First day back at work, end of my holidays. I really enjoyed the time off working here. Didn't get all my wish list done. Probably not even a third of it. But what I did get done was good.
I finished the last of the cutout switches. Sprayed for thistles. Made gates for all the new pastures. Bought and connected a new 240V fence charger that does 10 km of fencing to replace the 1.5 km one. Instead of being a tickle at 3kV it now spanks along at 15kV. It will make their whiskers curl if they sniff it.
The new mesh panels arrived for the hay bunk and went on, working beautifully. Ordered two round bale covers, a game camera, some adhesive velcro, some flannelette sheets (showing some weird preference for plaid patterns ?) and a pantry. Despite the pantry being a flat pack with an advertised construction time of two hours, we are on day 4. It's now together and just needs the doors adjusted to be square.
The composting toilet is on its way, and the local flooring shop is coming round to quote on putting vinyl down where it's going to go. Which is the old office. So the bunk beds are now back on top of each other in the second bedroom and all the office furniture needs sorting and storing.
I put fresh straw in the nests for the chickens to start laying now the days have turned to getting longer. Which they promptly raked out to look for missed grains in the straw. Nice one guys. The new gate post positions are marked for the fencing guy to come and put the posts in so the gates can be hung, and then the openers finally back in operation. The shearer is coming to crutch the sheep and do their feet.
Had a Wednesday Legendairy Ladies trip to a dairy on the other side of the Tamar River, followed by lunch at the Blue Tiers Distillery. Then dinner at Lords with Geoff on Friday. Picked up my new reading glasses, very nice bronze frames. Mae is doing well and is just about eating 1kg of muesli a day, which means I can start reducing her milk to once a day.
Rearranged the kitchen to accommodate the new pantry, which put the printer on the butchers block in the loungeroom, the filing cabinet under my desk, and the cat bed on top of the corner unit. The long unit where the cats eat is now under the front window and the table has done a 90 degree turn. I think I am becoming an expert at furniture tetris.
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