What made you happy today?

[stui magpie]

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[stui magpie]

I am utterly nucking fackered. And it feels good.

Got out in the sunshine today (took it's time following me back from FNQ) and started cleaning up some of the mess the guys who laid the slab made. 7x5 trailer full as a fat womans sock, yard is ready for me to move stuff into the shed as soon as it's finished, hopefully tomorrow.

After spending the morning doing that, I got the tools out. When they deliver the materials for the shed there's these 1m lengths of pine with a groove in one side which they use to keep the steel sheets off the ground. The groove is designed to fit the metal strapping they use to hold the whole thing together.

So I gathered up the timber and made a potting table for mum. I'm short a couple of lengths but there's 3 more in the front yard with half a tonne of steel on them which I'll grab tomorrow and finish the job.

Came up pretty good, just got to finish the top, put the wheels on and give it a coat of paint or stain.

Just had a shower and rubbed some voltaren gel into my back and elbow, wearing my Golden Nugget Casino dressing gown and got a beer and a latge glass of red. Gotta go make some salad for dinner soon.

[think positive]

There's salad in the wine glass! Cheers enjoy xx

[stui magpie]

Shed's all up and looks great.

I spent this morning getting all the stuff off the back lawn and into the shed so I could then get out the whipper snipper and mower and clean up 3 months worth of neglect.

Brief interlude to visit the doc for the 6 monthly reprimand, BP was good so quick in and out.

Got the back yard all cleaned up and the little shed 2/3 decanted. Finish that tomorrow then finish off the table I built and I'm done till the weekend.

[think positive]

Looks really good Stui, well done

[stui magpie]

Cheers Jo.

I'm about stuffed. i work behind a desk but my release is to do manual work when I can. Had a very busy day, just waiting to see if the red wine does the job or the voltaren gel is required.

[think positive]

Hehehe hedge your bets and go for both!

[watt price tully]

Just finished 4 x 10 hr night shifts but worked more than that.

We are averaging 9 assessments per 24 hr period (was about 4 when I first started back in 2001)

The other day we assessed 17 people. Of those I assessed 5. That's a f*cking lot of work as each assessment takes about 2 hours, more or less.

Demand has increased exponentially but supply (staff) has only increased slightly.

Now to eat & off to bed

[3.14159]

[stui magpie]

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Colourbond 6x10 shed with a 6x4 "carport" which will be used as an entertaining area.

I used the timber sticks that the steel was strapped to, to make a potting table for the old girl. Timber top and a 1/2 inch steel mesh shelf half way down. Haven't got around to finishing it off yet, no hurry she can't get down there til the blokes come back to to the retaining wall.

I kept a lot of the hardwood when I demolished the old shed which was built in the 50's. Got a couple of big beams about 15x2" I reckon will make a great top for an outdoor table, got some redgum 5x5" posts for legs and a number of good lengths of redgum 4x2 to muck around with plus a few sheets of old rusty corrugated iron. Reckon I can make an outdoor bar with some of the iron and redgum.

[think positive]

[stui magpie]

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back yard is on a slope, had do dig into the house end so the slab is about 18 inches below ground level at that end. Need a retaining wall to stop the water flowing onto the slab when it rains and some steps so the old girl can get down there

[3.14159]

Sounds great!
I love working with re-cycled metals and timbers, particularly red-gum.

I'm in a smallish 2 room shack in the forest with an acute storage problem (my chainsaws are in the outside toilet FFS! ).
I'm planning to put a brick floor in the carport and and then wall it in with some local hardwood.

This is my latest effort at making furniture, a 1920's Singer Industrial sewing machine table I picked at a garage sale in Bermagui last month.
It's topped with a red-gum slab I milled before I moved up here.

ATM It's being used as a computer table.

[watt price tully]

Learning that today in history (1552) Magellan discovered straights is South America that bore his name.

What are the chances?

[David]

Ingmar's second birthday today. Time flies! We bought him a traintrack, a little plastic table that you can put sand and water into, a couple of Peppa Pig DVDs and, to quote Withnail & I, "a doll wot pisses itself". Will hopefully help with the toilet training.