Pademelon fence complete, with bonus gate upcycled from a bit of scrap I found behind some bushes:
EDIT TO ADD:
The friendly neighbour donated a load of horse straw for my garden:
And purely by luck, my gate is exactly the right width to fit the trailer through:
…although it’s a smidgeon too close to the garden bed for me to be able to turn it and take it down to the other bed. But it’s easy enough to relocate the fence a few inches further out.
Setting up an outdoor movie theater for my stepson’s birthday.
Starting to make some progress on getting the workshop organised:
Plenty of tools still to go, and I’ll probably be fiddling with the arrangement of things for weeks.
Big success, except for some kind of stupid iTunes copyright thing that prevented us from playing the main feature. So we watched music videos instead
Be careful with nonferrous foundry work, OK?
A friend went mad, had to be wrestled into the hospital (luckily nobody called the cops, we’re in the USA) and locked up for months. True story.
Reportedly, one of the doctors said if it hadn’t been for the arsenic in his system the lead and zinc would have killed him. He was hot-working bronze in the open air, not even melting it or working indoors.
Thanks for the advice. The copper we were using was from plumbing-grade pipe fittings, so hopefully it contains no lead, but I’ll do some research on safety before doing it again.
This is for @anon87143080 sorry this took so long…was waiting on wifey to take photos. There is more than just these containers and planters, but you get the gist.
Bonus old brown dog…Piper.
Looks great! And some fine photography too I might add!
she is actually an amazing photographer. www.piperbrownphotography.com
She named the business after the dog. 
I have some serious container garden envy! Also, that strawberry chef kiss.
My little 4-pot plot has been producing chard and spinach like crazy. The kale is just now starting to get big enough to harvest.
Swiss Chard grows incredible well for me. As do any lettuces.
Kale takes until mid July to be really good to go.
Peppers do well also, I actually put them in large containers this year. I also find the key to them is crowd them…they like to hug each other.
It’s been very windy here for the last few days, to such a degree that it brought down a chunky branch from one of my trees.
So, the scrap goes to the firepit:
Leaving the main branch to section up:
And seal with wax, so it dries without splitting:
Should make for some nice woodturning material.
Getting the wood storage tidied up…
EDIT TO ADD:
I just had my new oven and stove installed.
Now I have to position and clad it. I’m planning on raising the oven as far as possible and using this bit of leftover benchtop to make a shallow shelf underneath for baking pans etc.
It’ll be surrounded and supported on the inside by cheapy pine that I’ll stain to match the drawers, and the front will be clad with cut-down timber from the doors that were previously there.
In the garden. Purple Asian long beans are getting - well - long! 30-45cm now, may be 60cm when filled out. Also growing purple pole beans, black radishes and purple tomatillos.
And peppers. We got peppers!
Oven in position, just waiting to do the cladding:
And the first shoots (radishes) from my new garden:
Nearly there; just need to shave a few millimetres from the side of the opening, fix the top bit and screw it all in place.
I saw this chair on the curb with the seat ripped out.
at a glance, I knew it was synthetic upholstery, which meant I could burn the edges of the seat and that would prevent the fraying from spreading up the back.
didn’t know how I would reupholster the seat part but in the moment I grabbed it and assumed that I would figure something out.
I had been making a lot of garden stakes out of the dead bamboo from the cane break out back, hit upon that as my solution while in the garden.
but first I had to wedge a bent leg between some posts so I could straighten it out.
here you can see how I torched the seat.
while I was doing this, I realized that this was the solution I needed for my folding chair, also. it had a plastic-covered pad that had turned concave and pooled the rainwater. the metal underneath was flat with a channel around it so water couldn’t drain and was starting to rust out.
drilled and punched holes for drainage and beat on it to make it concave, then some Rust-Oleum primer.
drainage solved, on to upholstery.
both are pretty comfy.
