Ribh's D'Coopage

[drumstick diva]

I'm wearing out too, discovered I can't lift 50 lb. bags of peat moss, etc.

 

[Ribh]

I'm wearing out too, discovered I can't lift 50 lb. bags of peat moss, etc.

We just dragged peat moss from the mainland. Ok, so we had a trolley. Just the same manhandling it out of the car onto the trolley & the whole caboodle on & off a boat & into another car just about did for both of us.

 

[Kris5902]

Well I always look at it as “I would rather do a little bit each day slowly, than do too much on one day and either injure myself or be so exhausted the next two days are needed to recouperate” granted sometimes you just can’t make that work... town days, big loads coming in, fun stuff like that. That’s why I nap on the ferry I’ve discovered I can sleep pretty much anywhere now. On a chair in the sun, a blanket in a clearing, or more often in the car and sitting mostly upright! Going to pick up dinner at the store? Of course I’ll come. Heated seats and “nap time” it is.

 

[Ribh]

Well I always look at it as “I would rather do a little bit each day slowly, than do too much on one day and either injure myself or be so exhausted the next two days are needed to recouperate” granted sometimes you just can’t make that work... town days, big loads coming in, fun stuff like that. That’s why I nap on the ferry I’ve discovered I can sleep pretty much anywhere now. On a chair in the sun, a blanket in a clearing, or more often in the car and sitting mostly upright! Going to pick up dinner at the store? Of course I’ll come. Heated seats and “nap time” it is.

lol yeah. I used to nap through my daughter's orchestra rehearsals. I was particularly fond of drum practice! People thought I was crazy. The barge is better than the boat for napping ~ fewer interuptions.

 

[Ribh]

It's been one of those days.
3 chooks
1 nesting box
0 eggs

I need the eggs girls. Dinner was *spiders*, honey & sesame carrots, pumpkin with cranberries & pine nuts & mint peas. Very yum. Now looking for icecream. I hope the blokes have left some...

 

[drumstick diva]

YES, ice cream is essential. It's not just for dessert anymore. I eat it at any time and often.

 

[Ribh]

As of now, I officially have no idea what we are doing ~ but we have done it!
Scorching hot here. No breeze @ all & our boundary pegs all seem to be missing making it rather difficult to decide just how much land we have. Good thing I'm not responsible for the math!

 

[Ribh]

After this morning's effort the man & I went to bed & slept for a couple of hours. The heat was punishing but this afternoon a little breeze sprang up so we finished off our base.This is all the cut up yellow box slabs. The end boxed area will hold a garden bed about 3' deep. Might be a bit more. The coop will start where the cross piece is this end & the nesting boxes will live where the jutting out pieces are. I will lift the Franjipani in the morning. The man will have to deal with the mango. It requires a chainsaw & I don't do dangerous tools.

Our biggest problem, after boundary pegs, was the chooks themselves. Honestly, the one thing I've learnt about chooks is that they are the biggest nosey~rosies out & they kept escaping the temporary pen to investigate what we were doing & why their pen had been moved under the iron barks. I got sooo cross with them. The slabs are hardwood & squashed chook I did not need.

Of course the other thing I didn't want was them heading straight out the front to the veggie garden. My beans are flowering. Carrots are up. Salad mix not far off a first picking & tomatoes going for their lives. They do not need chooks!

Our ply, which was supposed to arrive a week ago, got forgotten but hopefully will be here tomorrow, though we have all the framing timber ready to go & our wire is here. No ground predators, only hawks to watch so it will be roofed. And that last blue gum slab? That will make the front garden bed. It is a lovely rich red colour rather than the honey yellow of the box.

 

[MaryJanet]

The timber sounds lovely.

 

[Ribh]

The timber sounds lovely.

It's pretty filthy @ the moment but I think it will clean up nicely.