Today I decided to enhance my life skills and learn the sacred art of Dry Walling. I was very fortunate to have heard about 'Ladies Night' at The Collingwood, Rona so signed myself up and today was the day!
It so happened that there was a number of workshops that I was able to attend so first up, I learnt how to make a Robin's Bird Box ( very useful, especially due to the volume of Robins in the area).
Here are several pictures from the session; I felt surprisingly comfortable when handed my own power drill and excelled during the class, finishing about 10 minutes before anyone else.
I attribute my skills to all the work last year with Darren and Bob at the cottage. I took the power tool in hand with great authority and polished the screws off in no time; with not a wonky corner, weird 'malfunctioning' drill sound or rogue screw poking through the wall in sight.
Once I had finished my bird box, I moved onto the Recycling station and lecture on bath room fans( sadly, a little dull but it did spark my interest slightly with the 'paint' recycling program).
And then came the drying walling! I was very excited about this section ( so was Darren, he was keen for me to learn the craft)
In reality, it was a very short course and we only got to do a very small amount of work with the 'mud' but was a great introduction and I am keen to get scraping; I even got my own tool to take home!
The grand finale saw a raffle and guess what: I won first Prize! A massive cart of gardening goodies ( YAYYY!!) including planter [full of annuals], some grass seed [worth $50] that apparently grows anywhere, even on concrete.... and other bags of gardening gold (weed killer, grass seen, various apparatus). I was ecstatic!
And in other news:
1. My Cornish picture is finished. Now onto the next!
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