Decluttering and home maintenance

@Sophie1 🙌

Had a bonus today, magpie friend called in unexpectedly and took away the rest of the stuff he was after (including an old angle grinder @Smc ).

Mr Darcy had organised a fellow to come and take away an old mattress and some other rubbish and is now really pleased that our carport is clear. 😀

Finally had last trims on our roof restoration completed today. (Job started July 11).

Have not bothered to get up and check it out as I am kind of over it. Insurance is going to send out a qa. Inspector apparently so they can sort any outstanding issues as I am sick of having to follow up on poor workmanship.

Waiting on new solar panels now. The near new panels were destroyed by the cowboys that took them off the roof. Anticipating a call in the next day or 2 to confirm a time to have panels installed. Glad to finally see construction materials gone from the front of our house. 😵😤

Hoping things go smoothly hereon in @Determined .

Sorted a couple of bagfuls of assorted rubbish down to recyclables, worm food, rubbish-rubbish, and a small collection of "oops,what was that doing in there?". (I'm about 30-40c richer in the form of overlooked small change. And have a few more clothespegs and pencils available. 😛 )

Had roof people turn up this morning to finish off some trims I had passed on feedback for.

Darling thought it was all finished. In hindsight it may have been better to tell her sooner of the unfinished items.

I am proud of how well she contained herself but it Definatly rattled her quite a bit.

Asked me what the # was going on if front of the guy so it was no secret that she was unhappy to see them lol

@Smc continued progress = 😀

Yesterday I donated a quilt and blanket the vendor had left at our place - they were hard to find as the linen cupboard had been stuffed with things ad hoc 😬. Today we emptied it out and have sorted it. Have a couple of items for the op shop, some old tea towels, well worn sheets etc have gone into a rag bag (will offer to the gardener in the first intance) and other items have been put away in more suitable places with only necessary items put back neatly in situ. Cupboard looking heaps better now :ok_hand:.

Have been out for the past hour or so tackling a bit more of the inconveniently-placed 2x1.5m back shed... whew!

One bagful of rubbish in the bin. A few more recyclable soft plastics added to this morning's accumulation. Some more paper rubbish soaking for the worms. Two and a half bags of cured cement moved to where I want to build up a low bank... if I decide they're not staying there, at least they're neatly placed until then. Items worth either keeping or passing on put aside on shelves in the shed.

What's still in there to sort is mostly timber scraps and "contaminated soil". Rats moved into the shed at some stage, judging by the large number of nibbled-out plum stones and droppings. They also threw up a considerable pile of soil in the process of nest making. All of it would have been soaked in flood water... none of those parts worry me. All of that just breaks down again. The bits that bother me are the plastic scraps and unknown garden chemicals that are mixed into it too.

I'll probably pick out the worst of the plastic and spread the rest around somewhere that it won't matter too much (around ornamentals, not veggies...). So I'm nearly there...

I'm itching to get started on my long delayed project of building a "studio-shed". Currently there's a second 2x1.5m shed full of building materials and a disused chookyard in the place where I want to put it. So the plan is:

1- Empty shed #1 and move it to a nearby but more useful spot. Put a proper concrete base down underneath it. (Maybe using the old cured cement as aggregate underneath it?)

2- Move contents of shed #2 into relocated shed #1 (or other suitable location), discarding or passing on any we don't want.

3- Relocate shed #2 to a spot about 2m away from shed #1, so that I can turn the area between them into undercover firewood storage.

4- Clear away old chookpen fencing and other accumulata from studio-shed site... and start building...

I'm not counting on this being a quick process. Step 1 is starting to look achievable though, and that's encouraging.