We finished painting the wall in the back yard. We were lucky in that we had some paint and some were given to us. I also improved both doors. looks much better now. Next we will want to repair the weatherboard and paint the cookhouse. The wall was completed at no cost.
Next we started building a lean to on the cookhouse. Remember we are not allowed to dig any holes, so I used pipes as posts and hammered them 800 mm in the ground. I didn't hear any crunching from artefacts being broken, so I hope it is OK. Seems this area was used as a veggie patch anyway. I started sanding some of the lintols (horizontal beams) from the veranda, being scrap. It turned out the quality of the Rimu which is 100 years old is still at par with new pine, so I saved those for the veranda and fitted a new beam. Still a work in progress. Saturday we had severe storm warnings, but it turned out much lighter than expected.
So I took Saturday off. Right? Never! At one pm I was watching TV and Elna was washing the bathroom floor. I said:"Why now?" She responded: "It is Saturday, a working day" I also got told about the glazing of the bathroom window. It is a largish window on the Northern side, and had three panes of coloured glass, and one piece of Hardboard from when we moved in. When Ben was here, we cut one pane, but it was decided to get rid of the coloured glass as well. So a few weeks back I cut the glass, but never got around to finishing the job. And guess what I did on Saturday afternoon? Right, I took all the glass out of the frame and re puttied everything. Job done. Now Elna can clean the glass. It was one of those "Round Tuit" jobs.
See ya!
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