Help Me!!!!

Big savage animals down below.

They are all snarling and foaming at the mouth.

l’ll just stay up here until they go away, hey?

There be a whole pack of them!

That would have to be….

…the most hidious ugly critter l have ever come across.
l can not think of one redeaming feature at all.

l am not even going to try guessing what it is doing.
Blerch.

Ben Hur Stage 3…

Blimey, l do believe the end is in sight…well, the building bit,not the shifting part. Still thinking on that one.
As soon as we all knocked off work, we at that shed.

Rest of roof on, edges on and the bit down the centre.

l know l should take my bits of wood away but l don’t dare. The wind will come up and carry the bloody thing away.
After putting the roof channels on, l can see why it took off with only half the roof on. Bit unstable it was.
Tomorrow morning should see a few final bits done of it, then we have to drag it out the way so l can get my car up the back for the market trailer. Wont have another go at the shed until monday night. The wind had better not puff it away in the meanwhile. (Unless it blows it 4klm eastwards and lands in the paddock in one bit!)

And what happens when a small dog keeps putting her ball at your feet when you are balancing a wood beam, a drill, a mouthful of screws and fighting off bugs?

Said ball gets put out of the way. But Grubbles isn’t stupid.

She shakes the steps making the ball roll down.

Then she continues to plonk it under foot for the rest of the hour.
Grrrr…..

Still wiping up tears of laughter.

Man oh man oh man. Did we have a bloody good laugh today at work.
See, a small group of people are trying to get a project to fruitation, one that is going to cost around $13 million. It’s taken a few years now and will no doubt take a few more – but very worth it for this small community.
Part of the spiel and publicity was to get a DVD made up showing underwater footage, a bit about what the project will amount to and how grand it will be.
The cost of these DVD’s was costly but we figured they would be worth it. We’d send them out to the television stations, members of Parliment and places where our future vision would be noted.
So footage and audio were sent off to a company down in the city and today the box of DVD’s arrived. WøøT!!!
The covers looked so professional, we were wrapt. So Boss says ‘lets play one on the computer and watch’.
So we does.
Starts off good, we used our main active member for the voice over.
He states the project, who will benefit, what the location is like and crams so much information into a few words, we are all stoked.
Picture all of us starting to puff out our chests, gloating like, when the voice over comes up with:
The sea bed is a mix of grasses and…..oh shit…..sea grasses and….l mean…The sea bed is a mix….
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
We all depuff and look at each other. Did we just hear that right???
Roll back, relisten.
*gasp*
We listen to more……Ohhhhhhhh……
Boss jumps on the phone to the company who did the film. Did you guys edit the audio at all? Or listen to it?
No. They didnt.
There goes one box of DVD’s down the drain, pretty pictures and all.
The company still have the footage and audio and will do a edited version so all is well but…..heh heh….
We saw the funny side of it, moreso if we hadn’t of watched it first and had of just sent them out (which we were close to doing as we are way too busy with other stuff).
All day afterwards, one of us would be working at summin and in the silence you’d hear ‘Oh shit….seagrass’ and then laughter. It was enough to set the rest of us off.
Gotta love how a master plan falls off the rails!
*snort*

Cor! What will they think of next?

l bought a really really snazzy pressie online for my Brother in Law. He is a dairy farmer that nature plays games with: too much rain, not enough rain, too much sun, not enough sun….etc. He always is on about wanting a new tractor but cant afford it.
So…l bought him 4. Yep, 4 tractors.
Well, they aren’t tractors yet but they will be. l bought a packet of 4 tractor seeds. The directions say he is to plant them close to a shed and water them. They will sprout into a tractor in a month or so.
Hows about that, hey? l bet he won’t believe his good fortune. l was telling my boss today and she says they are fake.
l says they can’t be. They were on the internet and we all know that everything we read online is true, huh?

*goes back to buy seeds for all my buddies*

Ben Hur on the move.

Who said we would never be able to shift the Ben Hur Pony Shelter???
Okay, admit, its not in a spot that l would pick….
*snort*
Got home from work around 6.00. Weather is stormy and raining. Gusting wind that knocks you flat. Threw my uniform off as l walked in the door and went to retrieve what is left of the clothes on the line.
As l walked up the back yard, l’m thinking ’summin wrong here’. Got clothes inside then went out for another look.
Took me a few seconds.
The Ben Hur shed has moved. It’s wandered half way up the back towards the big shed. (Maybe it was lonely?)
For the life of me, l could not drag it back against the wind. Rang Terry, he said he would have trouble shifting it over the phone as his powers were not that strong (smartarse).
You know those tall white catering buckets that we tend to use as storage buckets? Around knee high? l had one of those in the Ben Hur shed with the hammers, drill, whatever in it. Heavy is it. It didnt blow over. But it was INSIDE the shed so the shed has lifted, hopped over it and continued on its way.
Pfft.
Part of the problem was that only half the roof was on so it was being a tin balloon. l whacked four more sheets on (using a power drill in the rain is a bit scary) then anchored the shed to the ground (dint do that in the first place).
*sigh*
Wonder if shifting it to the paddock could be done easily in a strong easterly?????

Oh…and if you see snow falling on this blog, it’s not summin l did. It’s christmas cheer from the WordPress mob. Blame them.

Opps. Bigger than Ben Hur #2

Fuck it.
Stuffed up. Decided to spend a few hours this evening working on that bloody shed. It needs to go be a paddock shelter (shhh…l still have no idea how its getting there) but progress is slow between me having to work and visitors calling around.
We worked out the other day that the reason there were no pre-drilled holes in the roof beam was because we had put the bloody thing upside down. Terry did look at it once it was up and say ‘no holes on top, only underneath’. Doh!
So l undid all them bolts and screws and flipped it up the right way. Bugger me dead, all the roof iron sheet holes now had somewhere to go!
Got a bit carried away l did. Slapped them all on.
Then stood back to admire it.
Then read the instructions….and noticed some spare bits on the ground.
Oh…they would be the roof capping that goes along the middle of the roof. Erm…the ones that you put on after putting 2 roofing sheet.
Poop.
Climb back up and take off some sheets.
Read instructions again.
“No pre-drilled holes”. Pfft. Tomorrow’s job after work then. Ran out of daylight plus the sandflies were attacking me. Sister has been on her way down here all day, she just rang to say she was leaving home now. So l expect her about 10.30 tonight. So much for a early night tonight. *sigh*
But…the shed….

Still got the edging to put on, and 6 other bits that l dont know what they are (but are still in the box so must go somewhere).
The skylight aint staying. Its just from the sheets that l had to remove.

Yeah right. l’ll just chuck that on the trailer and zoom off down the paddock, yeah?

The hole l had to make. l should be able to lean over and put the middle roof capping on whats there. Pays to read instructions before you start a section, hey.

Meanwhile, no one has picked up pony poo from the paddock and its a mess. l have not touched a single Maree Antonette costume and the deadline looms. l dont have a frock to wear to Rosey’s nor one to wear to a event on the 13th Dec. The fish tanks could do with a water change and there is a heap of online work to do. Have a new web site that l’m paying for (this is the second month) and there is not a thing on it other than a checkout service (but nothing to buy).
*sigh*
The car needs a wash, cant see out of the windows and the back grass is at dog-losing stage. My gardener seems to have gone AWOL and the front looks like a jungle. The archery range is slowly being reclaimed by the bush and accounting bookwork has piled up alarmingly.
We need to canvas the government to put 4 more hours in a day, that would help.

*wonders if anyone would notice if l wore a frock that has already been out in public*