Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "project"

It’s Micky’s engagement party tomorrow night and the whole family is invited. Calum is taking some of his friends which gave Tammy a reason to try to get out of it. I put my foot down though as Micky is a good family friend. It is also good for us as a family to go out for a bit even if we don’t stay to long.
Calum’s project, the desk, is a little closer to being completed. Sadly we need a drill as mine has decided it stop functioning on the one day we needed it on Sunday. Getting a replacement isn’t going to be cheap. I looked at the prices online and was shocked into stunned silence. I have small rechargeable one but unfortunately the drill bit I need doesn’t fit. I’ll have to look around and see if I can pick one up second hand from the pawn shops when I get time to go down town. When that shall be I’m not sure. Until then the desk shall have to wait unless I can come up with a solution to drill the holes to fix the supports to the wall. As the desk will be for his computer and other things I need it secured firmly so it can take the weight.
I will be spraying my apple tree this weekend for Scab Apple, a fungus infection. I noticed that some of the fruit that was ripening had split open last weekend. After some online searching I found what was wrong. The wet summer is to blame so Magz went to the garden centre at the bottom of town, the only place that stocked what I needed. I’ll need to spray the tree once a week till the end of season with Systhane Fungus Fighter to deal with the problem. I had thought that the tell-tale black marks on the fruit was nothing more than Sooty Blotch or something like that as I saw that on apples as a kid. Sadly I had to get something a little more troublesome. Well at least I can deal with it now. My cooking apple tree isn’t touched so I shall still get a crop from it. Plenty of apple pie then.

Magz found a real bargain in the charity shops this week. She picked up a Black and Decker drill for five ninety-nine. Just the thing for Calum’s project of building a desk in his room to get finished. Now we can drill the holes to fix the supports to the wall. As you might remember that we had already cut all the wood as well as the old kitchen worktop some weeks back. Unfortunately it was after planning then cutting everything that we found that our drill had given up the ghost. Since then we’ve been on the look out for one going cheap. Now thanks to Magz eagle eye we have one. Of course now I need to get Calum to clean his room all over again. It took me weeks to get him to do it last time. Let’s hope that the wait for his desk to be completed will motivate him to be quick off of the mark this time round.
Good news on my apples too. Again it was Magz that spotted one had fallen from the tree during the week. I was at work so found out she had decided to pick them all. There had been a frost during the week so I think that may have encouraged the tree to finally give up its fruit. Sadly Magz is still to make the pies, maybe this weekend. I hope she remembered the custard, hehehe.