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    Default Making Sawdust

    Well I logged on here this morning for a little while.
    As I looked at the great day outside I decided to logoff and go and make sawdust.
    This is a woodie forum so why haven't some you spent a nice day making sawdust??
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna
    Well I logged on here this morning for a little while.
    As I looked at the great day outside I decided to logoff and go and make sawdust.
    This is a woodie forum so why haven't some you spent a nice day making sawdust??
    Twisted my ankle digging a trench at 11am. Been on the sofa watching movies all day.
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    Bathurst

    B A T H urst!

    Apart from that, sat on the beach for coffee early, read a book on photoshop, bought some stuff for lunch, washed both the cars (first time in ages), sat in front of tele reading the paper, another book, and doing the annual sharpening thing..gave up after one plane blade, did a spot of riverbank amelioration, played some music, logged on here a couple of times, now I'm going to tidy up the shed so next weekend I can do stuff!!

    (Watched about 2/3 of the race, but missed the finish!)

    First time I can remember just vegging for a whole day this year!.

    Cheers,

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    Sadly the garden needs so much work that I spent the whole weekend moving pavers, digging a trench, moving soil, mixing concrete and laying edging for a garden bed. I enjoy gardening and landscaping but damn it's hard work. I'm a broken man. Sitting in front of a computer for 8-10 hours a day for a living does nothing for getting you fit to do shovelling etc.

    I should of had Ozwinner over to do the work for me. He's getting them poofy junkyard hands and probably needs to toughen them up a bit.

    Next weekend, I'll finish the edging and then lay some pavers for a garden shed. I'm going to build the shed out of wood, with a high pitched roof and weather boards. At least it'll involve cutting bits of wood up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bitingmidge
    sat on the beach for coffee early,
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    I can just see you sitting on the beach in your boxers sipping a latte. :eek:

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    My woodwork today consisted of carting a few barrow loads of fire wood and putting this into the wood shed. Then finished off acouple of wooden fly screen for the kitchen window ( they turned out quite nice actually) Waited for Robby to turn up with his bobcat to move some dirt from the back of the other shed to level the ground for two extra 3500 gallon tanks. Finished off setting up the treated pine sleepers for the vegy patch. Now need to cart the left over dirt from the tank site and put in vegy patch. Chased out a stray calf which was trampling the garden. The people who claimed the animal were not nice and belted the crap out of a very tired and scared young animal. Robby with the bobcat told me saw five guys around a ute loading the beast on and it appeared dead. Very sad when people have no feeling for stock.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grunt

    I should of had Ozwinner over to do the work for me. He's getting them poofy junkyard hands and probably needs to toughen them up a bit.
    Grunt
    Its surpiseing how quickly you turn into a poof.
    Must be 2 months since I done any real work, and if I try to do things like " ( insert granpa's voice here )I used to back in the old days ", I get buggered real quick.

    So today I drove to Rochester ( 1.5 hours each way ) to check out a clearing sale.
    I was there for 5 minutes, what a waste of time, and drove back to work.

    Such is life.

    Al
    Last edited by ozwinner; 10th October 2004 at 10:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    I can just see you sitting on the beach in your boxers sipping a latte.
    With your foily on, you're not supposed to be able to read minds!!! :eek: :eek:

    How close were you?

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    Poor bastard, you got legs like me. :eek:


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    I've seen better legs on a card table!!
    If you can do it - Do it! If you can't do it - Try it!
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    Why wasn't I making sawdust?

    Two words. Yard work

    I HATE gardening.
    Last edited by craigb; 10th October 2004 at 10:47 PM. Reason: Typo

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    Quote Originally Posted by ernknot
    I've seen better legs on a card table!!
    The pic shows my boardies lying on the card table!!!



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    I was busy trying to cover up the traces of our campsite in the Mimosa Rocks National Park before the nasty parky found us.

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    spent part of the morning potting up my haul from my morning walk ... all those lovely plants hanging enticingly through people's fences and over their walls into the public domain.

    Local bye-laws say that you can't have stuff overhanging the footpath.

    Technically I understand that the bits are still the householder's and after doing my civic duty and cutting them off I'm supposed to throw them back over their fence but so far no irate householder has challenged me as the snippings accidentally drop into the plastic bag that happened to be under them
    no-one said on their death bed I wish I spent more time in the office!

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    I was spoilt.

    Spent the whole weekend at Woodturn 2004. Great demos from great turners, some chat, some ideas from the Instant Gallery---- good value.

    The downside is I'll be in the garden next weekend :mad: :mad:

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