Summer Storms

I love summer storm season.  There is something fun about the gradual build up of pressure ending in a burst of welcome rain and thunder.  Of course, like many things I like there is a down side... 

Another tree flattened a fence that we are yet to clean up.  Given it was marked to be pulled up this isn't so bad, but still annoying.  

I guess Mother Nature just likes to remind us she is in charge around here!

The Great Wall

The Mr has been busy out in the workshop.   

He has framed up some walls and put in a few interesting angles. 

 He has also reinforced some sections.

He bought a lot of 19mm ply, drilled a lot of holes and then we painted it.

The colour is Gooseberry Fool.  I like it.

Cant wait to show off the finished project!

Jobs done

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The former rabbit shed is now empty of anything rabbit related and being used as a feed room.  It is a big improvement as far as the shed is concerned and I love having somewhere stock proof and weather proof to put the feed.

The recent rains have made a few jobs move up on the 'to do' list.  The carport had ridge capping on the roof, but it was only held down by telecom rope and it had slipped to one side and let all the rain fall in.

The Mr soon found the reason why, the original beams had too big a spread on them for there to be anything to screw into, so he added another row as seen in the below photo.

Worked a treat, and now the ridge capping in screwed down as it should be.

More improvements made!

Rabbit Shed

Once upon a time someone here bred rabbits in a serious way.  Not us, we don't even own one, so we are ripping everything out of this shed so we can use it to store the load of hay I just bought.

It seals well and has a good door on it which makes it a handy storage space.

Before and After ~ The Wood Shed

It is fun showing before and after photos, it makes me feel like we are getting somewhere!

We moved the shed forward, tossed out the junk and attacked the leaf litter with the rake. 

It is a much better wood shed now.

Before and After ~ The Shed

A lot of things on our block need work, and some of it is little stuff, and some of it big stuff.

This is big stuff I think so it feels good to have it done.

We took advantage of the Mr's folks coming up for a visit and while I had a babysitter on hand and my Father in-law to help with the hard work we cleaned out this shed before the scrap man came.

We pulled the iron off the front to open up all the bays, we cleaned the rubbish out, burned the piles of wood and cleaned everything up.  We took a large load to the tip and the scrap men took a lot.

It feels good to have a shed we can use properly, and it looks a lot better too.