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  18. Posted

    I've no idea where to start. I'm not very buildy, pretty Shit at man stuff. Henceforth I am going to spend my tax cheque this year on possibly paying someone to build one for me, I'm thinking a local third year apprentice.  I think I'll get close to 3 k back on my tax this year, plus have around 2 saved so that gives me about 5k to spend.

     

    are there such thing as cactus shed plans anywhere? Or am

    i best of just describing to the young fella what i

    want?? I need a good, permanent structure. Something that allows good air circulation and allows me to

    control the watering. I would like the benches to be of such a design that allows bottom watering, like a flood and drain system.

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  21. Posted · Edited by MoonUnitBotanica

    **sold**Imperfect cacti, scarring on some.

    Trichocereus bridgesii, pachanoi and peruvianus. $100 aud includes postage within Australia . $150 includes postage to the USA. Other country's just ask and I will quote. 

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  22. Posted · Edited by MoonUnitBotanica

    Yeah thanks man that job was sending me fucking insane. Well it pretty much sent me to the brink, I'm glad I quit best thing I ever did, however when u met me I couldn't, I was locked in. I don't have to tell u how much of a bastard it was working under those people, try and imagine being a manager there and having to answer to them on a daily basis. I am very sorry for how I treated u on the site, and for what happened to you and the mrs. I was constantly on the verge of complete mental breakdown. Wish I could have left that job a few years sooner, but then there's being an adult and having mortgages and shit. I hope you are doin well, you should try make contact with Jakey and Dale they always talked about you in high regard. Jakey is running the show now and coping it just as sweet as I did, but on much less pay. Hopefully he can get into the mines he is a good kid that one, with such a great attitude to life in general. He surely has Brought himself up in life.  Dale is still a

    cheeky bastard, I catch up with him every now and then for a pho, (he always makes me pay) but man I honestly love that guy lol spent about 8 months convincing him to try pho. If u get a chance watch his skydiving video it will make your life.

    andrews now making about 3k a week in the mines but as always the piss is still his demon. So much potential. Best people skills I've ever seen in a human.

    havent seen or heard from Hannah, there was a lot of sexual harassment out there when I left which affected Katey and katelyn and they left unfortunately. Yeah but doin a harvest is a crazy experience, they just need to fuck tony off and it would solve a lot of problems but anyhoo. Sometimes assholes just win.

    glad ur doin well what are u doin now? I'll tell dale we catchin up for a pho this Thursday. 

    Still volunteering paramedic, I couldn't take the traineeship as Ash came into my care, and I can't do shiftwork. I enjoy it though and keep up my training. U will laugh but I now do drug testing at the Parkes and Mudgee mine sites three days a week. The coin is GREAT, (get more in three days than I did at gc for a week) and he'll if they stoopid enough to come to work at a mine site on drugs or pissed it's their own fault they full well know. Imagine working while dale was driving around on the loader ripped?

    that and the occasional shift at the hospital doing a wardsman shift pays the bills , and gives me plenty of days off to

    chill and enjoy life. No more  100hr weeks ever!! Have quit smoking, 5 months cig free, the smell of cigarette smoke now makes me want to spew. Not bad a for the pack a day habit that I had. Haven't touched weed either since about November. Still very much enjoy a beer now and then though! 

     

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  23. Posted

    @mountaingoat - cheers mate :)

    @TI, nah mate I'll leave the big didgets to you mate, I like the feel of newbness! Glad your still around!

    @Glaukus- cheers mate. Love your sauce. I swear as soon as I win lotto we are going into the sauce business.

    @thunderhorse- yeah the acacia hedge didn't really work out, only ones that survived here where the accuminatas, they are doing awesomely though.

    i am sorry to hear of the hard times. Especially the loss of your children's mother. What you are doing takes REAL strength. You must be a very strong guy, and I think you should always give yourself credit for that. Use whatever resources and support networks are at Reach, never be afraid to ask for help. 

    I fucking salute you.

     

    the blueberries are doing fine I have the. In a semi shaded position and keep the water up to them. I mulch them with cardboard I get from work. You have never tasted blueberries until u have had them fresh!! Stay strong man, life throws all kids of shit at us but if you can weather the storm, nature surely rewards courage.

     

    @Insequent, nice to meetcha:)

    @RC- good to see u still around bud !

    @waterboy, yeah I get ur point, I made a fair crumpet of myself and if I was unwelcome I would have understood and then why would one bother participating?

    being cautious I guess. I understand and accept where you stand and can only once again offer my sincere apology.

    anyhoo off to continue fencing ten acres )ergh) 

    hooefully we get some rain to water in the bottle trees I planted! Forgot the bot name at the moment but the Aussie kurrajong that grows the big bottle trunks have planted the. Along the side of the road stretching up my hill.

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    well Thankyou guys :)

    so what's everyone been doing?

    ive been right into growing ariocarpus and astrophytum cultivars and location seed. Loving it. About to dip my toes in haworthia waters. 

    Been planting a few fruit trees, and blueberries on my lil property, in the process of fencing it all off (erghhh) to keep dang rascally local kids off it!

    gonna start a big veggie garden sooner rather than later, doing a lot of thinking on it! Got plenty of pine logs to make a good border.

    other than that just hangin out with my staffy and bein a full time single dad and lovin it, my liln came to live with me in December and I'm really loving it! For some reason I get a lot of enjoyment out of making her school lunches!! Easy goin kid and great company. Have dropped down my work days to three days a week. Left a living-hell job Sept last year and life has settled and kept getting better since the. Touch wood so no complaints.

     

    Gonna pay a local builder to make me a freakin fantastic cactus shed and a greenhouse this tax cheque, as I get so much pleaseure out of growing plants and they have supplemented my income well. I get a lot of satisfaction out of people being satisfied by my plants!! So yeah, how you doin?? 

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