the green green grass of home part 2

The grass I planted last weekend has already started to grow, Quite a lot, actually. Its like the dirt has suddenly gone hairy. Its awesome – even the grass seed that I tossed on the bare and thin patches of lawn has sprouted in a few places. So I’ll be mowing the bits of the old lawn that I can tomorrow and seeding the…

the green green grass of home

Tom Jones would be proud. Now the reticulation is well and truly working and fixed, just have one duff sprinkler to change in the front, I can get on with the job is re-seeding the lawn I’ve weeded and feeded until all I can taste is the ruddy granules up my nose. The weeds out the front are particularly stubborn and I’ve had to…

howdy neighbour

as I was clearing away some of the garden rubbish out the front, the neighbours across the road came out to potter about their front garden before going on an evening stroll, as is their want every night. They are a retired couple, probably in their early 70s and they have a lovely house and garden. I decided to walk over and say hi….

waiting..

…for my films to come back. They’ll be another few days and I can’t wait! There’s something magical in this process that digital can’t offer. Loading into Lightroom or Photoshop and processing is a bit sterile. Perhaps if I took more photos and did more creative things with the camera instead of opening a beer and chilling on the patio 🙂 In other news,…

sunday sunday, so good to me..

Ok, its a day earlier than the Mama’s and the Papa’s had it. Its been a very slumpy day today – I did the weeding and feeding and dressing the bits of the lawn with wetting agent and thats about all I’ve really done so far. I should get to speak to the kids on Skype in a bit and then probably take my…

fixed it, I did

Fixed the irrigation this afternoon. It just required the fuses to be replaced and the new cable runs that I did the other day to be rejoined with proper cable connecting clips. I also re-wound the tape round a few of the older (but as far as I know, non functioning) cable joins, just to be sure. Tested the connections with a multimeter to…

rebranding

I’m getting so boring with this I might have to rename my blog “my adventures with irrigation systems” *rolls eyes* I fixed the main problem with that 5th solenoid valve yesterday, the common wire (a bodge by the previous owner) had broken just out of sight of the hole I’d dug to uncover the valve. Fixed that with a new spur from a known…

waterworld

Irrigation, reticulation, sprinklers, watering, call it what you will, its all the same and I flimmin’ well hate it. So, after getting a new pump for the bore, it turned out the pump relay was also busted (probably happened as the old pump burned out) so that needed a sparky to come out and replace it – simple job actually, but not one I…

spiderific

For those of a delicate persuasion, look away now, go google kittens and stuff. I was in the shed doing things blokes do in sheds (organise tools, tidy up, take stock, tinker with my bike etc) when I saw a huntsman yey – I had reported a few weeks ago that I thought the huntsman was dead – well, it might have been and…

bore-ing

So, the pump is shot. have to get a new one at a cost of $650 meh. The rest of the system looks to be in good shape now – just need to sort that one solenoid (now I know how – just unscrew the center pin and it opens the valve up – job done. Good news though, is by Tuesday, hopefully this…