Microwave rescue - Part 3

Back home from shopping along with this picnic plate 

Microwave rescue - Part 2

Started working on putting together a turntable.

Found a plate that does fit in there but I suspect it needs to be bit smaller, I'll keep looking.

Microwave rescue - Part 1

Collected this microwave from across the road during our annual waste collection.

Goodbye Pixie (2009 - 2022)

Yesterday was a very sad day for us, we had to say goodbye to Pixie our beautiful mini pin. She has been doing quite well coping with Cushing's disease. Sadly was also recently diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Her big companion left her last year but now they are together again - RIP's

The house is empty now, she is the last of our indoor pets.

At the vet with Pixie.

She is not well and we are worried :-(

 

Madras beef curry-

 Also cooked basmati rice

Using for the first time this Kmart stock pot.

Laminar flow water jet - revisited

Cleaning up around the garden shed and came across this water feature that's been neglected for the last 8 years - time flies!
 

The special hand-made brass nozzle jet that allows for undisturbed water flow - is missing! I just made another simplified nozzle jet from a steel washer; countersunk, ground and then polished. See my blog link at the end for the 2014 project build.

External HDD to USB

Arrived today refurbished Seagate 500GB SATA III for $14.50

Blank drive no partition so hung it off the workshop PC.

Partitioned and format OK so that's a good start LOL

See end of post for details.

Need another bail of hay

We took a nostalgic trip today to Discount Animal Supplies in Lysterfield. The trip brought back many memories of when we did horses for over 20 years - Crikey. At one point we even agisted our horses just down the road from DAS.

This trip was simply to buy a bail of straw and cracked maize for our one and only chook - Speckles.

All the rest have crossed the road and gone over that bridge RIP.

Usually I get hay but this time went for straw.

Japanese Spitz - Part 5 Photos

 

Batman LE update

My Facebook followers (if any) may be wondering why my HERBERT Batman posting abruptly ended? Near completion during a spot check the bloody RF controller died!
Ordered a couple of replacements from China with delivery due in September but hey...they arrived yesterday - yay.



Finished a customer job yesterday so we can get straight onto this again.

Japanese Spitz - Part 5

We ended the last session by glueing the doggie onto the back board and here we are next day for what should be the last session.

Japanese Spitz - Part 4

We finished the last session glueing the back frame onto the backboard which was left to dry overnight.

Japanese Spitz - Part 3

From the last session we glued the inner frame and left it to dry overnight.

Now we can remove that and take it outside for spray painting.

Japanese Spitz - Part 2

 

During my Brandon Park shopping trip this morning also got the  A4 photo frame for this job.

In the first session I cut the four pine strips for the internal frame and here we are measuring and cutting to fit the inside of the main photo frame.

Japanese Spitz - Part 1

 Customer order came in yesterday for a doggie night light.

Sent a few mock-up's for approval and this is what she picked.

Look what I found!

 

View from kitchen window this evening.

 

Workshop CCTV system repairs

The workshop CCTV system needs attention, the DVR will not recognize the HDD.

I purchased a DVR recorder off eBay which arrived in good time.

Al's Kitchen - what's cooking?

ALDI cast iron cookware, just the lid needs two hands to lift off lol.