Hello!! It was definitely an outside day today!!
Jeff got in and started the bonfire back up – I started working out the fine nuances of using a chipper!
Happily I can start it up myself (its got a heavy pull rope start) so I won’t have to wait for hefty men to appear to get it going for me! Bonus!
I do have to spend time making a suitably large pile of branches that will go through the chipper – a lot are just too twisted and tangled. The little clusters of ‘pine cone balls’ often need to be chopped off too.
Then its worth starting her up to put them through.
Some of it comes out not so fine but it will do the job I want it to do – namely first put it on all the garden pathways.
Next time I will put down a tarp as it spreads far and wide and is a pain to rake up – along with rocks and other sticks! Will also put a sheet of iron down where the chips fly out so the tarp doesn’t shred.
Hopefully it will all trample down fine and break down nicely.
Photo below is a bit dodgy but the capsicums look nice!! š
The fire pit is falling apart as well as filling up!!
OK – remember large long pile of branches against the back fence?? (Actually it got bigger than this)
Today we’ve whittled that down quite a lot.
It gives us a little hope that we won’t be here three months cleaning up part one!!!
Anyway, I am sure the fire is still happily smouldering away down the back!
Jeff has gone to bed and I am sitting here avoiding getting up – because lots of me hurts again! Its pretty annoying the creaks you get when you get a little older. I didn’t think I worked that hard today – certainly not carrying around the heavy wood like before. Sigh!!
Anyway, hope everyone else is having a fun relaxing weekend!
Cheers!
PROGRESS PROGRESS you are surely getting that number taken care of. Looking better all the time. The chipper will be great to help speed up your ordeal!!! Sorry about all the aches and pain. REST and have a great weekend. Thank you for show-and-tell. Love from Ga
Hi Linda!! You’ll be impressed to hear I did nothing much today! That was a weather related decision but the body said thank-you haha
Actually the chipper is slowing things up a bit because of the nature of the branches – which are all twisty… and often full of pine cone balls. So there is a bit of fiddly prep work there. However – I think its worth it and its rather good fun too!
Hope your weekend is going awesomely!! xxx