It is not quite August, yet, and spring is making itself felt with blossoms here and there, and last night the toads we imported from our previous residence (with our pond fish) started croaking songs of love. The first yellow-billed kite has returned from northern climes. Also, I have now been able to recommission the portapool after gaining enough water from our deluges for a major backwash, and the kids all went for a swim in it today. Brrrrr!
My crazy paving (or laying of slasto) has taken forever, but the bits are finally in place and level. The pictures below are of progress – I still need one properly showing the final effect.
The levels are gradually established…
Crazy paving is an art
Which, tried, you will be rueing it:
If you’re not crazy at the start,
You’re driven crazy doing it.
Chances are you were insane
To ever have attempted it
Never mind the gain from pain –
You’d rather be exempted it.
All the bits finally fall into place – leaving practically nothing over of the supply lifted from the front room of tho house.
But when, at last, it has been laid
You’re pleased that you completed it;
Less mess from mud in house is made;
Explained,* you have defeated it.
(*’Explain’ comes from Latin where it meant ‘lay out flat’. The best way to explain some people in the way they deserve is, in fact, a punch on the jaw.)
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You puzzled it out quite well – both the stones and the words
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Trying to get the stones level had me using words I didn’t know I knew. I had to block my ears.
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That could crack you up. I’ve “refurbished” a small stone patio in a vintage (as in ancient) house my daughter bought. It is maddening, but feels pretty nice when done. That was one big project. Looks great
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Sometimes ‘refurbishing’ can be worse than starting from scratch!
My lot has settled in amazingly even without cement grouting, and certainly has improved the area!
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We love your garden, Col and the poem of course 🙂 Pawkisses 🙂 ❤
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I like the “explained” !
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It makes sense when one considers the meaning of the Latin ‘explanare’.
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What a fabulous explanation of explain!
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That’s for SA, UK etc. In USA, I suppose it would have to be to lay out an apartment! 🙂
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Bwahahaaa…all that hard work seems to just sharpen your wit!
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It’s been blunting my tools, so I’m glad it sharpens SOMETHING.
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cant believe the kids are already swimming out there in August
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They never really stopped, and I only stopped because I couldn’t get water on my angle grinder wounds. We swim the whole year round.
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i always forget… you are coastal and it’s so mild in comparion
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It is a strange place here – swimming the year round at the coast, but twenty miles inland you put your pool under wraps until summer!
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Looking good!
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And even better now that it has been rained in and non-level sections, revealed by the rain, rectified.
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Love the poetry, wish I had that talent, can’t even do a limerick 😦
Just as a matter of interest where exactly do you live, South Africa South America or South Australia ?
😕
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The bottom bit of the Dark Continent. Which it is, right now, with rain squalls and general gloom.
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