One joyful Monday morning (4 weeks ago), Dad said "why don't you trim the cactus to burn off some of that excess energy" (Tigger has nothing on Josh! -Ed).  So I went off with a machete and a saw.  I took down one and then I cut it up into smaller pieces with the machete, it went through the branch quite easily!  I wanted to see if I could cut down another branch with it, but it wouldn't go through, so we tested out Isaac's mini chain saw (small hand held chain designed for  camping in the bu...
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Well a few things have happened in the last couple of weeks, one of the main things we did on the truck was to lay the electric cables within the framework......sounds easy? Huh!!! ....Well least so I thought!! We started by drilling holes in the framework, which wasn't quite as straight forward as it sounds!! The drill bits often have to be re-sharpened along the way! I discovered that threading these thick wires was not so easy as well. It's very hard to pass the corners in the ...
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