windy here and I am pretty tired an achy

good night, love you all 😘

I went out and checked the yellow sticky traps. They got a few but the whiteflies were mostly clustered underneath the leaves and the traps had caught multiple long legged flies… aka the beneficial insects that eat the aphids. Plus one tiny katydid. They might have got a weird kind of ladybird yesterday (which I freed).

Not happy Jan. I’ve taken them down and won’t be using them anymore.

It was an aph-ocalypse under there on the worst plant so I ended up using a strong solution of natural dish soap to douse and scrub wherever they were. It ended up leaving a thin wet lather of detergent behind which might harm the plants and encourage mildew (already an issue) but is hopefully insecticidal. Fingers crossed it doesn’t affect the good bugs.

Melbcat wasn’t impressed that I was out there for ages while she had to stay inside, so she’s off in her bed. It’s a shame. She could have sat with me or sunbathed. But I need her to accept staying a fully indoor kitty and not expect to be let out.

My gum near the problem tooth is looking red and sore so I think there’s a problem again. Hopefully only a minor infection from a floss nick but I’ll have to get that sorted between everything else going on.

I thought the denizens of this shithole had finally left the bird water alone… Nope. Same tweaker came back yesterday and stole the metal pet bowl I was using to weigh the foil pan down.

Threw the water out of it the same aggressive way before stealing it so I have no idea why he keeps stealing them.

He’s always around here being a dickhead. And that was Melbcat’s old bowl, I was still using that. I wish stolen items could carry a curse.

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Tis a bit cool. Needed to chuck a blanket over the doona. Winter doona is going onto the bed on the next linen wash day.

Goodnight team. I hope I sleep as well as last night.

Had a late & boozy one yesterday and no energy for cooking anything so took myself out to a sit-down brunch for the first time in a while. I remember why I don’t do this anymore. So expensive and small servings. At least the coffee slapped, I’m feeling human again.

ahh yes. the old game of "did the circuit trip because the PSU blew or did the PSU blow because of the circuit trip" Followed swiftly by "where the fuck did my spare PSU go" and then onto "Fuck me, what the shit happened to PC stores while my back was turned"

(I need to get my UPS on a separate circuit, about once a year we get a dirty feed that it regulates and then the RCD shits itself thinking it's a spike)