You are probably thinking .
. . . . Hang On this diary thing . . . . Back in the past loads of stuff
happened and now it’s dead boring . . . .
Well that is a bit true; it is not the diary it used to be. Part of the reason
at present is my continued work on Shed Two (My workshop) and the reason I am
working away on that a great deal is due to the weather. It has been lovely
over the last few days. Lovely to the point where our daughter phoned us up
from her home just a couple of miles away on the Welsh side of the border to
say how horrid the rain was. At the time we were sitting outside in the sun drinking
tea and chilling. A short break from shed work.
I will admit I did fire up
the old weather machine on the off chance it might finally do something useful
and not cause hurricanes again. So maybe it might just be doing what it was
always meant to do, make it sunny.
Anyway shed two slowly
develops. One aspect of designing and building buildings without any design
whatsoever is things can develop in ways that you never thought they might. I
do wonder if going back in time folk just built stuff and the key point of any
good building was it did not fall down. It does mean they can become quite
interesting as you ponder ways to resolve an issue that you had not thought
about until three quarters of the roof is finished. And I think Shed Two will
be all the better for all the little changes I keep making in order to make it structurally
sound and practical in a quirky sort of way. I will then claim I am a Master Builder
in the medieval tradition of Master Builders.
There have been a lot of
butterflies about lately I suspect that is a good sign. I am not good on
butterflies, but I did see a small blue one and a large yellow one earlier as
well as the white ones and brownish ones. . . . My knowledge of plants is a bit like my knowledge
of butterflies by the way. . . . . .
Right that’s it . . . . I
suspect you are now thinking Well that was rubbish. But it’s a diary so Poo . .
. . (again) . . .
I sometimes draw beasts seen in the garden
but do use a bit of artistic license so no one knows what they are
Including me
We have two, no, three sheds on our property. The first is the common wooden shed that a lot of folks here have (some are metal). Usually for storage, ours has been converted to a woodworking shop for hubby. The second isn't really a shed, it's a horse barn, complete with tack room. Both of these were on the property when we bought the house.
ReplyDeleteThe third is the big one - it will be hubby's hobby garage where he can work on all our vehicles as well as eventually build/restore cars/trucks. It's extra tall so he can install a lift rather than use a pit. It's built but empty inside until probably next year. Budgetary issues...lol.
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I am assuming that the big shed in Backend to Nowhere Garage blog is your hubbies hobby garage . . . . WOW that is a shed and a half, a chap could maybe have a rock concert in that . . . Very Cool indeed. Having a horse Barn means I assume you also have space for horses if you so desired . . . thats cool also.
DeleteI hope that big shed/garage gets finished OK so good luck with that.
Yup, the Backend of Nowhere Garage is all his (when finished, still have to do all the inside work including concrete so things have slowed while we work on the budget).
DeleteWe could have horses but don't and at our age don't want them. We thought about renting out the pasture but were concerned with liability issues. We did end up letting a neighbor use the pasture for his cows a couple of times - not the longhorns you saw, just regular cows.https://ourprimeyears.blogspot.com/search/label/cows
Well it looks like a great place to live and I can understand that a shed that big needs a big budget but awesome all the same.
DeleteI like the bug. I like butterflies, too, but I notice they're not nearly as chatty as damselflies. I'm impressed by your building project. I'm not even making much progress on the garden basics this year.
ReplyDeleteGardens are fickle beasts, some years they go to plan and others they sort of sneak off and do their own thing. I am working on the principle that a wild garden is an Eco garden. Although I am trying to avoid it getting to the point of so wild I cant find my sheds.
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