Minor Flood Number 2 Stops Play!
Last night, we had well over 40mm (1½ inches) of rain in about 6 hours. There is lots of puddles everywhere! But as usual, the workshop caused another flood! Again…
Rain Stops Play!
At 4pm this afternoon, we had a lovely big thunderstorm roll over us and interrupted our work. We did wonder if it would miss us entirely as we could see…
Snow Stops Play!
We woke up to a thin layer of snow on some of the raised objects (off the wet ground) where it didn’t melt. The temperature is hovering around the freezing…
Snow Has Stop Play! Again!
We have a thick layer of snow over everything! It is minus four degrees Celsius (-4oC)!! (the garage) (down the garden) The concrete floor slab has a thick layer of…
Air nailing gun not firing!
Our big framing nail gun has stopped working! The trigger works and we can hear air coming in but the piston is not moving with the usual loud thump and…
Dumper Truck is down in the Dumps #2
Yippeee! We managed to jump start the dumper truck! We tipped the load and drove it back to the house to connect the battery charger! Phew! That is a great…
Dumper is down in the Dumps!
OH GEE WIZ! Our truck is broken! The starter motor is making a horrible crunching noise! Oh Blimey! We phoned our cousin for his expert opinion and listening via our…
Collapsing trenches
We started to dig the first trench for the earth tubes and as soon as it was full depth the walls started to collapse, a large chunk from the right…
New Extension Tube for Sewage Treatment processor has arrived!
The replacement manhole extension tube has arrived today and it fitted quite nicely! We have left it at it’s full size for now to act as a visible warning that…
Conder to the rescue
As we blogged earlier the extension tube would not fit the top of the sewage processor. I rung the manufacturers (Conder) who said they would get back to me soon.…