What "man jobs" have you done today?

{SAS}TB said:
Decided my Lego (mostly Star Wars Lego) was sprawling through the man cave / my home office

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Four Ikea units, lots of swearing and rubber malleting due to the sod all +/-mm tolerance and some timber mound later (will fill, sand and paint some other time)

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Originally had the Pixel Dan Millennium Falcon in, leaned up against the back but felt far too precarious so is on the desk, for now, until I can find a good wall mount solution

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I need to sort something for my Lego castle collection. Aparrently every free surface in the living room is not an appropriate storage place, according to the good lady.

Looking at the 40cm deep Billy bookcase with glass doors. The standard 30cm deep one isnt deep enough for the Lion Knight Castle.
 
Made a start on the cladding:



Its gone... ok. Its tongue/groove cement board so once in place will never move, but man its irritating. The tongue just is not big enough in places, the manufacturing quality is not what I expected from expensive stuff.

Even counter sinking the screws has meant that in some places I cannot get the tongue to sit properly... but its enough to maintain water-tightness so I propose to not care one jot once its done because its the side of the house and I'll never look at it again :p.

Will hose off any cement dust once finished and it'll be grand.

I knew I should have gotten a framing nailer.
 
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Terminal_Boy said:
I’m waiting for a few dry days before giving my grass a last cut of the year.
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Mind raise the cut a bit if you can. it leaves the grass a little longer meaning there is more leaf area to catch the lower levels of daylight over Winter.
 
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Got the framing around the window done:



Just the door to do now. The idiot that I am didn't even think that I should have lined up the top of the window with the door, then could have just cladded across. That said.... this is not the cladding I was going to use originally and was overruled by the boss. Still, I should have lined those up. As it is now I need to use another piece of trim. Oh well.
 
Went outside to rake up the fallen leaves from the conker tree directly behind our garden fence. I ended up spending half an hour pulling ivy off the fence first.

Ivy is most definitely a weed to me - it does that annoying thing where you try to gently peel up a section and it snaps off in your hand. That's an evolutionary trait to stop you pulling it up, like bindweed!

Also discovered there's tons of moss in the shady bits of lawn that came up, so I guess that's two man jobs?
 
Treated myself to a Dewalt electric pruner and I've been chopping up a load of wood I trimmed from an ash about a year ago, and turning it into kindling.

It's such a cool tool! ******* terrifying though, one wrong move and your finger is a gonner! :eek:

 
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Final grass cut of the year (deck raised), removed the wildflower debris after cutting it back 2 weeks ago (to let it dry out and deposit more seeds) then ran over it with the mower on full height, stuck the tap cover on the outdoor tap for frost and did a general tidy up ready for the Winter.
 
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