Just About There

Bike Riding each morning has been on the back burner as my latest backyard project gets closer to completion.  But there is a good chance I will be back on the bike tomorrow morning if all goes according to plan today.

As the photo shows all the hard painting, lifting and securing work has now been completed.  The fence posts and the need to work around them has been a bit of a headache.  The levels didn't help either with an approx 15cm fall from left to right.

But Bunnings came to the rescue and cut the smaller pieces I needed for me.  I got on quite famously with the European Bunnings guy who served me.  As it turned out he had moved from IT into working for Bunnings, but I am not sure how that worked.  He too was originally from Victoria and played soccer for Doveton.  He was also a bit of a Kodi fan and was experimenting a little with his home brew.  No wonder we hit it off!

I will be catching up with the Chiropractor early next week as the back is suffering following the lifting and carrying.  Rather than clean up the paint rollers and trays I put them into a plastic bag and headed for the rubbish bin!  As it turned out it was the easiest clean up job ever!

Our back yard is around 12cms lower than over the back as it had to be done that way when the pool was installed and leveled.  There is rudimentary drainage system along the back fence to help with seepage from the block at the back.  Thus the need for border stones and the pebbles along the fence line.  The border stones and much of the pebbles had to moved to ensure the levels were at least reasonable when leveling off and fixing the large Hardiplank panels.  Needless to say there were pebbles strewn everywhere from the task so this morning's job was tidying up those pebbles.

Trish is bringing home a couple of large 180x90cm silhouette panels from Bunnings this afternoon and they will be attached to the back fence when we find the best position for them.  They will be the same as what we already have on the side fence (Click HERE, then 'Back' to return to this page)  Then the wire lizard and the new ladybird wall hangings will need to go up followed by the hooks for the solar lights.

But they are all minor jobs.

As a home brew went on late last week and with a lighter backyard work list today, I managed to get the bottle washing all done ready for a bottling on Friday.

I chaired a Community Association "Public" Meeting on Monday night.  5 of our Committee members were apologies for the night leaving the setting up to basically just two of us.  Trish came along early as well to help with the setting up and everyone was glad she did.  Of course after the Meeting there is a the full report to go online which is also my job.

And finally there is the Community Newsletter draft to have ready for printing 2500 copies off mid next week.  The draft has to be ready by Friday but that is well in hand as well.

Lucky we don't have to get to a full time job anymore isn't it!