Fun on the farm

What better way to spend Australia Day than up at our country estate, having a genuine Australian BBQ and drinking Mexican beer opened with a bottle opener that plays a Swiss soccer chant.

It was quite hot outside, about 34°C, but remarkably inside the shed it stayed below 25°C.

Most of the first part of the weekend was spent building a desk. This was my first serious attempt at woodwork and it went OK. There were numerous old bits of 4×2 lying around the shed, so I cut them into lengths, tidied them up and biscuit joined them together. A quick sand, a few coats of Black Japan, some varnish and then screw the legs on. Voila.
It is custom built to fit into the new apartment and will act as a desk for Sue and I. (Not sure what we will use the dining table for now. Dining perhaps.)
I also had to do some work on the mower. Since I had no idea when the previous owner had last serviced it, I did the big service so I could start from scratch. I replaced the spark plugs, cleaned the air filter, changed the fuel filter, oil filter and of course the oil. I had to empty the oil into a container of some sort and the only thing I had was an empty Pepsi bottle. By the time the bottle was full of oil it was very difficult to tell it from a genuine bottle of Pepsi. The two bottles are in the photo. Can you tell which is which?