HI Ray,. Glad you guys made it through the winter. Spring and Fall are really a fine time of year. Keep us posted, grin on the fence project. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Boyce To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:42 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Spring Time in Australia
Hi Everyone Well it is Spring Time in Australia that means many gardening projects like spraying the lawn for Bindi and Clover do this twice this Month, that will kill all the Bindi and Clover hope and promote a better lawn. We have started weeding and planting new plants, then we will cow manure all our gardens. We will buy a small truck load of cow manure for they deliver free in this area rather than hook up a box trailer and haul it home ourselves. The weather this time of the year is beautiful and you really appreciate the wonderful sunshine without it being blazing hot. Going out tomorrow to buy new plants to fill up spaces of plants we dug out because we wanted a different species in those locations. So lots of work ahead for this blind handyman. A big job coming up the next door neighbour wants me to give him a hand to remove all the hard wood rails in his side of the fence and replace with galvanise steel rails . All up about 320 feet, getting the old rails off is the hardest part for when I built the fence I used helical nails which turn when nailed in and are a bugger to remove. Screwing the galvanised clip lock fencing back on should be easy for we are going to use self drilling screws The removal and replacement I hope should take us about 2 days if the rails come out easy but we need to remove either the top or bottom one at a time first and screw home the replacement before removing the other thus holding the fencing in location in it's present form. What I do not want to happened is the fence to topple over causing the sheets to come apart and loose the sloping form I have there now. For the property has a slope from the back towards the front. Lucky I used galvanised pipe for the fence posts when I built the fence so they are still in excellent condition and we will not need to replace any of these. Just waiting on him to give a start date then it is full steam ahead. Will let you know when this project has been completed. Ray ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 9/1/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
