Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Well that was an 'interesting' day. Just staying upright was an achievement. The conifer branch in the first photo landed about 20 yards from where I was working.

There were branches and small trees dropping all over the place and some seriously stormy skies. All topped off with a lively two hour drive home, exploring all the back roads around Ipswich (along with many other lost souls, all trying to find their way home).

 

I found this.. 1965 Dodge M43 USMC Ambulance for sale: photos, technical specifications, description Even has original stretcher racks still in it.

 

Martial arts training all morning for me and wife and CL1.1.

Every 3 months, we have a special training day with guest instructors just to give us a bit more variety. It is usually very intense and today was no exception. I fell over a couple of times due to exhaustion. It was tremendous fun though. Then it was time for home, out of the sweaty, stinking, soggy training kit, a quick clean up, slacks, bite to eat, then snooze on sofa. I'll be drinking beer later, for the first time in about 4 weeks because I've been ill (better now).

All in all, a good day so far.

 

Saturday morning, a little change from the ordinary. Walking my gardens with coffee with cats following, a normal adventure. I looked off into the familiar woods and questioned a brown rock in a spot I had not seen before about a good 10 feet from where I was standing. Still standing at the 10 foot mark I realized it was a deer laying down, talking to it, thinking it was sleeping only, it started to struggle to get up, seemed like something was caught on it. Went off to get my husband, he brought wire cutters. He then got up close to the poor thing, and could see nothing was holding it down. We surmised he probably got hit by a car on the road way above us and made its way down the hill into the woods to hide. Probably had some internal injuries going on. Calling the police, they came, assessed the same. They left to return with a guy who wanted the deer for meat. And also as the time went by you could see the poor thing was getting worse and worse. So the police shot the baby, and they took it . So was our Saturday morning.

 

@Kandy , had that happen to a cat before. if they fight, and a claw get them, then it gets infested, etc. has to be lanced. sometime the vet just leaves it alone, sometime a clean out is needed and a stitch.

 

Best 4WD vehicle ever made! Compared to it, all other 4WD's are Starbucks coffee -tasteless no matter how its made. This is coffee made in the middle of the forest using 3 day old sump over a birch wood fire, with wolves howling all around...

Pity the original flathead 6 has been swapped for a small block though.

 

Today I've been for a solo walk along the sea front.

I ranged from about 30 to about 45 degrees relative to the vertical.

 

That's terrible Esther

 

Went and had a cuppa with me boy

 

Aww.. were there no veterinarians to call?

Yes, I heard

Ah.. now that's how I like my engines made

When I get hold of it perhaps it would like a Cummins B series or a Wartsila-sulzer RTA96-C

 

Kiddies go back to school today, totally forgot we had some Welsh themed homework to do.. so I sent him in with one of my leeks (daughter dearest declined the offer)

 

I love the homework projects CL1.1 gets. His last one was on the theme of natural disasters of all things. I knew all his classmates would make volcanoes, complete with baking soda and vinegar to make it erupt, so we took a different approach. A clever arrangement of cardboard box plus paper pins and cardboard levers, and we made a town with two tectonic plates, and little cardboard buildings that would fall over when we push a cardboard lever that made the two cardboard tectonic plates shift side to side. Ie we built a cardboard earthquake simulator. He tells me he was the only one that built an earthquake, and everyone was impressed.

His next topic is the stone age. I have no idea what we can make for that.

 

Ah, that sounds really cool! Maybe make some clay gogs for the next project?! First thing that came to my head haha

I love doing the crafty homework too but I lost the homework sheet and totally forgot For his last homework which was based on favourite books we made a 3D hungry caterpillar, from egg to caterpillar to butterfly, had so much fun with that

 

My artistic skills are terrible but we had fun making it

 

My first thought was a flint hand axe, but he might get in trouble with that, how about a quern?

Quern-stone - Wikipedia