Hurricane Shed!

Today Geoff and l continued with our new shed! We decided not to use the front tin panel but opted for some leftover Weathertex weatherboards we had instead. They match the wall we put up at the end of the garage so thought they would look a lot better (which they will once painted!)

It all went swimmingly and started to look very smart.....this photo of Treeka and Pushka supervising the build is actually to prepare you for the sad old sight she looked however when we put the roof on.............................Ready????

l did warn you and l hope no one is laughing..............Mum??????

The roof was hard!!! It really needed about three 6.2 foot men and we only had us two! AND we put it on first upside down (but apparently l am not supposed to tell you that!!!) SO we had to pull it off, flip it over and put it on again........and it was big and floppy and awkward and heavy and it kept on falling apart more and more as we flopped it back on the top of the shed!!!!!!!!!!! (((sigh!!!!))) It sort of looked like an old shed AFTER Hurricane Harry or something!!

But we did it! We bashed and banged and stomped and nailed and flattened it out somewhat!!! But it's not finished yet! We ran out of day!! We need more roofing nails, a few more supports inside and some paint! But it's a great little shed and will close our yard in nicely and house the slasher once it's done!

Just don't look too closely at the roof!!!!

A week catch up!

A few random pics of the week that was as the end of Daylight Savings rapidly approaches! The little gypsy wagon slowly but surely progressing along. And added to  today by these gorgeous little red table and chairs l bought from work. They fold up flat so will be able to fit inside easily and brought out when needed!

The big fella plodding along in the glorious morning sunshine. With the Sun behind me here........

T

Then turning around  to face it as l wait for little Maxie to catch us up.........Having his morning canter through the Plovers!

More gorgeous morning sun. This time from the back porch.  

And Lilli thrown in for a laugh after probably having eaten too much dinner!!!

Then back to Autumn with the Creeper thing (Virginia? ) going a very early bright red around a water tank.

AND most excitingly!!!! Another length of fence going up for the courtyard!!! It's going to be fun cutting out all the palings for THIS section!!! !!!Hopefully great inroads will be achieved tomorrow on a Public Holiday day off for us both.

 

Quinces anyone?

Last year we had what appeared to be hundreds and hundreds of Quinces on our tree. l seemed to be picking them up off the ground forever.

This year we have so many l decided yesterday that an early prune was needed before the limbs started to crack and break off! l also decided to tally them up and see how many l collect. It's such a shame.. so much pretty fruit and so very little you can do with it. l mean...how many jars of Quinces paste do you need??

What l picked up off the ground and with the few branches l lopped l counted 262..........

And that's only a fraction of what is still on the tree!  I am heading for a guess of about 600. We shall see how good my estimate is as Autumn approaches!!!

And a home at last for my Narnia lantern that has been tied with baling twine to  a fruit tree for about two years! It's STILL tied with baling twine but l think this will be its permanent home.

The Bath!!

Yesterday was the shed ,today was the bath! A cute little cast iron claw foot of undetermined age! Unfortunately l didn't get to take a clear photo of it the right way up , but all will be revealed ....one day!!! It's called Clyde (as stamped on the side when we upended it) and is painted a very racy bright red!!! And the BEST thing was....it was nowhere near as heavy as we thought it might be!!!

It took us no time at all to push it up the hay baled ramp onto the back of the ute, (All tricks learnt from carting pianos and very heavy wood heaters! )

A little big undignified but never mind Clyde!!

Once home it was just a reverse of the process. Geoff having to stand there mid slide while l took a photo (for you lot!!!!) Hence him not looking particularly happy. l said it wasn't as heavy as we thought but it WAS still heavy!!

Then......in the usual fashion of this blog looking like Geoff does ALL the work around here......he manfully slid Clyde down the rest of the ramp himself to come to a very gentle easy stop on a pallet.....

.......where it will probably live for the next 12 months!!

With a horse rug thrown over to protect him from the elements.

And what are our plans for this chunky rock solid little old bath ?? Something like this.........Hmmmmmmm.......probably not........ too many spiders!!

Or maybe this??? On a lesser scale l expect. Either way, Clyde is going to take up residence as an outside bath in our courtyard. Tucked away in a corner waiting for a stinking hot Summers day and after a hot  afternoon  fencing or brush cutting. Hitch up the hose through the window from the bathroom..........into the bath. Grab an ice cold G&T...........

Attach on a big old shower head.......................who can beat that??

Can't wait!

New Shed!

Geoff and l were kindly offered a shed this week as the new owners of the property no longer wanted it. Being the sort of people who NEVER knock back anything like that of course said yes!!!
So this afternoon we headed off (luckily not very far away!) armed with tools, drills, hammers, ladders et all to dismantle it and bring it back home. It's been in place for a number of years and was well and truly solidly put together! Roof off first.

Luckily the owner was kind enough to give us a hand. He was tall which helped!!!!

l kept my distance here for Arachnophobic reasons!!!

It looked quite awkward!!

Chelsea the Red Heeler cross was our third and most eager and attentive helper!

A bit of discussion here when it was discovered that the whole shed was bolted directly onto the wooden base .

Nothing that an Angle Grinder couldn't  fix though!

Two walls off and two to go.

 One................

And job done! It took us a lot longer than what we thought it would and it was jolly hot!! AND we didn't see one snake or spider  !!

Glad to head off home with our long wide load for a cool drink!

Lucky we were only about 300 metres away!!!

And half is up already!!! We ran out of daylight so we will try and finish it tomorrow if we have time.................Tomorrow we go and get a bath.............but that's a story for tomorrow!!!

Mummy's Boy!

l do feel sorry for this little boy! He is the first and only hatched chick from this hen several months ago. As he grew up an only child he never joined in with the other chooks and constantly tagged around with his very over protective Mummy. Sen (the hen) then shoved him off (as they do!) so he started to sleep at night in a nesting box in the chook house with the  rest of the hens. Every night l would go out and place him on the perch hoping he would start to roost at night with the others. Sen then got broody again and hatched her second batch of babies. When the chicks are very small they sleep in wooden dog kennels at night so they are safe and warm. The last few days the young Rooster has taken to squishing back in with his Mummy and younger brothers and sisters!

l must say l have never seen this before!!! Sen doesn't seem to mind and she is quite happy to let him in at there night. Ideally he would like to squish under her like the babies do!

But of course he can't so all he can do is snuggle up behind her ! l just find it so unusual that he has gone back to his Mum as normally once that Mother /Baby link is broken you would think they wouldn't remember ..........but he has and he wants his Mummy still!!!!

Just because.................

l love this photo! .............