As I sit here writing on a now wet and windy Sunday afternoon, I am pretty much totally exhausted… despite the fact that I didn’t muster a run!
Yesterday I cut and scarified the grass, cut the grass on the green and washed the cars. With a little energy still left, I thought that I would progress the garden project that I started the other weekend. The first step was to empty the compost heap… the contents fitted neatly into one large canvass garden rubbish collector. Oh, and six large sacks that I could hardly move.
Kim then helped me to lift the structure out of the way and we dragged the (now giant) Acer into the gap that was left. In between rain showers we lifted the structure into the space left by the Acer and I put the non-composted material back in it, leaving the six sacks of compost ready for a later part of the exercise.
Buoyed up by the speed with which we had completed this, I decided to make a start on the fence panel. I removed the prototype panel (an off-cut of bamboo screen that I had rigged up between two posts) and jointed the uprights into the decking joists for extra strength. I then decided how big the panel should be and laid it out flat on the deck to check where the centre rail needed to sit. I drilled and screwed the corners and repeated the exercise to create a second identical frame.
I laid bamboo screen across the bottom frame and stapled it into position, then put the second frame on top, drilling and screwing the two frames together. The resultant panel was then lifted into position and bolted to the uprights.
By the time I had cleared my tools away I was fit for nothing at all!
This morning Kim cut shrubs back and generally tidied the area up whilst I tidied the area behind the panel and moved pots of bamboo around. This part of the project is now complete but the exertion once again left me comatose for more than an hour this afternoon!
It’s been a really fun weekend, but no chance for a run now… I’m far too exhausted!