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Cool kiddos - love their expressions and reactions. Except for that little **** in the maroon shirt. What a twat. Big hole in his education ... shame.
Damn but business took a sudden nose dive Mid-February. Anyone else in the trades also getting that?
Yes - you can just put the middle part aside, then have a short legged weber. But they are farking expensive, looking at R6000 - R7000 now. I bought mine from a Builder's Warehouse 'old stock' table for R700
Grrrrrrrr. Melawood.
I desperately need a new kitchen. But finances, man.
So do I. I fixed three drawers and two doors in my kitchen this weekend, but it needs a complete re-build. But there's zero money right now - work is slow, kids are busy, things break.
On wheels! And with storage for some glasses.
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I passionately hate building kitchens, as melawood is horrendous to work with. It chips, breaks, bends, shifts and ends up having unexpected sharp edges.
I also passionately hate doing work for very close friends and family, as either they want things done fast, cheap(free) and good (as we all know you can only pick two of those) or you feel guilty for not doing those three things.
So what am I doing right now? Building an effing kitchen for an effing close friend. Fortunately it's only three cupboards, and fortunately, I'm done building, just need to install them now.
As a matter of interest, a family of 4 can be fed all their nutritional needs on a piece of land the size of a standard door, making use of trellis and frame work no higher than 1.6m.
Do share 
Thats a lot of food. Your own creation sounds lekker.
The chickens get cut up and chucked in the freezer. The pork is pulled and also put into baggies. Slow defrosting and very slow re-heating is essential though. No microwave! Ever!
Honestly, the choinkrooms are much better if it gets rolled in a lekker hot bbq rub before wrapping in bacon, and then have hot sauce basting rather than a sticky sweet one, but hey, the family is not big on hot stuff.
Fired up the Weber Smokey Mountain this weekend. Ended up making pork butt, 4 chickens, some smoked boerewors as well as my own creation, choinkrooms (button mushrooms filled with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon, smothered in home-made Jack Daniels glaze and smoked for 2.5 hours)
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Must be a nice teacher??
Have you met my daughter? The 6-year old that shoots, rides horses, guts and cleans fish and fowl? The one that climbs into my 15m wild fig tree until the top branches bend? The one that had a mad giggle when I rolled my Jeep with her in it? The one that, just last week, brought a live snake out of the garden? (A rooilippie, she knows them)
I'm saying sorry so long 
Here's my little 'angel'
Did a funny one yesterday .. I call it the dogbox.
My one daughter is in grade 1 this year, in the 'hondjie klas' and the teacher wanted something to keep their lunchboxes in - out of the sun, away from ants, preferably on wheels. This was my effort
The doors don't line up because the floor is uneven and the latch is not fully closed.
It's still to be painted - I can't do everything now can I 
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I had one of these towers fall on toe on x-mas day. Required melting a paperclip through the nail to relieve the pressure at 5:30am the next morning so I could go ride.
I only noticed this now ... I've sold a couple to Capetonians - it may just have been one of mine
So I finally got my laser-cut parts (Friday night around 18:00) and spent most of Friday night putting these together. Two crates full 
And then this morning I finally got my labels for only-sort-woodworking-related-chilli-sauce. Hope the label makes up for the lack of wood 
I'm sommer de moer in now. The guy that's been doing my laser work (engraving, cutting MDF templates, name plates etc) is busy messing me around. I've ordered a couple of batches of rubber band gun parts, I expected delivery in early January but his machine broke. As I've been doing business with him for a long time, I gave grace and extension and and and ... he was supposed to have his machine fixed by now, but has had a run of bad luck, so seems as if he's out of funds for the time being.
He's been using a demo machine at the guys that sold him the machine's shop, and he was supposed to (farking faaainally) deliver me parts tonight. Now he phones me and tells me that they needed the machine for a demo and he can only go back tomorrow. FFS.
I'm just so fed up with the situation. He's good people, so I don't want to change suppliers (I often check his prices against other shops, he's still very well priced) and he's never let me down yet. I've been doing a big marketing drive for the guns, and now it looks like it's gonna fall flat because of supplier issues.
<accent:Jamaican>Thanks mon!</accent>
I finished up a couple of pens for this weekend's market - we'll see how it goes. They're a bit of an experiment, I've never really had enquiries about pens. I also don't know of anyone that is making bank on these - a lot of time goes in for little reward. They are, however, fun to make. I even did a plastic one - I can now tell you that I probably won't be doing that again, the plastic comes off in very fine shavings and that goes everywhere. I spent two hours cleaning up the shop this morning (OK, that was also due to 100 rubber band guns and 10 sets of Jenga coming through)
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Busy making some more pens in my 'spare' time ... lol.
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I skipped yesterday, sorry. Was out shopping.
This was one of my 'finds' .... laminated saligna shelving, for sale at Builders Whorehouse. WTF
Made only a little dust this weekend - was moer busy, on Friday night I re-packed my market stuff (it properly fills a Bantam bakkie) Saturday morning set up the market stall, which my parents manned for me whilst I ran away to extend last week's pallet wall (added another 1.4 wide strip on the wall, this time behind the mirror and not the tv) Made some holes in a worktop to fit electrickery cables through at another client, rushed back to do the last two super-dead-quiet hours at the market, got home and made some dust (will post that project's progress tomorrow) then had my Voortrekker span over for a braai (11 kids in my spannetjie , with their brothers. sisters and parents) and on Sunday morning I did some gardening - finally got around to my veggie garden again, doing some big changes there, started with irrigation, compost, some 1.8 droppers and wiring for the beans etc. After that, my wife's Voortrekker span for a braai - they were only 6 kids fortunately.
I'm pooped.
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