Who has a lockdown project at home?

Oh, that sounds nice. No beach here, but a back lane full of magpies that like to swoop.

 

Well - that put a damper on the next stage of my lockdown project.

Rang to order the delivery a small tipper truck of mushroom compost to fill the garden beds ... "sorry, our soil beds have been stripped clean by crazy buyers. Nothing until the delivery next week" ... okay, any chance of some white scoria so I can do the paths? ... "nope, none of that until next week either".

I will wait, as their mushroom compost is amazingly good ... in the meantime ... tomorrow I will paint doors and today will be my first attempt at online grocery shopping - wish me luck

 

With so many going to online grocery shopping one safe place to go grocery shopping will be .... supermarkets because most buyers are shopping for groceries online.

 

Yep! First thing in the morning, when most are still in bed. Works for me!

 

That was a big fail - rookie mistake of not checking delivery/C&C availability times as we were pretty easy about the "when". Spent nearly an hour online shopping ... only to find no delivery or pickup timeslots available AT ALL

 

That's pretty poor form. I realise they are busy.....but if they want people to use the service, they have to make it available.

 

Just needs a proper clean

 

The modern ones are easier.

Not like the ones from 30 years ago, with a removable weight on the top of the lid (that wobbled as the pressure built up and looked like it would fly off at any moment).

The pressure on my 10-year old one is set with a dial. Newer ones are probably even simpler.

 

Ahh! the lid that wobbled, my mother had one like that and I remember it being all over the ceiling, that's why I was terrified ...
My new pressure cooker just needs me to press a couple of buttons and I dont have to touch it again, it does it all. However I made a couple of mistakes, too much liquid and should have halved the cooking time. I will have to find recipes for new electric pressure cookers and practice some more ...

 

Slowly getting around this house.
Getting more confident at heights again climbing up and down this narrow scaffold, gets wobbly AF at the top when I’m hanging off the top rungs of the end frames with one arm and reaching out.
Tied a rope anchor to the scaf through the window just in case it wanted to fall over for some reason.
I hate painting more than anything, but it’s actually satisfying after a while.

 

Sticking with the "stay the "F" at home" theme Who needs to go out for "exercise" or a fancy breakfast
Edit: this was a tree the council cut down in our suburban Sydney street yesterday (the neighbours have all been out thinking I'm randomly cutting down tree's illegally)

 

Replaced a door that a single mum friend destroyed two weeks ago when her child locked themselves in the bedroom in the dark! Rental inspection this Tuesday. It's painted now and aside from a different non lockable handle hopefully no one will notice. At least this paint is run free unlike the rest of the place! Good use of my day off, although not lockdown, she was very happy to come home to a new door! $47 was worth the hug.

 

Did the latch not have a release catch on the outside? They've been standard on lockable internal doors for decades ... just insert paperclip, or pen tip, and voila.

 

It was an entrance set installed which was odd, key access on the outside, Quarter turn latch internally... I'm sure there was a less destructive way to get in, but where there's a 3yo screaming in the dark, logic went out the window at 8pm I think, after neither her nor the real estate had keys for it. Took 3 hours to replace and paint. Could've been worse!

 

My most recent lockdown project/challenge has been to beat my retired neighbor to bring the bins in to all 4 houses down our ROW
Success 2 weeks running now

 

As I work my way around the shed, these are the storage racks I made for bits of ply and other flat stuff. Anything that didn't fit in the racks got tossed. I was very hard on myself and felt drained afterwards - it's hard letting go.
Horizontal racks next.

 

Oooh, timber

Project 25.......
Always wanted to wall mount the TV, went with a pivoting mounting bracket
Wasn't happy with how far it now will stick out into the room
So, while pastering the new front door in
Fabricated a steel bracket to replace wall studs and........
Should be painted and TV mounted before lockdown ends

 

I mounted my TV in a cupboard on pivoting mount attached to a steel bracket I made. Gives me much more confidence than fixing to a stud.

 

The way we're going you may be able to build a couple of houses from scratch, with mud bricks you've hand made before lock down ends.