We spent the weekend doing outside work. Last weekend we made a Taranaki gate to close off our 'new' backyard from our driveway so Danielle didn't disappear off up onto the road. So it's meant much more freedom for us to get on and work outside. Layered up we were as a cold Southerly came through and we got down to business.
We wanted to concentrate on moving the dog's electric fence over and out towards the boundary line to make more room on the upper grassed level area for the kids to hang out and then needed to build a fence/screen across to protect the kids from touching the electric fence (rest of the property isn't fenced hence the electric fence).
While Simon was working on the dog's fence, making a gate out of recycled materials left over from dismantling an archway and digging holes for posts, I decided to use some of our bamboo to make the screens. Nathan was my keen helper while I snipped and chopped the entire lot down (and have the calluses to show for it). Danielle wasn't too sure of her purpose, and was wandering around grizzling in the cold so we popped her in the wheelbarrow and she happily played in there for an hour and snuggled right down into it I thought she was going to fall asleep.
So, by end of weekend we have masses of green waste to take away (way too much for us to do much with unfortunately), we've still got the screens to complete (I even got to try out some lashing skills with bailing twine to attach the bamboo sticks together) and then the kids are free to roam their new backyard when we move onto the other outdoor projects in the coming months.
Then up into the house for a nice hot soup and toast for dinner!
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It looks like the kids had a fun weekend, too.
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