Scavenging, garden work and a busy weekend

You know those mornings when you sit around with your morning cuppa and find that instead of wanting to sit and enjoy a few more cuppas, you feel inspired and itching to get things done?  We had one of those mornings on Saturday.  Stu and I were browsing the recently arrived Digger's club Garden Annual and started listing the seeds we wanted to sow this year, and then one thing led to another and......

We made two trips to the timber recycling skip up the road and collected a HUGE amount of pallets and timber things that we plan to use to make a range of garden things with.

We took some of that timber and made frames for the garden beds for my melons and pumpkins to start in (they will be allowed to ramble out among the fruit trees).

We took some more of the timber and made these -

I know they look like pens (we had a lovely time with me joking that I would buy piglets to put in them and the kids telling me I'm not allowed to get piglets), but they are going to be the new raised vegie beds for summer.  I just need to line their sides with these feed bags (which are chock full of more feed bags) that my mum kindly dropped around to me yesterday and then fill them up with soil.

I also have more timber which will be used for making my planned cold frame (needs to be ready for my seed planting soon!) and perhaps also for a chook tractor.

On Sunday, Stu was still inspired to scavange, and he took a load of rubbish that's been hanging around since the kitchen renos to the tip and came back with two windows!  One is going to be the top of my cold frame (hooray for my now FREE cold frame) and the big one is going to be used to enclose the end of the verandah where he intends to start his home brewing back up again.

I like scavenging things.  I used to think it was a terrible thing to do, but now I understand that it is saving something from going into landfill, and also giving us items that we can turn into useful things for free.  Nothing wrong with that!

In amongst all of that we managed to bake, get in some dance rehearsal, teach the kids to play Cluedo and guzzle down lots of pots of tea.  We also ate lots and lots of delicious chicken soup and shredded chicken concoctions made from the rooster - he was delicious!

I love a good productive weekend and am looking forward to lots more in the coming months - I've just ordered my spring/summer seeds from Digger's and Stu is off getting the rest of the materials for his "brew shed" this week, so we will have lots to keep us busy.