Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The regency tongue & groove pine (Wallnut stained) panels are going up slowly but looking good
Monday, February 9, 2009
To try and Tidy up the Place I loaded up a Couple of Trees ,,, From a House being Demolished
YOU GOT TO TIDY THE PLACE UP <<< BLAH BLAH BLAH
Sunday, February 8, 2009
When you have friends down to stay ,,,
THINGS YOU SEE ON A WALK TO THE BEACH ,, Jed is Almost totally Blind & Polly has no brain 2 speak of ,,, So it is The Dumb leading the Blind
The Beach is a 500 meter walk through the Nature Reserve and I always try to get in an early morning walk ,,, I always have my camera on my belt for any photo opertunity .
Particularly when you see a little fella punching above his weight .. any thing is possible ...
The Dogs love the beach ,,,
A lot of red bellied Black snakes around this season ,,,,,, Just have to stop Polly from Picking them up as if it was a Stick .
THE BLOODY BEES WERE BACK ,,,,,, I had been warned by Bren before I went to Canada ,,,,, So now 6 weeks later I feared The WORST
When I got there it didnt look to bad ,,, Not as Big as last time
The Hive patterns were very interesting ,,,,,, there was NO honey in the Hive yet ,,, The local Flowers were not blooming yet , So they were making artistic shapes on the window Glass .
So I started as before ,,, Put the Room heater on high and close to the LAMINATED glass to heat up the wax , BEE WAR 2 Had started .
It all appeared to be a small job to get rid of the bees this time ,,,,, But THEN I LOOKED UNDER THE SLIDING BARN DOORS ,,, AAAAHHHH a Giant HIVE
I had to Burn the OLD Bees Nest out ,,, It was their Base
A Bad Moment ,,,,,,,,, The Window had slid down during the Night
I woke up early and I could hear the bee sounds much louder than before ,,,, Then I looked across to the back loft and to my horror I could see that the Window had slid down about a Foot and a Fair amount of bees had gotten in ,,, I grabbed some incent sticks ,,, lit them ,,, and using the smoke as protection ( I was stupidly still in my undies ) ,,,, I went over and Pushed the window up ever so slowly ,,,,,, What a bloody relief when that was locked again ,,,, After awhile I unbolted the rest of the nuts and pushed the Shutter off and down went most of the nest with it .,,,,,, From then on it was just a case of insect spray with soapy water and the Room heater to make the wax melt ,,,,, They moved on .....After I cleaned off all the bees wax I sprayed a surface insect spray all over the shutters and window .
With the success of the top nest I decided to TAKE A LONG ROPE
TAKE a LONG ROPE Had worked a Treat ,,, To well ,,, It punched out the end stop & one set of rollers came out leaving the second set hanging
THIS is just a Little reminder to me of How hard it was to get those BLOODY Roller Doors up there 2 years ago .
I did it by myself with ropes and pully ,, the whole bloody lot in one piece ,,, Because it couldnt go up in any other way ,,, As I was using the centre pole of the barn hoist ,,, So the lift had to be in the Middle ,,,,,,, So if the left one came off now ,,, I would have to get a crane or some other thing to put it back
THE BEE WARS 2 are over ,,,,,, Just put it all back where it was and Spray with Insect spray .
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