The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[BillyDee]

I'm going Thursday, very much looking forward to it

 

[BillyDee]

So, Stewart Lee Man Wulf, really enjoyed it, cry laughing (but then I am part of the North London liberal elite so I 'got' it).

Was front row, so got picked on, got away with it, unlike someone who got a much easier question but blanked...

I get some might not like the central 'bit', but I had a cracking night.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

We have had very little rain in January and February and the water tanks are almost bone dry. Checked the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) website which is like the bible here, and it said BIG rain was coming last night. So spent a very happy five hours on ladders and on the roof clearing all the guttering of eucalyptus leaves and general shit. All the gutters were completely full and blocked. Got the job done just as the apocalypse arrived and lo and behold I had flows like Niagara falls going into the water tanks. The gauges say we got well over 100ml of rain in an hour, and we now have light rain and the tanks are topping up nicely. Really good to get that job done as missing all that water in the tanks would have meant a costly water delivery in the next week or so.

Only downside was the run up to the apocalypse was fucking roasting and I am burnt to a cinder from being on the roof for hours in it. Well worth it though.

 

[sycophantia]

We have had very little rain in January and February and the water tanks are almost bone dry. Checked the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) website which is like the bible here, and it said BIG rain was coming last night. So spent a very happy five hours on ladders and on the roof clearing all the guttering of eucalyptus leaves and general shit. All the gutters were completely full and blocked. Got the job done just as the apocalypse arrived and lo and behold I had flows like Niagara falls going into the water tanks. The gauges say we got well over 100ml of rain in an hour, and we now have light rain and the tanks are topping up nicely. Really good to get that job done as missing all that water in the tanks would have meant a costly water delivery in the next week or so.

Only downside was the run up to the apocalypse was fucking roasting and I am burnt to a cinder from being on the roof for hours in it. Well worth it though.

Sounds to me like you are enjoying the outdoor life and loving doing actual proper work.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I am really enjoying yard work. It is just fun to be outside and not flying a desk. Plus I have learned so many practical things in the time here. I can now slap a fence up reasonably well, fix a ride-on lawnmower of most common faults, same with a strimmer or a chainsaw, can do some elementary tree surgery, that sort of thing. We have the ground works being done next month for a pool, and I am looking forward to laying the slabs and decking around it once it is in, and planning some nice flowerbeds around it. Thinking some big bromeliads and date palms should look nice in a few years, as long as I plant them sufficiently far from the pool shell and the house walls. So they will be the big plants, and I am now looking at colours and flowering seasons for what I can plant around them so the view is nice all year round. Gardening has become a bit of a joy in my life now.

I am even getting sort of used to the horses, and those things terrified me previously.

 

[Alan]

Their legs are too thin it doesn't make sense

 

[sycophantia]

I am really enjoying yard work. It is just fun to be outside and not flying a desk. Plus I have learned so many practical things in the time here. I can now slap a fence up reasonably well, fix a ride-on lawnmower of most common faults, same with a strimmer or a chainsaw, can do some elementary tree surgery, that sort of thing. We have the ground works being done next month for a pool, and I am looking forward to laying the slabs and decking around it once it is in, and planning some nice flowerbeds around it. Thinking some big bromeliads and date palms should look nice in a few years, as long as I plant them sufficiently far from the pool shell and the house walls. So they will be the big plants, and I am now looking at colours and flowering seasons for what I can plant around them so the view is nice all year round. Gardening has become a bit of a joy in my life now.

I am even getting sort of used to the horses, and those things terrified me previously.

Manual work can be good for the soul and its incredibly satisfying to make something or fix something........fuck, I'm sounding like some sort of hippie.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I have always like making things - hence why I am in my happy place building a model ship