Rain overnight but another very nice day.
Painter Jeff came and did some more “final” bits of painting on the new shed. Rain damaged a bit he did yesterday and so he’ll be back on Saturday to remedy that. Meanwhile he has made great progress on the rimu map cabinet – it’s looking splendid.
Aaron, Power Farming sales, rang to say the tractor will be delivered late September.
Bramble started limping this morning, on the mended leg, so that spurred me to get her another checkup (next Monday), The limp gradually diminished during the day so I suppose she just strained it a bit and it’s recovered.
More lambs today but Karola reported all present and correct. It’s past time to tag and dock them – at least the earliest ones.
Karola wants the homestead sun porch back – I’ve been using it to store obsolete and broken electrical/electronic stuff. So she loaded it into the back of the car – it only just fitted – and we went down to the E-Waste drop-off point. Five computers, two multifunction printers, a dozen networking boxes, three stereo systems or parts thereof, two computer monitors, and on, and on. We paid them over $200 for the pleasure but Karola is happy.
I opened up the Caravaggi chipper/shredder but could find no damaged or loose parts, except perhaps that a number of the bolts holding the main flywheel in place had loosened and maybe one of them was scraping on the faceplate. As usual I cut myself on one of the stainless steel tempered sharp blades – little finger to the bone. I also wrecked one of the little fastening bolts by tightening it with its Allen key until the key slipped – that’s when I got cut. Now I can’t undo that bolt. I should hate that machine.
Final inspection of the new shed is scheduled for tomorrow. Not necessary, but, for looks I guess, I removed the boxing round the concrete ramp and piled up gravel against the lip.
Late afternoon I deconstructed the temporary netting fence protecting the new shed – rolled up the netting, pulled out the standards.
Rosemary & Muehlenbeckia – Spring Is Sprung
Old Plum Tree In Full Bloom
Oak Avenue Weather:8℃—18℃ 0.5mm rain [76.4]
