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Garden pond–continued

Making progress pressure cleaned the larger rocks and arranged them back under the waterfall. Cleaned the main pump sponge filter as well as the fountain pump – add water.

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Garden pond – maintenance

The weather is right for the annual pond cleaning event, where’s that kneeling pad.

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Bunnings – 2 Burner BBQ

We have the usual 5 burner family BBQ but that’s to much effort for a small cook-up for 2, so we snapped up this ‘as is’ floor sale at Bunnings.

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Garden blower-vac problems

Believe it or not I still have some GMC tools !!! A GMC 24V hammer drill with 2 x NiCad batteries-that still take a charge! :https://alanm52.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/gmc-24v-2-speed-cordless-hammer-139/ A GMC pressure washer that’s still going strong:https://alanm52.wordpress.com/2005/07/14/gmc-1400w-pressure-cleaner/ and a big and heavy GMC … Continue reading

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Carport lights wind damage

Crazy wind this morning with palm fronds crashing down, one of them took out the left driveway/carport light. Above: The palm frond impact left the light hanging by one bent screw.

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Luna – curious cat

Unpacking the shopping including ALDI stuff, didn’t take long for Luna to try out the futon cushion’s.

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Power board breaker tripping?

From last week one of the 10A breakers has been tripping in the power board ?   Above: Went looking in the carport area and found the culprit, old weatherproof power point that I pressed into service when wiring the … Continue reading

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New ALDI store for Knox

We live in Monash with ALDI/Brandon Park only a few minutes drive but still very interested that another ALDI will be opening at 800 Stud Rd, Scoresby.

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To many toys…

This has been lying on the dining room table while I’ve been playing around with the car black box recorders. However…my main priority is to keep moving with the tree pruning, lost a day yesterday with the rain but I … Continue reading

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Scroll saw blades

Bought some spare blades for the Work Zone scroll saw that I grabbed last week from ALDI reduced to $55 bucks.

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