Busy
29 April 2007 17:29 Filed in: Planting,
Construction
Doesn’t the peony look completely alien? :)
Despite the peony needing to be planted I actually spent the day painting the chook house – my excuse is that the ground is still completely sodden. Believe it or not the post holes are still full of water 24 hours after the rain stuff.
The painting was fun, I started feeling quite competent after a while, which is a good feeling. The trim was a pain because it’s enamel paint - the only way I could match the colour to the house trim. But it’s done – well except for one bit I can’t do until the trim and shutter dry so I can lift them out of the way – and it looks good!
The only down side to the whole thing was that I fell off the deck and into the pineapple sage, so I now have a grazed elbow and bruises on my arse and knee. Oh and the other down side was that I can’t get to the basement which is where the turps lives – well unless I climb under the deck past the bricks and the roof tiles.
So next should be a long bath to get the last of the paint off
Despite the peony needing to be planted I actually spent the day painting the chook house – my excuse is that the ground is still completely sodden. Believe it or not the post holes are still full of water 24 hours after the rain stuff.
The painting was fun, I started feeling quite competent after a while, which is a good feeling. The trim was a pain because it’s enamel paint - the only way I could match the colour to the house trim. But it’s done – well except for one bit I can’t do until the trim and shutter dry so I can lift them out of the way – and it looks good!
The only down side to the whole thing was that I fell off the deck and into the pineapple sage, so I now have a grazed elbow and bruises on my arse and knee. Oh and the other down side was that I can’t get to the basement which is where the turps lives – well unless I climb under the deck past the bricks and the roof tiles.
So next should be a long bath to get the last of the paint off
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