Still a few dark ones left.

Jimby had a haircut today, a fancy one thanks to Olivia, we're trying for a more sophisticated look with some longer hair on top to help ward off the winter cold.

I just hope I can comb it decently as I haven't had hair long enough to comb since I was in my twenties.

Frail old Jimby says ouch.

I visited pathology this morning for them to take a blood sample, and it hurt more than usual. I seem to always have bad luck there of late with barely any blood being retrieved despite a hectare of pain, at least I bruise like an old woman now and can show it off.
The mess on the right of this piccie is from the little operation I had last July, it still hasn't healed properly but since my arm hasn't come good either I suppose it's only to be expected.

Peter's mower now has a name.

After being underwater a few times too many and having Jimby flush out the engine and bring it back to life poor Peter became sick of headaches and now gets a mowerman to cut his grass and he gave Jimby his yet again waterlogged mower, and it was in very poor shape, but now the misfire has gone and the transmission is working again, so it shall be known as Lazarus.

In a sea of bland a splash of colour.

I hate how cars have become merely shades of grey these days so it was lovely to see a car with an actual colour in the car park at Coles this morning. Daisy sits blandly in the background here too.

Elmer's going again.

Elmer our self-propelled mower has been out of action for a while due to being underwater from that last flood and then inactive long enough for the bearing in the self-propelling mechanism to seize.
I had flushed out the engine after the flood but didn't consider the bearing, silly Jimby.

This is the new bearing in its housing, it's a type 62201 and needs a little bit of searching to obtain one, the pity for me is it took 6+ weeks to be delivered from of all places Dumaguete in the Philippines, more proof perhaps of it becoming a province of China.

The bearing sits inside the housing that I splashed a bit of gold paint on. Elmer's ready to have the blades refitted here.