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Busy weekend
Dec. 4th, 2006 11:06 amWhoosh, that went fast.
Fri night: Z back in evening. This possibly rescued sanity with respect to the sewing machine.
Sat: A&S late morning to mid afternoon. Various projects going on with Z dragging out the yellow stripy awning of doom (started just before Festival - it ended up as the awning over the workshop area) for putting doors on and converting into the perfect tent for encountering in the morning with a hangover. I continued handsewing red diamond tunic. Then trip to Cash Converters where we failed to pick up a vacuum cleaner etc (the good looking one when tested instore before sale smelled funny and let the magic smoke escape) but did end up with power tools... Then Laser Strike (individually I sucked majorly (generally scoring last or second to last or at the very best, third to last out of 18 people), but was fun in the last two round with team action), sushi, hot chocolate and not quite the right cake, all in good company. Was a good but late night.
Sun: Slept in and was busy all afternoon. Shifted stuff around in the back yard, so there is now a bench against the wall outside - often shrouded by drying laundry but should work well for sitting and reading outside. Z may also now have a work bench. Then investigated another localish mall, got a vacuum cleaner, groceries*, and then went looting.
For this to make sense, you have to know about Hard Rubbish weeks, when particular suburbs have roadside collection of large items of rubbish for that week - dead sofas, furnature, wood, whatever. Currently it's our suburb. So, free stuff trawlage - at about the quite beaten up tip level. Got 2 bulliten boards, magazine chest (warped lid), rake, some wood, 3 chairs - 1 outdoors, needs a bit of regluing, 2 with cane mesh to be replaced by leather. Not a bad haul. Will keep and eye out for the rest of the week and definitely check online for when some of the more affluent suburbs do their Hard Rubbish collection...
Mon: Tidying time for me I think, though Z is taking part of the day off to do the car beaurocracy such as reregistering and changing state stuff. And hopefully picking up bookcase wood (ran out of time on Sat). And Christmas cards/postcards.
And while I have the link up, a very nice site for vintage clothing. Not that I can afford their prices but they tend to show very nice closeups to see the sort of construction involved. The earliest item currently appears to be a Punto in Aria needlepoint lace panel, c.1620... Asking $7000 though...
*No wood floor polish - what is it with this town that you can't get the add a cap full to bucket for mopping floor polish? Found in Canberra fine, but apparently not here, at least not in at least 2 of the supuermarkets checked.
Fri night: Z back in evening. This possibly rescued sanity with respect to the sewing machine.
Sat: A&S late morning to mid afternoon. Various projects going on with Z dragging out the yellow stripy awning of doom (started just before Festival - it ended up as the awning over the workshop area) for putting doors on and converting into the perfect tent for encountering in the morning with a hangover. I continued handsewing red diamond tunic. Then trip to Cash Converters where we failed to pick up a vacuum cleaner etc (the good looking one when tested instore before sale smelled funny and let the magic smoke escape) but did end up with power tools... Then Laser Strike (individually I sucked majorly (generally scoring last or second to last or at the very best, third to last out of 18 people), but was fun in the last two round with team action), sushi, hot chocolate and not quite the right cake, all in good company. Was a good but late night.
Sun: Slept in and was busy all afternoon. Shifted stuff around in the back yard, so there is now a bench against the wall outside - often shrouded by drying laundry but should work well for sitting and reading outside. Z may also now have a work bench. Then investigated another localish mall, got a vacuum cleaner, groceries*, and then went looting.
For this to make sense, you have to know about Hard Rubbish weeks, when particular suburbs have roadside collection of large items of rubbish for that week - dead sofas, furnature, wood, whatever. Currently it's our suburb. So, free stuff trawlage - at about the quite beaten up tip level. Got 2 bulliten boards, magazine chest (warped lid), rake, some wood, 3 chairs - 1 outdoors, needs a bit of regluing, 2 with cane mesh to be replaced by leather. Not a bad haul. Will keep and eye out for the rest of the week and definitely check online for when some of the more affluent suburbs do their Hard Rubbish collection...
Mon: Tidying time for me I think, though Z is taking part of the day off to do the car beaurocracy such as reregistering and changing state stuff. And hopefully picking up bookcase wood (ran out of time on Sat). And Christmas cards/postcards.
And while I have the link up, a very nice site for vintage clothing. Not that I can afford their prices but they tend to show very nice closeups to see the sort of construction involved. The earliest item currently appears to be a Punto in Aria needlepoint lace panel, c.1620... Asking $7000 though...
*No wood floor polish - what is it with this town that you can't get the add a cap full to bucket for mopping floor polish? Found in Canberra fine, but apparently not here, at least not in at least 2 of the supuermarkets checked.
