Well it's cooled right off here and this put me right off so winter is well and truly on it's way so I've had the beanie and jacket on and slept heaps for the last few days so it won't be long and i'll go into my hibernation..brrrrrrr I hate the cold, it makes me :lazy2:
Still getting a tan here in Adelaide this week- 28c today.
hey a j , this is what you need to keep warm .. this or the thing over in the left hand corner of the 3 r d pic .. ,, kel ,,
(http://i45.tinypic.com/2zekswh.jpg)
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"Take the Port Barrel A.J.- the lesser of two evils.!!:idea:
that's what I reckon to rob , 3 or 4 glasses of that good stuff and I sleep like a baby ,. I got that barrel last time I was in S A for our week on the murray princess .. what a trip , beautiful .. ,, kel ,,
:scared: jesus Kel, I get enough strange looks with out encouraging them..still a hangable offence dressin like that round these parts :mocking: I think I'll just stick to my bikie/crim look, thank anyway, but I got a good laugh thanks mate :good:
I have an identical one (Port Barrel that is). from the Barossa Valley.! It is like a little warm hug on a cold winters night.
rob , I don't remember the name of the winery but I got it on our day tour from the town of mannum and it was full of water ,, and when I got home to Brisbane , I had to empty the water out, and put in some sherry for 3 weeks then get that out and then fill with port ..
what a beautiful drop after 6 months standing ,.. ,, kel ,,
been near 10 years now and i still miss it..I was a fish :mocking: Bloody medication :dash1:
well it's nearing that time of year again so I'll be a bit quiet for a while, thank Christ I hear some say, well I'll still be around from time to time but yeah I hate the bloody cold as it makes me sore :( Sleep well all my :angel: :sleepy:
gee it comes around quick these days :sleepy:
but with only a hand full of post in a month there's not really much to miss out on and easy to catch up or what's going on to drive members away :scratch_one-s_head:
welcome back AJ
the winter solace has passed, the sunshine will stay for longer each day now and we need to forward our atomic clocks by 1 second if absolute accuracy is desired
so you now have an extra second added to your life
how cool is that?
Leap second occurs on June 30, 23:59:59 UTC, which is at 09:59:59 AEST
did you guys catch any of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights around June 22 , 23?
we didn't drive out to see the one that showed up in Canberra around 3.00 am in the morning and about -7 degrees!
western Australia
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_skynews_img_1240_920.jpg)
Bundanoon
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/bundanoon_lookout.jpg)
I am sure AJ would appreciate some winter solace even though the winter 'solstice' has passed.
ok
I am the world's worse speller at the best of times
but i'm sick so I have an excuse !! ha ha
I was offering winter solstice updates in the hope of providing some warm and fuzzy friendship solace through pretty pictures :heart:
Pretty pictures indeed. That is something I would like to see.
PS. There are some worse spellers here than you.
lifelong dyslexia doesn't help but has nothing to do with solace and solstice mind you!! but I did keep the world a safer place by not becoming an atomic engineer ha ha
some more winter solace for our boy
wonder if Trout caught a glimpse of the sky show over there in WA?
Hobart
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_hobart~0.jpg)
Goulburn
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_gouldburn~0.jpg)
Canberra (3.00 am - I was in a warm bed snoring and not out on the ranges)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_canberra_aurora_australis_june_2015.jpg)
I hadn't realise that the Aurora coincided with the solstice
More precisely, in 2015 the southern winter solstice occurs at 02:38am AEST on Monday June 22. At this moment the Sun is at its most northerly point on its path through the sky and directly above the line of the Tropic of Cancer. While it will be dark in Australia, somewhere on the Tropic of Cancer it will be 12 noon locally and the Sun will be directly overhead. That somewhere will be in the west Atlantic ocean just north of the Dominican Republic and any yacht sailing there will cast no shadow.
The solstice is a natural turning point in the year. Historically it was a time of new beginnings, of rebirth and revival. From now on the days will lengthen and the warmth of summer is on its way.
Although Monday is solstice day itself you wont notice much difference in the length of the day over the weekend. So make the most of the long nights and watch Venus, Jupiter and the Moon shining in the western evening sky.
We saw the three the other night but didn't see any of the light show though.
I live in Melbourne's Western Suburbs.
did you take a pic?
did it feel great seeing even what you did see?
I have never seen one
I have strolled outside a few times in the last hour to gaze at the Venus/Jupiter conjunction.
With a clear sky and cold, crisp air Venus looks truly spectacular -like a Christmas card illustration of the Star of Bethlehem; only better.
Hurry, you have only about an hour before they set (a few hours for trout and Triggersmob).
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='75148' dateline='1435916846'I have strolled outside a few times in the last hour to gaze at the Venus/Jupiter conjunction.
With a clear sky and cold, crisp air Venus looks truly spectacular -like a Christmas card illustration of the Star of Bethlehem; only better.
Hurry, you have only about an hour before they set (a few hours for trout and Triggersmob).
Thanks for the heads up Jeff.
Just been out for a butcher's hook.
Overcast outside my place. Can't see nuffin!
as usual I missed it but here are 2 Canberra pics taken by those who haven't
one of the astrophysicist's pics
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_Venus_is_pretty_bright_alongside_Jupiter_.jpg)
Here is the view from the Canberra Deep Space Tracking Station, Neighbour Stromlo.. DSS45 is the Antenna on the right of the pic.
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/aa_mt_stromlo_deep_space_rtacking_station.jpg)
AJ will have some great pics to look at when he logs in at 3.00 am this coming morning
" When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars"
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE)
The days are getting longer now (actually just just the daylight hours -they are all still 24 hours except the day that just had a leap second) so, let the sunshine in.
hummm
I gather that there is quite a variety of opinions on the actual start of that age