Nimmitabel: A Work in Progress: Sanding by Ear Saturday 5

Less than 24 hours in Inglewood.

It's crazy at this time of the year. We had a lunch to go to in Melbourne, so didn't get to Inglewood til after 5pm. Just in time to stock up a bit at the supermarket before it closed at 6pm.

Now, between this visit, and the last one 2 weeks ago, part of the front fence had fallen down in fierce winds. And so many people had called/emailed/texted to let us know. What a wonderful community. Steve and Denise had also put up some CFA tape to stop people walking through the garden, or at least discourage them.

Luckily no more of the fence had fallen down, and it was so heavy, that the fallen pieces couldn't move any further. I'm pleased that my peach tree was unscathed.

Fallen down fence #1

Fallen down fence #2

Fallen down fence #3

It was opportune that we already had an planning permit in for a new fence. So I called up the council during the week to see if they could hurry it along. (Note we now have the planning permit, but are waiting on a building permit! which is apparently needed because the fence is higher than 1 metre, and on a corner, irrespective of just replacing old for new)

And you can see how dry everything is

even the weeds are dying

The artichokes still look lovely though

artichokes

And the mulberries are starting to ripen. I picked and enjoyed a few. Don't like sharing them with the birds though

yummy mulberries

I'm assuming that Justin fiddled around a bit with the below photo of the hoop pine, as the background has faded away...

Hoop pine

He is also quite pleased with his mended axes, as he had fixed the split handle a while ago with epoxy, sanded it back, maybe filled it some more etc.

axes

Went up to Kingower around 7pm ,as they were having the 1st Saturday of the month get together. We'd been told at the supermarket that there was going to be a bloke from the CFA giving a talk about the upcoming fire season

Fire talk at Kingower

Dunolly fire truck at Kingower

The talk was quite good. He was an entertaining speaker, and had some very good hints. Afterwards we sat around and chatted with the usual suspects. Just had a roll for dinner, as we'd had a nice big lunch at Peter's (with Lana & co)

twilight in Kingower #1

twilight in Kingower #2

At some stage the conversation turned to yabbies, and I once again shared my bucket list dream of catching some yabbies. Terry invited me to come up to his dam tomorrow, or anytime. I'll certainly take him up on that. Didn't on the Sunday though - as we had other work to do....Finhsed up there around 11.30 or so, and a non kangaroo drive home.

Had a bit of a sleep in, read the paper, and then onto work. We had to sand the floors upstairs again,to make them as nice and smooth as possible. This is the 3rd or 4th time. Didn't take too long (but long enough) It was dusty work, and , you worked up a sweat.

sanding #1

sanding #2

Justin also pointed out that the sanded vs the non sanded floor sounded different when sanding it. And if you paid proper attention you would know when you'd sanded enough just by the sound. You could then confirm it be feeling it with your hand. We did the upper hallway, red room, and little yellow room. Justin then vacuumed, and tung oiled again while I watered the garden (which certainly needed it).

I'm not sure if there is any discernible difference between the below pictures of the freshly sanded and tung oiled rooms vs the previous versions. Could they look smoother? They certainly look shinier while oil is wet. It dries to more of a matt finish