There’s a few things I started in December but it’s been too hot to keep working on them:

1. Building a small clothes shelf for our bedroom.

2. Restoring my partners childhood bookcase. It’s must pine boards screwed together, but then painted sky blue and white. I’ve torn it apart, halfway through stripping it with a heat gun and scraper. End goal to make it something actually nice. I’ll cut it down a bit and properly finish it with shellac.

And other things I’ve been gathering materials for:

3. Gate. Our verandah has two staircases into the yard. One of them doesn’t have a gate so we’re always trying to keep our 18 month old away from it. A simple gate and latch will solve it.

4. Sun protection on the verandah. Because as nice as it is to sit outside, the angle of the sun through most of the day come straight in under the roof and it’s brutal. Got some shade cloth so finally will find some way to fix this. Affix it from the gutters to the deck posts somehow I guess. Needs to be removable because half the year we get 60km/h winds.

5. Landscaping. When we moved in 4 yards ago, the place had been professionally looked after. Nice path with decorative gravel in the backyard, I’ve let turn into grass and thistle - I trim it down but I need to dig it up and re-mat it. Front yard has a shale stone walkway that has cracked up and constant weeds growing through, so I need to take those up and re-concrete under it.

6. Most of our fences need tightening, the wire has come loose from kangaroos climbing through all the time. This is a tricky one, I haven’t had to fix fences before so not sure what I need to re-tension it and get it to stay that way.