Author: Tim
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Working on the new compost pile! 💪🌳
We’ve outgrown our tiny compost barrel so are temporarily (or probably semi-permanently) using some of the old sheep stalls as a new multi-stage compost pile. But there’s this lovely young ash tree growing right up out of the concrete! A bit of Googling revealed that ash trees grow to 35m and live for hundreds of…
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We had a tiny visitor to the farm today! 🐰😍❤️
The boys noticed this tiny little guy struggling by the side of the road and we just had to take him in… We had no idea what he was or how to care for him but a bit of Googling and some calls around to some wildlife vets and rescue people and we discovered he…
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K converted the under sink drawer to a hinged door 💪👷♀️🚪
We’ve been living with the cabinet open as our hot water tank wouldn’t allow for a drawer so she dismantled it, bought a hinge cutter drill bit and some hinges and voila! 🤩
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Insulating the attic! 🥵💪
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted! But we’ve been hard at work on the house and around the farm! 💪👨🌾👩🌾 I popped up into the attic to clear out some of the rubbish left behind and discovered that our hot water tank was uncovered, and most of the attic was devoid of insulation of any…
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Day 4 of tiling the kitchen – cutting the outlets 🪚⚡
We had originally tried to fit tiny bits of tile around the outlets only to quickly realize that that’s a terrible idea… So we picked up a time cutter Dremel bit and cut some holes out of whole tiles which will end up with a much cleaner finish. Now we just need to get the…
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Day 3 of tiling the kitchen… K is a grout master! 👷♀️💪😍
Finished my workday today to the surprise that K had grouted the wall as it is so far.. honestly can’t believe how great it looks 😍♥️
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Day 1 of tiling the kitchen 💪👷♀️👷
After drilling the pilot holes for the shelves, our next task was to tile the wall in white beveled subway tile… We’ve never tiled before so there was a bit of calculation and trial and error but we’re super happy with the results so far!
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Sorted the washing machine! 💪🧽🌀
We have no room for our washing machine in the house so had some plumbing and wiring run out to the Workshop. We finally got it hooked up only to discover it violently shook and “walked” across the floor when spinning. 😅 We discovered a couple of the adjustable leveling feet were bent, which is……
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