Its one of those lazy hazy day's of summer

Its one of those days, you know the type, +20 C wind from the south west, its overcast, but the sun is hitting the bottoms of the clouds with a pink and salmon colour. It feels sticky though the breeze is nice and warm........

Got up around 5:45 am and went for my walk. It was still early enough the hear the birds sing and the crickets chirp, but the cars in the neighbourhood were coming alive.

A flat snake on the road, and I actually met a person who was walking towards Kingston for work, no doubt walking to get to his ride.

The neighbourhood is so quiet and calm in the early morning, its the best time to walk.

Today, well, I might get to stripping the coffee table. I tried a bit yesterday, and it worked quite well.

Pulled some weeds (grass) out of the front west garden, and should probably put some mulch on it as well, let you know later if I succeeded. Its coffee time ....

Well, after the coffee, and finishing up some analysis on some solar results, the guilt of not doing anything kicked in, so out I went. I went out to help Kevin dig through the old wood shack pile out back. We pulled the shingles off the old roof, and ripped off the 2 x 4's , which we will be re-using for the construction of the shed/greenhouse. With the price of wood now, its better to recylce. There is still some wood to go through, but the sun started to come out and it started to get hot. After all that hard work, we needed to cool off, so in the pool we went.

The temperature a balmy 24C, but it felt so cold. In there for a bit, along with a beverage (Ceaser for me, beer for Kevin) and then we got out. I did the mulch (2 bags, at the west garden, and one on the "galaxy" garden (mid lawn).

From here, I went and did the solar observing , awesome sun, and here is what we seen today.
Sketched the sun, then well, started the stripping of the coffee table. As I proceeded with this task, Kevin starting adding pieces to the observatory roof to keep out the rain, and more support. This went on for about 2 hours. He completed his job, mine is still on going, only 1/2 of the top part of the table stripped.

In the pool again, gotta love holidays. By this time, it was around 4:30 so I went in to start dinner. We ate, and put stuff away. We laid down for a couple of hours, because its going to be clear for a bit tonight, and we are going to observe the night sky in Yarker.

So off I go to do some satellite observations....................