Shed Base- Friday 16.3.12

Today I shifted a one tonne bag of sand.

I moved, two buckets at a time, from the front of a house to the back, via a neighbours garden.

Gerry and I had to stop for food, we were hanging!

Gerry kept mixing, tipping , refilling the mixer and levelling the cement.

Eventually we had a shed base laid.

We limped away to our homes. 

CREAM CRACKERED.

New Wood Store

I realized that I haven't shown you our new look front garden.



It probably doesn't look that different, but that's a new fence and it's hiding our new log store! Click HERE to take a look at how I built it all.



Even though the garden's shorter, it's a better shape; much more attractive.


 
Rather like a Duck gliding smoothly on the surface, but paddling frantically under water, our fence looks effortless on the other side, however, on this side it's a busy place. Our log store! Previous blogs have shown this space with wood stacked in it. Now it's so full we'll have to cut the wood into logs and split them- they take up less room that way! The pallet (now there are a couple here) is to keep the logs off the ground and a tarp has been attached to the fence to keep the logs dryer.


We are told we need 5 tonnes of wood a year to heat the house, cook and heat water etc. Well we only want to heat the house, but that's still a lot of wood for a small property to accommodate, especially as we scrounge around for wood and tend to have gluts. It's tricky trying to store one or two years worth of wood whilst trying to look tidy at the same time.


I hope we can achieve this aim!