Good morning Speckles-

Weather is getting really cold so setup the entry foyer to bring her in - as needed.

Workshop bench storage - part 2

 From the last session with the right support screwed down we can now focus on the left shelf support.

This is where we finished session 1.

We need to carefully measure and mark the location of that left end support.

Workshop bench storage - part 1

 

Replacing the electronics/electrical workbench top storage shelf which was simply a length of fence paling timber.

Mobile phones - over the years.

 

All those manufactures have disappeared.

Speckles pruning herself

Speckles pruning herself in the sunshine under the lemon tree after her lunch feed of corn & rice.

Possum dray camera - part 1

Doing some research to see if we can mount a camera to view the inside of the dray.

I don't think this camera will be suitable but it only costs $15.

DIY Garden Edging - part 4 final

Waited all morning for the sun to come out which it did around midday - let's get out there.

Below is a photo of the finished job.

Hang on... why is left stake inside the edging and the right one outside?

The stakes are offset? They (the council contractors) had a problem with the right stake so just snapped it off at ground level and just banged in another one to the right of that.

DIY Garden Edging - part 3

Nice sunny day so let's paint the edging.

Preparing to start painting.

DIY Garden Edging - part 2

Clamped two lengths of pine to the work bench to keep everything straight and level for stapling down the coat hanger wire.

DIY Garden Edging - part 1

This is the 3rd time I am replacing the 'treated' pine edging purchased from Bunnings.

Back in 2019 council contractors cut down our lovely nature strip tree, apparently it was infected?

Just needed a spray on one branch.

Kitchen cast iron cookware

Shoppers rush to get their hands on Kmart's stylish new $30 cast iron pot - and it looks JUST like the Le Creuset version that costs $450

I have quite a collection from the ALDI Crofton range, maybe to many and recently gifted my older daughter the Cast Iron French Pan

Possum Dray - Oops

Forgot to include a emergency exit - back door!

If a cat, fox, snake or whatever knocks on the front door there's no way for them to escape!

Possum Dray - part 5 final

Ready to put out so now we wait and keep checking for a empty drey. Last year they vacated in July.

Workshop - MDF storage unit.

Making a MDF storage unit to store these hand tools.

Al's YouTube Channel-

My 'Turning fence palings into dressed timber clip 1' got over 9000 views

Note: My main reason for using YouTube is because my basic WordPress paid account does not allow for direct video uploads to wordpress.com - they need to be hosted on some other external site.

When I want to post videos to my WordPress blog I first upload to YouTube then grab the embed code and past that into my blog post using Open Live Writer.

Possum dray - part 4

From the last session we are ready to cover the top basket with shade mesh. My main reason for doing this is to prevent or at least curtail attempts by birds to nick the coco to add their own nesting material collection.

Working my way around to evenly fold and hold with clips.

Possum dray - part 3

Did not get much done in Part 2 so here my cold hands spent more time out of the pockets - doing stuff.


From part 2 we can now remove that centre wire.

Possum dray - part 2

As posted bought two of these wire baskets with coco lining from ALDI.

Possum dray - part 1

While plodding through ALDI Scoresby this afternoon came across these hanging baskets @ five bucks each - grabbed two.

Camera photos backup

Besides the usual Win10 backup I also do a manual file copy to USB HDD using the DOS XCOPY command.

Started taking digital photos way back in 1998 with the purchase of a Agfa ePhoto 1680 Digital Camera. Was expensive something like $1,600 bucks!

Auto fill/recycle bird bath–alterations

The birdbath is close to the workshop so decided to do away with the car battery and bring all the electrics inside and run from a 12V power supply. Loosing light and then had a double injury to the right wrist so we'll have to come back in the morning - that's fine.

Running a 12V power cable in some old electrical conduit into the workshop.

Speckles - headless chook