The Great Outdoors

I held a management meeting with myself (and a couple of beers) and decided to concentrate on the outside whilst the temperature is still cool enough to work comfortably.  That said, I’m as brown as a berry having worked 12-hour days in the garden over the last few days where it’s been between 24C and 28C in the shade.  The greenhouse is like a sauna!  By comparison, inside my house, with it’s 50cm-thick walls, the temperature is a cool 14C.  So, the plumbing has been put to one side for June as I concentrate  on the  barn, the garden and the vegetable plot.

To ensure I don’t shatter my back or become robotic I multitask to the max; let’s take Friday as an example:

• 0630 A little gardening in the greenhouse and watering
• 0700 Measured and cut beams for the shed
• 0800 Sanded and stained the wood (above)
• 0845 Drove to the DIY super-centre to collect my ordered metal tube and angle-iron
• 1000 Got the angle-grinder arced-up and cut several pieces of metal
• 1030 Got the welder’s mask and gloves on and finished the heavy roller.
• 1145 Affixed my beams to the barn
• 1230 Planted sunflower seeds and installed more of my drip-system in the greenhouse.
• 1400 Turned over more soil with the motoblok
• 1500 Attached the roller to the motoblok and took it for a test run
• 1545 Tidied away
• 1610 Looked at the thermometer and decided it was too hot to carry on
• 1611 Opened a beer.

Cabbage, Radish, pumpkins, potatoes, beetroot. But for some reason it reminds me of driving along the Brookton Highway