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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 17 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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My shed is erected and clad just the doors to do and I am hoping he has done that today although he may be making them and waiting for the w/e. I just have to find the cash now and add electricity for machines and light as I omitted to ask for a couple of roof lights!! It is 5mx6m-doors on the narrow side. My aim is a large work bench in the middle and the machines in a line on one side, cross cut saw, ripsaw, and the lathe. Work benches on the other side, but I guess it will have a storage area; I am a hoarder-it will come in!
I am envious of your shed, Cassandra, I think it will be better, however, if you call it "Wool City Design Studio".
Don't worry about missing in action, but we do like to hear that you are well, if only a one liner, please. So Billy has cut his niche. Now I didn't know how to put tec screws in and thought you had to drill a pilot hole first; but was quickly corrected and boy do they save time, but that initial first turning of the screw and to keep it in place can be a little trying.
I am glad the event went well, Jam Lady,-875 folks sounds like micro-phones to me! I am pleased your snow is going, we are expecting what failed to fall on you is now on its way here and there was a hint this morning at 5 am., and an attempt this afternoon. I realised something was up yesterday when I followed 2 full gritting lorries home from work to my village.
I like the plastic tool holders, Jam lady, I get lots of round tubing off cuts from pto-power take off-shaft guards from when the tractor drives a machine it is towing. Most of my garden tools have D or T shaped handles so not for me, except that I will use that idea for brooms and hoes, thank you.
I hope all goes well with the crossing, gz.
We are awaiting the first pictures of the completed baskets MR.
Our blackthorn is nowhere near leaf nor flower. But things are starting and one or two hedges are sprouting lower down the hill, but nothing near flowering-a weeks 'weather' to come before that starts-well not till late April anyway for anything round here. My kindling is still flying off the shelves!
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 17 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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It's sunny, somewhat warmer, but the snow is taking FOREVER to go away. In other words, it is still white out there.
Gregotyn, your shed sounds wonderful, as does Cassandras. About the tool holders - could you not cut a vertical slit in the round tubing, then slip the D- and T-handled tools in. The D- and T- part would keep them from falling out. They'd have to go with the blade part down toward the floor.
My tool shed is 10 feet by 18 feet, whatever that is in metric. It has double doors on short side close to driveway, single door in long wall. Two windows in that long wall too. Mr Jam Lord put a window in the short wall across from the double doors, and built a nice work bench beneath it. It's very messy as I tend to just stuff things in at the end of the day. And have too much stuff also. I'll show you the outside but too embarrassed to show the inside . . .
Garden club meeting tomorrow, with a speaker talking about unusual annuals. I recently got seeds for a dark purple leaved castor bean, and several Mirabilis, four o'clocks. The latter have tuberous roots so I will be able to keep them from year to year by digging and storing indoors.
No one planted peas on St Patrick's Day, not with icy snow covering the frozen ground. I think of my bananas, cut back, swaddled with leaves, roofed with plywood, awaiting their emergence when warm weather arrives. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 17 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Sounds as if you need to discuss things with Billy Cassandra. He has to learn to share you with the others and with things like the laptop. On the other hand, no doubt he has worked out what you use to get his food and isn't jealous of that. Perhaps Jam Lord will let you know how those battens were attached. The man who died seems to have been known by the whole town; as you say, the best way to go, and quite a send off too.
We went to a farm yesterday evening for a Farmers Market meeting. They are lambing and calving at the moment, so we went down to see them. The sheep are mainly Texel crosses, with a few Jacob and a couple of Herdwicks that were there from her mother to be trained to fences. In the UK most sheep are raised for meat, so although they use the fleeces, they are not so important as in Aus. There isn't much housing near the farm, and it is at the top of a hill, so brilliant view of the stars. Since the moved the street light outside our house, haven't seen such a lovely view of them. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 17 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Your shed is about 3.05x5.49 metres Jam lady.
We had a dollup of snow in the area a few days back, but it stayed on the hills and is still there, we escaped, but it was a lovely sight as I came home. There is always a line round the hills that the snow seems not to dare to go below at this time of the year-around the 1500ft mark and well pleased I am. Frosty this am but roads treated so an ok trip to work.
Cassandra, I only make the comment about you not appearing so often, as we like your views, and after all you started all this-you are the guiding light! MR is right, and you need to sort Billy. We will start to call him William if he becomes nasty as Billy is too nice a name for a cat with attitude. Just keep telling him he is lucky to have such friends and home as he could have become something else!!
Tec screws are the answer if you use the plastic attached to metal, or a nut and bolt with a rubber washer on the outside surface. I recently saw a book and it shows tool storage against the wall, with a door in front also covered in tools both sides of the door, so if you want a tool from the back you open the door otherwise the other tools are already on show-3 banks of tools occupying a relatively small space. Of course the back of the in and out door is for you overalls.
When it is my time I want to go, I just hope it will be in bed. My mother would tell you that I am not built for easy management and if there is an alternative to common sense I would find it, in spite, she said, but I am not built that way it just happens!
It appears that a fleece in the UK is worth less than the cost of shearing unless you have a sought after type of wool. I find that quite strange. I thought that Herdwick sheep didn't need any training to jump-I thought all sheep were escapologists-and I know some Welsh ewes are almost miners. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 17 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Now there is something I didn't know-well why would I ask if I knew, regarding birch-that it is a burning wood, thankyou MR. Half of my shed will have to be for storage initially, until I fix a roof that has blown away over winter. Not a major job more a nuisance than anything, but still has to be done. I am thinking retirement sooner rather than later, but I have thought that for a year or so, just not put it into practise and when I settle down to it, and think logically, I would miss the money, worth having even if 100% taxed! Thankyou, common sense has talked me out of it. Actually I would miss the company too, even if I enjoy being on my own to work-living on my own mistakes, we all need to talk to other than to ourselves now and then.
Do the claim form for the grant first, MR-money coming in! I can imagine that a jig for baskets is quite complicated. I used to make a type of hanging basket for my shop and it took ages to get a jig made to perfection, and the baskets to come out right every time. Wood is one of those things that you can cut it and for all reasons the wood is always the same, until you come to put it together and it just doesn't fit-you measure and it is half a millimetre here and there, but all cut on the same jig on the same day, I used to call it the drying out factor.
I have watched basket makers at shows, MR, and I always say I will have a go, but I doubt it very much, too busy on the firewood. Though it is something you can do in the warmth of home, chopping sticks in the house is a no-no! |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 17 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Unless you have a lot of birch round you there is no reason why you would know much about it Gregotyn. I first knew it as a Guide as the loose bits of bark are ideal for firelighting, and we all used to carry a 'punk' tin with bits like that in it. Hope you get your shed roof repaired. We have one that needs doing too, and we still have to put a proper roof on another one; at present it is a thick plastic sheet held down with rope, but it works. If you did retire, you would need to find some other social contact, perhaps volunteering for something one day a week, or joining some sort of club with other people with a similar interest.
Cassandra, I gathered from your FB posts that the pool debate is getting a bit out of hand. I hope you get something resolved, as having one is a good idea, but of course siting is important. I think I tend to spin as what I call a 'semi-worsted', where I do a rolag, but just let the fibres align themselves as they come out rather than staying fuzzy.
The weather here was lovely yesterday, but rather windy. Husband and I went up to the woods as he had most of the stuff up there to mark out and cut the base for the jig. After we had done that, he stayed and did some painting on one of the buildings while I went to see what they had done with the fencing. It is looking good and should be finished this week. The spring flowers are coming out nicely and in a warm spot I found some dog violet
[/i]Viola riviniana as well as the one that I have currently been seeing, the early dog violet Viola reichenbachiana. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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