Hut refurb

Our duck hut, known as "The Bach" or "Hut 5" has celebrated it's 37th birthday. Built in 1976 to replace the previous hut that was raized to the ground in mysterious circumstances, it's a 2 storey pole structure with 9 bunks, a coal range and running water. I remember as a boy helping with small parts of the construction, and remember accompanying my dad when he put up the wall lining - silver insulation paper. What really sticks in my memory is how bad the mosquitos were. Never really seen them quite that bad since. Time, various rodents, weather... all have taken a toll so at lasts year's AGM we decided to do some refurb work. Dad and Larry lined the ceiling over summer, leaving the walls, some of which are in a very sad state of repair.

We arrived at the hut, did a quick pond tour (where a spoonie hen did her "I've got a broken wing" impression to lead us away from (hopefully) her nest and I scoped the areas needing spot spraying.

A while ago I'd left a roll in sulated paper at the hut; so we decided it was time to use it. First we cleared the bunks from the north wall.

Then I left dad to start and went and sprayed over the regrowth and to knock back some untouched poa. Horrible stuff. A couple of hours later I was done; so came back in to help dad. We got the north wall completed with the materials on hand.

Much nicer. repaired a hole in the floor then used the opportunity of having thye bunks out to have a good spring clean. Every corner swept, all crap thrown out. Lots of dust...

While we were finishing up, Tom, Paul and Andy arrived to replenish the firewood stocks. We said goodbye and headed off. Gotta get some more insulation paper and do the other 3 walls, will get them done soon.