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@TGG303 Here's hoping. I had the soreness and definitely the tiredness, this year. I was supposed to be doing some more of the relative's #GardenClearance afterwards and I had to just stop and go home.
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Hah!
Today's the day that I have to drive over to the relative with the #GardenClearance, later #GarageClearance, who is today getting a 2nd shed installed.
This one has electricity, and double glazing. I have decided that the proper term for it is "outhouse".
The first one we filled with stuff from the garage clearance.
The relative's back garden is a mud bath, having dug a 60cm trench for the #electricity cable; which has a 1kV rating.
To give you an idea of the scale of work involved in the #GarageClearance that has been added on to the #GardenClearance: just the empty cardboard boxes alone that I relocated yesterday from one house to another filled the back of a long wheelbase Ford Transit.
I have to be up today in 3 hours's time in order to nick a parking spot for the van. Today's job is further carboard boxes, that have stuff in.
I must remember to take the loading straps. I forgot yesterday.
I came home from the #GardenClearance that has now added a #GarageClearance and fell straight to sleep. I awoke some hours later, and now cannot get back to sleep. At this rate I'll still be awake by the time that @lindasgoluppiart greets us. (-:
The #GardenClearance has now enlarged to a #GarageClearance. Who keeps Santa hats from the 1990s and stores them in a garage for over a decade, in a box marked "Santa hats" that cannot be reached without moving a filing cabinet out of the way?
One good thing to come out of yesterday's efforts is that a poor plant that was being strangled by a #bramble that was growing up within it, no longer is. It's something that I hadn't had time to do in a previous visit, and it had been weighing on me.
I should have taken a picture, ready for when PixelFedApp.UK comes back up.
We spent so much time making sure that the relative's cat did not walk over the setting concrete, that we missed the relative's tree sneakily getting in on the action. The concrete has a whole load of tiny impressions from fallen leaves. The tree saw the concrete when it was highly fluid and clearly took the chance and went for it.
It doesn't matter, as perfect uniformity is not required in this instance, but I picked off a few of them yesterday.
Oooh! Thunder.
Now supposedly some people with machines are going to come to the relative's #GardenClearance to pour some concrete tomorrow.
They might not want to do that in the rain. The mud will be a problem with access.
I am enjoying using the word "drying" to describe the forthcoming concrete hardening process, and making the relative twitch.
The relative's #GardenClearance is set to be attacked by professionals with machines this week. So I have some time for actually doing things to my own home.
Today involved pulling out a tube of UHU glue that hasn't seen the light of day in more than a decade. I suspect that the glue won't harden, but it's worth a try.
Or maybe the universe will decide that I've just glued one of my clamps to a shelf strut. (-:
A poor substitute for a @lindasgoluppiart task.
Today:
Find a bottle of some sort of oil. Pick it up and for 1 minute slightly tilt or turn the bottle. Watch the oil and air bubbles as it flows within the bottle.
I get to do a far more disgusting version of this as part of #GardenClearance today. Consider yourselves lucky that *your* bottle isn't a can with a tiny rusthole where the oil is leaking out into an impromptu oil pan now that the supporting woodpile has been removed.
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I saw two frogs during the ongoing #GardenClearance today. No camera with me, and I was rather busy at the time.
A local cat decided to hunt them.
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Amusingly, it occurred when I was mostly too busy to post and read *anyway*.
I don't know why the relative wants to keep a long rickety wooden ladder with broken rungs, but at least it is in the right location now. I finally had a vehicle that could hold it, albeit that it had to go in diagonally.
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I was away from my account. But a relaxing time was far from what I was having. Exhausting, more like.
I think that I need to share some pictures of the corrugated sheets found on the secret woodpile in the #GardenClearance I am doing, to balance the universe. (-:
Alas, without the guidance from anyone, I might be buying The Wrong Colour marker paint (to mark out where digging needs to happen) today. Oh dear!
There's only a choice of 7 colours, and only 2 have a high contrast against earth, stone, and foliage.
I'd say that I'm on safe ground, but that might just be the wrong metaphor. (-:
I'm too wrapped up in the ToolStation catalogue to give you a #SlowLife task this #BankHoliday.
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I've just been doing some WWW reading and it turns out that the "Can I come along to B&Q I need some X?" question is answered by "They don't sell X in store at B&Q.". Hah!
They do sell it over the counter at ScrewFix/ToolStation, though. In 7 colours.
Those will definitely be less crowded.
I only did 6 hours of #GardenClearance yesterday. Day of rest and all that.
But the skip is now full, and the skip company does not, of course, work on a bank holiday. So today is non-skip-related stuff day.
Maybe a trip to B&Q for a couple of hundred litres of bark chips. How crowded can that be on a bank holiday, after all? (-:
In today's #GardenClearance escapade, I get to decide which of 3 choices of rotten wood piles will fit into the remainder of the nearly full skip; and which will have to wait for the next skip.
It's marvellous to have options, isn't it? (-:
Uncovered concealed woodpile relocated, to a point closer to the skip.
It's mostly old broken up window frames and the like, full of protruding nails. But there was some other odd stuff in there as well.
Sorted into various classes of rubbish, these will be wending their way to their various destinations, as they should have done years ago. The tyres, for example, have to be transported to one of the few places in the county that nowadays will dispose of tyres, for a fee.
#GardenClearance
It's mostly old broken up window frames and the like, full of protruding nails. But there was some other odd stuff in there as well.
Sorted into various classes of rubbish, these will be wending their way to their various destinations, as they should have done years ago. The tyres, for example, have to be transported to one of the few places in the county that nowadays will dispose of tyres, for a fee.
#GardenClearance
Unearthed from the concealed woodpile was this hard disc.
I did not even consider testing to see whether it still worked, and that was even before I saw the bad condition of the power connector, which is not going near any power supply that I own.
Whatever is on it is lost to history. This is how the Digital Dark Age happens.
Its friend that turned up further down the pile is in an even sorrier state.
#GardenClearance
I did not even consider testing to see whether it still worked, and that was even before I saw the bad condition of the power connector, which is not going near any power supply that I own.
Whatever is on it is lost to history. This is how the Digital Dark Age happens.
Its friend that turned up further down the pile is in an even sorrier state.
#GardenClearance