dental preservation jobs

I had my eye on a Vacola preserving thingy with 66 bottles on ebay for a while. It sat on $49 for days and then in the last day rocketed to $255. Was rather less appealing at that price.

I had a crown fitted today (to a tooth not my head) so my mouth is a bit numb still. Unfortunately I missed lunch today so I am absolutely starving, but I have to wait another hour until 7pm!

As I got home before dark tonight (by virtue of the dentist appointment) I had a bit of a quick wander through the back yard to make a mental list of jobs for the weekend.

1. There is still the chook house to paint of course.
2. There are a number of straggly trees and shrubs to remove that were identified during 'the blitz'.
3. The paths to edge
4. 2 garden beds to prepare with newspaper, hay and straw (though I probably wont have enough newspaper to do them both)
   
5. a herb garden to get ready (Mum left a comment that she is sending me a herb book of some description.
   

I was chatting to another colleague at work yesterday and discovered he has chooks too. His run is a fully enclosed fortress. This got me thinking about making a frame out of some of the metal that is lying about the place which was clearly some sort of enclosure in the past. I might need to supplement it with so extra. I noticed that there is a short arc welding night course on at CIT but not until november (i just missed the start of the current one). I know some readers of this blog have some skill in welding but for the rest of you, arc welding seems simple but is a whole lot more complicated than you imagine. This same colleague mentioned that there is a sawmill in Queanbeyan from which you can dig up as much sawdust as you can be bothered to take away (He uses it for the chookhouse). This reminded me of filling up the kerosene tins with sawdust from the sawmill out the Lachlan with Pa. At least I think it was out the Lachlan, I'm not entirely sure now. Pa used to like the old stuff that was rotting a bit and would use it to cover his seeds once he'd dropped them in the drills. I might get some to put in the compost mix for the veggie patch too.

I have also been thinking a bit about making pelmets for all my windows. I am heating the southern half of Canberra at the moment and I have been steadfastly ignoring my massive heating bills every winter for several years now. Time to face the music and reduce my bills and my 'footprint'. Besides, it will give me an excuse to make some new heavier, thicker curtains should the mood take me.