Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Mild here this morning with a bit of drizzle, but possibly a day to get materials and saw blades etc to finish the roofing.

Like choille & lir, we are seeing quite a prolonged moult here, but the new birds are looking promising for some eggs next month. Once they're wormed, they'll go in with the others in the new hen house.

Cockerel stew eh, choille? In theory I'd be up for it, but the reality is that my brain's saying something else. I guess I'm still just a smallholding virgin! :o

alfie_1

morning..........
its piddling down here too
my lawn [haha trades description act :eek:] is just a mud pool...:(
i got out yesterday and forked it all over to try and help drain it but trouble is there is a natural underground line to the ditch over the back, but that is FULL so nowhere for it to go now... in 8 yrs ive never seen the ditch so full! i may go for a treck in the woods to check the line of the ditch itself isnt blocked somewhere ... another welly boot job ! i know winters enroute when my wellies look like "monsters from the deep" on the doorstep...:o

i am still waiting for the rather expensive coat i bought :mad: i contacted the seller and they said they would "try" to post saturday or SUNDAY ??? ..... i can understand a once a week posting for people in remote areas but this lady isnt ...:mad:
if its not what she stated then i will spit feathers...

talking feathers, that "really lovely,close to my heart,adorable" c*ckeral of mine decided to crow all through the night AGAIN...
it was on the pitch of the outside brick shed so at 2am , in my dressing gown in the piddling rain resembled a contestant in "the cube" by aiming various objects at said fella to SHUT HIM UP.. needless to say he sat there watching me [crowing]with an obvious disconcern at my accuracy...:o in a frantic last ditch effort i hurled a besom broom like an olympic medal was awaiting for me and hitting my target ,launched said bird into the nearest tree....leaving my broom like a see saw sat on the pitch of the roof....
he was as quiet as a mouse after that

ive now got to get broom down

alfie_1

LIR....when do u want these ere curtains ? i have got [if i can find] some plain cream roller blinds , aprox 2-3ft wide, from friend. may help keep cold out on windows with drafts ? but curtains ive found and can drop to you friday ? or the weekend but i think you said you were busy this weekend..

CTC....whilst your sat [working hard] by your fire in your office can you contemplate taking some pics of your good blankets, PM me, i can show friend tomorow and let you know which/if she likes and let me know proper price for em....

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR....when do u want these ere curtains ? i have got [if i can find] some plain cream roller blinds , aprox 2-3ft wide, from friend. may help keep cold out on windows with drafts ? but curtains ive found and can drop to you friday ? or the weekend but i think you said you were busy this weekend..

CTC....whilst your sat [working hard] by your fire in your office can you contemplate taking some pics of your good blankets, PM me, i can show friend tomorow and let you know which/if she likes and let me know proper price for em....

This weekend we are puppy visiting. Can you hang on to them for four weeks? Then when you visit he will be here and you can meet your god puppy.

I don't think the blinds will fit any of out windows.

I hope to find fabric and knuckle down to make blinds and curtains for the kitchen over winter (probably after Christmas now though) and the study.

Last time I made roman blinds I got the calculations all backwards and made them so they were tiered not nice and neat

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

This weekend we are puppy visiting. Can you hang on to them for four weeks? Then when you visit he will be here and you can meet your god puppy.

I don't think the blinds will fit any of out windows.

I hope to find fabric and knuckle down to make blinds and curtains for the kitchen over winter (probably after Christmas now though) and the study.

Last time I made roman blinds I got the calculations all backwards and made them so they were tiered not nice and neat

:j:j:j oh, ok ,if i must.....;)

lostinrates

Also, I think digger man is coming in before then, and will get that ruddy forsythia out and I can get dh to help me bag up the roots to keep it happy and then you can have it and I can be free of it!

The pyrocantha I hate even I admit looks great t this time of year, I don't think we can get that this time, but that's got your name on it if you want it in the future?

Also, I think our cuttings of the Albertine rose have worked, you are welcome to a few if you want them? It's a thug, but a beautiful thug in early summer.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

OK its 3.40pm and havent done a single fleabay item:mad:

today has gone nowhere fast VERY FAST!!!!

and to top it all one of the boys in work damaged a wing mirror while out doing pick ups and the owner seen it:mad:

Right going to see if i can get at least one item on fleabay tonight..

Alfie... what type does she like? will have a route around tomorrow and take some pics... the light is getting crap now, so dont think the pics will be any good if I take them now...

Also booked space in a vintage fair for 2 weeks time....so need to start getting stock ready for that too, booked a double space ( 5 rails) worth of clobber to get ready:eek::D

alfie_1

ive sorted my back room and found various bits to bay...but ive also filled my spare bedroom so's even the cat is struggling to get to her seat in there....:o

took some hay down to the hoss's im minding and still cant decide wether to rug the old one....still looking good so dont want to put on too early...dilema...:cool:

i have 5 airport runs this month...:eek: hate having to drive delux cars.....:rotfl::rotfl:

its drizzled ALL day today..:(
took my ma & pa's dog to the kennels..they are off again for a 5 day coach trip...:) hope im as gung ho as them in my 80s

my mum cooked me a big lump of ham...yum yum.. so tonite is ham,egg and chips ....

bit of a no interest day today...:(

RAS

What a contrast in the last two days!

Yesterday started cool (put the bodywarmer on before going out the north door) and then the sun came out. Ended up on the plot stripped to in a vest-type T-shirt at 3pm.

Today started cool and overcast and I thought the sun would burn the cloud off and it just got colder. Apparently brilliant sunshine over on the coast but I suspect the east winds were interesting.

Getting adark early and will be even darker soon.

Davesnave

It didn't rain properly till after lunch here, so I got a bit more roof up and discovered my big angle grinder would cut sheets of corrugated iron three at a time.....

Then it was off to Mole Valley for our chook pellets and some bits of wood. It was very quiet in there, and dry, so DW found a nice man and he picked out some wood to make a gate. I normally won't buy huge pieces over 15' long, but I had the time & space to think and cut them up into manageable chunks. So, that saved a 20 mile round trip to our other wood source.

Back here at the ranch we have a puzzle; black water the same as we had earlier from the other person's septic tank, but this time it's ours, popping up where I know the drainage field is.:eek:

"Oh" I thought, "that will be a problem in our tank, or more likely the neighbours'" (they share the same outfall.) But when I lifted the outflow lid....nothing weird. There's a fair bit of water passing out, but it's clear. In our tank it looks normal with a nice healthy crust on the top. However, the neighbours' tank looks 'dead' with no crust, so I'm wondering if that's the problem. I have no experience, but I think they may have used too much bleach etc and killed their good bacteria....:(

Oh well, when a tank needs need emptying, apparently we have them both done and split the bill, so I guess that's the next move. 39 months isnt bad, but I bet if it was just us we could go for 5 years!

Love the c0ck & broom story, alfie! :rotfl: