Something fresh for Grace

The purple flowers Grace have faded to a sad shade, so on my visit today I changed them for some fresh ones I bought a while back.

Modest flowers this time since Grace was always modest.

An out of puff Jimmy had to get himself in the picture, pity he parked so far away, but Olympus sensibly have a 12 second self timer.

Just a shot, the cane field behind has been cut already.

No cane this season.

After the cane in the field behind us was cut last year it just refused to regrow, so farmer Gary ended up ploughing the field, he's been working noisily of late seemingly readying it for fresh planting.

Always something to fix.

I wanted to find out what a tyre for Cubby weighs but naturally my long disused scale had AAAs in it that had leaked, so not wishing to bother with those pesky things anymore I pressed the soldering iron into service again.

I had bought a batch of lithium cell holders a while back so soldered that in place of the AAAs, CR-2032 cells are readily available and cheap if you don't buy locally, as they can still find a way of pricing a 20 cent cell at $4+

It settled on 7.50 kg after the bouncing stopped.

Big day at Bicol University.

Olivia sent me this just now, somehow they found 15,000 people and dressed them up to make a very large no-smoking sign.
They sure have plenty of people in the Philippines, they have so many smokers (men at least) yet they still found 15k people to get involved.
The Guinness book of records may possibly mention this in a future edition.

BTW Bicol is pronounced in the same manner as former great cricketer Andy Bichel who was the superstar of the 2003 50-over World Cup. For those for whom he is somewhat unknown try saying bickel or in Bicol's case bickol, but being an Aussie they would sound the same.

Some work across the road.

There's been plenty of work at the soccer fields this week, so far they've laid a concrete platform.

Later another mound of soil appeared, more work must be planned as you wouldn't use dirt to prevent the inevitable footprints of every animal within a couple of hours travel.

Nice cake.

This is Olivia's photo, and I guess I should call her Olive. The numbers aren't as obvious as they seem, someone has cryptically rearranged them, enjoy it while it lasts Olive, I get older if I do that.
Pity I couldn't be there to enjoy the occasion, the cake looks lovely.

Just flowers.

Not a real lot of them on these cold winter days.