Ribh's D'Coopage

[Kris5902]

One of my grandfathers kept driving for a while after he hit the “legally blind” w/o glasses and not much better with them stage. It was terrifying, as license renewals are every 10 years and the optometrist doesn’t tell the motor vehicle branch about your diagnosis! I don’t think my vision has changed, it’s been pretty stable the last 10 years or so, but my right lense is so scratched up I need to replace them (just the one side, and I don’t know how it happened!)

Sorry about the rains, but they will pass and you can get on with the building when you can. It’s just not worth trying to work in foul weather... you get wet and miserable, then frustrated and make mistakes. I am, of course, getting beautiful weather, which is completely wasted in the city, and the traffic and people are unbearable! I wonder how I lived like this for so long. I’m not even driving I’m on public transit and it’s get to me!

 

[Ribh]

One of my grandfathers kept driving for a while after he hit the “legally blind” w/o glasses and not much better with them stage. It was terrifying, as license renewals are every 10 years and the optometrist doesn’t tell the motor vehicle branch about your diagnosis! I don’t think my vision has changed, it’s been pretty stable the last 10 years or so, but my right lense is so scratched up I need to replace them (just the one side, and I don’t know how it happened!)

Sorry about the rains, but they will pass and you can get on with the building when you can. It’s just not worth trying to work in foul weather... you get wet and miserable, then frustrated and make mistakes. I am, of course, getting beautiful weather, which is completely wasted in the city, and the traffic and people are unbearable! I wonder how I lived like this for so long. I’m not even driving I’m on public transit and it’s get to me!

For ages the islands weren't policed so most of the cars were unregistered & many of the drivers unlicensed & you sorta got to know which cars to run from but our closest neighbour got to the dangerous stage. He started seeing double [&triple] so couldn't tell which car was the real one & would drive straight @ you when common sense should have told him, when in doubt, pull over to the left ~ because we drive on the left.

Every time I get my glasses changed they want to know how I can see out of them [my driving glasses are different, hardly ever worn & in much better condition!] I need them for any close up work so, you know, paint & dirt & fertilizer & you get used to the smudges...

Well, I am happy to have rain but the new chickens will be here in 10 days & they don't have a home yet!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Oh wow! Well that’s a way to get it done for sure!! Cuz it’s not like your getting babies that you can put in a tub for awhile

Well, we are on hold for a bit too.. waiting on the hardware cloth to come in.. so hubs took this opportunity to go fishing this weekend.. two of my boys and a friend of hubs are going as well.. we have a hunting and fishing camp so they’ll stay over ... but prolly come back late Sat. cuz supposed to rain on Sun.
We should make a bet.. who gets done first

 

[Ribh]

Oh wow! Well that’s a way to get it done for sure!! Cuz it’s not like your getting babies that you can put in a tub for awhile

Well, we are on hold for a bit too.. waiting on the hardware cloth to come in.. so hubs took this opportunity to go fishing this weekend.. two of my boys and a friend of hubs are going as well.. we have a hunting and fishing camp so they’ll stay over ... but prolly come back late Sat. cuz supposed to rain on Sun.
We should make a bet.. who gets done first

This morning was dry ~ but the rain is starting to come in again. The girls are acting stir crazy. My broodies gave it up as a poor job now it's cooling off & when let out promptly pushed down one barricade & headed to the neighbours. I got them before they went under that fence but then they went 1/2 way down the hill before herding onto the verandah to eyeball me through the glass door. Not sure what they want. *sigh* I spent my morning grubbing out nut grass & kykuya thanks to our stupid council who think all road verges should be grassed. Why? Surface feeder, water heavy. The stuff should be illegal in this country!And it is sooo damn hard to eradicate! I'm tired & crotchety. Doing jobs I shouldn't have to do because of someone else's stupidity makes me like that. I can do enough stupid of my own. I hate poison but I am slowly doing the whole verge. We'll leave a path & plant the rest. Much better!

 

[Ribh]

The rain has seriously set in. I have been trying to do little jobs in between the showers: Like moving these bird baths. They were further back under the Murraya but John moved his stags & they were in the way. I think my levels need adjusting again but these are our oldest bird baths & the little birds love them ~ & they loved the position so I didn't want to move them too far. They have plenty of shelter & perches

Then I dragged John out to shove a couple of screws in this bed for me because I'm getting tetchy. My pick up date is looming & we cannot make progress ~ though I'm sure Beautiful Chickens will hold my birds for me if I ask. However I want them here!

Next break in the weather the rosemary is going in the ground! Not wasting all this lovely rain! Last downpour our council went mad & handed out sandbags even though we don't flood & our neighbour nabbed 1/2 a dozen ~ & offered John some. John has no use for them but I got one & may ask for a 2nd for the dust bathing girls.

As a rule chooks & gardens aren't a terribly good mix so I have been racking my brains [yes, it hurts ] trying to figure out how I can get some shrubbery in the pen without the girls completely destroying it before it establishes because they absolutely love getting under my shell ginger or Moreton Bay Fig ~ both of which are very well established & immune to the ravages of my hens. I've had 2 ideas so far: the first is to plant in an old tire ~ only we took all our old tires to the tip not so long ago but the other thing we have plenty of lying about is leftover bricks from the house & I was thinking if I covered the root system it might just work. I have some grevillias & bottlebrush that need a home...

 

[WhoDatChick]

That’s all so wonderful! I am NOT good at plants.. I like to put things that do not need any follow up .. or too much organization.. I like to just.. put.. and leave.
I am making a yard for the gals and it has some new trees that I planted.. a Sycamore and a Weeping Willow.. that is what I was gonna do.. put some stepping stones around the base of the trees.. hoping that’ll work..

 

[Ribh]

That’s all so wonderful! I am NOT good at plants.. I like to put things that do not need any follow up .. or too much organization.. I like to just.. put.. and leave.
I am making a yard for the gals and it has some new trees that I planted.. a Sycamore and a Weeping Willow.. that is what I was gonna do.. put some stepping stones around the base of the trees.. hoping that’ll work..

Yeah. I can't actually put natives in the pen. Too much phosphorus in the manure or something & it'll kill them. John is against ginger which is hardy so I'm not sure... thinking some more. I think I need chocolate...

 

[Ribh]

So each day I have been checking the coop to see if it is doing what I hoped it would: deep enough to keep the weather out. As we haven't sealed it yet there are obvious leakage problems but apart from the 1st 6" or so @ the front the coop has stayed dry & warm. Yay!

However I wasn't up for much for dinner. Mushroom stroganoff on toast with salad ~ & even that took sheer will power.

 

[WhoDatChick]

Yeah. I can't actually put natives in the pen. Too much phosphorus in the manure or something & it'll kill them. John is against ginger which is hardy so I'm not sure... thinking some more. I think I need chocolate...

Yea, chocolate fixes everything!! Or cake!!!... Yep, I’ll take cake

 

[WhoDatChick]

You mentioned Bottlebrush..
Mine that line the front drive...