I have had a bit of time off work recently but have been helping my son at his new house moving in and doing a few small renovations. I really needed to get some stuff done at my place as I have to a big job starting tomorrow. It is at a big factory that is having a Christmas maintain shut down and there telling me they need me to work 12 hour days other than that the Christmas and new years eve public holidays. So today might be the only chance I get to get some stuff done.
We have a couple of big Iron Bark Eucalyptus trees behind my shed which are great for shade on a hot summer afternoon but when there not filling the gutters and drains with leaves there dumping them in the pool.
We used to have an automatic pool cleaner but that keep playing up so now I find it easiest just to brush the leaves into the middle and vacuum them out with the cleaning hose and pool pump.
The lawn and weeds always grown fast this time of year so then I was working up a sweat with the wiper snipper, lawn mower and even give the hedges a trim.
There's not much to report from my veggie patch except a random spring onion.
and a few pumpkins starting to form.
A couple of these skink lizards were checking all my work out.
I spend most of the day moving at snail pace. At least when it was all done I got a swim in the clean pool.