Great Rumblings from SunnyO

Great rumblings from Sunny O. The sound of earthmovers & trucks. It was grand. Here's what it looked like before from various angles: 1, 2, 3

Sadly, this occurred on Froday & Saturday, rather than the Monday we were hoping for. Upshot is that while the old sheds have been taken away, the new shed is sill neatly wrapped in it's flat & alarmingly small kitset form (it will erect, apparently, to 3x4 metres!).

But took the whole week off to prepare for the demolition derby. Moved all the valuables, and not so valuables that we want to keep anyway, out of the old shed, and deposited them in the sleepout, and various not very neat piles around the boundaries of the property...

Then on Tuesday, after hearing from the crinkly demo guy that he might not make it this week, I went off in a huff & cut down a big pine tree for firewood (very therapeutic), and took a big branch off the willow that towers over the driveway...

And generally pottered around the property wondering what to do with the sheep - where to put them so they were both out of the way of impending diggers, and had grass to eat.

Came up with a clever plan & put a big temporary fence across the paddock, which not only keeps them up the forest end, but also means we can sow grass seed & leave it to establish itself without ovine molestation.

Then out of the blue, on Friday afternoon, an 8 tonne digger arrived "To take a poke at that shed there...."

And poke he did, flattened the lot within an hour. The next day the digger was joined by 2 big trucks, and "That shed" made it's graceful exit. By now, neighbours thronged the boundaries for the show.

We had people coming for lunch that day, so I socialised, imbibed, and generally got pissed while we all watched the boys working. Fantastic.

They were coming back on Monday to remove the concrete strips in the big paddock - for which I'd totally dismantled the fence along one side so they could get in and out easily. Big job this coming weekend, is to fix that fence back up again...

And then start to build the kitset shed, which looks a lot harder to do than I imagined & will involve me having to master the art of pop rivetting.... (I thought it'd come with a lot of nuts & bolts, but no...).

But here's what it looked like by close of play Saturday... and here.

And just for fun here's some other photos I took that week... 1, 2, 3