

Here's the solar panel controller showing our battery is 100% charged and supplying power.

 

A big thank you to Spela Vidic of Domsolar in Slovenia who supplied the system and provided remote help with the installation. www.domsolar.com/

In order to ensure that our compost toilets have sufficient air for aerobic decomposition of the waste and thereby keep everything smelling sweet, we needed to install a small solar system to power fans that would constantly draw air down into the composting chambers and push it out through stench pipes above roof level.

We anticipate needing a total of 5 baths to filter and treat our waste water sufficiently before it is piped to the raised beds in the garden but for now 2 and a long length of pipe will have to do.

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