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    Some moss growing in my underbush

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    I like its intricately whorled tufts

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    ^ Looper, in the UK you can tell the north side of a tree because that's the side the moss grows on. Is it the other way round for you in Oz? Is moss on the south side of trees?

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    ^That area of the forest is down in a shaded creek-bed recess so it is dark and damp and organic matter decays quickly

    I don't notice the moss directionality on trees but the south side of the house has moss aplenty creeping round the foundations whereas the north east and west are dry barren

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    The welcome rain, drop in humidity and temperature this past couple of weeks in Phuket seems to have spurred on quite a few plants into growth and flowering. This an orchid hanging from one of the small trees in our front garden.



    and some of M'Sahib's cactus flowering.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    I don't notice the moss directionality on trees but the south side of the house has moss aplenty creeping round the foundations whereas the north east and west are dry barren
    This is the southern corner of the house that gets the least sunlight and sports a minge of moss to prove it

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    The moss has even taken over Miss Solomon Islands discarded bra which I think blew off the balcony in high winds.

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    She email recently to say she is coming back to australia for a holiday. I did not tell her about fortuitously finding her lost bra while I was putting down new gravel recently so I will wait to surprise her if she shows up in the forest.

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    Bung miss solomans island bra in the washing machine by the looks of things mrs soloman has a reasonable size hooters. Whats d minge look like? Asking for edward

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    ^^ you should treat Miss Solomon mate, it looks like she hasn't bought a new bra since 1953.

    Get on Lazada, there's some great stuff on offer from China.

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    ^That is 3.5 years of weathering which included 2 monsoon La Nina summers

    That is how long it is since that bra went flying off the balcony

    I think it could almost be a work of art worthy of Nigel's thread if I maybe framed it or put it in a jar of formaldehyde

    If she come back for a visit I will have to remember to hide my Old Holborn as she smoked the whole pack when she found it last time

    That was a 25g pack that cost $60 and would normally last me 2-3 years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Get on Lazada, there's some great stuff on offer from China.
    Anna is a lucky dog

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    Spotted this guy after hearing a rustle in the bushes while on my daily 2pm wake up coffee walk.

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    Wife picked a few more mango's today. Man are these good.







    Came across 4 palms at a nursery for dirt cheap to plant behind the pool bar to offer some shade.



    Another beautiful day around the Ponderosa.

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    The pool bar plants have finally taken off and are growing well. Quite relaxing sitting in the hammock watching the ball game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Spotted this guy after hearing a rustle in the bushes while on my daily 2pm wake up coffee walk.

    Nice. Siamese blue crested lizard (Calotes goetzi)

    (In Thai: กิ้งก่าหัวสีฟ้า, ging ga hua si faa)

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    If you look just above the gate you can see a lovely little kukri snake, safe from the dogs in the vegetable garden.



    I had two choices really... I could have captured it and put it over the garden wall, or left it alone and wait for the scream when the wife goes foraging for veggies for lunch.



    Umm...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    a lovely little kukri snake
    Not so little. At this time of year we have tiny Striped kukris about the place. On the morning walk there was one on the lane, less long than 2 pencils and not much thicker. I thought it might be dead so I gave it a tap with my trainer and it struck at me! Too tiny to do any harm, still, feisty little thing. Probably just trying to get a bit of morning sun, most days there will be one or two flat ones along my route.

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    'What tree is this?'


    8 rai near us was built up by 1m above road level about 2 years ago and planted out, very fast growing, what are they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    At this time of year we have tiny Striped kukris about the place.
    Here is one from yesterday. About one foot long.

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    Ahhhhhhhh Yes. The long put off sprinkler system. As the time goes on and the landscaping has matured the watering becomes a pretty big chore. Not that I mind it much however when my wife and I travel, we have to leave it to my FIL and SIL to water and every time we return the place looks like a drought hit it and many plants are dead and the lawns might as well be removed and new sod rolled in. So I felt it was time to find some help and get this project done. Adding a sprinkler system after the fact is always harder then if you do as the house is being built but sometimes that's just how it works out.

    As luck would have it, We had a guy come in to top off some really large trees and haul the debris away. In speaking with the guy he also installs watering systems for schools and businesses. So we sat and I showed him what I wanted and that I will help as I want it done a certain way. He agreed and said "OK I will pay you 100bht a day". I said "OK as long as the beer is free but it can't be Leo, Chang or Singha". I showed him some good beers and he just said PANG MAK..... I said you want good taste or goat piss. He laughed.

    Anyway this was going to take a lot of pipe as we had to navigate around the car park and house over to the pool area. I forgot the total meters but a big truck showed up with 3 big loads of 1" PVC and 4 big boxes of 90's, 45's and spouts and pop up sprinkler heads and some rainbirds

    Off we go........He brought 3 guys with him as diggers mostly.



    They started on the first section along the driveway area.




    I wanted to dig out the front and back lawns as I did not want them to just grab a Thai hoe and dig it up and make a mess. I wanted to carefully dig out the grass in a "V" so you can drop the pipe in and then just drop the grass back. They watched me and said Ohhh I like that, very good idea but we do not use shovels here. I said I know and its why unless you have good shovels you cant do this. It was a trick I learned back in the states when doing a sprinkler system at my house.





    They dug the trench behind the car park area where the water will come from the tank and the pump.



    OH man. I saw this and saw the guy getting an extension cord and his cement wheel on his grinder and said STOP. We can go underneath it with high pressure water. Glad I was here. I hate when they just whack cement to fit something. It took me about 15 minutes with a hose and water to get the pipe underneath and no cutting. . we did the same in the front under the walkway to the house albeit it took about an hour and a lot of water to get it through.



    This is a pic of the back lawn after I dug it up, the guy installed the piping and heads and I put the grass back.



    Front lawn after they laid the plumbing and I put the grass back.



    Water line station 1 to large front lawn. There will be 3 stations



    Here is the test manifold for the 3 stations. I added 4 just in case I want to add another line elsewhere later. The water solenoids and the automatic timer system is on it way from BKK. I can set days, water start times, watering duration and alternate days whichever I chose.





    Houston we have sprinklers. We spent a good 2 hours adjusting and setting each head. I didn't take any pics of the rainbird style heads in action but they are nice.

    So for now, its all working and a quick turn of the valve and I can water anywhere on the property. With my wife and I traveling soon I want to get the timers set up and tested before we go. My FIL and SIL only have to feed the dogs and watch the clouds. Of course I will have a lot of mowing when I return, but that is fine with me.

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    Nice, did you add some above ground markers for the pipe run so in 10 years time you'll know where they are?

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Nice, did you add some above ground markers for the pipe run so in 10 years time you'll know where they are?
    Nope. I will have to remember. I can find one when I crack it with a shovel. Usually how it works around here. . Kidding aside I do save pics and have other plumbing electrical mods I have done in folders to go back and look. Did that for all our underground electrical and the pool plumbing.

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    While I was working out in the yard planting a bit of SOD this morning, all of a sudden I was standing in the middle of a bee swarm. While watching the bees fly all over, the bee's aren't aggressive as they are focused on the queens pheromones so I just walked away and waited.





    This was right after the queen found a spot and they immediately protected her. This will grow as the rest of the swarm settles in. I love bee hives at our place. They help pollinate all our fruit trees and they seldom ever bother us and Annie one of our labs will be happy, she LOVES eating bees for some reason.

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    Spending time outside this afternoon.

    It's a small front garden but it is very green. And I quite like just looking at my Porsche*

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    *Not an actual Porsche.
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    Abundant geckos usually inhabit this bit of wall in the evenings due to the flies attracted to the light.

    Until we have a termite hatch and the tokay comes out.



    Then the geckos scarper.


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    ^ That JingJok better keeps its distance, Tookay love to eat them.

    We have this HUGE tookay living back behind our kitchen in-between the left over roof tiles I keep as spares. I let it be as it keeps its distance from the main house. I saw its head the other day with a flashlight as its night time bark is really loud and bellows. I am guess it is at least 40 to 45 CM long. It has an endless food supply where it lives.

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    ^ We have a few... one under the eaves, one in the chicken run, one in the gardener's garage and one in the snake house... maybe more. I think they're great and love to hear them calling to each other in the evenings.

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