Author Archives: Bill Hutchison

Bunnings Gets New Shopping Trolley

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I know, it’s crazy that I get excited about Bunnings (like Home Depot) getting more shopping trollies, but when you spend as much time as I do there, this is an exciting development.

The previous trollies were pretty horrible things that usually had a mind of their own and were exactly the same as a supermarket trolley. The new ones were actually designed for a hardware store, which made it easy to fit a new toilet on the trolley last weekend, something you couldn’t really do with the old ones. Also because they are new they actually go where you want them to, which is a real bonus.

I know, it’s pretty sad that I’m this excited about using a new trolley at Bunnings, but I’m sure that I am not the only one…

How Far Behind Schedule Are We?

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At the moment I have two weeks of unused leave for this calendar year. In our original plan I was supposed to be using those two weeks to paint the exterior of the house.

Instead right now the only thing that I have that I can paint are the new front stairs. There are no walls or even frames under our house that I can paint.

To say that we are frustrated would be an understatement.

I only wish that I had the skill to do it myself..

Daytime Watering Finally Band

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As I have said before, I think that daytime watering should be banned almost all the time anyways. It is a complete waist of water to be watering in the heat of the day and the Townsville City Council had finally agreed.

There is now no watering allowed between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm in Townsville.

Although these measures might seem quite strict for Townsville, in reality they are nothing compared to the total ban on watering that they are considering for down in Brisbane right now. Australia is currently in what some are calling the worst drought in 100-years. So that will have to lead to some pretty drastic action needing to be taken.

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Large Tree Finally Gone

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Caleb and I spent the weekend finally finishing off removing the last of the tall Eucalyptus tree from the back of our house. We spent the better part of a half day removing all the mulch from where the stump grinder had ground up the remainder of the Eucalyptus trunk. The trunk was probably about 1.5 metres (almost 5-feet) in diameter, so there was a lot of mulch left over from it.

Digging up the Mulch from the Stump Grinder

Unfortunately it was not easy finally getting the tree lopping finished off. It took us almost a month of pestering to finally get the tree lopper out to finish the job (check out the original story, Using a Cherry Picker to Cut Down our Tree). They finally came and almost finished the job, but not completely.

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