alex hf ([info]bees4breakfast) wrote,
@ 2008-08-19 19:24:00
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six months
it's amazing the difference a couple of months of rainfall make in australia. here are two photos taken from within a few meters of each other, with the same camera, no color correction whatsoever, six months apart. the tree on the right in the first photo is the tree in the center of the second photo.


february 9, 2008:





august 19, 2008:





and by the way: soon i will live in a house.



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[info]superluser
2008-08-19 10:23 am UTC (link)
A house with no basement!

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-19 11:30 am UTC (link)
they don't have basements here! it's so that the cooler air doesn't sink down into them and away from the main floor. they also don't do two-story houses here, except some nouveau-riche people (who really want the prestige of announcing "i can afford to air-condition a two-story house when it's 42 degrees for a month straight") still build two-story. by and large, it's all single-story houses with high ceilings. ours is on stilts, because there's about four inches of topsoil, and then solid rock underneath.

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[info]eggstorm
2008-08-19 11:56 am UTC (link)
Bitch! Why aint you on Skype! :}

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[info]superluser
2008-08-19 11:31 pm UTC (link)
Well, congratulations! When will it be ready?

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:28 am UTC (link)
thank you! we actually have to move (current lease runs out, non-extendable) by 30th November. it won't be finished, but hopefully it will be close.

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[info]budhdra
2008-08-19 12:53 pm UTC (link)
Is that wilderness???

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-19 02:15 pm UTC (link)
it's out in the country, but it's not wilderness! it's not so terribly remote. about 40 kilometers from the center of the city.

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[info]trufflepigs
2008-08-19 01:51 pm UTC (link)
not pictured: thousands of poisonous spiders

(how big is the house going to be? I am terrible with scale)

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-19 02:41 pm UTC (link)
i'm pretty bad with scale, too! toe to tip, i think it's 25ish meters.

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-19 02:42 pm UTC (link)
i hell of didn't notice i wasn't logged in.

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:31 am UTC (link)
oh, here's a scale reference. (adrian is the reference. he is 181cm tall and as wide as a slim human.)

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[info]billazilla
2008-08-19 03:25 pm UTC (link)
Shit, you're building a house in Australopithica, and I'm still in a two-bedroom apartment in The Dirty. I need to get on the ball here...

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:38 am UTC (link)
bear in mind, i didn't earn the money i'm using to build it. there will be a sign: "graciously sponsored by non-hodgkins lymphoma and my dead father"

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[info]djkim
2008-08-19 04:57 pm UTC (link)
You're going to have a pretty awesome yard.

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:38 am UTC (link)
awesome if you think sheep are awesome. i hate sheep.

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[info]djkim
2008-08-22 08:25 am UTC (link)
Sheep are some dumb motherfuckers.

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[info]crapdick
2008-08-20 12:01 am UTC (link)
what are those little shits in the first picture? aurochs or baby yaks or mammal-mints or something?

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:41 am UTC (link)
it's a bunch of taxidermied sheep. i use them to store my ham hocks. i have soooooo many ham hocks.

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[info]crapdick
2008-08-25 03:17 am UTC (link)
I LIKE UR MAMMALS

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[info]only_taciturn
2008-08-20 04:02 am UTC (link)
Oooo sheep! That is a pretty amazing transformation and also I can't wait to see your house when it's finished. Or a rough photo of the blueprints/floorplan in the meantime.

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:44 am UTC (link)
adrian made this a while back, based on the plans. it's fairly accurate, there have only been very minor changes. i can't wait to see you, standing inside my house! visit!

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[info]stereophonicrpm
2008-08-20 06:51 am UTC (link)
The sheep are all "baaah we are the colour of desolate wasteland"

Nice house type frame thing, though, I'm sure it will be gorgeous once it is more house ;)

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:45 am UTC (link)
actually i was thinking of keeping it as-is, so i can be super rugged. y/n?

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[info]stereophonicrpm
2008-08-22 08:17 am UTC (link)
YES! sleep under the stars every night and I will love you forever.

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[info]stereophonicrpm
2008-08-22 08:24 am UTC (link)
No wait. That is lies because I already do.

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[info]thedee
2008-08-20 08:44 am UTC (link)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I must come visit when it's done! The land looks all sorts of awesome, better than when I was there last. :D

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:46 am UTC (link)
there are fences! to keep the sheepies from crapping everywhere! it's really a lot better that way! and yes, you must must must must come and visit when it's done :D

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Hot damn, I'm jealous...
(Anonymous)
2008-08-21 11:11 am UTC (link)
That looks so beautiful. Of course, if I showed up in January, I'd probably deride the whole nation as unfit for man or beast under crushing heat, but still... that's one mighty enviable spot of earth you've landed on.

So I take it the drought's over?

-Sebizzle

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Re: Hot damn, I'm jealous...
[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 01:02 am UTC (link)
i don't care when you show up, as long as you show up, and i'll do my best to make you comfortable, regardless of temperature.

the drought isn't over, actually, or maybe calling it a drought was just the wrong word. they now think it's actually a permanent climate change (and yes, that second picture is the river torrens, not a road). there's still a nice amount of rainfall in the winter, especially in june and july, but from approximately september through march, we're lucky to see more than a drop of rain.

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[info]automig
2008-08-21 11:49 pm UTC (link)
wow. good lord willin and the sheep don't nibble your girders. lovely!

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[info]bees4breakfast
2008-08-22 12:56 am UTC (link)
the house is fenced off from the sheep. i hope they don't grow brains and find a way through. those girders are made of delicious grass.

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