The long awaited Echunga camp-out had finally came around. After a previous Yabbie expedition to Alex’s dad’s 1000 acre property in February we thought we’d try our hand at Yabbie hunting once more. This time around the kids from Zynke Design, Hegs Pegs and Productive Garden Co joined us. It was a stunningly beautiful spring day. Sunny, green fields, cows, sheeps and plenty of dams to choose from. Our hopes were high, the dams were full and we prayed to the Cherax…
A long weekend! Starting at 7.00am Saturday with a visit to Bunnings to get compressed cement sheet and pre-mix concrete before Ben (renderer dude)’s arrival. The day ticked along with the measuring, cutting and placement of the Hebel slab, followed by cutting and placement of the cement sheet. Whilst I swore like a sailor building the formwork, Ben (Grub) worked on the first coat of render for the oven stand. Finally at 2.00pm I’d finished one section of formwork and…
The week started with a day by day block laying challenge. I promised myself to stack a layer each day after work. Doesn’t sound like much – but with limited time and sunshine after work it was a good goal. By Thursday night I was done, next operation was core filling madness. Up early to visit my new friends at Kennards Hire at 7.00am to get myself a cement mixer for this morning’s efforts. Next stop was Forster’s to purchase…
Heading home for lunch today I spied that half the street was closed. A tree-lopping crew were busy taking down a Queensland Box Tree on our street. Im not sure if the recent storms had shaken it from it’s foundation or whether it had become rotten. I certainly didn’t notice it being sick. After a tasty steak for lunch I drove past the crew as they were finishing up. They had kinly cut all the limbs and trunk into pieces…
