Thursday Busy-ness

Yesterday turned out to be a grey and uninspiring day for outside DIY, so Red and I spent most of the day doing inside things.

Today, however, we were back to the absolutely stunning weather that we have been experiencing the rest of the week. This made me very happy!!

We had a lot to do in town this morning and got home around 12. Red managed to stay awake through the journey home, distracted by the roadworks along the way, then several loud renditions of 'Twinkle, twinkle little star'. After a quick change and a milky, she was off to sleep. I did a mad dash to the supermarket, inhaled a bit of lunch then headed outside.

My first task was to pack some soil around the new washing line socket. That took all of three minutes. But the washing line was full of about, oh, 5 loads of washing, so I had to wait until around 4pm to move the washing line.

There we have it! Clothesline in it's new position, and still, not a cloud in the sky!

Kids in the distance shoveling the mud from the hole into a bucket!

Then it was on to my next task - the one I have been wanting to do for a long time, but haven't had the time, or, lets face it, the inclination.

I grabbed the wheelbarrow, and brought the pallets around to the south side of the house one by one. I put down some black plastic (the kind you put under your house to help with insulation) and arranged four pallets as best I could, packing underneath as necessary with off-cuts of wood.

Pallets arranged together - shame they're not exactly uniform sizes!

Then it was on to nailing them all together.

These are nail plates - the one on the left is the side you whack with the hammer, the one on the right is the side that goes onto the wood.

So I bashed the hell out of 12 of these, sorry to anyone who heard me making an unholy racket this afternoon! I was sure I would wake Red up! But no! Amazing!

The finished product!

Red actually slept for three hours!! So I had to get the big kids to walk home from school. I even managed to get some of the old climbing rose cut up and into the wheelie bin (the rose who climbed too far, fell down, and subsequently got dug out because we need to re-clad the house, which may happen sometime in the next 10 years, if we're lucky!)

I have plans to get my Mum to come over on Saturday morning to give me a hand to move the shed to its new home on the pallet platform. Tomorrow morning I'm off to collect a square of ugly green carpet to put down inside the shed to stop things falling through the holes between the slats. Go freecycle!