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Djayz,do you have any local drone operators.

The clear message in all of this is - The American system is broken. Lack of looney bins,prisons and immigration procedures. As is with most western countries.

With the rain seemly passed for the year it's time to tidy the place up. Ended up with 1470mm(58 inches) for the year to date which is one of our wettest on record. Started putting water on the rice today for the 1st time this year to help fill the heads. Tried to syphon from top dam but my technique needs fine tuning so set the pump up,as usual check valve leaking so had to replace the seal with some tyre tube. Fil has been on the wipper snipper finding a few fence lines while i set up the slasher on the tractor,his next job is cutting over hanging tree branches on the boundary so the cane trucks don't get angry when they pass. For me i will be on the slasher knocking down weeds a few hours a day in between watching the cricket.

Came in 2005 to live,33 with $75,000 in my pocket. Thought could live forever on that. Reality check very quickly,assembled 100 rai of land. Got lucky with employment here which lead to bigger things over the years. Married with two children. Since covid have done 12 days work so consider myself a self funded retiree. Easy life when you don't work for the banks. The one disavantage of coming here younger is my wife is only eleven years younger.????

This is my hot spring,heats up to 42 degrees. Use it most years for a period. The cold is here and will be filled tomorrow.

Something needs to be done. Took my son to join soccer training last night in our village. Coach told us to go home,to many drug fueled kids turning up causing trouble. Our local police station closed about 12 years a go,sad as the police used to interact with the kids to keep the village clean.

The other thing is most of the bottom melbourne teams are based at Etihad stadium so no real home ground advantage either.

All you need is the "one health pass" Alex. Go to the website and fill it in a day before travelling. I saw a lot of people holding up the check -in in bangers getting help to fill it out on their phones. For the non tech savy like myself i did it on the computer and printed out a hard copy which to me was easier and accepted. Back to the sherrin.

I understand as in the same boat growing cash crops. I bought an oilpress to value add and make oil from some grains i grow. It gives me something different to sell at the local markets at a higher price than the seed itself but that is where it stops. Once you start looking at FDA approval to sell commercially you are playing with the big boys which would require having marketeers. All you can really do is cut back on labour costs in these lean times and ride it out. . .

It is the right idea,value adding. How much extra do you want to pour in. Hire a uni/ag graduate for a few months and see where it takes you. Could be money well spent.

Wow been away a couple of weeks doing a job in the Philippines. Makes you appreciate Thailand's supreme internet compared to the islands there. Ratten getting the heave ho from the Saints was a surprise,didn't see that coming. Happy with the way the Roo's are cleaning up their list,would of liked a couple more players in the trade period. Not to be but should get a couple of quality youngsters with pick 2 and 3 in the draft. And might be a smokey or 2 in club delistings that fit the mold. Will wait with interest.

Maybe it's long term vision,as they say they don't make land anymore. If your major western customers are going green and when there set up they just cut off business your left in a hole. The annexing of the four provinces provides compensation for this. A power station to supply the area. Agricultural land to supply food. Remodeling landscape to encourage people to holiday at home. Industrial manufacturing. The problem is Ukraine is getting the rough end of the stick through no fault of their own,

Your right there. By the time it is full of houses over 600 acres of panels will be required. Babcock Ranch is a new master-planned community under development on the Lee and Charlotte County line in Southwest Florida. With 18,000 acres of land, Babcock Ranch is an area larger than Manhattan that will accommodate 19,000 homes and 50,000 residents when completed. The community is the first fully solar powered city in the nation.

Hi KS The rice we will get off the neighbours is hand cut and laid in the field to dry before threshing. Will check with my moisture meter and put over our gravity screen before storing. The Morooka is still a work in progress,it's on the jobs board for the dry season. It has a heavy duty tarp over it so been protected from the elements. It has been one of those years were i put the cheque book away. Bulked back up with sunn hemp seed so that is the shining light and with the dams all full should get some of that in as well as sesame seed in during the dry season.

Body Heat is on the label.

I bought long johns from uniqlo for those under 12 degree days and nights.

Just a heads up. I got my covid vaccines with the pink card. Received the Thai certificate after jabs. Didn't think anymore about it till now when need to travel and a mate said get a digital copy. Locked on to the QR code and it came up as my nationality as Nigerien. Put it down to bad data entry where i got the jabs. Went back to same place and they entered the correct info. That would of taken some explaining at the check in????

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Haven't seen any like that in issan shops, In the mean time if stuck you could set up a lead line. A wire 100 metres long secured at each end,just connect a dog leash to it and the dog can move up and down the line freely for exercise without wandering.

403mm rain for september and 45mm so far this month and still raining. Only thing that's changed around here is the height of the weeds on our place. In general around the area sugar crops are thriving,bit to wet for the cassava and most of the rice is hanging in there. KS,hope your place is drying out. 1st rice payment is meant to be due on 15th this month from the government. Once verified will look to lock in 1500kg's with the up coming harvest of the neighbours rice for the families needs this year.

You would be noticed going awol after two years.

Confirmed,Jason Horne-Francis wants a trade to Port Adelaide. Looked a bit home sick last year so let him go or hope after another season he feels at home. My gut is let him go,for a price of course. Ollie wines or Dan Houston and a future first rounder will do me. Pity as think he will be a gun in 5 or 6 years time.

The next month will be interesting as to how much ground Ukraine can get back. I think it will return to world food security before anything nuclear. November is when the grain exports from Odessa comes up for renewal. The Polish farmers were not happy prior to Odessa starting up again. https://www.dw.com/en/grains-of-truth-polish-farmers-irate-over-ukrainian-imports/a-62629948

Because Stolenberg's response wasn't exactly encouraging.

Zelensky must be tearing his hair out.