What have you done today thread?

[Taipan]

Got chatting to someone I have only know on FB - she offered to lend me a book about kittens - I am having a very steep learning curve with the new arrival!! She also rides - an MT07 (wanted an MT09 cos it's what she took her test on, but the 07 was all that was available when they went looking!!) So, looks like I have a new riding buddy. She wants to get confidence and so do I!!

Kitten crapped where she shouldn't have because I didn't clean out the litter tray fast enough That'll teach me

She also didn't stay asleep for the lesson!! But hey - I learnt some new words!!!

Le Chat shat!

[Taipan]

Cleared a small patch of the garden and planted, well scattered our BeeBomb! Bizarrely I noticed we appear to have Bees living under our decking?





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[Horse]

Cleared a small patch of the garden and planted, well scattered our BeeBomb!

Blimey ... I have some of them, somewhere. Ta for reminder.

[ZRX61]

May have been yelled at by a maskzi at a local store for not wearing a mask. Not sure though as I was about 100ft inside the store by the time I heard "sir! SIR!! SIR!!!!!" coming from behind me over by the door.

Used construction adhesive to fix 4 loose bricks around flower beds in the front yard.

Ate 75% of a pizza with a cauliflower crust. Didn't taste any different to the regular kind.

[ZRX61]

Hit Costco this morning, this is what $93 buys ya.... altho only the cheese & shrooms are mine.

[MingtheMerciless]

Missed the Dragonfly’s emerging from our wildlife pond, bugger!

[v8-powered]

Drank, ate BBQ....

[Rockburner]

SFA

Well, sat in the garden reading Rotherweird, watching the occasional aerial predator pass over: couple of peregrine falcons (I think), a couple of buzzards, one of which was repeatedly being attacked by a kestrel: as in we watched the kestrel trying to drive the buzzard off on more than one occasion. I can only assume we're near the boundary of the kestrels turf, the buzzards float all over the place.

[Horse]

watching the occasional aerial predator pass over:

We have have almost constant Red Kites over here. 7 at one time this afternoon. Occasionally they come down below roof height - they're bloomin big!

A few people around here feed them. I've seen 18 wheeling around.

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Moments apart, two slightly different directions from the same point.

[ZRX61]

We get these buggers, about 6ft wingspan..



& sometimes these, which are about 9 1/2 feet span.

[Bigyin]

Built this over the last couple of days for a local holiday home who wanted their hot tub enclosed in a summer house....... last part of the build according to the manual is the floor but because of the circumstances after the base then the floor was next which was a bit of a challenge.

How fucking heavy is a hot tub to move with just 2 people even when its empty



and move the heavy bastard back on



taking shape



Finished

[Mussels]

Looks good and you'll get repeat work to remove the summer house when it turns into a mouldy mess.

[Pirahna]

We get these buggers, about 6ft wingspan..

Adult Red Kites have a 5ft wing span, so not a small bird. Buzzards are around the same size.

[v8-powered]

......a couple of buzzards, one of which was repeatedly being attacked by a kestrel: as in we watched the kestrel trying to drive the buzzard off on more than one occasion. I can only assume we're near the boundary of the kestrels turf, the buzzards float all over the place.

Watched similar yesterday - big old buzzard getting harassed by 2 crows, reckon the crows had a nest in the big old oak tree in the field and the buzzard got a bit too close for their liking. Giving the poor buzzard a really hard time....

[Rockburner]

Built this over the last couple of days for a local holiday home who wanted their hot tub enclosed in a summer house....... last part of the build according to the manual is the floor but because of the circumstances after the base then the floor was next which was a bit of a challenge.

How fucking heavy is a hot tub to move with just 2 people even when its empty



and move the heavy bastard back on



taking shape



Finished

WTF put a shed around a hot tub?

It's like saying: "we KNOW it's a dirt-sex-pool, we KNOW YOU KNOW it's a dirty-sex-pool, we know YOU know WE know You know We know it's a dirty-sex-pool, we're just making it BLATANTLY bloody obvious that we USE it as a dirty-sex-pool, and we don't like you watching!"

[Rockburner]

......a couple of buzzards, one of which was repeatedly being attacked by a kestrel: as in we watched the kestrel trying to drive the buzzard off on more than one occasion. I can only assume we're near the boundary of the kestrels turf, the buzzards float all over the place.

Watched similar yesterday - big old buzzard getting harassed by 2 crows, reckon the crows had a nest in the big old oak tree in the field and the buzzard got a bit too close for their liking. Giving the poor buzzard a really hard time....

The crows are always trying to drive the buzzards off around here, daily occurrence. Yesterday it was quiet enough in the evening we could hear the impact when the crow's wing hit the buzzard's, sounded like the noise you make shaking out a wet t-shirt.

The crows will also drive off the Kestrels - saw that a couple of times up on the downs last year, the Kestrel was far more manoevrable than the crow though and just treated it like an annoyance, buzzards are a little more bulky!

Never seen a Kestrel attack a buzzard before though.

[Noggin]

Took the sodding cat to the vet this morning. After a weekend of stress about it and some weird behaviour

Stupid animal behaved fine and happy for the vet. Little sod!

Anyway, back home and she's still fine

But, she's definitely more mobile than I was led to believe she would be, so I don't think it's a good 'fit' for her to live here

Think I'll have to rehome her in a few weeks - when we can more easily see how mobile she is and make sure that what happened at the weekend was a one off

Bit gutted really but I always said I'd only keep her if she was happy here

Suns shining so I'm off out for a little walk in a bit then get stuck into some paperwork and parts finding that I didn't do this weekend

[gremlin]

WTF put a shed around a hot tub?

Is it me or is it next to the front door?

[gremlin]

Today I have sat in the upstairs office in my house, ever so slightly nauseous and dehydrated, sweating like a good 'un, wondering why I sent my mate a picture of the open bottle of Moretti yesterday lunchtime and asking if him and his missus wanted to pop over to join us for a drink or two in the garden...

[Bigyin]

WTF put a shed around a hot tub?

It's like saying: "we KNOW it's a dirt-sex-pool, we KNOW YOU KNOW it's a dirty-sex-pool, we know YOU know WE know You know We know it's a dirty-sex-pool, we're just making it BLATANTLY bloody obvious that we USE it as a dirty-sex-pool, and we don't like you watching!"

I did wonder why, apparently it was in the huge garden (this is a massive property that is rented out for groups of 16-20 at a time) but neighbours complained about the noise from the late night hot tub. They then moved it to the back of the house furthest away from from neighbouring houses and now put a shed round it ..... i just built it rather than figure the logic. If i was using it i would want to be able to see the sky while having a beer rather than a shed roof

Is it me or is it next to the front door?

Back door mate on a sun trap patio ....the house has entrances on all 4 sides to access different gardens and patio areas