• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
    11·
    9 days ago

    Gonna take the dog for the arvo walk and by walk I mean take him out to the front porch where he’ll stare at me with the “What the fuck?!” look but at least he’ll stop with the “where’s my fuckin walk” looks I’m getting now.

    EDIT: I took him out when going to the car for some tools, he absolutely stayed on the porch with a strong “nu-uh” vibe about him. I took the tools through the side gate to the shed and he still wouldn’t leave the porch to run around the side and come back in that way. So I went an got him and brought him back into the AC, he had a big drink on the way back. Outside in the shade for under five minutes

  • duncan_bayne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.

    On the positive side I’m feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        5·
        9 days ago

        ;-;

        Edit: We seem to have lost a lot of people since this started, leaving a core group of regulars.

        There’s probably more activity in the other place but I haven’t gone back because I don’t recognise many people there and may no longer fit.

        As well as the whole ‘owner emulating you know who’ thing.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    10 days ago

    Good luck everyone!

    I’m changing the strays water every couple of hours. Theres shady spots where they live. I’ve put ice in the bowls to help hopefully.

    Am also freezing some water bottles for them to lay next to if required

    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
      7·
      10 days ago

      I just topped off my strays water and food. Used the last sachets of food, went and got some more from Savemore, went back to drop them off and it’d been eaten. Caught a glimpse of the cat. Savemore also had 3/$5 Linda McCartney vege snags which is a fuckin bargain.

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Nice work man!

        I put out the dry food and it’s been gobbled up real quick.

        I bought a bag of ice and put it in a shady spot near where my live. Hopefully they see it and figure out the ground will be cool near it.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      I have cheap litter boxes / pans under the trees during summer, birds are going apeshit. Also stealing all my appls and pears.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    9·
    10 days ago

    Thank god this gig tonight is at the Croxton. It’s close to home and has decent parking. Just as long as the air conditioner works well in there

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    9·
    9 days ago

    I had the brilliant idea tonight when filling the water tray for animals to put the timer on and set it to a slow trickle. That’ll keep it topped up and I know some animals are more likely to drink from running water than still

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      9 days ago

      That’s genius. It would be so cool to have a solar powered water fountain recycling a tank of clean water (with a filter to sieve out mosquito larvae and kill them).

      Replacing the water and cleaning the fountain would be a job though.

      I did the slow release thing with blocks of ice before but now just fill an automatic water dispenser sold for pets

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        9 days ago

        Running water should be enough to stop mosquitoes but a filter would be great for everything else that gets caught in there. I think I’ll do the dribble timer next hot day we have too

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Mate left at 5am to catch his flight, and immediately after Mickey came and started meowing at me. It’s too early, my furry son, and I have work 😭

    But now I’m awake so that means coffee time ☕

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Vic emergency map has a cool new feature - the little red triangle with the warning “evacuate immediately” now has the red triangle and a little running man blinking on and off. Really stands out. Check it out at the Otways fires.

    Aaaand it looks like most of the Otways are going up in smoke rn.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      7·
      10 days ago

      You should have a look at bushfire.io it includes the information from the Vic Emergency app, and also has overlays with the wind speed/direction, satellite detected hot spots which show where the fire is actively burning, and where the fire fighting aircraft are. It’s really interesting and I presume it takes a bit of pressure off the Vic Emergency app and helps stop it getting overloaded.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      10 days ago

      I haven’t heard a train in hours 😬I thought this might happen, it’s why my husband didn’t take the train this morning, could not rely on it in the afternoon heat