27 August 2021 Photo Hunt - Bucket

Well, this word was fun.  As I was looking through my archives I slowly realised how much bucket has featured in my life since about 1985 though the photos shown here date from 2004 onwards.  You will see my interpretation of the word bucket is a loose one!  Bucket is a container, sometimes cylindricalish shape with handles; so, once again, I've been thinking outside the box!

So here's a trip down memory lane for me!  

Back in 2004 Beloved bought 3 fields near where we live; he organised someone to dig out a road and put up a shed.  It was left to us to finish the road and the shed.....  what fun and interesting challenges for us and I learnt lots of new skills!

Beloved borrowed a friend's tractor with the Foster digger

on the back; here Beloved is using the 'Bucket' to dig

up the 'soil' that was piled to one side when the road was dug.

Later Beloved bought a blue Leyland tractor which had a

front loader/Bucket with it.  My shoe is for scale (I have

small feet!).

Next on the left you can see the small trenching Bucket on 

the blue Leyland and it is emptying the 'soil' into the

big 'Bucket' of the dumper.

The dumper's 'Bucket' which I am filling with stone by hand.

Beloved is busy elsewhere doing stuff I can't do.

Enter Beloved, driving and emptying the dumper's Bucket

next to where I am working, ie, building the next section

of road so that we have vehicular access to our shed.

Off he goes, while I start to lay out the stones.  You can see

how much more of the road has yet to be done.  Just as 

well I like jigsaw puzzles.....

An even bigger 'Bucket'!  Our friend was doing building work

on his house so we left our blue trailer there and Beloved

brought it back when it was full.  Once emptied guess whose

job it was to sort through it all as our friend did not really

understand the term 'clean stone'?  So I was removing nails,

bits of wood, broken slate, etc etc.

What a tiny Bucket!  Beloved dumping fines onto the 

crazy stone work.  I suspect I riddled this lot from the

above trailer load.  Well it certainly would not have

been anyone else!

Oh what fun!  Beloved arranged for over 100 tonnes of 

motorway plannings to be delivered to the field so we could

spread it over the top of the crazy stones and then drive on it.

Note the big Bucket on the left of the next tractor he bought!

Gosh, we filled this Bucket many times, thankfully using

the Bucket on the blue Leyland and not by my hand!

Here comes a load of tarmac plannings!  Once tipped it was

spread out, probably by me but not always.  While I spread

he filled the Bucket again.

I often filled the Bucket on the big tractor with stone as the

road making progressed as it was easier to get the stone

to where it was needed rather than use the dumper.

A big Bucket can be used to lift things, here some industrial

racking and heavy angle iron girders.

I would fill lots of Buckets (from the supermarket's flower

display) with small stones and fine stuff to add to the road.

Big Bucket moving a set of stairs.

Big Bucket used when knocking fence posts in; our friend

was guiding Beloved.

The load of three quarters down had been in the dumper's

Bucket for some time and would not come out.  So

Beloved hit it with a big striking iron until it came out

in one big whosh!

At home now!  On the right you can see a black water tank 

and various Buckets I use to collect water in so I can water

the garden and not use tap water.  You can also see I've

used some guttering to help me fill the pond for the

ducks; a bit easier than carrying lots of watering cans!

When I weed, I take a Bucket with me.  

Amazing what one finds in the bottom of a Bucket.

Using Buckets to collect seeds!  The tall sides stop the seeds

from being thrown out, well most of it!

Just the other day, the big Bucket was in use again!  A bit like Time Team, we uncovered the A-frame that had been resting up at our fields for many years!  Click here to read about A-frames.

A hole was dug under the metal bar so that a chain with hook

could be threaded through it and then hooked onto the Bucket's 

edge.  I retreated to a safe distance with my camera!

A few minutes later, one of the two pieces of the A-frame had

been pulled out and then held with ratchet straps onto the

Bucket's edge so that it could be moved.

How to people manage without a tractor etc etc?

Well, if you've made it to the end, have a gold star.  Thanks Astrid for hosting the photo hunt.  I enjoy finding the photos and being able to think outside the box!  Click here to see how others have interpreted this week's word.

Bye!

Photo Hunt 20 August 2021 - Dog

I've never had a pet dog so this was not an easy word for me.  I did not like to take random photos of other people's dogs so I had to use my initiative, again!

Out on a local walk and we met a neighbour and his dog.

She was most insistent that Beloved throw a stick for her!

A dog found in our fields; luckily its owner was nearby

looking for it and we were able to unite them.

Now this is where I used my 'thinking outside the box' brain; I thought the above photos were a bit sparse.

From one of the quilt shows I've visited over the years.

Erythonium pagoda Dog's Tooth Violet

from my previous garden.

A llama, often used as guard dogs.....

Cornus elegantissima variegata aka Dogwood (with

clematis friend!).

Self-explanatory!

Well, these are my offerings for this week. I did see another dog but I was not able to take a photo as we were driving.  A couple were cycling and were about to stop at a cafe; I noticed the man had a dog in a basket at the front of his bike.  Both Beloved and I thought it looked like a Labrador or Golden Retriever.  Not a small breed of dog.  Pity we did not see the dog get out!  Also years ago we saw a Dog fish but that was pre-digital and possibly pre-film cameras but I did see one!

Thanks again to Astrid for hosting.  Click here to see who else had joined in.

Bye!

13 August 2021 Photo Hunt - Begins with S

Well this was so hard.  I have so many things beginning with S that it was hard to include a sensible number....

So here goes!

Squirrel and Sparrowhawk in the garden.  Swallows on Beloved's

roof rack when parked up at the fields.

Collecting Seeds for a gardening friend!

Growing Shallots and drying allium Seed heads.

Building Stone walls in my previous garden; top (before the wall) and bottom (the finished job).

A tall Sunflower that needed 

supporting but how to reach it????

Open the bathroom window, use a Wolf Multitool handle with a hook on it to bring the

Sunflower Stem towards me; tie the Stem to the window opening catch.

Safely secured now!

Sunflower with lots of visitors.

Snowdrop!

Drove past these Steps with cascading water.

Drove past these Sheep sheltering under a trampoline.

I did hope I might see one using the trampoline but.....

I love steam trains.  I remember travelling on them as a child.

Top a train near Long Preston where the road is very close to the tracks.

Bottom at Oakworth Vintage Railway looking the The Flying Scotsman

that had just arrived from Haworth.

Walking along a footpath with lots of 'Ships', of varying 

sizes; so many seemed to be broken dreams.

We call the trees shown above the Slug, well it looks

like a huge slug on the hill opposite our fields.

One day we walked to it; a lovely walk but all uphill!

Snow and weak Sunshine at our fields.

Stunning Sunset.

Sunbathing bunny in our garden.

Sewing Strips of fabric to make a piano key border for a quilt.

Here is the border on the finished quilt.

Final picture!  Layering up my latest Project Linus quilt

with yellow Stars.

I could have gone on forever.  Apologies if you are bored......

Thanks again to Astrid for hosting the photo hunt. Click here to see who else has joined in.  I wonder how many will have include just one or two photos?

Bye!