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DIY drey for our ringtail possum family – part 5 final
Ready to put out so now we wait and keep checking for a empty drey. Last year they vacated in July.
Posted in Garden, Home, Pets, Possums
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Workshop – MDF storage unit.
Making a MDF storage unit to store these hand tools.
Posted in Workshop, WS Storage
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Al’s Workshop – MDF storage unit.
Making a MDF storage unit to store these hand tools.
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Al’s YouTube Channel-
My ‘Turning fence palings into dressed timber clip 1’ got over 9000 views Note: My main reason for using YouTube is because my basic WordPress paid account does not allow for direct video uploads to wordpress.com – they need to … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Publishing, Technology
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DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – part 4
From the last session we are ready to cover the top basket with shade mesh. My main reason for doing this is to prevert or at least curtail attempts by birds to nick the coco to add their own nesting … Continue reading
Posted in Pets, Possum Dray, Possums, Projects
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DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – part 3
Did not get much done in Part 2 so here my cold hands spent more time out of the pockets – doing stuff. From part 2 we can now remove that centre wire.
Posted in Pets, Possum Dray, Possums, Projects
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DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – part 2
As posted bought two of these wire baskets with coco lining from ALDI.
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DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – part 1
While plodding through ALDI Scoresby this afternoon came across these hanging baskets @ five bucks each – grabbed two.
Posted in Pets, Possum Dray, Possums, Projects
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Camera photos backup
Besides the usual Win10 backup I also do a manual file copy to USB HDD using the DOS XCOPY command. Started taking digital photos way back in 1998 with the purchase of a Agfa ePhoto 1680 Digital Camera. Was expensive … Continue reading
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Al’s auto fill/recycle bird bath–some alterations
The birdbath is close to the workshop so decided to do away with the car battery and bring all the electrics inside and run from a 12V power supply. Loosing light and then had a double injury to the right … Continue reading
Posted in Bird Bath, Garden, Home, Projects
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