G’day! Well… I hadn’t finished whinging about how sore I was from yesterdays efforts, when we put in quite the day in the garden today!
Cousin Jeff came over with his two bigger chainsaws and his skills and really helped us make enormous progress!
I did the spray painting – the aim there is to get a reasonable sized log for the fire – moved logs over to Jeff (Husband Jeff) and cleared up, chopped and burned lots of scraps.
Husband Jeff did a massive amount of wood splitting! Clearly he was getting in touch with his Canadian Lumberjack self.
By the end of the day we had unearthed the crushed raised bed
A couple of months back:
Check out the beautiful grain in this timber! Smells really good too!
Poor Gate! Still feel bad for Husband Jeff as he did such a wonderful job of installing it!
Cousin Jeff managed to get a lot further than we expected him to be able to, given the size of the lower part of the trunk. He has done a brilliant job!
Husband Jeff is aiming to split all these huge pieces before I get ‘ideas’ and start using words like ‘Garden Feature’ ‘Planters’ and ‘Rustic Seats’
I spent a lot of the day hand chopping branches and keeping the fire going. We burned a lot more today. Phew – didn’t I smell smokey by the days end!
Pretty proud of Husband Jeff – when he first moved to Australia he was definitely a City Boy
His beautiful smooth nurse hands have been somewhat ruined tho!
A lot of work right there!! (Remains to be seen if the Millars can walk tomorrow!! Haha)
A couple of months ago:
Such a tangled mess! Now at least we are seeing real progress and now that Cousin Jeff has made short work of the bigger pieces, we can make a lot more headway ourselves.
One issue we have to really attend to is the chooks!! The very second I had walked out of the veggie patch, they were right into that uncovered broken bed scratching it up!!
We had to make a new fence to a restricted area for them as its too easy for them to hop over the logs and out… either into my garden or up to the other side of the yard where we risk them getting onto the highway.
And our new girls are USELESS at going where you want them to go. The others follow or herd quite well. These ones are lunatics!
They are not pleased and are doing the Velociraptor thing and checking the boundary for weaknesses.
I did some very very dodgy work
Wings will need clipping and I will fix this travesty tomorrow.
Smarty pants brown chook got straight back into the veggie patch somehow!
I was just driving off to the supermarket and there she was, bold as brass, digging up one of the raised beds!!
Sigh.
I have started also raking up parts of the vegetable patch to pick up as much tree debris as possible before weeding and digging.
I might get a garden this season…
Well… its time for me to trot off (or perhaps hobble) to bed!
Hope everyone has had a wonderful day and has had to lift far less wood than me!
Cheers
What a mess that tree has left! I bet you will be happy to have that cleared up. I guess the good thing about it is you will have lots of firewood for next season (assuming the wood is safe to burn in your stove).
It certainly is a bit of an unexpected challenge… and yes, we can burn it but will have to mix it with other wood as it burns quite hot! Plus I get a garden revamp!! š
Lisa, good on you and the two Jeffs for accomplishing so much in a short time. Things are really looking good in your neck of the woods. I am on the opposite end of things trying to get things trimmed and tidied up before winter. Seems I am never done but I am a work force of only one. Chores go much easier with more hands to help. I love reading your posts, keep up the good work. Best to you and Jeff.
Thanks Teresa! Little by little!! I agree… I think I really do work better when I have an extra set of hands. I focus better! Well done for having the motivation to get through yours… I suppose really we are never ‘done’ !!! Always plenty on the list but it keeps life interesting! Enjoy the cleaning up and bedding everything down before winter! I will try to keep up with all the sunny day posts for you!
Splitting wood, brings back many memories to me. My parents built a house and located it such that the least number of trees would have to be cut down. Still, there were many cut. Summers during college, I was so smart then that every thing my father said was wrong! I’d take out my father frustrations splitting wood. Don’t think he ever learned why I split so much wood those summers. And he never had to split rounds again after either! And yes, I did learn to not think I was smarter than my father. With everything going in this world, would love to talk to him about it, but now it’s a one-way conversation, not very satisfying.
Having a little chuckle about why your wood splitting skills were so good!! We knew soooo much when we were young! Funny to look back and shake our heads at ourselves! I am sorry you can’t have that conversation with your Dad. I am so lucky to still have my folks around to hang out with – even if its just online or via the phone!
I am debating about learning to split the wood. Sometimes I am content with not learning some things – I think I have enough on my plate at the moment and Jeff seems to be rather enjoying himself!! š
Wow, that looks so much better. You must be knackered!
We certainly felt it that night and the next day!! Still.. nothing majorly ruined, just sore so thats not bad!
Such a busy day you both had. Hope your bodies are feeling ok today. xxoo
Never ending here Judy! No time to be bored! š We were a bit sore but we didn’t do anything bad like pull muscles or anything, so thats good. Lots still to do but there is light at the end of that tunnel!!