17.05.2025 It's never ending!

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  Saturday 17th 52F/11C [7.30] Bright sunshine. It could be cloudy at times. Windy from the north again.

 Up at 6.50 after another quiet night. It must be all the exhausting exercise. Not remotely finished. I have to tidy up the concrete anchors. Move all the plywood and then start on the loose stack of timber at the back.

 First I need a walk to ease my back pain. 

 8.15 Problem solved within a few hundred meters. I was only gone for 25 minutes. It has clouded over as the DMI suggested it might. The spirea hedges are in flower. The post in the foreground is the Danish equivalent of a cat's eye. Historically Denmark has had deep snow during most winters. Which made cat's-eyes rather pointless. 

 9.00 I have finished moving the plywood down to the bottom of the garden. I leaned the incredibly heavy, wet stuff against the tree stump. The dry, laid flat on a pallet and stack of larch boards. Yet again I am dripping with sweat and tired. Morning coffee is indicated. Having a rest. To recover for the next stage. All that wood! I'll try layering it at right angles. A long stack doesn't work. 

 9.30-11.00 I moved more wood down the garden. I can't win. No jumper and I freeze in the wind. I put a jumper on and sweat profusely. I began to remove the steelwork from the concrete anchors. It usually required a tap, or three, with a hammer on the spanner. Just to break the rust bond. 

 They all unscrewed in the end. After which I used the sack truck to move the bare anchors to the bank. Not easy with the lumpy gravel and loosely filled holes. There are three more anchors buried at the back. Perhaps more. Under the stack of the remaining timber. It is all exhausting work. So I need another rest! 

 12.30 It is never ending! I have been lifting and dismantling more anchors. I can see at least five more. Waiting to be lifted. My original observatory had six sides. The enlarged one had fourteen. With four more anchors needed for the pier. Now I have had to remove the clothes airer. To make enough room for the blocks. Time for another rest. I am dripping again! 

 12.45  I haven't been shopping. So there are no rolls left for lunch. I'll just have to have toast.

 15.30 Back in for a rest. I am knackered again! 22 anchors lifted. Metalwork removed and blocks moved to the bank. There is one more anchor hidden under a pallet. Which is loaded with heavy stuff. It will all have to go but I can't face moving that lot today. 

 Meanwhile, back at the hovel, I have been trying to raise the temperature indoors using the greenhouse. Heat exchange is poor without forced circulation. I managed a couple of extra degrees to 67F/19.4C in the room. The four skylights are open in the greenhouse but not the end doors. There has been quite a bit of cloud today. Highest temperature in the greenhouse was 100F/38C before I opened the skylights. It has since dropped to 90F/32C out there.

16.20 I had better go shopping. In the car. I am too tired to ride the bike. My hands and wrists are aching.

 17.15 I had to visit both supermarkets due to a lack of standard stock in the first. Only to find the second had no stock either. 

 Dinner was salad. With heart lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots and hard boiled tweggs.

 

  ~o~