Want to Sit and Watch The Grass Grow?

Yes, it's that time of the year again when you finish mowing the paddock and it has grown almost half an inch from when you first mowed that morning!

Amazing.

All is good here, Imre is almost finished rendering the inside walls in the tool shed.
He put in the windows, cleaned up the footings cement ooze from last year, made the new door way, put in the door and tidied up the ceiling gaps from the original old animal pens.

When we put up the new thermal brick walls, the shed became a foot wider inside and of course with me trying to hang onto the old original ceiling, it ended up being a foot too short where it met the new walls.

So, Imre to the rescue again and with a wave of his magic hammer and saw, a few bits of patching sorted out that big gap! Well, it was a foot wide and 15 feet long actually, in the tool shed, so some sort a gap it was.

When it's all painted next week, you won't know there was ever a mess there.

Am a bit sorry I didn't realize that the new walls would have made the entire old shed larger inside, otherwise I'd have made it into a caretakers cottage. It is amply large enough for that and is the size of a big caravan, without the end area which we haven't done anything with yet.

There were 3 pig pens originally and I knocked the wall out between 2 of them and made the tool shed and Zoltan dug down about 9 inches and gained the extra height needed. The end pig pen is supposed to be a junkshed or something as I really wont have any room for just stuff! I need my son Peter here to bring in a shipping container to make a great shed just for stuff!

A sunset last month from my back fence...

But in hindsight, I should have taken out the old ceiling made of timber with 6 inches of mud and reeds on it and added a few extra rows of bricks that way.

Never mind, it is fine thus far.

Dog has been given away and Bear goes on the weekend to the same family, hopefully.
They had 6 female dogs and one died last month, so they wanted to replace it.

Dog was the perfect answer. Then when he came to get to meet Dog, he fell in love with Bear too!
Hoping for a happy outcome there on Sunday next.

Then I can get in and clean up the yard and replant all the gladiola bulbs that Bear seems to have sniffed out and dug up. He thinks they are truffles or something exotic!

We begin work on the honeymoon Cottage shortly and am just getting the materials in place now.

Have you ever seen a side opening tip truck?

I hadn't noticed them before but they use them for loads of sand and gravel in one delivery and are able to tip one type of material at a time so they don't get mixed together.

They tip one and then move away, back up to another spot and either back tip or side tip that load. Very interesting...well, for me anyways!

The awesome side tipping truck in action...

Great idea...

Giving the sand a bit of help there...

Not bad hey?

Found a great idea for over on the big deck...not sure if I'll use it, but it looks really nice and cozy with walls around it and the BBQ inside and all..

This one had the whitewashed flooring in gloss, not a flat or semi flat finish like I'm thinking.

Anyways, that's all for a very short blog this week, so see you next weekend.

Hope all are well.
Cheers,
Mary
xxx