{"id":18681,"date":"2022-02-15T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18681"},"modified":"2022-02-16T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:23:27","slug":"a-washout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-washout\/","title":{"rendered":"A washout?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It certainly looks as though this week, or most of it at least, will be as far as my achieving my plans is concerned anyway. I laid out all of the posts for the remainder of my ‘anti-sanglier’ fence last week ready to be pounded into the ground but since then it has done little more than rain. So although the guys were due to come back this week to do the job, it doesn’t look as though that will be possible because the ground will be much too wet and the tyres of their large tractor would tear it to pieces.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been waiting for a call from the sawmill since the end of last week to tell me that the wood that I need for the fence sections in the front of my new house and the three gates that I’ve included in the other sides was ready for pick-up. That came today, so I had to go and collect it, bring it home in my large trailer in the pouring rain and then leave it covered up as best I could to prevent it getting even wetter than it already was.<\/p>\n

Before the rain set in I managed to clear away most of the dead leaves and acorns that have been the bane of my life since the autumn when they all fell to earth and hoped to finish the job on Saturday. I couldn’t, however, and since then the almost constant rain has prevented me from doing so and much else besides. I couldn’t get anything done on Sunday but did manage to make a few more heaps ready to be dumped in the trees yesterday between the showers, but there just wasn’t the time for me clear any of them away and dump them.<\/p>\n

Sure, I got some lovely pics when the sun peeped through from time to time between the showers, as the following shots show, but I’d rather have just been allowed to get on and finish the job.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of shots of the wood that I needed that I took today at the sawmill.<\/p>\n

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When I arrived most of it was tied in a bundle outside and I started to load it onto my trailer by hand. However, I had a word with the manager and he said that he’d load it using his machine. That was great, but unfortunately it had to be done from the side of the trailer with the tailgate removed, and when the bundle rolled onto the trailer it forced the opposite trailer side over onto the wheels on that side. <\/p>\n

He jiggled things around using the machine and I pushed the side upright again, but as this was the side and mudguard that were previously damaged by the loader at Brico Depot, I’ll have to take a closer look when it stops raining in case any more damage has been done that might make the trailer unroadworthy. If not, I’ll have to dismantle the trailer anyway when I can get around to fitting a new floor in it, so it won’t be a big issue until then.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, because I had to drive the trailer without its tailboard in place, I found a length of webbing which I attached to both sides and made the whole thing more rigid and secure. Here’s the wood after I got it back to Fleurac before I threw a cover over it to protect it from the rain.<\/p>\n

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I decided that I wouldn’t let the rain beat me and that I’d at least try to get the rest of the leaves and acorns raked up into heaps ready to be dumped. Although I got a bit wet as I continued working in light rain when it had eased off a bit, I did manage to do that and also got a few barrow loads dumped in the trees before it got just too wet to continue. <\/p>\n

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So I’m now poised like a coiled spring (ha ha) ready to leap into action as soon as the rain stops, although I don’t know when that will be. The forecast indicates that we’ll have persistent rain tomorrow and Thursday with more rain on Friday afternoon. If Friday morning at least is dry I might be able to get all of the leaves and acorns cleared and dumped, but that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

It may also be dry over the week-end and before the weather turned pear-shaped I’d hoped to get in my first flight of the year. But that now looks doubtful as Malbec’s runway will undoubtedly have become too wet again. But such is life in France with my ULMs at this time of the year. And we do need the rain if we are to avoid a drought in the summer. It’s just a pity, though, that its timing should be so ruddy inconvenient \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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