Boy oh boy.. did she work hard today or what? She cut down the naughty briars and pulled out the nettles that were living the life of old Riley on the terrace.. it's over twenty four by eighteen feet this terrace so that means at lot of work was done but then something reallyreally annoying happened.
She'd mixed two bottles of oil and petrol, refilled the wire on the trimmer head, filled the petrol tank and pulled the wire.. Zoom went trimmer and off they went, only for it to stop in a few minutes! Oh dear.. the top of the petrol tank had come unscrewed and fallen off and do you think she could find it. How dreary, now she has to call the company on Monday and get them to send her a new top, boring!
For there is grass to cut and the guys could have taken it all with them on Monday. But by using the big loppers and a stiff short rake, she did managed to get all the briars down that are on our side of the back fence.
And in doing so, she cut back the huge briar which had woven its' wicked way through my cage and up onto the fence. It's all gone and as she will be working on the terrace or in little shed, I am going with her tomorrow to the allotments! We'll have to remember to take another wooden perch with us as there is only one in the cage and I can't be expected to stay on one perch all day long, can I?
Yippee.. let's hope it is another sunny day like today, it was a bit cloudy but warm and with a breeze.. perfect weather for an African Grey Parrot to be outside. I'll get to loll about and watch her finish cutting back the weeds etc off the terrace, she'll put down weed and root killer this week, NOT whilst I am there, I hasten to add!
And then she will turn out little shed. She has two bottles of sterilising fluid down there and she'll wash and disinfect the surfaces and brush and wash the floor.
Mr. Rat or Master Mouse has been living the life of old Riley as well in little shed and they found a packet of fresh coffee that she forgot to put into a glass jar, everything has to live in glass bottles or jars for they eat through anything made of plastic, they chewed the packet and it has spilt it all over the work surface, which fits on top of the stove, and the floor. Naughty folk.
She'll call Dean and speak to him about helping her build a new terrace table, she had two wooden ones from Homebase which, after fourteen years of sun and rain, have rotted and are going to be burnt in the incinerator, they could make a simple one very easily as she has the wood, however, making something like that out there, is easier if there are two of you doing it.
And she has to measure up how much wood she needs for raised beds. For there are now three big open spaces where she is going to fill with raised beds and maybe, just maybe she'll buld herself the BIG treat.. the Solar house!
But before she does that, she has to repair big shed, he's lost a large bit of roof and there will be probably a piece of flooring that needs to be replaced as well.. good thing we didn't plan on having a summer holiday, isn't it!
Money needs to be spent on making this watertight again, on putting up guttering and attaching it to water butts and she love to get one of those massive water tanks to go behind little shed.. note to her, remember to speak to Andrew and ask him where he got his tank.
The kitchen water tank needs to have another stand made, fourteen years of sun and rain have rotted this as well. This small tank sits up directly outside the back window, it has a screw on lid so it's closed tight.. no bugs get in.. and it's plumbed through little shed's wall into the sink.
She uses it for washing up and cleaning water, for drinking water she goes to the main pipe on the path.. hey ho.. lots of work to do.. we've had a fair bit of asparagus and she had a large handful of the yellow cherries today! Slurpy! The currants and gooseberries are all coming along well.. but not a lot of green stuff has gone out from home yet.
The raised beds all need work but she'd rather do the hard work now of ripping out the briar and nettles, otherwise another year will go by with them growing bigger and bigger. Her energy level is good ~ whilst she's there! But then she creeps off the bus and crawls down our steps.. we're finishing this post now and going off to bed.
Probably to sleep the sleep of the dead until about eight of the morning clock. We'll eat our omelette, pack our delicious melon, Karen gave it to her when she saw her this evening, a pot of hummus and we'll leave at about ten.. that will give us a good length of time out there.
So "Goodnight" to you all.. wherever you may be.. for our bewitching hour has arrived.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 6th, 2015.
She'd mixed two bottles of oil and petrol, refilled the wire on the trimmer head, filled the petrol tank and pulled the wire.. Zoom went trimmer and off they went, only for it to stop in a few minutes! Oh dear.. the top of the petrol tank had come unscrewed and fallen off and do you think she could find it. How dreary, now she has to call the company on Monday and get them to send her a new top, boring!
For there is grass to cut and the guys could have taken it all with them on Monday. But by using the big loppers and a stiff short rake, she did managed to get all the briars down that are on our side of the back fence.
And in doing so, she cut back the huge briar which had woven its' wicked way through my cage and up onto the fence. It's all gone and as she will be working on the terrace or in little shed, I am going with her tomorrow to the allotments! We'll have to remember to take another wooden perch with us as there is only one in the cage and I can't be expected to stay on one perch all day long, can I?
Yippee.. let's hope it is another sunny day like today, it was a bit cloudy but warm and with a breeze.. perfect weather for an African Grey Parrot to be outside. I'll get to loll about and watch her finish cutting back the weeds etc off the terrace, she'll put down weed and root killer this week, NOT whilst I am there, I hasten to add!
And then she will turn out little shed. She has two bottles of sterilising fluid down there and she'll wash and disinfect the surfaces and brush and wash the floor.
Mr. Rat or Master Mouse has been living the life of old Riley as well in little shed and they found a packet of fresh coffee that she forgot to put into a glass jar, everything has to live in glass bottles or jars for they eat through anything made of plastic, they chewed the packet and it has spilt it all over the work surface, which fits on top of the stove, and the floor. Naughty folk.
She'll call Dean and speak to him about helping her build a new terrace table, she had two wooden ones from Homebase which, after fourteen years of sun and rain, have rotted and are going to be burnt in the incinerator, they could make a simple one very easily as she has the wood, however, making something like that out there, is easier if there are two of you doing it.
And she has to measure up how much wood she needs for raised beds. For there are now three big open spaces where she is going to fill with raised beds and maybe, just maybe she'll buld herself the BIG treat.. the Solar house!
But before she does that, she has to repair big shed, he's lost a large bit of roof and there will be probably a piece of flooring that needs to be replaced as well.. good thing we didn't plan on having a summer holiday, isn't it!
Money needs to be spent on making this watertight again, on putting up guttering and attaching it to water butts and she love to get one of those massive water tanks to go behind little shed.. note to her, remember to speak to Andrew and ask him where he got his tank.
The kitchen water tank needs to have another stand made, fourteen years of sun and rain have rotted this as well. This small tank sits up directly outside the back window, it has a screw on lid so it's closed tight.. no bugs get in.. and it's plumbed through little shed's wall into the sink.
She uses it for washing up and cleaning water, for drinking water she goes to the main pipe on the path.. hey ho.. lots of work to do.. we've had a fair bit of asparagus and she had a large handful of the yellow cherries today! Slurpy! The currants and gooseberries are all coming along well.. but not a lot of green stuff has gone out from home yet.
The raised beds all need work but she'd rather do the hard work now of ripping out the briar and nettles, otherwise another year will go by with them growing bigger and bigger. Her energy level is good ~ whilst she's there! But then she creeps off the bus and crawls down our steps.. we're finishing this post now and going off to bed.
Probably to sleep the sleep of the dead until about eight of the morning clock. We'll eat our omelette, pack our delicious melon, Karen gave it to her when she saw her this evening, a pot of hummus and we'll leave at about ten.. that will give us a good length of time out there.
So "Goodnight" to you all.. wherever you may be.. for our bewitching hour has arrived.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 6th, 2015.
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