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echnidna
10th October 2004, 05:49 PM
Well I logged on here this morning for a little while.
As I looked at the great day outside I decided to logoff and go and make sawdust.
This is a woodie forum so why haven't some you spent a nice day making sawdust??
simon c
10th October 2004, 06:23 PM
Well I logged on here this morning for a little while.
As I looked at the great day outside I decided to logoff and go and make sawdust.
This is a woodie forum so why haven't some you spent a nice day making sawdust??
Twisted my ankle digging a trench at 11am. Been on the sofa watching movies all day.
bitingmidge
10th October 2004, 06:25 PM
Bathurst
B A T H urst!
Apart from that, sat on the beach for coffee early, read a book on photoshop, bought some stuff for lunch, washed both the cars (first time in ages), sat in front of tele reading the paper, another book, and doing the annual sharpening thing..gave up after one plane blade, did a spot of riverbank amelioration, played some music, logged on here a couple of times, now I'm going to tidy up the shed so next weekend I can do stuff!!
(Watched about 2/3 of the race, but missed the finish!)
First time I can remember just vegging for a whole day this year!.
Cheers,
P
Grunt
10th October 2004, 07:07 PM
Sadly the garden needs so much work that I spent the whole weekend moving pavers, digging a trench, moving soil, mixing concrete and laying edging for a garden bed. I enjoy gardening and landscaping but damn it's hard work. I'm a broken man. Sitting in front of a computer for 8-10 hours a day for a living does nothing for getting you fit to do shovelling etc.
I should of had Ozwinner over to do the work for me. He's getting them poofy junkyard hands and probably needs to toughen them up a bit.
Next weekend, I'll finish the edging and then lay some pavers for a garden shed. I'm going to build the shed out of wood, with a high pitched roof and weather boards. At least it'll involve cutting bits of wood up.
Grunt
ozwinner
10th October 2004, 07:57 PM
sat on the beach for coffee early,
P
I can just see you sitting on the beach in your boxers sipping a latte. :eek: :D
Al
ernknot
10th October 2004, 08:46 PM
My woodwork today consisted of carting a few barrow loads of fire wood and putting this into the wood shed. Then finished off acouple of wooden fly screen for the kitchen window ( they turned out quite nice actually) Waited for Robby to turn up with his bobcat to move some dirt from the back of the other shed to level the ground for two extra 3500 gallon tanks. Finished off setting up the treated pine sleepers for the vegy patch. Now need to cart the left over dirt from the tank site and put in vegy patch. Chased out a stray calf which was trampling the garden. The people who claimed the animal were not nice and belted the crap out of a very tired and scared young animal. Robby with the bobcat told me saw five guys around a ute loading the beast on and it appeared dead. Very sad when people have no feeling for stock.
ozwinner
10th October 2004, 09:05 PM
I should of had Ozwinner over to do the work for me. He's getting them poofy junkyard hands and probably needs to toughen them up a bit.
GruntIts surpiseing how quickly you turn into a poof.
Must be 2 months since I done any real work, and if I try to do things like " ( insert granpa's voice here )I used to back in the old days ", I get buggered real quick.
So today I drove to Rochester ( 1.5 hours each way ) to check out a clearing sale.
I was there for 5 minutes, what a waste of time, and drove back to work. :(
Such is life. :D
Al
bitingmidge
10th October 2004, 09:07 PM
I can just see you sitting on the beach in your boxers sipping a latte.
With your foily on, you're not supposed to be able to read minds!!! :eek: :eek:
How close were you?
A well worn pair of Okanui Boardshorts, and a flat white.
:D :D :D
P
ozwinner
10th October 2004, 09:10 PM
Poor bastard, you got legs like me. :eek: :D :o
Al
ernknot
10th October 2004, 09:12 PM
I've seen better legs on a card table!!
craigb
10th October 2004, 09:34 PM
Why wasn't I making sawdust?
Two words. Yard work :(
I HATE gardening.
bitingmidge
10th October 2004, 10:01 PM
I've seen better legs on a card table!!
The pic shows my boardies lying on the card table!!!
:D
P
silentC
11th October 2004, 11:22 AM
I was busy trying to cover up the traces of our campsite in the Mimosa Rocks National Park before the nasty parky found us.
jackiew
11th October 2004, 11:23 AM
spent part of the morning potting up my haul from my morning walk ... all those lovely plants hanging enticingly through people's fences and over their walls into the public domain.
Local bye-laws say that you can't have stuff overhanging the footpath.
Technically I understand that the bits are still the householder's and after doing my civic duty and cutting them off I'm supposed to throw them back over their fence but so far no irate householder has challenged me as the snippings accidentally drop into the plastic bag that happened to be under them :)
Alastair
11th October 2004, 02:38 PM
I was spoilt.
Spent the whole weekend at Woodturn 2004. Great demos from great turners, some chat, some ideas from the Instant Gallery---- good value.
The downside is I'll be in the garden next weekend :mad: :mad:
TassieKiwi
11th October 2004, 04:25 PM
We took delivery of our new camper trailer - had 3 other customers come to our place to collect thiers, so Sat. was very festive. The bloke who makes them delivered it with a mate, and we invited them back for lunch on Sunday. Very pleasant conversation and several bots of yummy wine enjoyed by all. Tried out my new mujinfang smoother too - ripper.
Den
LineLefty
11th October 2004, 05:23 PM
Quite a variety of excuses there, gardening seems to be the main one though. Bring back the italian lawn I say.
I spent the day trying to get some sleep routines going for 5 week old baby, but I 've crapped on about that enough.
There does seem to be a three way paradox going on here though. I've hardely been in the shed in the last 5 weeks, and when I did manage it, copped it from SWMBO, yet in that time she's asked for 4 or 5 new projects!
Sheesh!
Sturdee
11th October 2004, 05:36 PM
Saturday and Sunday morning in the shed french polishing and in the afternoon at some rellies for a bbq. Very relaxing weekend.
Peter.
Zed
11th October 2004, 07:15 PM
gardening. good hard yakka. enjoyed myself - then jumped in the pool with the missus.
ozwinner
11th October 2004, 08:54 PM
then jumped the missus in the pool.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
You frisky monkey you.
Al :D
E. maculata
11th October 2004, 08:59 PM
There does seem to be a three way paradox going on here though. I've hardely been in the shed in the last 5 weeks, and when I did manage it, copped it from SWMBO, yet in that time she's asked for 4 or 5 new projects!
Sheesh!
Get used to it mate, lines like you've been in that #$@ shed all week and where's the new ...............(insert whatever project seems important this week) when all you've done is returned tools, she took into the house!