Usually a day or two of slackness is followed by a period of frenetic activity as I get restless with the sitting around, and just have to "do stuff"!!
As we live on a large block, a lot of our trees drop leaves, bark and branches in the heat, making a mess and creating an extra fire hazard.
So, with the assistance of my wife for an hour or two one day, then one of my sons, Will, for the next two days we really cleaned the place up.
This was all done on extremely hot days, so I only snaffled them for assistance early in the morning then 'released them' before it got too warm, while I continued on relentlessly like a blowfly in a bottle, because once I get started I just have to keep going regardless until the job is done.
The yard looked tremendous two days ago when we finished, but now looks a bit different after Bendigo copped a severe soaking this afternoon. We were lucky as we had cleaned spouts etc, but in town there was major flooding.
Looks like some cleaning up again next week...
Just after the clean up on Wednesday
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This afternoon after a deluge.
Holidays also mean that my wife, Jen, likes to begin odd jobs around the house. The trouble at times is that while she likes to begin them, I often end up having to finish them! (But not always)
These holidays I was told that we were going to redo our ensuite. Great!!
Jen got the ball rolling by removing six tiles from the floor that came up easily, but then noticed that the rest were going to be a bit more difficult.
I took this as my invitation to get the rest done.
So, two and a half days later all of the tiles are off, the shower screen is gone and new waterproof sheeting and backing has been installed. This was all done mind you in temperatures of 35 plus degrees, and working in that confined space was equivalent to a sauna.
I did manage to take the skin off almost every knuckle in the process, and a few tiles fell and put a slice in my leg that resulted in a trip to the hospital.
However, we are past the halfway mark now and she has started to lay tiles. After a day staying away from this job I think I am back on deck again tomorrow.
Our two boys are hoping we get it done asap as they don't really like sharing their toilet and bathroom with us!!
Chipping away in the shower (more like a sauna)
The wounds of work!
As far as I know there are no other major jobs in the pipeline, but that could change as soon as we finish this job!!!!
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