Lego!

 

good morning!

 

after thinking about it for a couple of years,

i finally went downstairs

and fetched the huge bucket of lego

from under the house...
collected by five children over about 15 years
it's quite a collection!

 

as the children became adults,
it's been sitting there since we moved in nine years ago...

still with packaging tape around it to hold it all together

from our move to queensland from canberra.

 

at first i thought i could just chuck all the pieces in the bath,

fish it out and dry it on a towel...

it's not that easy.

 

i realised that i should get it ready for the next generation

of little boys...and maybe girls...

we haven't any girls yet

and our little boy is only six weeks old!

 

 

i spent several hours

dismantling all the buildings

after realising i couldn't do it under water with wet hands..hehe!

 

after that

i washed the container

and put them back in there to bathe with some sugar soap overnight...

 

 

i found that lego men love to float.

 

 

i've been fishing the lego out with a sieve...

 

 

rinsing it under the tap...

{'garage' is one of the pieces from mr w's collection... early '60's most likely!}

 

 

drying it off with a towel...

 

 

separating legomen, monkeys and fabuland animals

and all the tiny tiny pieces

so they won't choke babies

and will be easily found to play with by the older ones.

 

i'm just doing a bit at a time

so it will probably take another couple of days

before the job is done.

 

we have all decided to shun sugar

and refined foods here

so have to go out foraging this morning

in our local supermarket

for nuts, seeds and berries!

{and a few other things...}

 

i hope you enjoy your day too!

 

naturally Carol xox