A big busy weekend for me!! All l seemed to do was wheel barrow heavy stuff around! All day! I started with picking up the remaining Quinces that were lying on the ground. Three big heavy wheel barrows later the grand total tally of Quinces off our tree was a few short of 700! Amazing! l had guessed 600 but this surpassed even that!
Then ..............l cleaned a few bricks. .......
Grazed a few knuckles and raised our clean brick pallet to a fairly healthy 300. l try not to think of the 1300 left to go.................( l was watched the entire time by a lazy reclining hen who had absolutely nothing better to do with HER day!)
THEN......l moved onto sawdust! A few days ago we had our once yearly truck load of sawdust arrive for the horses stables. This time it was dropped off just on dark on a very wet wild windy evening. The joyous photos of Geoff and myself carting wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow by torchlight (thank god it's not heavy!) .....do not exist.......as it was dark.....wet............wild and windy and the levels of fun and humour were not at their highest!! After a days work to come home to that wasn't one of our favourite rated pastimes! So all that's visible is the warm cosy finished result which appears below!!
BUT....a few sacks were put aside this year for the duck and goose pen which is always a horrid wet smelly affair when it gets full of hay and needs cleaning out. Sawdust is much easier, cleaner and drier and a nicer option for all concerned! So off l went!
Didn't fit in the door unfortunately but l got close!
So much better now!
THEN the worst job of the day was clearing a big pile of gravel we had delivered a few weeks ago. We generally get a load in every year or so for pot holes, paths and any other jobs around the place. This lot filled up the floor in our $50 shed and made it level.
Much better!
THEN l picked up horse poo! An unavoidable daily chore! See what l mean about my day???? Poo....quinces.....sawdust and gravel!! Wooohoo!!!
l then just had time to put together this rather fun tree seat l bought the other week. It was a bit of a challenge as it didn't come with instructions and it took a few goes to get the order of assemblage right , but l got it in the end!
LUCKILY Geoff got home from work which was a good reason to stop work and light a quick fire......because..........just because!
Only to find when we got back to the house in the pitch black we had no power!!!................. Not a problem for these bunnies!
In a flash the house was warm, cosy and filled with flickering light!
To the point that when the power came back on a few hours later it spoilt our ambiance so we turned it all back off!
Just for the evening!
Potato soup and toast cooked on the wood fire.
And dinner by candlelight ! A perfect end to a busy but rewarding day!
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