turning the sod

Years worth of secretions grip the shearing board.   Lanolin, motor oil, sheep shit covered moccasins and sweat, now for some grease.....

elbow grease.

  The Al Swearengen scrub.

for Chris.  working is fatiguing, working well is succeeding.

 

Putting up 3m high corrugated galvanised iron sheets often require an extra set of helpful hands - I owe those to Brianna and John.

hungry hungry honda

Lately I have been spending time on the family farm.  Here is my mothers mower in need of some repair.
Mind you the wheel was on, but I had to remove it to fix the height adjustment lever.  The handle did have one locking nut, with sellotape holding the other side.  Hay twine held the catcher hood open and 3 of the 4 bolts holding the motor to the chassis were missing!

Safe mowing mum.

Decemperature rising

 

 wingara

SX-70 polaroid

Treadwear no. 3

Thank you to everyone who visited Stories Through the Barrows.
Many thanks also to Bridie Lunney, Meredith Turnbull and Alex Selenitsch - humbled to have shared the floor boards of 31 Flinders lane with you.

To all at Craft Victoria. Without your support and enthusiasm, I would have a lot less momentum to roll down this road.

Treadwear no.2

This is a detail shot of Ruination wheel after the second 1 ¾ mile walk.

1 ¾ miles to Craft Victoria.

 

Colin Martin is a London-based Australian writer, who I had the absolute pleasure in sharing Stories Through the Barrows, coffee and conversation with.  Review by Colin Martin for Craft Australia.

Photography:  Ben McGill

Stories Through the Barrows

The Age

Wednesday, October 20, 2010  

Page 18. 'The Arts'
Writer :  Liza Power

Craft Victoria

Photography: Richard Brockett

Transporting the exhibition in my Ute - the mechanically propelled wheelbarrow.

Photography: tim mcleod

Quilt by Joyce McLeod

  

Machine appliquéd and quilted.  61 x 65

Joyce McLeod used a Julie Haddrick quilting pattern.  The work was on show at Hamilton Art Gallery as part of the Hamilton Quilters 14th Biennial Exhibition.

Thank you Nan.

Post

Dry-stone

Ruination

Photography  Jeremy Dillon

return the wood envelope

So someone has decided to take a souvenir (the wooden envelope) which was part of the scraper plane and shoulder plane collection.  The new owner of the items, Craft Victoria, the audience whom are still to visit and myself have been robbed.  Can’t stop the opportunistic.

Which is ironic because I was in the process of getting paper envelopes made up for visitors to Stories through the barrows - your own wheel barrow envelope to take with you - Free. 

The envelopes are ENVIROMAIL 100% recycled post consumer waste paper.

I used Print Together.

poster

'Dry-stone'   salvaged red iron bark / spotted gum.
'Ruination'    salvaged spotted gum.
'Post'           salvaged red iron bark.

Photography:  Jeremy Dillon